member that have caucus understands that working people are hurting right now. and finally we need a government that represents ordinary people, not just the wealthy campaign contributors and the 1%. the house problem solvers caucus is probably more aligned philosophically with sinema and manchin at least right now it seems that way, and that group is proposing $487 billion in new spending for their infrastructure bill, a bipartisan group of people who as their title would suggest think that they are problem solvers. i know you think $487 billion is not enough. but ultimately isn t something better than nothing? well, you know, even in washington $487 billion is real money. that s a lot of money but at the end of the day, jake, i don t know if you ve ever done it by on the american society of civil engineers. ever talk to those guys? these are the experts who
hasn t seen these last few years anyway, but is this the new normal? i m hoping that it is the new normal. if you look at the bill, there are great things in the bill. listen, there s a new way for president obama to report the congress dealing with sanctions. there s this policy regarding the irs. there are great things in there, but this is how the congress should work in a democracy. it should be bipartisan support. you shouldn t have republicans on this side and democrats on that side. so i m hopeful that this will continue, but we have a new congress coming in, julie. let s talk about some of the big ticket items in this bill, okay? we re talking about for ,xqgçde, for example, nearly half of the money, some $487 billion goes to the pentagon with another $85 billion for operations overseas. right now a lot of people would say that our operations overseas is a little bit of a mess. i mean, we re in, we re out, we re in iraq, we re in syria, we re fighting isis, we re trying to
capitol hill. where is this money going in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill? the big ticket item is defense. nearly half of the money, $487 billion goes to the pentagon with another $85 billion for operations overseas. among the other expenses, the education department will get about $160 billion to fund school programs and try to keep the job market humming along as well. also, $5.4 billion of the 6.2 billion the president asked for to fight ebola. thousands of protesters sweeping through the streets of washington at this hour. al sharptone justice for all march to call attention to police brutality against african-americans. the marchers including the families of michael brown, eric garner and others. rick enson is live along the route in washington with the latest. hey, rich. reporter: now reaching its
something magical happens when you become a new mom, you become a target, a target for a $23 billion baby product industry. some items you ll actually need, diapers and a car seat. depending on your income a car seat that can range from $50 to $350 and diapers that could cost upwards of $100 a month can be pretty pricy but you ll just have to have them. all those items that eric, my executive producer and dad to. 3-year-old lucy, you don t need that. you probably have bags that carried things other than diapers. i know, i know, it has compartments. but whether it s the $29.99 version from the big box store or the $500 version from a fancy designer, your baby don t need that. fancy brain building toys. u.s. baby toy sales exceeded $487 billion sales last year. but they love the boxes in which the toys arrive and the best brain builder is you.
cutting our climate change programs instead? senator james inhofe of oklahoma says yes. and he joins us right now to break down the numbers. good morning to you, sir. good morning, steve. it is startling given all the things that are going on in the world right now that we re talking about gutting our military to preworld war ii levels. yeah. let me put this in perspective cause i remember i was on your show five years ago. five years ago when obama first came out with his first budget, i went to afghanistan so i could respond to his disarming of america. in that first budget he did away with our fifth generation fighter, did away with our lift capacity, future combat system, all that. that was just the first year, the first budget. since then, he has taken out $487 billion and with the sequestration, another half trillion dollars. we are just disarmed. i ve got statements from the