Committee will come to order. This mornings hearing will be the first on the president s fiscal year 2019 Budget Proposal. The Committee Welcomes secretary mnuchin who is hear to testify on the budget along with other members that may arise from questions. I think i speak for all members of the committee to say were interested in secretary mnu yn chins thoughts and insight on a number of items proposed in the budget. The budget envisions that governments receipts will average 17. 1 of gdp over the tenyear budget window, slightly below the long run average of 17. 4 over roughly the last four decades. It also has outlays averaging 20 of gdp over 10 years, which is also slightly below the long run average. The budget also includes some tax proposals, but they are not as sweeping as those weve seen in prior budgets, as you would expect following enactment of the new tax law at the end of next year last year. Thus far, im pleased by the success of the new tax law, which has already resulted
Lot of votes with no corresponding ballots. It was stuffed with votes. They werent in the official voter box. They were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks suitcases. But they werent in voter boxes. Theres videotape of this and this is whats really frustrating. The president s legal team had the entire tape, they watched the entire tape and from our point of view intentionally misled the people of the United States about this. When i listened to the audio of the phone call and the president brought that up again and i heard it on the radio ad again today, i wanted to scream. But have they have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts . No. Are you sure, ryan . Im sure. Im sure, mr. President. See, this is one i dont fully understand. No one is changing parts or pieces out of dominion machines. I dont know what that means. Right. Top Georgia Election official Gabriel Sterling with that reality check yesterday for President Trump. Good morning an
Gregg one of the terrorists blew himself up just outside the terminal. Another detonating a bomb as people are running for the exits. This its just the latest in a string of terror attacks in turkey. The Prime Minister says it has all the earmarks of isis, but the terror group has not yet claimed responsibility. Witnesses describing the chaos. People shooting on one side and we ran the other way. Then bombs went off. One guy had a hole in his back from shrapnel, from glass. Gregg it does appear curious to terrorism experts that isis has not yet claimed responsibility. But they say it seems to have the hallmarks of the Islamic State because they used suicide bombers. This was on the second anniversary of thal fates establishment, and isis has been responsible for a string of other attacks, elsewhere, lebanon, somalia, jordan in just the last few months. We have seen turkey has stiffened its posture against isis in the last couple days. There was a lot of discussion about whether turkey
"Taiwan has shown the world how to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party s bullying and not only survive but thrive": arch China hawk Rep. Mike Gallagher
Alleging slave labour and drugs smuggling, some American senators are zoning in on how the country’s de minimis rule benefits Chinese companies. But levying duties on low-value shipments will only punish consumers and small businesses.