That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and science and medical research all the things that help us grow. Now, step by step, weve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, i signed into law more than 600 billion in new revenue by making sure the wealthiest americans begin to pay their fair share. When you add the money that well save in Interest Payments on the debt, all together that adds up to a total of about 2. 5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years not counting the 400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. So weve made progress. We are moving towards our ultimate goal of getting to a 4 trillion reduction. And there will be more deficit reduction when congres
That is according to a statement. The two men they want to see freed are the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and pakistani scientists. Algerias state news service says 100 of those kidnapped has been freed. This despite a failed rescue attempt by the algerian army. The hostages and include americans, britons, and people from eight other countries. David cameron said he was not consulted before the raid began. I was told by the algerian Prime Minister while it was taking place a bit he said the terrorist had tried to free sleep. He felt obliged to respond. U. S. Officials also kept in the dark. At least five americans managed to escape along with an irish worker. The fallout continues for Lance Armstrongs and admitting that he used performance enhancing drugs. He revealed the details during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. We have highlights from that interview and how people are reacting. The situation is one big lie. I repeated a lot of times. After more than a decad
Today theres more conflict. Responding to the president s declaration that we wont negotiate. They cut off lawmakers paychecks. Why pay them if they dont do t the. Its been a long time. The bush and the clinton second term by scandal and impeachment. The any obama term starts with a confrontation. Saying its encouraging that republicans are backing off, in the words of the white house, a move to hold the u. S. Economy hostage and force drastic spending cuts. Im steve handelsman, news4. Security is a big concern this inauguration. Special forces arrived today to help with crowd control. With details on how security is being mustled up. You know when you see a jersey barrier like we have here, that obviously means dont go there, but they dont work well on the water. Its no secret or surprise that a president ial inauguration means changes on d. C. City streets. 6,000 troops are coming to theyll be highly visible. For that 48hour period, the waterways will be closed to all Recreational Bo
Do than to start a Small Business with all of the challenges that are there. Maybe except get married. But i dont know, i will leave that there. In terms of other issues that are there, we have a robust appropriations component of this bill that will be helpful. Theres some things that just are not happening. But i would rather not negotiate on tv on this because, hopefully, some of these issues will go away. My hope is that while were in the red zone here that we get across the finish line and we do so in a way we can bring our bill to the floor under unanimous consent. Another option we have though is bring it to the floor and amend it, because we have some additions we think would be very helpful to americas workers. The third, of course, would be to pass our bill. All of that takes longer. We wish there had been a fourcornered discussion of this sooner. Remember, this, andrea, this is a 2 trillion bill. Nobody saw any of it until saturday. Its now tuesday. So time is of the essence
Maria barter about. Im tired about talking about this problem. I want to fix it. Both parties want to fix this problem for the president as quickly id invite the crisis at the border and now its time to have a legislative solution. We need to change laws for this to stop. I will be introducing the package and hopefully with democratic support we will change our asylum loss. Eric will they be changed to mac we talk to peter king but first lets go to ellison barber who is live in the north lawn of the white house. Reporter one of the things President Trump tends to talk about and point to as what he sees as a major flaw in the us Mission System are asylum us. He often talks about asylum loopholes say its one of the biggest issues leading to the problems going on at the border. One of the big things he wants congress to step up and deal with. Senator Lindsey Graham is nothing he is planning to move forward with some sort of lets that a package in order to address those issues and mainly i