Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
Quote, took proportion gnat measures in selfdefense under article 51 of the un charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack. President trump tweeted, all is well, missiles launches from two military bases a sassessment of casualties and damages taking place now. So far, all is well. I will be making a statement tomorrow morning, meaning this morning. We are awaiting word when to expect that statement from the president. Stock futures initially sank with the dow pointing to more than 400point loss today. Futures have paired those losses now dow futures down a few points even with those declines, the dow only down by six points. Along with the nasdaq and s p. S p was down over 50 points overnight. Right now, you are looking at positive territory for both of those. Whip saw action in crude oil oil for wti up to 63. 02. Gold prices briefly touched 1,600 overnight you are going to see 1,582. 5. The boeing 737800, not a max, crashed in iran yesterday the jet went down moments afte
Fast thats after the most powerful woman in washington said the time to stop dropping pietschmann for gifts to. The people of kabul faced violence every day but a far greater threat. Now the government is taking steps to. Also. Germanys social Democratic Party is expected this week to come from its 2 new leaders challenging the Coalition Deal there with those so. Welcome to the Program France has been paralyzed by one of its biggest nationwide strikes in decades many joint. Across the country public transport schools and hospitals have been seriously disrupted Public Sector workers are protesting against president plan to reform the Pension System each union is deciding how long to keep its members are out on strike but further protests are expected on friday and in the days ahead. 3 very loud very angry and united in their opposition to the policies of french president emmanuel mccall. Some cities saw heavy clashes between protesters and Security Forces in paris small groups of masked
Brennan plus former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg spends at least 34 million on ads in more than two dozen states to announce hes joining the race. Mike bloomberg intends to make good, jobs creator, leader, problem solver. Mike bloomberg for president. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approved this message. Brennan well talk with our panel of legal experts, then look at the highs and lows in politics. And the rest of the news this week just ahead on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation. We have a lot to get to today, but we will begin with some breaking news. Michael bloomberg is officially joining the president ial race. Our ed okeefe is at the washington bureau. Ed. The slogan, according to the website, is rebuild america. What do you think the entry of this billionaire entrepreneur into the race will be . Welsh for one thing it pumps a lot more money into this race. The fact that hes going to spend at least 34 million across dozens of states to run an ad over the n
Started off with veterans day. A wonderful day. 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, armistice day, a day we now observe as veterans day. Every day is veterans day for us on tuesday. We passed a packet of bills, nine bills, to improve the lives of our veterans, our heroes in uniform. Among the bills we were very roud to pass the deborah act which reduces barriers for Women Veterans to access v. A. , including antiharassment initiatives. This has a broad base of support and we are very proud to be passing it. The day after veterans day. Monday night when i came into town i went to the world war ii memorial to see who was there and just to visit it again. I love going there. Its so inspiring. And i saw two i was impressed particularly by two engrambings on the wall. One that re engravings on the wall. One that related to all veterans. President truman said our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying