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Defined to replace. And so Kevin Mccarthy and the living crisis in the us state of louisiana salt water from the gulf of mexico threatens to contaminate the water line. The now the United States, as its transferred thousands of sees to rain in weapons to ukraine. The arms and ammunition were captured by naval forces. Last yeah, the guy says they were on the way to who c rebels in yemen or from on this . Thats go to our white house correspondent, kimberly how could in washington dc. So kimberly, this is quite an unusual move. Whats prompted this is the us really been able to make that big of a difference on the crime in battlefield . Well, a, its not just that the United States believes that it will make a difference, but the vitamin ministration didnt have a whole lot of options right now. Given the fact that youll recall over the weekend the, there was the prospect of a government shut down here. In the United States and well that was narrowly averted at the 11th hour in order to keep
Jerusalem on franzs government class. On the bed bugs as an infestation hits the transport system, empowering the United States says and has transferred thousands of seized ronnie and weapons for ukraine. The arms and munition were captured by naval forces last year. Us says they were on the way to who is the rebels in yemen . Washington says its navy has been intercepting vessels, used by around to ship weapons, threw out the yeah, Us State Department and says the transfer weapons was carried out roughly this in the legislative language. Uh, authorizing uh, the department of defenses, Ukraine Security assistance initiative, which they of course, im sure would be happy to speak to you. More about the secretary of defense is authorized with the concurrence of the secretary of state to make available to the government of ukraine, weapons and other defense articles from the United States and other sources. And this obviously is one of those uh, other sources. Oh, from on this, that schedu
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We have followed that policy. And we never said that it was a target, which we would i understand that. I appreciate the kauvcaveats. Youre very good at caveats, i appreciate that. That brings me to my second point. A full six and a half years after the recovery, as you acknowledged there is slack in the labor market and there are significant weaknesses in the labor market, in the overall economy. In fact, a recent investors business daily article said the over all group has been 13. 3 . Thats less than half the average growth rate in the previous ten recoveries since waurld world war 2. If it had been average, gdp would by had 1. 9 trillion larger today. You recognized this in your report saying the measure of labor under utilization remains relative. That would explain why youve invoked that caveat and havent raised the rates even though you came below that 6. 5 . I understand the analysis. Lets talk about the cause of that underlying weakness. Its clearly not Monetary Policy from th