The biden American Rescue plan. The next will be recovery. We call it reconciliation. Theres nothing in reconciliation that precludes republicans from voting for it. Good morn, everybody. Im tiffany cross, and we have a lot of news to get to this morning on Cross Connection, so strap in. President bidens 1. 9 trillion rescue plan is on a fast track to approval after the house and Senate Passed a Budge Bill Yesterday and democrats pretty much tossed the deuces to the republicans warning they maybepass them altogether. Its good news for struggling americans who cant even afford to put gas in the car or go to a job they no longer have. Meanwhile capitol hill is preparing for Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial to kick off on tuesday. And at least as of this morning, it looks unlikely that a minimum of 17 republicans will vote with the dems to convict trump. Now, the irony doesnt even seem lost on them that as they make these bow was calls for unity, theyre increasingly unwilling to hol
Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
Paying off Student Loan Debt, amount to 50,000 a person. How bad could this go . Welcome. Im neil cavuto. This is world world. Even among big spending democrats, the president says i dont know about 50,000. 10,000 possibly. Where this money will come from and ultimate how much money were talking about and who will be eligible . It will be anybodys guess. Its pricey. And how about those that have paid their student debt . Who do they do . Besides getting angry. Lets get to chad pergram with the very latest on this student debt payoff in overdrive. Martha democrats say eliminating the student debt could help the economy. Chuck schumer says it could happen by the end of the month. President biden has taken good steps in the direction of student debt but we think he has to go much further. We believe that number 1 the American People are strongly behind this hover wellingly. Legislators like schumer prefer to legislate rather than relying on the Executive Branch to to something. The white
Alone while pushing new reform in congress as well. The centerpiece today is reversing Donald Trumps approach to immigration, launching a process for reuniting around 600 Migrant Children in the u. S. Who remain separated from their parents under Donald Trumps hardline policies. Biden ordering the federal government to do a top to Bottom Breakdown of Immigration Policies and finding ways to root out measures that bidens team says under trump were cruel and inhumane, or just not working. Im not making new law. Im eliminating bad policy. What im doing is taking on the issues that 99 that the president , the last president of the United States issues Executive Orders i thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country. We want to put in place an Immigration Process here that can that is humane, that is moral, thats going to take some time. Its not going to happen overnight. A moral policy, they say, pursuing an ethical approach to immigratio
It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off which to me is are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. Its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charg