sandra: house lawmakers signing off on china, recently uncovered spy program, targeting u.s. military bases as well as beijing alleged cover-up of the origins of the covid pandemic. john: is congress finally taking seriously the national security and economic threat that china poses to the united states? nikki haley and ashley hinson are here to weigh in coming up. sandra: potentially historic day at the supreme court as justices hear arguments in a pair of challenges to president biden s student loan handout. great to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well, sandra, especially, rather, on this busy tuesday. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. the court s looming decisions on the two legal challenges to the president s plan will test the limits of presidential power. also have widespread implications for the tens of millions of americans who could see their loans reduced or completely wiped away. sandra: critics of the handout say the
president biden s favor, give him more power than the executive office has ever had. dave rubin coming unon this. sandra: and what it means down the road for the loans and the precedent it sets. john. john: president biden will discuss protecting healthcare during a stop in virginia today as residents in east palestine, ohio worry about getting sick after that train derailment earlier this month. epa administrator will tour the site for a third time and meet with people impacted by it. in a news conference, assured residents epa is in it for the long haul. alexis, are there still health concerns there on the ground? john, good afternoon. there are lots of health concerns, depending who you talk to. but residents here say, some of them, have nausea, some rashes, stomach aches, and they want to know how long they could have these health concerns.
the head of the epa stood behind me in the downtown in east palestine and talked to those residents about their concerns telling them they are here for the long haul and people have many unanswered questions, they opened up the welcome center in the downtown to go in and request to have testing done, both inside and outside of that your homes. listen. the people of east palestine will not have to figure out what comes next on their own. we are in this together as i have said from day one, we are holding norfolk southern accountable for putting this community in harm s way. they have since agreed to comply with epa order. i want to remind folks that at any point the company fails to comply with the actions ordered by epa, we will immediately step in, conduct the work that needs to be done and then force norfolk southern to pay triple. residents here, john, don t really care who gets the work done, they just want to see the