them those bonuses until they give something out, the bonus will expire on august 31st. they have to get something done, they want to get that bonus money. mickey is not not holding any hostages. rob: big news at fox. what is going to be our new service? fox news getting into the streaming business. similar to netflix it will be called fox nation, offered to fox superfans who want to get more content when they can. live daily video content with longform programming exclusive to subscribers. fox nation will be launched later this year, no word on how much it will cost but if you want more content, here is the best way to get it. rob: there is a voracious appetite for this content and we will provide it.
getting $500, it s part of universal basic income and this will go to low-income residents, several hundred of them over the next few years and this is funded by these social or the economic security project, they ll be giving money to this and tracking how the people spend the money and there s no question on what they do with the money, it ll be starting this year and announced in october. heather: the eagles players just won super bowl, part of their money where it s going to go. tracee: yes, they get a bonus, $112,000, the patriots they get $56,000 and they re going to be paying, of course, federal taxes on this but they are getting a bit of a break from uncle sam because of the new tax code so they will be paying $41,000, the eagles will on this bonus money, that s down from 44,000 which was under the previous tax code. so but you still have the
pete: our nation s heroes suffer endless va wait times a new report reveals those va workers, some va workers were given $30 million in insenttives with no explanation. bonus money with no rationale. here to react phoenix va whistle-blower, branden coleman. you ve been at the front of this. office of inspector general of the va releasing a report, upwards $30 million were given without any justification or performance tied to it. how can that be? thanks for having me, pete. good to see sloan gibson, secretary mcdonald, rest of the leadership once again have the priorities in order defending bonuses in order to try to retain new talent.
ranking member of the intelligence committee and introduced legislation last month to permanently ban the pentagon from recooping the money. thank you for joining us. this made national headlines not terribly long ago. i think some got lost, but it is incredit that believe you have these people who reenlisted. they were given bonus money. it was an error, but then we re told through no fault of their own, they would need to pay this money back which was a hardship on many of them already. it really was, appalling for the pentagon to go after these soldiers. they did their end of the bargain, they were offered these incentives, they went off to afghanistan and iraq, they served with valor and for the pentagon to claw these bonuses back i think was a terrible injustice. and i m glad we passed language in the defense bill to rectify this and basically tell the pentagon back off, you re not going after these soldiers. and any who have paid the bonuses back will be reimbursed. now there w
debts. california congressman adam schiff today told usually has already written to the head of the california national guard asking any attempts to reclaim soldiers bonus money be stopped until he and congress with can work out a solution. i think it s ridiculous. drew, what is the pentagon saying about this? why is this happening? this has been an ongoing issue for several years. there is even a bureaucratic process at the pentagon all set up to handling these issues one by one of the it s called the bonus audit and recoupment process. it s case by case. individual soldiers have to plead their case, prachs perhaps even hire a lawyer. today the pentagon says it s going to work for a better solution. it may have to come from congress you. say it s been a problem for years. i m surprised this hasn t been resolved already. that is the bigger question. members of congress, particularly in california, have