Enterprise institute, this is 90 minutes. Good morning, everythibody. Thank you for coming. Please silence your phones if you havent already, or turn them off. One or the other. We welcome you to this Panel Discussion cosponsored by the American Enterprise institute where im from, you can tell because the name rolls off my tongue. And the Migration Policy Institute on u. S. Border crisis where we hope to generate more light than heat. A serious discussion by serious people about a complicated issue. Six weeks ago in his style, President Trump reacting to a flood of Central Americans trying to enter the United States illegally on our southern border threatened to impose sanctions on goods from mexico until our southern neighbor did more to interdict wouldbe migrants. Many complained that he was bullying an important economic partner and misusing tariff authorities. Others asked what leverage does he have to get mexico to do more to respond to a genuine migrant crisis . And they will poi
Of factors involved in that. These are all projections. Generally because of the demographics and the changes in the way we are an aging population in the fact we pay a lot in terms ofs medicare and Social Security benefits will continue to grow. As a consequence along with paying the interest on accumulated debt itself means that we would be looking at the possibility of the debt to what we call debt to level of the government growing from where it is today which is at a historic high around 78 percent of gdp well up into the 100 a 150 percent over the next 30 t 40 years. 144 percent by 2049 or so. Right. Thats historically very high of course. We like to think that will not happen but if it should happen it certainly is something unprecedented in terms of the countrys history. If you had to make a list of the drivers of this debt what would you put on top of the list . I would say in the near term if the entitlement, the spending we have created for particularly dealing with the agin
good evening i am craig blumenstein, you will hear from all five republican candidates seeking the at large seat in the u.s. house of representatives. i will introduce the candidates to you. to my immediate left is harriet hagemann, to her left is miss robin belinsky, then representative liz cheney, senator anthony bouchard, colonel denton knapp. we are all very pleased that you are here. craig: i hope we can have a thoughtful discussion tonight. i hope we can have a mutual airing abuse without rancor mutual airing of views without anchor rancor. if the panelists are already, let s begin the debate tonight. asking the first question is steve peck. last night, and the appearance at the presidential library of ronald reagan, she got a standing ovation there. another circle she has become an outcast. you all are running for wyoming s only seat in the house. what does this emergence of use mean for this race and what does it mean about the state of the republican party i
On wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter. Prior to question time members are finishing up other business, now live to the floor of the british house of commons. An important point, the National Security advisor based in the Capital Office is responsible for 3. 2 billion pounds of cross departmental spending, and look forward to discussing with how that money will be spent and take account of my honorable friend, hughes. Over 2000 in improvisation, very important to finish contacting me on the electoral vantage stock but im not happy with it. What is the government going to do about it. Online registration, we accept theres more to do and encourage all our citizens, and the democratic right they have to cross a vote. A number of constituents who suffered terribly as a result of the contaminated blood scandal. With my right honorable friend talk about the timescales following the inquiry . Mister speaker, the contaminated blood scandal was an appalling tr
Happy new year. At least 1. 4 million households across the uk have been victims of unfair practices including my constituent emily martin. With intended legislation, what commitment will the Prime Minister make to ensure thousands of people tied into this scandal are compensated by developers now . I say to the honorable gentlemen we are concerned when we hear of unfair practices taking place. Im sure the secretary will be happy to hear the particular case is an example of this, we are looking to see what action the government can take to assure people are secure in their homes and not subject to what they are subject to. James cleverly. Thank you, mister speaker. [wednesday] secretary met with Michelle Varney or, the Prime Minister, passionately embraced, not me, passionately embraced the agenda she set out last year to build a britain did for the future to encourage homeownership, education and other chances and leave this the way we found it. Talked about passionate embrace, never