Force and Health Care Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Ms. Mcclain first and foremost, thank you all for being here in this crazy bit of times were in. What were talking about is extremely important. The i. R. S. Has been plagued really with dysfunction for decades. From data breaches, leak, Identity Theft, slow audits, backlogs and horrific Customer Service at least from my constituents. Despite years of oversight and government watchdog warnings not a lot has changed. My colleague on the other side of the aisle believe more money and more power is the solution. In fact in last years Inflation Reduction Act, Congressional Democrats dumped 80 billion 80 billion into the i. R. S. With this influx of cash the inch r. S. Plans to ramp up audits on all americans. This funding spree prioritizes enforcement over improving Taxpayer Services. Taxpayer Services Like pro
Have a good weekend. Today was day four, day four of testimony in the first criminal trial of a former president. Trumps lawyers were able to finish crossexamining the lead witness, Tabloid Publisher and trump insider david pecker. We will talk about how that went in just a second, but today we got to see the prosecution second witness. Someone who worked closely with donald trump for decades, including on tv. Hi, good morning, this is mr. Trumps office. Hi, good morning. Mr. Trump would like to meet you at 9 00 at tavern on the green. Good morning, it is rhona calling. Mr. Trump is meeting with Miss Universe at trump model management. Do you think youll be ready . We can do it. Thanks, rhona. Thanks, rhona. Rhona graff, Donald Trumps longtime executive assistant and occasional costar on The Apprentice. The prosecution appears to have called her because she is the person who handled trumps calendar and contacts and email, which trump himself does not use. Ms. Graf appeared in court und
scotland we are looking at clear skies and a frosty start. in southern scotland, england and wales, a cloudy start with rain, but brightening up later from the west. i will have the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 5th of december. the home secretary james cleverly is on his way to rwanda this morning. he s due to sign a new deal which he hopes will mean that the uk government will then be able to send some be able to send some asylum seekers to the the east african country. the visit comes just hours after mr cleverly announced a series of measures to reduce the levels of legal migration into the uk. our political correspondent peter saull has the details. immigration has long been a tricky issue for the government. successive conservative prime ministers have promised and failed to bring the numbers down. the new plan a ban on foreign care of workers bringing family members with them. an increase in the minimum salary for skilled workers of almost 50% to
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