act will unleash an avalanche of taxpayer money on coalition-list items like climate change. it will also jack up taxes during the recession. republicans say they will pay the price and the midterms. president biden says this is a major win. president biden: expect you to help, i m going to need you to. for example, no state medicare $2,000 to go. that s a big deal. some of us, it won t kick in for a little bit, but it s all good. when you sit down at the end of the month, you will see more bills. if you love getting audited, listen up: democrats will send irs goons for your bank account. after giving them $80 billion to ramp up enforcement, hiring 87,000 new irs agents. get this: the agency will end up with more staffers than the state department, fbi, and border patrol combined. democrats think they are clever by calling it the inflation reduction act, but even senator bernie sanders sees me that charade. i want to say a few words about the so-called inflation a
just around the corner, republicans and democrats are raising the stakes as senate democrats celebrate the passage of their major spending legislation, republicans also gain an edge of sorts by forcing democrats to vote and show their cards on several key midterm issues. moderates appear to be left with a bad hand. republicans are preparing to up the ante with plans to target moderates in november and beyond in 2024. congressional correspondent asha has any is on capitol hill with our report. good evening, asha. good evening to you, mike. that s right, senators are headed back home for the august recess. handing the baton to the house which is expected to vote on this massive tax and spending plan on friday. republicans in the meantime promising democrats will pay the price in the midterms. [cheers] it was a feat some didn t think was possible. i put in one word persistence. even republican senator josh hawley tweeting tonight i will give the dems this with a 50/50 se
i always promised you i would see you on the outside. i m a man of my word. all of this coming as new york police search for the owners of this backpack. let s talk about all of this with deborah feyerick. before we get into the backpack here the letter specifically. what more do we know? we know that there s no indication that the daughter had any idea that her father was planning out of prison. she didn t? she had no idea. as a matter of fact when the letter came it appears she even asked for additional protection because she was very concerned about her father. and when somebody is in a maximum security prison writes you that kind of letter you really don t think they are going to turn up at your daughter and we know that he wrote this letter while he was in prison. it was sent by u.s. postal service and arrived about three days after he escaped. so they are looking into that. it s ominous, in hindsight. this all becomes so apparent now. after the fact.