Ta ke i can connect with my children and take them to my friends Birthday Parties and go on the old claygate every now and then and actually be present in my childrens lives. Playdate. From today, bigger businesses will have to reveal how much they pay their male and female staff and if theres a gap between their wages. Im looking at the rules and what they hope to achieve. In sport, eden hazard scores twice to keep chelsea at the top of the Premier League. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A chilly start. For many of us, a fine day with sunshine and variable amounts of cloud. Through the next the days, by sunday, it will be warmer than it has been. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The Supreme Court will rule today on whether parents can take their children on holiday in term time, without Breaking The Law. Its considering the case ofjohn platt, who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter to florida for a week in 2015. The decision could have far
to $367 billion is in red ink. the real bill they say is 4.7 trillion in spending and $3.367 trillion in red ink. added to the national deficit. why? because of the gimmicks in the bill. this is what joe manchin has been concerned about all along. it has ten years of revenue. in the existing b.b.b. bill, it says we re going to pay for three programs for one year out of the ten years. we have one program to pay for for two years. nine programs for three years. one program for four, one for five and two programs we re going to set various years of spending. which joe manchin is saying this is phony. tell us what the cost is if you fund it all ten years. not a single one of these programs does the administration says we re going to let it exist for one year. name me one democrat that says they will pay the child tax
$3 trillion over the next decade. three trillion dollars. as the bill is currently written, the cbo estimates it would only add $367 billion to the bunlt deficit over a decade. okay? so 3 trillion, versus 367 billion. okay. that is night and day and it is dramatic. and the thing here is that is because as the bill was written, it was written over a ten-year time horizon but to make the math work, they assumed certain programs would only be around for a year. like the child tax credit. that key program lasts only one year in the bill the way they wrote it. so put it in there, it s there for one year and then goes away completely. universal pre-k. funding for childcare. that is set to expire in six years in the bill. i mean, come on. we all know those are intended to be permanent programs and you don t have to, like, just ask me and take my assumption for it. just listen to progressives. elected progressives on capitol hill. they are honest about that. we have done this for a year,
protection, $25 million for environmental justice initiatives, $150 billion in housing grants which would be available to felons, actually. it expands medicaid and eligibility to the inches cars rated and makes felons and illegal immigrants eligible for up to $45,000 a year in federal benefits. they predict it would add $367 billion to the national deficit over 10 years and speaking of debt, the debt ceiling was pushed back in october. it must either be pushed back again or boosted because the deadline is this friday. carley, todd. todd: no time for a christmas break. they ve got work to do. carley: they ve got work to do. todd: we appreciate it. carley: iran nuclear talks are set to he resume today after a six month long hiatus. the u.s. delegation is not even allowed in the room. todd: greg palkot is allowed in the room, he s live in london with the latest. reporter: todd, carley, hello. negotiations aimed at reviving that iran nuclear deal should be
and tried to incorporate more divergent views and that makes close votes like this more difficult because when you ve got 50 votes in the senate. 50 vetoes. i think on a technical matter i don t think aoc s claim that they that the house only voted for it from promises in the senate. if you remember, joe manchin said at the time he would not pre-commit to a bill but he didn t know what was going to be in it and they hadn t specified what was in it. he wanted to get a cbo score. it will be smaller than what the house passed for sure and we ll have to see what it is. benjamin: that cbo score came through $367 billion over 10 years. some people put the figure as high as 1.6 trillion. steve, that s a huge discrepancy. how do you join those? you know, the bookkeeping that congress is doing and the