the crime. that is what we are watching this hour. hello, everyone, thank you for being here, i m kate bolduan. right now the supreme court is hearing the arguments for two cases that are at the heart of americans. at the heart of it is the biden administration student loan forgiveness program. the argument is that the president overstepped his authority here when he said he would give up to $20 million in student debt. that is a lot of money for a lot of people and hanging in legal limbo today. signs of how much interest there is in the court decision, take a look at the crowds out in front of the court this morning. jessica snyder is also live outside of the supreme court as this is playing out. she is joining us now. jessica, you are listening to the first hour-ish of oral arguments. what are you hearing? the justices are zeroing in on the price tag of the program, and whether the president way of the extensive program. these are the numbers. 40 million students are
national security initiative to make sure that the u.s. is not reliant on the foreign producers for the advanced chips that are essential for a whole range of issues for commercial applications, and key military technologies as well, but one of the things that secretary ramondo told us that to meet the security goals is to make sure that the u.s. will have a workforce to meet the need. so the u.s. is opening up subsidies for chips manufacturers in the united states, and making sure that companies applying for the funds, they have to lay out how they will meet some of the workforce development goals in terms of planning to work with the educational institutions to provide the training to ensure there is that highly skilled workforce to be able to produce the chips rn schips. they will be working with the diversity of the chips manufacturing, and also the construction of the chips manufacturing plants to require