for her new baby arriving starting with this mountain of diapers and a rubber duck which we will get a hold of. griff: diapers is what you put on babies when you go to the bathroom and you think you will need a certain amount, you need quadruple if not quintuple amounts. carley: i am genuinely surprised by this, thank you so much. i haven t bought diapers yet. griff: we have ten more surprise gifts still to come. stay with fox and friends for a very merry christmas eve. don t start hugging us every time, i will get a lot of makeup on me. carley: i got that. ng. and spend quality time, at the same time? lowe s, actually. the final days of winterfest are here. save now before they re gone.
learn about adopting a teen from foster care. you can t imagine the reward. visit adoptuskids.org griff: after the house passed the $1.7 trillion budget big changes could becoming to your 401(k), the bill includes secure act 2.0 which will make it easier for more people to save up for retirement. joining us with some insight is executive vice president of the national taxpayers union brandon arnold, thanks for being here. regardless what you think of this horribly bloated bill unit q you know what i think of it, there are changes that could help you. what are they? the bill is a hot piece of garbage but did include one provision, the secure 2. oh act, that will make it easier for people of all income
griff: it is 4051 pages. carley: to reimburse jordan, lebanon, egypt, tunisia, to tighten their border security. $65 million to restore the population to $3.6 million for georgia hiking trail named after former first lady michelle obama, pet projects lawmakers putting these funding bills to make it easier to get reelected next year but this is your money. griff: we all view this through the lens of our children and they will be saddled with this debt. for us, what this means is another 1.7 trillion pricked printed dollars will hurt inflation, and take recession into next year but our kids have to pay this bill when it becomes due and republicans and democrats on capitol hill are responsible for that. this is shameful, this will hurt our country.
small business, access to high-speed internet. the border literally could not be more of a disaster. i am not going to step over my skis on this. i will let you take that. the rest of the things on that list, she is doing a horrible job on most if not all of them. carley: she spoke to washington post reporter it had this to say, there are things that i have done as vice president, to demonstrate the strength of my leadership as vice president but have not received the kind of coverage i think the dobbs decision did receive. if you are the loudest voice defending your record you are on the losing side. griff: we ve seen pick cases of people leaving her office, she said an exodus of staffers in the first 2 years and it is largely because of her own doing and the way she reacted in the moments the spotlight was on the vice president as
stripes to save for their retirement, very important changes taking place when inflation is so high, personal savings decline, even lower than it was before the pandemic because people are struggling in this economy, need to prepare for retirement, this is an important piece of legislation. griff: i want to put up the bullet points we want to focus on, employer contributions for student loan payments, increase age for minimum distributions up to 72, 73 i believe, for our generation will be 75 in 10 years. help employees build and access emergency savings, enhanced the savers credit and make it easier for part-time workers to save. what do you want to focus on? great stuff. the emergency savings provisions important, so many are hesitant to save money because they are afraid they will need to tap into their savings and pay a penalty if