Weve gathered and the ideas we are going to be discussing. Welcome to the committee for responsible budget for thostherf you who do not know if they Nonpartisan Organization the board of directors or people many of whom are with us today who have run all the bigbudget institutions in washington so the federal reserve, the treasury department, omb, the Budget Committees comes of a. To try to have a realistic understanding of the budget improvements are going to be needed to improve the fiscal situation in the country and to trick yo to have in a bipartisan way it kind of understanding of how hard it is to make these traces but there are so many reasons they are necessary to keep moving the ball forward. With that said i will say it is a rough time for the budget policy this country. Nobody should be under the impression that the Fiscal Health of the country is good. It is not. Our debt relative to the economy is twice what its been on average. We are on track to bother us to be 10 trill
Republican Senate Candidate roy moore, republican candidate, conducted sexual acts against minors as young as 14. Do you believe that judge moore should step down from his candidacy . Sen. Perdue well, it is early, and we do not know all the facts, obviously. These allegations are very serious. If they are true, then in my opinion, he should step down and withdrawal from the race. Joe some of your colleagues are calling for senator strange to mount a writein campaign. Would you encourage the senator to pursue that . Sen. Perdue we will see what happens on the facts and how judge moore reacts to it. I have not seen that yet, but it is one of the possibilities that is being talked about right now that senator strange would step in and potentially do that as a writein. We did see that in alaska this last time, so it is not impossible. Greta i should note that for our viewers, we are all talking on this thursday afternoon. Go ahead. Tamar earlier this week, we had a a slate of statelevel r
Do you believe that judge moore should step down from his candidacy . Sen. Perdue well, it is early, and we do not know all the facts, obviously. But these allegations are very serious. If they are true, then in my opinion, he should step down and withdrawal from the race. Joe some of your colleagues are calling for senator strange to mount a writein campaign. Would you encourage the senator to pursue that . Sen. Perdue we will see what happens on the facts and how judge moore reacts to it. I have not seen that yet, but it is one of the possibilities that is being talked about right now is that senator strange would step in and potentially do that as a writein. We did see that in alaska this last time, so it is not impossible. Greta i should note that for our viewers, we are all talking on this thursday afternoon. Go ahead. Tamar earlier this week, we had a slate of statelevel races across the country, and democrats captured the governors mansions in virginia and new jersey. They made
Democrats have taken control of the US Senate, with millions of voters in two run-off races in Georgia delivering another rebuke to President Donald Trump. Two months after Joe Biden won the White House and Democrats retained the House of Representatives, Republicans suffered the devastating loss of the Senate following one of the richest campaigns in history. And it was a young man, Jon Ossoff, 33, with an Australian-born and bred mother who won the Senate race that handed the keys to the kingdom to Joe Biden. His mum, Heather Fenton, who was born and raised in Sydney. She moved to the US when she was 23.