week to try to sell his plans to the american people. david spunt is live at the white house with more. reporter: hi, or jon. the white house announced just a few hours ago president biden will travel to howell, michigan, just between detroit and lansing on tuesday. this is a way to sell both plans, two plans that price out into the trillions. now, when president biden was vice president, his former boss, president barack obama, received a lot of criticism and his team for criticized for not semiing the economic stimulus under their watch to the american people effectively. the biden team promised they would sell better and make sure americans actually understand the pros of what this president is doing. but that was 2009, jon. this is 2021. congress is deadlocked more than ever. democrats barely have a majority in both the house and senate, and they aren t fighting only with republicans, but with themselves. the house progressives want a $3.5 trillion, with a t, social spe
wilmington, delaware, where he ll be spending the weekend, but the message is clear, these two bills are linked together. the infrastructure-only measure and the far more expensive $3.5 trillion plan. nonetheless, by linking them, he put the speaker, nancy pelosi, on the spot. she had wanted stand-alone votes on the bipartisan infrastructure plan as an indication of getting something done for the american people and then work on the bigger package separately. progressives were not buying that. they re happy, moderates are not. the latest thousand from mark divot at the white house. hey, mark mark meredith at the white house. reporter: hey, neil. president biden says this can still get through, but we are seeing a bit of a struggle within the democrat party on these two spending bills. one, the infrastructure bill that does have bipartisan support, and the other, this much larger social safety net bill that is costing a lot of money, and that s what you ve got the moderate
mr. president, what made you use the word genocide today? yes, i called it genocide because it has become clearer and clearer that putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being ukrainian. howard: president biden framed it exactly right this time, unlike his call to oust putin from power which prompted confusion and criticism. this time, biden said let the lawyers decide if it meets the international definition but, quote, it sure seems that way to me. and i would add, to the world. we often think of genocide being aimed at an reality nick, racial or religious group. but the legal definition also includes killing or harming a national group, and that s what this war is, killing ukrainians because they are ukrainian, because the russian autocrat has decided their country has no right to exist. that s a a fact, and the media establishment should start using the term as well. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead we ll look at elon musk tryi
our southern border where the humanitarian crisis goes on with the white house set to end title 42 next month. and russia is intent on remaking eastern europe as china seeks domination on the global stage. with control of congress up for grabs this november, democrats will have to answer for the president s policies. coming up, virginia congressman rob whitman on the growing concern on main street that biden s economic agenda will lead to a recession. plus, the kremlin s brutal invasion of ukraine continues, now in its 53rd day. house foreign affairs committee member darrell issa is here on the impact u.s. sanctions are having on moscow and what more can be done. then, texas governor greg abbott s response to president biden s handling of the southern border by sending buses with migrants not nation s to the nation s capital. texas congresswoman beth van duyn joins us on that as the urgent warning of fentanyl-related deaths across the country spikes. plus, the federal inves
pretty stunning. more than 220,000 migrants in march, the highest number, they say, seen under the administration and the highest number since march of 2000 when president clinton was in office. meantime, a fourth bus carrying those illegal migrants a arrived in washington, d.c. earlier today. that as texas governor greg abbott is keeping his promise to bring president biden s board or crisis, he says, right to his own doorstep by busing those migrants from texas right up to d.c. expect migrant issue is expected to get worse when the cdc lifts title 42 restrictions next month. that trump the era health policy was designed to curtail people from crossing the southern border during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. we have fox team coverage, to senior correspondent casey stegall live in eagle pass, texas, with the latest from there. hey, casey is. reporter: hey, eric. just as you were saying, this latest data shows the largest monthly encounter rate in more than 20 year