minutes from taking the stage in new york where he ll try to leverage the power of his bully pulpit to shove republicans off the fence in the debt ceiling fight. will that help move friday s talks any closer to a deal? and the jaw dropping admission just a day before title 42 is set to expire. in the records of one dhs official, the system is breaking, and they haven t even hit the starting line yet as thousands of migrants cross the southern border, the white house is planning to let some of them in with no court date and no way to track them. so much going on today, but we start in long island, new york, where a freshman republican congressman george santos is expected to be arraigned in court on federal charges just four months into a congressional career that was built on lies about his background and wealth, and according to the government, krm criminal schemes. today the justice department hit him with 13 counts. among them charges of wire fraud, money laundering, t
According to officials at the Brookings Institution, Buffalo is using a greater share of its federal pandemic relief funding for revenue replacement than many other big cities.
what the president is trying to do here is really two things. one is to try to turn up the political heat on those individual republican lawmakers who as there is potentially some friction within the republican caucus about the path that speaker mccarthy is taking could put some counterpressure on the speaker to what the hard right maga flank as the president likes to call it is putting on the speaker right now. but the other is to look further down the road. the president s going to be introduced byhe white house says could lose her job if the spending blueprint that republicans passed just a few weeks ago as part of their debt ceiling package were to go through, and so it s an interesting bit of optics on the part of the white house as the president who hasn t left washington until now in the two weeks since he launched his own re-election campaign is coming here with a little bit of the blueprint of how he s going to be running in 2024 on display. you know, robert, congressman law
doing nothing but talking about comey and russia and this and that. a lot of it s the media asking them about it in thing hallways, and that is distracting. elizabeth: we can talk about tax reform and health care, those things can feasibly be pushed, but the budget has to be passed or else then we talk about a shutdown. well, the budget is a spending blueprint. what they really need to pass without a shutdown is spending bills. those are 12 separate appropriations measures that are now churning through congress. they re way behind on this. it s likely we ll end up with another big so-called omnibus spending bill. the problem of not passing a budget is you re not setting a spending level, and it s harder to do. however, it s not impossible. it happens with greater frequency because of the partisan divide in congress and the difficulty in getting together on these spending issues. it s all very complicated, but ultimately what it will involve is them getting these spending bills togeth
orlando and i-4 corridor through 6:00 p.m. the line of storms weaken overnight as it approaches west palm beach and miami. isolated tornadoes possible in the carolinas today. we are also seeing quiet day today in new england. tomorrow is the rainy day. if you have things to do outdoors, get that done. tomorrow looks like a soaking rain. middle of the country, you are quiet and the heat will build. middle of the country from the central plains down through texas. they have 90s and 100s. i keep seeing phoenix at 107. it is summer there now. thank you, bill. still ahead, president trump taking action into the russian role of the election. we will talk about who is tapping to lead a brewing legal fight. and the esident s budget is not going well on capitol hill including those reacting to the spending blueprint.