Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
Charge of the recovery act, and it was hard as hell to get the votes to begin with, and then it was hard as hell to get the numbers we got. One thing we learned is we cant do too much here. We can do too little an and sputter. The speech youll hear follows the jobs report this morning. Yes, the Employment Rate is down, but only 40 million jobs was added to the American Economy. That makes it clear that the impacted American Economy is still very much in trouble. The Senate Meeting ended early this morning with the Senate Passing a budget resolution. This morning the house will take up that resolution and it will clear the runway for democrats most likely to go it alone with a covid relief bill that is very much on top of the wish list. Theyre meeting with the president this morning at the white house, and the Committee Chairs said they will start Writing Details of the budget plan next week. With us to share their reporting and insights, phil mattingly, Christine Romans and sun moon ki
Time in a bipartisan way. And so i want to yield to the distinguished chair because the bill that the Senate Passed is identical to our instructions to the budget as we said to them. Get behind the microphone. Yeah. The speaker is right. We got the same amount in instructions back from the senate that we passed, so we can pass it with a simple vote today and intend to. Then the committees will draft the legislation that actually creates the assignment of those dollars, and well bring that back to the floor in just a couple of weeks. And, you know, we only lost two democrats in the vote. They just voted for 1. 9 trillion. So we dont anticipate a problem. Madam speaker, do you have any concerns that a package this large approaching 2 trillion might sacrifice progressive policies Going Forward . Absolutely not. One of the things that we always discuss is, as we try to address the emergency that we have now, to crush the virus, to save the lives and livelihood of the American People, were
President trump. But she is not expected to endorse trump today. Her folks who are familiar with what shes going to say, say she is going to go ahead and say that trump needs to earn the support of those voters. She has repeatedly said throughout the entire course of her campaign that the Republican Party needs to be a party of addition, and she doesnt believe that trump has been approaching his campaign. That way. She has talked about the fact that she wants to give her for voters an option thats why she stayed on the ballot through Super Tuesday. But this was a decision that she made last night as her campaign was monitoring the results that were coming in. Jeff zeleny spoke with a source, an aide on the campaign, who said that it was when they were monitoring those results that they determined that she wasnt going to hit the benchmarks that they had said that she wasnt going to do well enough to keep her Campaign Alive. Now, we should note that nikki haley did win two states, dc and
i m martha maccallum live in des moines, iowa. here s the story today. we are here all week. we re hours away from our first big town hall with one week to go until the first in the nation caucuses to decide the 2024 presidential election. tonight, nikki haley. tomorrow, it s ron desantis and wednesday we ll join with former president donald trump and voters here on the ground in iowa. the former president is way ahead in the polls right now. he s telling his supporters to pretend we re one point down and don t stay home on caucus night. karl rove and former obama adviser robert wolf standing by on the matchup. interesting reports today that say former president obama went to the white house to meet with president biden and expressed his concerns about the campaign and how things are being run from the biden perspective. he warned about the possibility of a second trump victory and said not to underestimate that possibility according to these reports. so we gin with con