Government accountability, the report of the nations Fiscal Health. Today the Budget Committee will hear from congress nonpartisan watchdog on the nations Fiscal Health and the importance of confronting our critical fiscal challenges. I welcome back mr. Dodaro who is the most usual and best witness providing information throughout the year that it is extremely helpful heading off some of the future crises that will happen if we dont Pay Attention. This hearing will kick off a series of hearings and discussions about that will form Bipartisan Solutions for the problems we face this year and help build a foundation for next years budget cycle. The next few years should be significant for the Budget Committee. The committee has been the working hard to enact reforms that improve transparency and accountability in the budget process and help put us on a more sustainable fiscal path. Last year senator whitehouse and i introduced the bipartisan congressional budget reform act and i want to e
Need 50 votes to pass. Surely the republicans can get these 50 votes. And here is this mornings president ial tweet. The budget passed late last night. 51 to 49, we got zero democrat votes with only rand paul, he will vote for tax cuts, voting against. Investors clearly share the confidence, expect another record high moments from now. Totally different subject. A passionate rebuke to Federico Wilson and the media from white house chief of staff john kelly, she was wrong, he was right. Wait till you hear what a tomp clinton aide had to say about it. These people have no shame, Varney Company about to begin. Most americans dont know when they lose marines, their buddies wraps them up and put them on a helicopter and sends them home. Dresses them in uniform with the medals that theyve earned, while thats happening, a casualty officer typically goes to the home, very early in the morning and waits for the first lights to come on. Casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family me
Manu raji has been watching all this. Late out the headlines weve heard so far. The big headlines is Matt Whitaker made clear he did not speak with President Trump about the investigation. He said i have not talked to the president about this or Service White house officials. He also said i do not believe that hes had conversations with a third party, an individual who may have later paced on notches about the special counsel probe to the president. He did rereel he had been briefed once about the investigation, but he was briefed multiple times and would not reveal any of those matters. And after the firing of Jeff Sessions, the acting attorney general, they view it as an attempt to interview with the Mueller Investigation going forward, something he now oversees, but whitaker tried to tell the committee hes done nothing to impede the investigation. I want to be very specific about this, mr. Chairman, because i think it will allay a lot of fears that have existed among this committee,