needs of working families. meanwhile, republicans push for amendments in support of cold lines and reducing gas taxes. and even against hiring more irs agents. they are going to be collecting about close to 740 billion dollars in new tax revenue over the next supposedly 5 to 10 years, but most certainly it is not going to help get us through a tight time. certainly it is not the time in which we start adding additional government employees. talking 87,000 more irs employees. i don t think very many american citizens are going to want to see that. the vote-a-rama will continue for at least the next few hours before the bill is expected to pass the senate. it will come up for a final house vote on friday, and president biden is expected to sign it as soon as it passes. biden has left the white house for the first time since testing positive for covid-19. he traveled to for union with first lady jill biden. meanwhile, new warning to donald trump or one of his allies. tru
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the value of uk wages has fallen at the fastest rate since records began after taking into account the rising cost of living. household budgets are being squeezed by rising food, fuel and energy costs. average pay fell by 3% between april and june, when adjusted for inflation. that means prices are rising at an even faster rate, despite growth in regular pay excluding bonuses. meanwhile, job vacancies continued to increase, although the rate is slowing. the rise in the cost of living has prompted workers and unions across several industries to call for inflation matching pay rises with some, such as rail workers, going on strike. but the government claims the employment figures show the resilience of the uk economy. our business correspondent nina warhurst has more details on those uk job figures. average pay is growing faster than for 15 years but what is crucial at the moment, what everybody watching will
things they care about. we don t have to make things up when the republicans do their big tax bill in 2017, they said it will reduce your taxes to the average middle class person. it was aimed at the rich. we are talking about exactly what this bill does. we don t have to make it up because we are aiming directly at the american people and what they want. so, let me say this. say no to something is easy. it gets mistaken that no, say no, that is tough. there is no strategy or counting to saying no. it s simple, it is easy. legislating is about getting to yes. i ve always been a yes person. not a no person. always wanted to get something done. if you ask me, what helped you get the stun? some people have asked me that. i put it in one word, persistence. i just tell you a brief story for those of you who haven t heard about my dad. my dad passed away in november, he would have been 99 on flight day, june 14th. he was i won t go into the whole story, but he was a brilliant par
west is water conservation. every single drop counts from here on out. wow. bill, thank you for explaining all that. the situation is obviously very dire. they need to find a way to compromise. thank you very much for explaining it to us. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it s good to have you. this hour we expect to see the president at the white house. he ll sign a bill into law that one adviser calls a culmination of the administration s effort towards building the economy. the inflation reduction act as it s called makes historic investmentes in the fight against climate change. it gives medicare more negotiating power with prescription drug companies. and it imposes new taxes on some of america s biggest corporations. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlyn collins joins us live now. so democrats consider this a significant victory. they didn t get everything they wanted here. it s not everything they wanted. and it s very different than the build back bette
hi, mark. good to see you. thursday the justice department will tell a judge if the affidavit is released, it could compromise the ongoing investigation. it s been more than a week since the fbi searched trump s mar-a-largo estate. while a search warrant explains what was uncovered, many juicety details remain undisclosed. the government said why they want to cheap this private. if disclosed, they say, the after day would be a road map to the government s on going investigation providing details about their direction in a manner that is highly to compromise future investigative steps. former president trump accuses the justice department of abusing their power. he announced he supports the unveiling of the affidavit. he said prior to leaving office, he had the power to declassify documents found at mar-a-largo. we re hearing from john bolton who calls that argument laughable. was not briefed on that. the president never said anything to me during 17 months there. i just t