rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
especially now that the estimated cost of taxpayers is half a trillion dollars over the next ten years. an op-ed in the washington post paul s their plant calls their plans aggressive, and no concerns about taking money from plumbers and giving it writing that low-wage workers will pick up the tabs to cancel the educational debt. how is the president responding to these questions? let s take a look. and about how others don t have to? we see this all the time. i want to flashback to another biden and pelosi moment. they both addressed this issue. people think that the president of the united states has the power for forgiveness. he does not. he can postpone, delay, but he doesn t have that power. that has to be an act of congress. sounded very different. that comes with the same time that the wall street journal confidential memo written by charlie rose, and obama educational department leader council. wrote the floor for persuasive analysis tends to supp
Countrys biggest bank is taking issue with and where he sees the economy going on. And later, personal finance expert suzeor orman is here. Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. On the desk tonight and we start off with a full slate of Earnings Reports. Microsoft, alphabet, visa, snap, all on the move after their latest results. We have full team coverage. We start off with steve kovach, who has all the details from microsofts quarter. The stock is higher right now, steve. The Conference Call is in about a half hour. Microsoft shares are up. The solid beats on the top and bottom lines, but heres whats more important. Reversing some trends that weve seen. Azure cloud growth up 29 versus the 26 gross the street was looking for. Thats exactly what investors wanted to see, after several quarters of declining growth. Now, what to listen for in the earnings call. Do they believe azure bottoms and continue that acceleration that we saw last quarter or is it going to
Bodies like this, there are lowerlevel working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis, is that correct . Why dont i asked richard and brandy to talk to that . As somebody who also cochairs the Nuclear Posturing view, i think my colleagues and i serve as the daytoday coaches for the bpr and i think she probably got sick and tired of the end of it when i kept making comparisons to the Nuclear Posture review. I think there was some value there in one of the outcomes in the npr, we do implementation, a lot of those issues that were identified had a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation. In other cases, it was policy or somewhere else. As we were going through the process, we realized, number one, just the value of getting this collective group of people and officials into the same room on really a weekly basis, to have these discussions and dialogue and identify gaps and scenes, wherever they may be. And we kind of recognized, we probably should sustain us in som