Subcommittee on health in Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you sec. A desire for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. You will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget, my first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully that will be the case again this time. You propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the health care workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Rural programs we would be reluctant to discuss. We will need more money this year in m
Released recently from the government so you know its one take but were going to look at this take because i think it brings up some good points its a tweet stream from orrin cass hes the executive director of American Compass whose stated mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of Family Community and industry to the nations liberty and prosperity so there is that heres this 1st tweet im going to read some of them of this 16 thread tweet how is it that our Economic Statistics suggest workers have been making slow but steady progress in recent decades while popular perception is that their Family Finances are coming under increasingly untenable pressure ive been working on this and here is my answer punchline popular perception is correct in 1985 the typical male worker could cover a family of 4 is major expenditures Housing Health care transportation education on 30 weeks of sad. By 2018 it took 53 weeks which is a problem as there are only 52 weeks
I am x. Kaiser this is the kaiser report max and stacey are in las vegas a lot of political things are happening here lets get the lowdown states well we are in political season max in fact when you and i landed here in las vegas who was on the runway the president doesnt show him literally on the runway but is playing air force one was on the runway and that was our meeting our arrival here in las vegas saying air force one again weve seen it of 2 or 3 times on our travels and its very impressive its a great prop when youre running for president and thats some of the all that what you have when you are president is the bully pulpit and thats going to weigh heavily in this 2020 election well in the nevada debates there was something that Bernie Sanders said on stage when he was you know going back and forth with mayor bloomberg when mayor bloomberg imploded on stage you know they were talking about billionaires and the problem with billionaires d and should billionaires exist i tweeted
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Have when you are present as the bully pulpit and thats going to weigh heavily in this 2020 election well in the nevada debates there was something that Bernie Sanders said on stage when he was you know going back and forth with mayor bloomberg when mayor bloomberg and imploded on stage you know they were talking about billionaires and the problem with billionaires and should billionaires exist i tweeted that i said is the u. S. Federal reserve bernie you cosponsored an audit the fed bill talk about the cantillon effect how did bloomberg go from a net worth of 3000000000. 20 to 60000000000. 00 in 2020 at least half of that game in my opinion is from q. E. The problem is that nobody really knows anything about money so its hard to explain money i remember back on this very show 7 or 8 years ago when we talked to activist groups like greenpeace about the money they had 100000000 euros in the bank and i was explaining to them you know the bank is just using that to lend it to exxon and in