go up to sedona it s a beautiful state congresswoman, the great state of arizona, thank you. thank you. arthel. or eric, thank you. well, while waiting for gop budget president biden is facing a growing number of questions on his budget proposal. he unveiled thursday. it calls for nearly $7 trillion in new spending which includes 886 billion for national defense spending. meantime the february jobs report shows a hotter than expected 311,000 jobs added. raising fears of more fed rate hikes to cool down the economy. lucas tomlinson s live at the white house. lucas, it seems that good news always comes with conditions. that is right. think it depends which side of the isle you re looking at this thing from, arthel. the trillions in new spending the wall street journal reports will grow the national debt by
chinese premier xi jinping. but the rain mains to be seen how sincere exactly beijing is about ensuring a peaceful resolution to this conflict. u.s. officials say their intelligence indicates that china is considering providing weapons to russia, which would only prolong the, we re not bring it to an end. as the wall street journal reports, quote, u.s. officials familiar with intelligence reports say that if beijing office to provide weapons, it would also include artillery in addition to drones and possibly other weapons to help russian forces stave off an expected ukrainian counteroffensive this summer. and just yesterday, china abstain from the u.n. security council vote condemning russia s invasion of ukraine. the resolution passed overwhelmingly anyway, with 141 countries voting in favor of it. 31 other countries abstained, along with china, while seven, including russia, north korea and syria voted against it. today, the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken, issued
these entities are being added for their support to china s military modernization efforts specifically the people s liberation army s aerospace programs including airships and balloons and related materials and components, the wall street journal reports, the recent china based blacklist of suppliers worked on projects like the development of an airship designed to fly far higher than aircraft, controlling aerial vehicles with satellites and artificial intelligence and even propeller fly equipment for drones why we still don t know if the objects were recently shot down over alaska and canada are from china there is one thing that is certain that these recovery operations taking place on the three locations hold a lot of evidence. eric: hopefully we will get it all, brian and myrtle beach, thank you. arthel: back to the late issue down yesterday over canada. let s bring in lieutenant colonel army veteran in international military