That may or may not exist, but certainly, the u. S. Has tried to be as transparent as possible with regard to Space Programs explaining even in the face of narratives that certain of our capacities are weaponized when theyre not, so i would refer you to some of the Good Communications what were doing in space, the clarification and transparency provided both by the space force you can finish watching this at cspan. Org. We are going 0 to take you to an infrastructure conference. Live coverage on cspan2. Inside this beautiful space, thank you all for taking the time this morning to be here with us. I love seeing a room starting to get slowly filled up with a bunch of infrastructure nerds like myself. Thank you, fantastic. Welcome to infrastructure week 2024, exciting, yes, amazing. [applause] im ross, leading from my post at accelerator for more action. And many of you have been with us since we take the rains two years ago, a fantastic two years leading this wonderful coalition of orga
Those who are at the lower end of the economic scale, and i think thats appropriate. So its middleclass tax relief but heres how it works. The share of federal taxes paid in 2019, which is a year after this is implemented, it starts right away, by the way, so middleclass families are going to get that relief right away. Currently is in the red and then our proposals in the blue. If you make, again, zero to 20,000, its very unlikely that you have income Tax Liability. But some families do and the average is. 1 . If you make 20,000 to 50,000 a year, your share of federal taxes goes down from 4. 3 to 4. 1 , in our bill. If you make 50,000 to 100,000, your share of the federal taxes goes from 6. 9 to 6. 7 . If you make 100,000 or above, your share goes not down. It goes up. From 78. 7 to 78. 9 . The top percent of wage earners in this country, earners, top 10 pay approximately 70 of the income taxes right now. After our bill is passed and implemented, they will pay more than 70 . So it is
Currently stands. Welcome to National Economists club, our first event of the year. The National Economists club, for so, im pete davis, Senior Vice President and past president of the club. The National Economics club was started in 1968 by herb stein, pitcher of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since presenting leading economists talk about issues of the day. Today were very pleased to have Marc Goldwein of the committee for a responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. Before introduce marc, levy tell you about some upcoming programs. We have dr. Alice rivlin on february 1 and a luncheon here at chinatown garden talk about said policy and the beloved about the budget come shes a former vice chair of the fed and, of course, the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office. We also have commitments to speak in february, although te dates have been set, by the culture of the council of econom
Reconvene and welcome the panel. All right. As silence falls over the room. I will introduce our Panel Moderator and let him introduce the panelists. Introduce to he was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons and the u. S. As a leading authority on transatlantic relations, gardner has advised on key issues including the role and postwar iraq to leadership and the role on terrorism. His papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is sought for advice on policy matters. He received his doctorate in history from yale university. Lets welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you for joining us in such extremely cold weather, brutally cold weather. Talking about the russians and nato. We have two superb washington foreignpolicy experts today. Both rebecca and michael frequently on cable news. In washington on a very regular basis. I want to introduce rebecca. A National Security fellow at the hopkins i
Percentage point and friends u france up. Up a quarter of a percentage point. Questionable reaction at will see muted reaction overall. Today, the relief we could have a deal done. You mentioned a oil. I want to bring that across. We are seeing oil lower. Down almost two percentage points. As applied to keep going as we have a deal in iran. A day deals. Greece and potentially iran. Sanctions potentially lifted as they strike an accord. Today greece when you looking at the equity markets and the bond market. Calming down of the periphery lets go to greece with the 10 year. 11 basis points. Clearly, money going into italy and spain and the periphery of europe. That fear of contagion removed. Similar moves for spain and the haven as we saw a earlier in trading. Rises in germany and bond prices falling. Leave you with a twoyear. Where you see significant moves and shortterm debt. Off by almost one percentage point. I will send it back to you. Jonathan the euro summit has unanimously reache