Force and Health Care Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Ms. Mcclain first and foremost, thank you all for being here in this crazy bit of times were in. What were talking about is extremely important. The i. R. S. Has been plagued really with dysfunction for decades. From data breaches, leak, Identity Theft, slow audits, backlogs and horrific Customer Service at least from my constituents. Despite years of oversight and government watchdog warnings not a lot has changed. My colleague on the other side of the aisle believe more money and more power is the solution. In fact in last years Inflation Reduction Act, Congressional Democrats dumped 80 billion 80 billion into the i. R. S. With this influx of cash the inch r. S. Plans to ramp up audits on all americans. This funding spree prioritizes enforcement over improving Taxpayer Services. Taxpayer Services Like pro
Host at our table this morning, christine mcdaniel, a white house senior trade economist during the George Administration and now a senior fellow at the George Mason University mercatuntwe are talke policy with china. What is a tariff, before we get into our policy right now under the Biden Administration . Guest a tax on imported products. Lets say that you buy this pen, you import this pen at a dollar. The government pa . 10 tariff on it then you pay 1. 10 instead of a dollar. Host s li the United States have tariffs . Guest a long time ago countries had tears be a gd revenue raiser. Over time countries got better at having income taxes, personal income tax, Corporate Income tax, collecting taxes, and now tariffs are veryiminive part of the revenue stream. Other countries. Guest u. S. Tariffs are still pretty low even though they are used a lot right now and have been the past few years. U. S. Tariffs are still pretty low, the average is still 2 to 3 . Now we have bigpike other count
That he loved me and cared about me and ive been serwer since then and now i have 17 months congratulations for that. Thank you. Do you dream about the future now . Yeah. A few years ago, i didnt think id be alive and so it was really weird turning 18 and having plans to go to college and just all of the things that i get to do now one point, i didnt know of lucy was going to live or die and now i know lucy is going to do whatever she wants to do in this world. Every single one of these kids gives us all hope today that no matter how hard your life is, things can get better. One de at a time it sounds like such a Great Program and, and you know that young woman lucy, her face just lit up when she was talking about her her sobriety what are the effects that a school like this exists, say, about the state of the drug crisis in our country, especially among teens yeah i mean its sad. I think that a school like this has to exist, but on the other hand, youre glad that it does. Its sort of
I think that a school like this has to exist. But on the other hand, youre glad that it does. Its sort of the physical embodiment of harm reduction, something that weve talked about a lot. I will tell you, anderson, just over the past few years youve seen drug usage actually go down in the United States. But at the same time, the drugs have gotten stronger theyve gotten deadlier, and they are easier to obtain. I mean, keith was telling me these kids, theyll get the drugs off social media and theyll pay with venmo which is i guess no surprise then that the number of overdoses among adolescents has doubled over the last several years. So its an incredible program, but said that it has to exist at all for sanjay gupta. Thanks so much got it. Thank you sure. To join sanjay this saturday. May 18 at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for the hourlong special champions for change with a look at 12 people making a difference. Again, thats saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern its a process. The news continues right
With this deal, the two candidates have shunned the commission on president ial debate, proposing three gatherings in the fall. This morning, we would like to get your reaction to the development in campaign 2024, democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also join us with a text with your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Or on facebook. Com cspan and also in a post on x with the handle cspanwj and welcome to the washington journal this morning. We start with the New York Times reporting, they say the public back and forth began over the debate started wednesday morning after bidens Campaign Chair sent a letter to the commission on president ial debates notifying the group that mr. Biden would not be participating in a free general election debate, scheduled for september 16, october 1 and october 9. Then President Biden later posted this video with his offer to debate the former president and what he would like to see the format loo