This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on what is seriously a marathon saturday. On capitol hill and wherever you are. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with this Breaking News from capitol hill, where were watching an 11th hour Stopgap Spending Bill potentially come to reality. The house is yet to vote on it, but there are so many moving parts today, youre seeing the minority House Minority leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been using his magic minute to speak to the chamber there, imploring that all of this was avoidable, there could have been some bipartisan effort to keep Government Spending well before this juncture, but here we all are. Lets get to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Brand new reporting that you have about not just whats going on in the house, but apparently whats happening in the senate, and how all of this is coming together. Whats going on . Reporter let me paint a picture for viewers at home. Basically theres been a del
we re going through a lot better four years ago. i just don t want to vote for trump. the democratic party, i feel like someone more younger on and more fit would come into service i feel ignored be a huge step in the right direction. we all get older that were not getting any younger. candidates make even candidates that aren t getting that kind of lack have made gaps. neil: charles: two days to go to the cnn presidential debate and americans are still divided as ever. whether they change all of that? welcome everyone, i m charles pain for neil cavuto and this is your world. to jacqui heinrich with more on how both sides are preparing. the former president reportedly told reporters over this weekend that he has settled on a vp pick but he didn t give anyone a name. the hill reports its down to three contenders, north dakota governor doug burgum, ohio senator j.d. vance and florida senator marco rubio. but the trump campaign downplayed the suggestion that
or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most kcons consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this day we celebrate. now, whether it s a success may depend on what happens next. though, a massive messaging blitz and sales pitch is underway. tomorrow president biden holds the first prime time address and next tuesday stops in the home state of pennsylvania which he narrowly won last year and republicans today rolling out their counter arguments, as well. we re doing damage to the future of this country spending dramatically more money than we obviously need. we re about to have a boom, and if we do have a boom, it will have nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion. not a single republican lawmaker voted fo
good evening. it is a historic day in the fight against covid and physical and financial struggles it created. on the day president biden s signature domestic policy passed and $2 trillion covid relief bill, the president announced plans for a deal with johnson & johnson to produce 100 million more doses of the one-shot vaccine and america should have enough vaccine for every adult by the end of may. this as cases are declining again. we ll have more on that in a moment. we want to start with that covid relief bill that passed. whether you applaud the $2 trillion bill is house democrats did immediately after the pass or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this
Everything i have been a able to decipher up to now, half the benefits go to the top 1 . I have been in congress a long time. I remember another president who was able to railroad a tax code through the congress during the 1980s. And the Wall Street Bankers the corporate president s took that money and outsourced our jobs from the region of the country that i represent. So theres no requirement that money be invested in america. Even if they get it. So its a really lopsided to the top to the same class that is has cause sod many of the problems were facing today in regions like i represented. Frankly, as a member of the defense committee, i have to say were a nation at war and for any president who be sort of hanging out at a tax cut to the very wealthy at a time were at war, there isnt a veteran in his family. I think its really dangerous
and no matter who they are, trump or the establishment character like mitch mcconnell, they are obsessed with the estate tax. They call it the death