Is a person in my position supposed to pass the test when it comes back for a substance that im allergic to and they up to my medication the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on children in cdp custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. The committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of ,ustoms and Border Protection cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named philippe a. Felipe last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being releas
I want to take a few brief opening remarks and then ill turn it over. Then ill turn it over to Ranking Member sanders. We are here today to consider, to serve as the nest director of budget. To serve as the director since there were 20. Teen President Trump nominated him in march as the nations facing a unprecedented crisis, both health and economic from the covid crisis. The office of management and budget paint played a key part, in addition to building the president s annual budget we also to do financial, management grants management, information technology, program assessment, and Property Management just to name a few. Given the vast responsibility over the organization its important to have a senate director in place. Before we hear from the Deputy Director of want to discuss our response to the coronavirus pandemic. Congress working with the president to provide needed relief for individuals and businesses and state and local government on a series of bills resulting in spendin
You can also send us a text, that number 202 7488003. Please include your name or where you are from. Therwise on social media a very good thursday morning. You can start calling you now. To let you know where we are on capitol hill, the houses and at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, the senate is in at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. President trump headed to wisconsin to participate in a town hall and visit a shipbuilding firm. We do not know when that promised executive order on mound events and statues will on monuments and statues will come but the president had plenty to say at the white house yesterday. [video clip] we will have a strong executive order. We have the monuments act, which means 10 years in jail. We will have a strong executive order, i should have that by the end of the week. We will have a very powerful statement. We have arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. In addition, the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they have
Encouraging news on the fight against the virus. A first of its kind study kinds the vaccine developed by astrazeneca can very much cut the spread of the virus. Were talking about our medical expert about that. And call it a booster shot, the Biden Administration expanding Vaccine Distribution with plans to send doses directly to pharmacies next week. Dr. Fauci says it cant happen soon enough. Are we vaccinating right now at a pace to keep ahead of these mutant strains . Well, were Getting Better and better, but, savannah, were not. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. We start this morning with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Garrett, that tribute for Officer Sicknick is starting in just a little bit this hour but as we come on the air there is big news youve been covering from the senate regarding what you could perhaps technically call a power sharing agreement, but if you put in in laymans terms it basically means that congress, now the senate, can function as its supposed to function w
With them and to lead them for the last 3 1 2 years and i will an even greater privilege to do so as the director. I have spent my entire career about taxpayers and their families. I have fought to save them money areensure their tax dollars well spent. I come from a bluecollar family. Electrician and son of a teacher. Tonow what they went through balance their budget and save for the future. Long, hard orked hours to put me through school. They worked very hard to pay for the government and their lives. I wonder what else they would be were o accomplish if they fiscal year to freer to build and save more of their hardworked earnings. My parents represent the forgotten men and women of this country. They have always been the which i have tested Government Spending and i am rateful to the work of this administration that made the eyes and the heart of the forgotten man the lens from policy. See these men and women live and work in every city and every own and every state in this great c