welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
trillion could soon approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in, neil. president biden is calling for more taxes on the rich. he speak recently in virginia beach. i want to make it clear, i m going to raise some taxes. any of you who are billionaires out there, you re going to stop paying 3%. not a joke. biden met with kevin mccarthy just once since he became speaker and with a debt of over $31 trillion, many republicans are concerned about potential cuts in national against, a time when the biden administration is arming ukrainian forces with billions in american weapons and with the threat from china increasing. the 2022 and 2023 defense budgets are 3% when the kennedy administration was spending 9% of u.s. gdp on defense, building up the arsenal which the pentagon says is aging and is needed upgrades to the tunes of billions ever dollars. and jfk cut taxes and shortly after his death. that was then. lucas thank you very much. i raised this issue with jo
the measure. lucas tomlinson is on the lawn of the white house with more on the story. hey, lucas. jacqui, many people are wondering if the president is so concerned about the environment why doesn t he want to go to east palestine. the president says he wants to go, but didn t give an exact date. i ve spoken with every democrat in ohio and in pennsylvania and laid out what i think the answers are and we will be implementing an awful lot into of the legislature h here. as you mentioned off the top, jacqui, what some would call a negligent discharge, a memo was accidentally fired off or posted the biden administration looking to increase royal fees off the coast of alaska, despite saying lower fees would help attract investment. the department favored higher fees, it constitutes the balancing of economic and environmental factors. senator joe manchin says he s outraged by the memo and says to fox digital is crystal clear that this administration is putting their radica
we have fox team coverage with matt finn on the ground in mission, texas along our southern border but let s begin with nate foy live in new york with more on the astronomical price tag. it is. according to city memo on taped by the new york post the city spends average r average $364 every single day of each migrant household and right now the city is housing 30,000 migrants. you do the math, works out to just under 13,000 households. many of the migrants live in humanitarian relief centers that the city not only paid for construction of but on the hook for daily care of migrants. according to post with the daily per diem with $364 per household. the city is spending nearly $5 million every single day on migrants and estimated $4.2 billion this fiscal year and next ending june 2024. new york city council republican leader joe borelli tells fox the amount of aid coming from the state and federal governments is laughable. fema provided $8 million in december which is two day
a giveaway. quickset supreme court is looking giveaway to people who own. giveaway is your term not my term. they have college debt we are going to give them money. were going to forgive them. [laughter] okay. when you talk about giveaways you have major corporations in this country that makes billions in profit don t pay a tickling nickel and taxes for the truth is you go to regeneration everything being equal the younger generation have the lowest standard of living than their parents. right now these young people are leaving school deeply in debt. they re struggling economically, they deserve a break. cooked all begin with you because they deserve a break. a problem here and this is a dishonest narrative and argument the senator is making here. 51% of these loans go to those who pursue graduate degrees but those are people become doctors, lawyers, and economists. they re the type people who can pay back the loan do not need the hand apricots what do you think uni