Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
Tonight, we will get the majority of the results. At the white house, President Trump and Vice President pence are hosting 400 supporters. The president is expected to talk later tonight. At the chase center in wilmington, delaware, a party for the biden harris ticket. The former Vice President is at home with his wife jill. They have been joined by senator , harris and her husband. The che center is where they spoke at the conclusion of the Democratic National attention. Thank you for joining us. We will be here all night with and concessiony speeches and most importantly, your voices. We want to hear from you about this election cycle, about your experience voting. The issues that are important. Here is how you can participate in our program. 202 is our area code. 748 if you are supporting vice there is biden, another number. If you are supporting a thirdparty, did not vote, or neither candidate appealed to you and you did not vote for either one, here is the number for you to call.
Get his view on the crime wave all over the headlines in new york the last few weeks. In florida today the focus seems to be on reopening especially with this development from the teachers in florida, the Largest Teachers Union in the state, now suing the governor over the way he wants to reopen the schools there. Coast to coast will take to you texas as we continue to follow the spike in coronavirus cases in many states around the country. Texas, one of them. We start with white house news. Well have two briefings to focus on out of the white house today. The first already wrapped up with press secretary kayleigh mcenany. The president himself will be briefing reporters this evening. In between that, as we bring in blake burman in washington i suppose the focus would be on those stimulus talks on the hill, right, blake . Reporter yeah. A lot going on here in washington, connell. Start on capitol hill, top two negotiate force tore the white house, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and w
The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
Good morning, i call the meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin now house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the interior and environment and appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize miss mccullum to present the bill. Good morning, and thank you, madam chair. I want to thank Ranking Member joyce for his strong collaboration and partnership throughout this entire process. Hes been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography, being a social studies teacher he borers with the great state of ohio on lake erie and in minnesota we border on lake superior. Id like to thank the subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which weve continued our tradition of nonpartisan work