Bret i will. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the u. S. State Department Says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. The u. S. Evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. We had fox team conch tonight. Correspondent bryan llenas is in the Dominican Republic where officials are preparing for a major surge in haitian migrants. But we begin with correspondent Gillian Turner live at the state department with the latest. Good evening, gillian. Hi, bret. An aboutface from the state department today. Officials here are now working to try to get more americans out of haiti. They also say that nearly a thousand americans now contacting the contempt about getting out. Dramatic uptick from just a few hundred people last week. This is a fluid situation. The numbe
finance committee unanimously supported the addition. phil mattingly joins us from the hill. clearly a lot at stake for the republicans. no question at all. and that is about revenue, plain and simple. $378 billion to be exact. that s what the cbo estimates that would come from a repeal of the individual mandate. that s money the republicans desperately need. they need to it make permanent their corporate tax cuts. they need it to add more targeted relief on the class side of tax cuts. more importantly, anderson, they need to it ensure based on the budget rules, they can actually move this through on a simple majority. the trade-off with all of this is with that comes the numbers $13 million and 10%. former, that would be how many people would lose insurance over the course of ten years. the latter, that s how much premiums would go up over the course of each year in a ten-year period. that s the trade off here. understanding the political damage this may cause, the trade-off being t
things. we re going to talk more coming up in the program about what the white house has to do. dana, matt, it s great to see you. thank you. the president did get some good news though. the federal deficit is shrinking faster than expected. the congressional budget office estimates the deficit for this fiscal year will fall to $642 billion. 200 billion what they forecast in february. and the cbo says the deficit should keep improving through 2015, when it s projected to drop to $378 billion. in part, they credit tax revenue and better than expected bailout repayments. man: the charcoal went out already? . forget it. vo: there s more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford original charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill.
quote of the day has to go to the house republican leader who says more people believe elvis is alive than believe stimulus created jobs much the total bill is $378 billion but not all the money is getting to communities. how much has been funded compared to how much has been paid out, usa today did a survey. you re looking at the amounts available in there, too. some of the money has been repaid with interest and some has gone out again. now, here is one of the numbers, and all those zeros are there. you see the available number much smaller and the paid out number. we re looking about only a third of the money that has actually been paid out. now, there are plans for more of the remaining money to be doled out in the coming months but republicans complained when the white house was pushing the bill a year ago, they said that money would be pushed out as quickly as possible to jolt the economy. not more than a year later. steve, gretchen and clayton, back to you. all right, caroli