white house with more on this, hi, lucas. lucas: it adds trillions to the national debt with $31 trillion and interest payments on the debt next year could one day approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in. now here is house speaker kevin mccarthy adding more c conte. we ve only paid $9 trillion in interest. so he s going took us 80 some years to happen in less than ten years. lucas: let s take a look at biden tax proposals which would add more to the national debt. 25% minimum tax on people with 10 100 million plus dollars. 39.6 capital gains tax for people making over 400 grand. 28% corporate income tax, 4% stock buyback tax and 3. 8% surtax on investment income. late yesterday reports circulated that the white house will approve drilling in alaska. no final decisions have been made and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. now 3 years ago as presidential candidate as president he said he would never approve any drilling projects. no more subsidies f
week after the armed abduction before other americans. they traveled there from south carolina, just across the border into northeast new mexico. the surveillance video you see appears to have the government forcing them back into the tr truck. two of the americans were later found dead, allegedly murdered at the hands of the mexican cartel. that now is apologizing for the kidnapping. two other americans thankfully are back safe here at home. cooks don t sign for the federal government to step in and take charge and actually do something about the situation. i can the question needs to be race how many more americans are we going to lose? something needs to be done for their needs to be accidents enough of the rhetoric. arthel: border state congresswoman debbie les of arizona joins us in a moment. but first bill is alive in texas where those three women were missing began the journey. bill, what more can you tell us? arthel, good afternoon to you. we have learned to texas s
arthel neville. the report of the missing women comes a week after the armed abduction of four americans who had traveled from south carolina and had just crossed the border into northeastern mexico. surveillance video appears to show armed men forcing them into a truck. two were later found dead allegedly at the hands of a mention concern mexican cartel. the other two are back in the u.s. debbie lesko says tourism is on the line if the and mexico won t work together to keep americans safe. our administration can do more to force the mexican government to the cooperate, and i would assume that the mexican government would want to get their act together and keep americans safe, otherwise tourism is going to the go down the tubes. and i would recommend that all u.s. citizens do not do so until the mexican government takes control of the mexican cartels. eric: bill melugin is live in texas where the three missing women began their journey as they crossed over the border. bill,
rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.