i m able to bring you. that is a process that takes some time. so that s where we are at the moment. i think it s fair to say, as things stand, the story has eased off a bit. it s not as dominant and sort of headline making as it was at the tail end of last week. that s not to say it might not flare up again. prime minister has said today, he s been in edinburgh launching the conservative scottish manifesto with douglas ross, the outgoing leader of the scottish conservatives, that he s not aware of any of the conservative candidates who are being looked into. it s intriguing that because i m not sure it d be absolutely certain he would necessarily know, potentially. and of course, there s lots of people in and around politics who may or may not be candidates. so, yeah, that s kind of where we are now. it hasn t gone away. it may not go away, but as things stand it has eased in the nosiness of about i think would be a reasonable summary as we record at what 5.10pm on monday. a
you ll have a knockdown drag-out in the senate. this goes back to march of 2020. this is what your government has done now. not this one. guys, call for number three. spending totals, government spending that we have here. march of 2020 you had families first covid response act $192 billion reading left to ride. the cares act 2.2 trillion. april paycheck protection program, 483 billion. we went on to the appropriations act march, american rescue plan at 1.9 trialian less than a year ago. infrastructure at 1.2 and bbb at 1.85 as advertised. see if the senate comes close to that or even push it through. austan, can we sustain that? no, and we shouldn t have to sustain that. that was an absolute crisis, the biggest economic crisis and collapse in the history of the
for the next three years from the treasury, then make submissions to the independent pay review bodies with evidence, and then it will be up to those independent bodies that set the pay of teachers, police officers, prison wardens, civil servants, you name it, who will report back to the government next spring, and then it will be a political decision by the government whether to accept the recommendations, and only then there will be a headline numberfor each part of the public sector for pay to increase. then there is how that actually feels in the real world. energy bills are going up, there will be increased national insurance to pay for the nhs and social care from next april, so a quite large headline increase may not feel quite large in the real world, and the unions are making the point that the government departments tomorrow will have to be adequately funded if they are to deliver public services and higher wages for public sector workers.
let s talk to our chief political correspondent, adam fleming. he is at westminster. good morning, adam. we have seen a flurry of leaks and announcements ahead of tomorrow s budget, but my question tomorrow s budget, but my question to you is well public sector pay actually go up? in to you is well public-sector pay actually 90 up? actually go up? in theory it probably actually go up? in theory it probably will actually go up? in theory it probably will because - actually go up? in theory it probably will because that| actually go up? in theory it. probably will because that is actually go up? in theory it - probably will because that is the direction of travel to government it setting. that is all they can do at the moment, this is the start of a big technical and political process. tomorrow the government departments will get their spending totals for the next three years from the treasury, then makes some omissions to the independent pay review bodies with evidence and then it
exactly an avowed republican wrote a book a couple of years ago entitled the world is flat and it talked about how competitive the world is and for business to thrive and to make it in these days, they got to make some tough decisions at times dealing with outsourcing, at times dealing with insourcing but a whole array of tough decisions based on a very flat production line around the world and what the romney camp is saying, look, the guy was in business. the role of a businessman is trying to make your business thrive and keep it alive. and the idea that the american public is going to hold him guilty for decisions he made as a businessman that we re all within the confines of the law and all within the confines of ethics and necessary at that time, i think, is, again, a good call on their camp. let s look at some of the spending totals just to go full circle back to the money on this whole thing so the 2012 presidential race ad spending totals. $72 million for president obama. $