causing pain everywhere, is inflation. joe manchin said, look, this big spending bill is going to make it worse. i think a lot of democrats tried to warn president biden last spring that the extra $2 trillion covid bill was exactly the wrong medicine after the country and the economy were already rebounding. it was basically discouraging people from working, pumping more money into the demand side of the economy. it was really an inflation generator. i think manchin correctly viewed build back better as more of the same. that s the issue where you see the pessimism across polls, across viewpoints, and it is the fact that, when you mess with the currency of a country, you are messing with everybody. we all see those higher prices, and it s not just the cost of it, it s all the planning that people have to go into to figure out how to manage when prices
behind closed doors for classified reasons in terms of the information that the generals are sharing with the committee. we intend to have general milley in an open session and general mckenzie and secretary austin in an open hearing soon. what i can tell you, it s increasingly clear that the military advice to president biden last spring was to not go to zero troops in the country. he rejected that. more importantly in some ways is that some of the military advice also predicted the chaos that we are seeing right now. he rejected that. president biden rejected that. even though he was forewarned. i think foreign policy fiasco given when he was given these predictions of chaos is should go that president biden solely owns.