address making a new plea yet again for gun action. telling congress in the wake of more mass shootings, enough is enough. more kids and on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. this time we have to take the time to do something. this time, it is time for the senate to do something. among the president s demands to congress, either ban assault weapons or raise the minimum purchase age to 21 years old. fact is, many of these proposals have no realistic chance of passage. there is little to no gop support for them. that s exactly right. even after what happened this week, and last. the president s speech comes as democrats on a house committee did pass a string of proposals and got in a fiery debate with a republican colleague, small bipartisan group of senators is still working behind the scenes, but
to purchase to 21 years old. but the simple facts, once again, are this, those measures have no realistic chance of passages in the senate. republicans aren t even talking about gun restrictions. they are once again blaming mental illness for the nation s gun crisis. we have crunched those numbers before on this broadcast and that claim does not stand up. some states are, though, not waiting for congress to act. new york state lawmakers just passed several bills including one that raises the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21. we will have more on those state measures in just a moment. first, let s look at the national or what remains of it. with us political anchor for spectrum news and you decide podcast. john, i want to be honest with our viewers because we will report on measures that pass of a democratic controlled house but don t have the votes to pass the senate and become law. what is the reality of the effort? wl what is still alive and might still ge
unemployment staying at 3.6 pers percent. bill: there are at the moment 11.4 million jobs open and 6 million unemployed americans which means the math says two jobs for every person that s looking for work today. gas is soaring. another record high today. $4.76 a gallon now. that s nearly twice as high as when president biden took office. bill: here is the good news. wages rising slightly up 5.2%. not enough to keep up with inflation is the bad news. that disparity creating a nationwide pay cut. team fox coverage this morning. jacqui heinrich and we begin with kelly o grady live from los angeles. kelly. today marks the first weekend of june. you would normally have people excited for weekend getaways, beach trips. instead drivers are facing more dread at the pumps. today is the seventh straight day of record highs. the national average jumped 5 cents overnight. that s just two cents shy of double the price when president biden took office. that means an extra $33 ev
wanting to raise the taxes on working families by an average of 1,500 a year. put medicare and social security, medicaid social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. every five years they will no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with everyone who has real solutions and real savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. now, the other element i like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends the republicans like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded rising every year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year by 1.7 trillion. hear me now? this year by 1.7 trillion. that s a fact. the largest decline in
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