to be a winning formula once again for all democrats and for president biden and vice president harris. laura: a winning formula? is that what he said? we will see. i have this crazy idea that americans don t want to go into debt to buy stuff like gas, groceries, or make car payments. in newsweek, writer lee habib noted that the combination of run away costs and high interest rates has been catastrophic for ordinary americans as the average car payment surged to nearly $730 a month with the length of those loans extended to a record setting 68 months. as for gasoline, well, biden s insane squeeze on pipelines and exploration is killing the family budget. in july 2020, gas was a mere 2.27 a gallon. in july of 2023 the average was 3.71. a whopping 63% increase and even gone up since then. so, all americans feel the pain of biden s radical green agenda because everything that travels by car, by plane, or truck is now more expensive. and it s all on the democrats. the economy
good afternoon. at the covid inquiry, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has apologised to all those who suffered as a result of the government s decisions during the pandemic. he s also expected to face questions about his controversial eat out to help out scheme, aimed at helping the hospitality sector. scientific advisers have already told the inquiry they didn t know about the plan until it was announced and there were concerns it would spread the virus. our political correspondent pete saull has been watching. it was at news conferences like this that many of us got to know rishi sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before sunak. he had been promoted to chancellor just before a sunak. he had been promoted to chancellorjust before a global pandemic struck. of course a lot of politics has happened since then. he has moved from number 11 to number ten and this morning made the trip across london for a grilling of his actions at the time of covid. quite something to
home office has cited is the tip of the iceberg. the real cost is on things like house prices, it s on the general strain on public services of immigration and the sense that a lot of voters have that we are not properly policing our borders and the country is not safe so yes there will be people who think it is an outrageous amount of money to be spent this way but i think there s other costs that are even bigger in people s minds which is 806 issue for the conservatives. a toxic issue. is 806 issue for the conservatives. a toxic issue. is 806 issue for the conservatives. a toxic issue. then new grander oli on a toxic issue. then new grander policy on the a toxic issue. then new grander policy on the table, a toxic issue. then new grander policy on the table, robert - a toxic issue. then new grander policy on the table, robert jen - a toxic issue. then new grander| policy on the table, robert jen rick policy on the table, robertjen rick who quit last we
funding why we put an enormous amount of funding in why we put an enormous amount of funding in place to support them. for social funding in place to support them. for social care, that largely goes through for social care, that largely goes through local authorities. so one of the earliest things we did was provide the earliest things we did was provide billions of pounds extra for local authorities in honouring fenced local authorities in honouring fenced grants so they would have extra fenced grants so they would have extra funds to spend on the things they needed to at the time. that was done, they needed to at the time. that was done, i they needed to at the time. that was done, i cant they needed to at the time. that was done, i can t remember exact what date, done, i can t remember exact what date, but done, i can t remember exact what date, but relatively early on in the pandemic date, but relatively early on in the pandemic. with regard to social
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