I am a past president of the National Press club. Last tuesday, 10 of the people seeking the democratic partys nomination for president took the stage on the first night of the second round of candidate forums. As the dust settled following both forums, one of the storylines is the candidates who see themselves as moderate working hard to assert their views as those who dont see themselves as moderate. Montana governor Stephen Bullock is one of those who sees himself as a moderate, also pulling in the single digits. Governor, it is good to see you here. I almost didnt recognize you without nine people standing to your left. The format today will include remarks from the governor followed by questions from myself and the audience. Governor bullock is the only candidate who won the election in 2016 in a state by donald trump and the only candidate who has a National Campaign finance reform at the core of his. Latform governor bullock expanded aticaid, expanded programs schools. He made m
Chairman of the fed was asked does the fed need to cut rates with the economy as it is and he set you do not need to wait until things get so bad to have a dramatic series of rate cuts. Markets took that as a pledge they would do more, maybe shock and all. The new york fed had to walk it back and say we are not talking about the end of july yet. David please stay with us and we can talk about whether we need the rate cuts. In the meantime lets go to anna in wanting to in washington. We have a deal yet on the debt ceiling . Anna we are getting close but we are not there yet. There is a Firm Deadline of when the house is expected to begin its august recess. Mnuchinlosi and steve are trying to talk about not really the debt limit part, but everyone agrees they need to raise the debt limit. Leaders also want to attach an agreement on budget caps. They need to lift the budget caps that would impose these dramatic cuts and those are the details theyre trying to work out. Last night we got an
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Welcome to post9. What do you think . We were down as much as 200 points on the dow earlier today. Now were down just 16 points. I think it really what were getting a feel for here whether you thought there was a 50 basis point coming or 50 base point rate cut coming, i think it goes off the table. It hit bull the hardest which is that inflationary hedge. It pushed gold lower equities have recovered but the moves we saw in bonds and dollar havent retraced steps. Shows the resilience and risk on sentiment that investors have. Thats what i was watching throughout the session when you saw equities lower and bonds lower you need one to break one way or the other we saw continued selling in bonds but a little bit of recovery in equities what were seeing on the screens they really arent down too much s p futures down its interesting to see what happens on monday when everybody comes back from the hampton. We only have one basis point decline for nasdaq any positive close for the main three i
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac this hearing on the medicaid cliff currently facing the u. S. Territories. The medicaid funding is provided provided by the aca is set to expire this calendar year and the lack of a funding solution will be particularly harmful for American Samoa as i know it will be for the other territories. Id like to thank our witnesses for making the long trip to washington to testify before the committee today. Welcome. Each of your firsthand experiences will provide congress with an accurate assessment of the situation. Acas first allotment of funds became available in july of 2011, long before i and many of us here were elected to congress. Those funds were only accessible after the normal annual allotment was exhausted. Medicaid and chip payment and access commission, otherwise moan as mack pack published a fact sheet for American Samoa which has a list for cal table of total medicaid spending from fy 11 to fy 17 taken from reported expenditures from t