Wrong when one family, the owners of walmart own as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the american people. There is something profoundly wrong when millions of workers are working longer hours for lower wages when we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and almost all new wealth and income goes into the hands of the few. Enough is enough. That has got to end. And together, we will end it. This campaign is sending a profound message to the billionaire class. You cant have it all. You cant get huge tax breaks when children in america go hungry. You cannot continue to send our jobs to china when millions of americans are looking for work. You cannot hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and in other tax havens. When there are massive, unmet needs in this country. The greed of the billionaire class has got to end, and we are going to end it for them. But it is not just income and wealth inequality. It is the fact that we have millions of people work
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
Back, plus republicans turning up the heat on democrats demanding answers in the uranium one deal and the fusion gps scandal. We are following the money to find out who paid for the anti trump dossier and the indictment is putting pressure on the trump agenda in just two days republicans will reveal their plan to overhaul the nations tax code what will it mean for your familys bottom line . Were going to ask congressman tom reed, a member of the tax writing house and Ways Committee thats the only thing that matters. David you got to ask somebody in the house ways and means. Back to the markets the dow taking a hit following a new report republicans are considering phasing in Corporate Tax cuts. Why . Laurie rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Well deal with the why in a moment but how did that affect stocks, laurie . Already it we had all kinds of messages coming from the stock market today david and just a few minutes ago the market caught a bid so well close off the
Cover across the Delaware Valley as we get through rest of the morning and afternoon. You see showers still well north of i80, probably staying north of i80 most of the day and poconos could get a shower we could see a stray sprinkle but our chances are relatively low. Temperatures 60s as we head into philadelphia and east, and 50s for us in reading, allentown and poconos. Temperatures giving way to calm wind, we will also watch for temperatures this afternoon to peak probably around 80degree mark or so and then cooler wet they are week. We will talk about tonight a bit. Thanks, matt. British Prime Minister teresa may say thursday elections will move forward as planned despite yesterdays terror attacks in london. Heres what we know about those attacks. They began last night just after 10 00 oclock london time, a van crashed in the pedestrians on the famous London Bridge, the three men got out, start add tacking restaurant goers with knives at a their by boro market. They were shot dead
At any time. We have the third in a series of hearings that were doing, examining the federal administration of the Safe Drinking Water act dealing with the crisis in flint, michigan. Appreciate the witnesses here today. I also appreciate the strong Public Participation and interest in this hearing. I would remind those that are participating that this is a congressional hearing. We would appreciate your proper, the proper decorum in this room. There are to be no shows of expression, positive or negative, and we would appreciate your help in that way. Let me make just a few observations, and then well turn it over to the Ranking Member and get right to the questioning here. There are people still today in flint, michigan, who are waking up this morning, they cant drink the water and they cant take a shower. Theyre using a bottle of water to drink and a bottle of water to take a shower and i cant even imagine my family having to go through that here in the United States of america. I wa