While we were on the august recess, it was projected that theyd reach trillion, doubling the estimate of we simply cannot continue down this path of spending large sums of money without regard to the fiscal future of our nation. This bill takes the same approach American Families take every day. They simply have to do more with less under the biden economy. American families decide every single day where to cut back spending to pay for whats most important for them. For them, those decisions are difficult. Likewise, we have to make tough, difficult decisions for the good of the nation. This represents 2. 7 billion across discretionary accounts throughout this bill except for the Supplemental Program for w. I. C. With this reduction the fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriation bills discretionary allocation is 15. 1 billion. By redirecting nearly 7. 5 billion in unobligated funds from the inflation reduction act, this funds the food and agriculture and the Commodity Futures Trading Co
Please put your phones on silent. Back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. Is pound and pc life. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. Would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. We have starting from my left and youre right, mark heller. Hes an agricultural reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Tamara harlingen at the atlanta journalconstitution. Sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. Philip, senior editor. Steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. Thats the number two for sonny perdue. We have betsy martin, executive and American University cochair. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have abby livingston, Was
Leyla . You sound bubbly. Traffic is bubbly, too. The drive in northbound direction to san jose airport traffic is not an issue but there is a brand new crash. Eastbound 580 approaching san ramon road. We have one lane blocked. Traveling in the westbound direction, all is clear. Up to 238 to san leandro along the nimitz, northbound and southbound, you are in good shape. Heads up if you fly out of the country. The Obama Administration today could call for tight are security at certain overseas airports that fly into to the United States. John john 25 million americans are ready to travel over the thanksgiving day weekend. The extra security measures could include more baggage screening, making sure the bags match the names of the people on board. Also, tighter security measures for airport employees for fear it could be an inside job. It is not 100 percent clear the cause of the russian jet with 200 people on board to crash in egypt but it is believed terrorists set off a bomb that caus
Capped a strong week within striking distance of alltime record closing high. Blue chip index up to 18,127. The nasdaq gained 34 points rising for 5 Straight Days to get third highest close ever at 5026. And s p 500 up nearly 19 to 2108. In a week of big triple digit swings dont fight the fed. Stocks got lot of help after the fed wednesday dropped the word patient from its Interest Rate prognosis but basically said it will be patient about raising them. The dow rose 2 for the week. The nasdaq outpacing the others with a 3 rise and the s p. So its steepest weekly advance. But focus squarely this week on nasdaq that closed above 5,000 for the second time this year and on a few occasions this week the index was up when the dow and the s p were down. So why the recent strength in the index . Bertha coombs has our repo. Reporter the nasdaq is now within reach of new alltime high. And this time around says j. P. Morgans kate moore, the tech heavy index is driven by profits more than hype. We
Jet Fighter Pilots come to texas to train to take off their insignia for their names that indicate if they have anything to do with Taiwan Air Force because taiwan doesnt exist as an official entity. Our way of talking about taiwan we are authorities of what . So neither the chinese are right and part of the american side of the 100 year marathon or they dont involve themselves much with taiwan at all or there is little going on and they are competing for taiwan. Who is going to win that and have mcdonalds hamburgers and everybody learns english aqwex when we are telling them that you are not a country or is china going to do better because they say we are all chinese. They read the textbooks very carefully. But its pretty clear they are part of the history so who is going to win the marathon for the laws of taiwan . Washington or beijing. Thank you very much. [applause] its been a lively discussion. The book the 100 year marathon is available. I will bring him sitting here so that you