ginni thomsthomas, they won t hesitate to look into her more closely. we hope she ll agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. it is very important for us to speak with her, and as i said, i hope she will agree to do so voluntarily. i m sure we will contemplate a subpoena if she won t. reporter: there s no doubt that thomas has been resistant to that voluntary cooperation that cheney was talking about. she didn t say she would come and speak in a public setting on terms that were made up by her. the committee isn t interested in that. we ll see how this process plays out, ana. of course, it would be a big step for the committee to subpoena the wife of a sitting supreme court justice. they certainly aren t ruling it out, but it doesn t appear they re on the doorstep of making that happen soon. ryan nobles, thank you very much for the updates. for more on all of of this now, we re joined by former federal prosecutor mic
and before covid, which did lead to some increase in the civil service. why now? well, you should always spend taxpayers money as efficiently as possible. governments have no money of their own, it is only money taken from hard working taxpayers who provide the funds that the state expends. but during an issue with the cost of living and inflation, you need to have control of budgets and you need to ensure that things run as efficiently and effectively as possible. so it fits in with the overall economic succour. that is the government view. interesting this morning that jacob rees mogg said he didn t think it would have a big impact on services because things like automation and more efficiency will mean that the same sort of standards can still be applied. got to say there are some who are highly sceptical of that, the unions for example have been arguing that if you cut that number ofjobs arguing that if you cut that number of jobs you arguing that if you cut that number ofjobs you
it would have a big impact on services because things like automation and more efficiency will mean that the same sort of standards can still be applied. got to say there are some who are highly sceptical of that, the unions for example have been arguing that if you cut that number ofjobs you are going to have to cut what you do accordingly and it will inevitably mean some hard choices for departments. and it ll be really interesting to see, as this process plays out, which departments actually feel that they have extra civil servants to potentially get rid of. as i say, the big departments, the ones that employ the most civil servants, all have quite a lot on their plates at the moment. to add another couple, the home office is dealing with issues over borders. the ministry of defence obviously has the conflict in ukraine
biden today seeming to signal to the american public that he s going to try the best he can to make this perhaps less so. now will it be will that be how it turns out? i don t know. i think you could probably argue it won t be, but biden also knows that he has to keep that promise, too. he s been accused a lot of being very partisan recently. and i think today he made it very clear that he wants to reach across the aisle even on this issue of the supreme court, which is incredibly partisan in this era. that s a fascinating point and an interesting point as we begin the next chapter. we ll watch as the process plays out. not only who, how it might impact the court and how deep the politics get. abby, manu, joan and steve as well. appreciate the hustle of all our reporters and analysts. don t go anywhere. thanks for your time on inside politics. we ll see you back here tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now.
south carolina senators lindsey graham, also tim scott have suggested openness to her nomination, she s been pushed by jim clyburn, the democrat. we will see how this ultimately plays out. yeah, democrats want to move quickly but chuck schumer will only be allowed to move as quickly as support will allow him in the senate. if one democratic senator, say, if joe manchin says we need to put the brakes on this they will have to slow it down. manchin i m told is okay with that timeline about that month time lien to get this done but we will see. once the process plays out and who it is if they need more vetting perhaps they need to hit the brakes. on the front end of this joe biden himself has already indicated that he s going to slow down the process. he wants to take about a month to even select a person and democrats are saying, you know, stephanie cutter, former obama administration official who was dealing with nominations in the obama years says why are you doing that? we should be