that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial
minimum tax and prescription drug provisions. it protects programs millions of hard working families count on, social security, medicare, medicaid, safeguarding health insurance for millions of americans. it fully funds veterans medical care including mandatory funding for the pagt act toxic exposure fund at the levels the president proposed in his 24 budget and protects critical health funding to prepare for future pandemics and possible covid-19 surges. this agreement is now with the house then to the senate and we strongly urge both chambers to pass the bill and send it to the president s desk. with that, i m all yours. the bill that just came back from paris it s my wife s 40th birthday. .
democrats in the house and the senate as a good deal, as a worthy deal for their vote, that it does protect the chips act. it protects the pact act. the inflation reduction act, she says. clean energy. the corporate minimum tax. prescription drug provisions. social security and medicare and medicaid. the aca she goes on and on saying this is a worthy deal for democrats in the house and senate to vote on. the leadership of both parties, president biden s team, speaker mccarthy s team, trying to convince the vast middle that they should get on board with this in order to avert a default, which is scheduled to happen on june 5th. so why don t we go back to the deputy treasury secretary to ask him about that june 5th deadline. is that a hard deadline? what happens on june 6th if there s no debt deal. we ve never been in a position where we haven t
actually does is save the government and seniors money by reducing the amount of money that the government has to pay to pharmaceutical companies for prescription drugs. that is pure savings, is the not a benefit cut. i spoke to experts about this this week, a vanderbilt university professor said that framing this as a cut to benefits is, quote, nonsense, again, she is a vanderbilt professor. another expert at the kaiser family foundation told me that the congressional budget office said that prescription drug provisions in the law will reduce the federal deficit by $237 billion. this is savings to the federal government and medicare from lowering what medicare pays for prescription drugs. this is not the same thing as a $237 billion cut to medicare. so debunked last year and again this year. these are important policy debates, they are real debates. it would be nice to have them without outright lies, but that s where we are. daniel dale, thanks so much. also politics. good luck.