This afternoon. Probably not until 3 00 or 4 00, there could be a couple sprinkles at lunchtime or later this morning. The first part of the day is dry. Afternoon. Raindrops. Temperatures this afternoon near windy. Jadiann lets get over to rich kirkland. Rich it looks great. I want to show you, a video sampler of the highways. That happens to be route 1, that is nice all the way downtown. Not much happening at all. Very quiet. A live look at traffic on route 93. The expressway, not much, just the way we like it. Dry roadways, easy drive and the t says, hey, were okay. Rich kirkland, 7 news today in new england. Jadiann thanks, rich. Today jury selection continues in the trial of a teenager charged with killing his christa theres been courtroom drama after a potential juror was caught the case. Clearly the judge is not happy here. Reporter not at all. Just to give you an idea of how serious this is, this juror had been dismissed. The judge brought the juror back into the courtroom, aske
At this downpour coming in to wellesley. Just a couple of minutes of dry weather before this started to move in and out through framingham and natick to sherborn all the downpours for you headed eastbound. This should at least clip dorchester and all the which to dedham. As far as it getting downtown, i think well be on the northern most edge of it. Wet again, another round coming through. 68 in boston, heaviest again staying just to the south of the city. 63 right now in worcester. 63 in nashua and 64 in bedford. The wind ease up just to allow these downpours to push through and then they switch direction to the northwest. Get a little brisk. Coming up. A warming trend too. One day is cool. Its only saturday really. Then sunday we start the warming trend and then 70s by columbus day and it looks like that might hold for a little while too. Would this be the last stand that we see for the foreseeable future . Yes, i will show you some much cooler weather coming in in the 7 day forecast
National debt. I believe your answer to that question was focused on the size of the debt in relationship to the economy. The gdp, which i understand. I understand the argument and i understand the analysis. Its something that we talked about a lot in budget circles over the last few years. The the question i have though is does that really justify a budget that continues to frankly borrow hundreds of billions of dollars every year . And to spend that money in an effort to as you indicated to stimulate the economy, invest in things that should help the taxpayers and the people of america, but never balance. I think my question, my question is this. Is it possible for us or any nation to simply spend in deficit, every year, perpetually, borrowing money and never balancing and to keep ourselves in a prosperous posture . Can we spend ourself perpetually sbroo prosperity on borrowed money . Senator i think weve obviously talked a lot about this issue of what the right measure is. I think a
Do you do anything about that . Were very concerned as well. The most simple, direct step thats been taken many times before under both parties is a small reallocation of the payroll tax. And we ought to take that step and make sure that those who have earned these benefits get those benefits. Well lets and i dont mean to interrupt you because i dont have a lot of time. So, what youre doing is basically ignoring the fact that its exhausted and transferring the money. Lets be honest. When you say a small allocation, thats transferring the money, yet its a system thats going insolvent, so were transferring the money from one pot to another. Were not solving the problem. Let me finish, please. The combined funds remain solvent until 2033, but we are taking steps on the disability side specifically. We have a number of steps in the budget that will ensure those who are due the benefits get those and a number of pilots and other efforts that will ensure that anyone who can work is able to.
The president s executive actions that he took late last year would improve the prospects. What period of time . Over the over the life of the individual . Youre not counting the times that these individuals would be drawing their benefits, mr. Donovan. Youre counting a shortterm window in which they would pay in, creating a shortterm surplus of money or additional flow of money, but youre not counting when they draw out. Its going make the Social Security hold deeper. Its going make it harder for us to save Social Security and medicare and you know it. And youre suggesting to the American People directly directly different than that. Its wrong. Senator, you dont need to take my word for it. The actuary senators time has expired. Along with cbo suggests the action by the president will reduce. Senator whitehouse. Thank you very much chairman. Good to have you here. Could you please tell us a little bit about the part of your budget document that is called federal budget exposure to cli