process about $290 billion and in addition, also changes the circumstance for people on medicare by putting a cap of a maximum $2,000 a year they have to pay no more than $2,000 a year no matter how many prescriptions they have. for all the prescription drugs. which is especially important for people with cancer, and long-term diseases. it s a god send. literally be a god send for many families. second, the bill locks in place lower health care premiums for the next three years for millions of families that get coverage under the affordable care act. average savings of $800 a year for 13 million people. third, invests $369 billion, granted i call for 500 plus, but invests $369 billion to secure energy future and address the climate crisis, bringing down family energy bills by hundreds of dollars by providing working families tax credits. it gives folks rebates to buy new and efficient appliances and weatherize their homes, and tax cuts for heat pumps and rooftop solar, and ta
the spending showdown is about to go down. chad pergram following it all, a lot of details to pull together, but he s the man to do it. chad, what s happening? reporter: david, good morning. senate democrats aim to pass the climate, health and spending bill this weekend, but it may be a long weekend. we just got a ruling from the senate parliamentarian, she green lighted a provision in the bill to let medicare negotiate the cost of prescription drugs. democrats say that makes the cost of pharmaceuticals cheaper. elizabeth mcdonough has a lot of sway in process. the closer you can demonstrate a connection between what you re proposing and its fiscal impact on the federal budget, the more likely it is that it qualify for a simple majority vote out will. if i it doesn t, if it runs afoul of the rules of the road and/or is more designed to impact private sector activity reporter: on tapped today a marathon vote session with perhaps 15 consecutive hours of votes on amendme
welcome all of those days of threats perhaps not so hollow. china firing multiple muscles around taiwan at her house speaker pelosi left the island nation. chinese media saying the live fire drills are the largest ever in the taiwan strait. streaks across the sky showing the path of some of those missiles friendly over taiwan. di wants is a direct challenge of the country s free air and navigation. republicans are saying china is simply taking full advantage of president biden s weakness. speak of the chinese communist party is clearly trying to intimidate us. for all of their rhetoric about us unilaterally changing the status quo, that is precisely what they are doing. they are trying to press an advantage because they think joe biden has been projecting weakness the last 18 months. unfortunately they have reason to believe that. harris: armed services committee member senator marsha blackburn, the great state of tennessee, is in focus. we begin with senior foreign affairs
who is an author and political commentator and camilla turner, the chief political correspondent at the telegraph. we will say hello to both and just a moment. first let s take a look at those front pages we will be waking up those front pages we will be waking up to. let s start with the times. it leads with a story about how the delays we ve seen over the weekend at the english channel crossing will continue for the whole summer. the mirror leads with a report by mps which highlights the worse staffing crisis in nhs history, which is putting patient safety at severe risk. the guardian reports on this too, drawing attention to the number of nursing vacancies, which are almost at thirty nine thousand in england. the daily telegraph leads with accusations from rishi sunak that leadership rival lizz truss failed to prevent china s infiltration of british universities whilst she was an education minister. the row over china makes the front page of the mail too, which adds that f
so what the heck is everyone moving? well, one of the most popular places to relocate fromce high tax blue states is without florida, whichn saw its population increase by two hundred and eleven thousand between july1, 20 and july 2020 one . . and by the way, it s not just people moving of the five point eight million new businesses and the applications up between january 21 and january 2020 two, a stunning 12% were right here in florida. now with these numbers, it s non wonder that florida governor rhonda stantis is way up in the polls in his and reelection race. and nationwide, he s building a profile and an impressive fundraising operation with all the above all those things we just talk about liberal governors with ambitions for national office, have the knives out for him, including that walking pile of hair gel. gavin newsom. ff although he easily defeated a recall effort, his statete is reeling from high crime underperforming schools, a glut of illegal aliens, a water