Residents. It is made up of one city, 18 boroughs and 19 townships. We have the highest general fund balance, which is like a personal savings account for an individual, that it has ever had. It was achieved through conservative budget management, not through raising taxes. Lancaster County Board of commissioners has never raised our county taxes and has not been raised in nearly a decade which is hard to do in pennsylvania. Lancaster has the third lowest tax rate. Our Bond Rating has been rising and weve been good stewards of our infrastructure. Were Stead Lieu working through steadily working through the plan to work through our deficient bridges. The last year and a half has been a challenge for Lancaster County. We went into covid with the best economy we have seen. Wages were rising for all demographics. The lockdowns and refusal to address the economic damage of the pandemic did great harm to our economy. I am very proud of our Countys Response to covid. Our county helped end the
Adult will have access. We may not have a vaccinator to put in our arms, but the supply will exist by the end of may for every american to be vaccinated. And just to start to think of not being scared all the time. And i think as its gone on, im sure you feel that way. Its not just scared of getting sick, and ive done plenty of obituaries for moms younger than me, much younger than me. Its the scare of having it and passing to someone vulnerable. A big weight comes off hen my parents were vaccinated and their friends. To think we could all have vaccine by the end of may, its an american moment. It defies politics. Yeah, its bigger than politics. Its about governance in the best sense, which is government being able to work, and as you say, people who thought this through, and weve all been dealing with it in different ways, the collective responsibility we have, which we take seriously. But having that lifted a little bit is also huge. What are you going to do . What do row think youre
As acts of domestic extremism or terrorism. The a. G. Draw a distinction of the attacks primarily because of the time of day that they happened. An attack on a courthouse while in operation, trying to prevent judges from deciding cases, that plainly is domestic extremism. Domestic terrorism. An attack simply on a Government Property at night or any other kind of circumstances is a clear crime and a serious one and should be punished. I dont know enough about the facts of the example youre talking about. Thats where i draw the line. One is both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our democratic institutions. Shannon one of his critics knows that judges clean up all day and night. After initial vetting, deb holland is facing scrutiny from joe manchin. Hes undecided about the far Left Progressive and he has questions for the nominee. Who was called to get rid of ice and a total phaseout of fossil fuels. Its time to stop all Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in america. No more pipelines. L
Crisis. Correspondent bryan llenas has the latest tonight from new york. Good evening. Good evening, a day after call they believed by democrats and republicans, today new York Governor Andrew Cuomo double down and vowed to fight back against his critics. And going to take on those actors. Today a defiant Governor Cuomo blamed lawmakers for spreading this miss information. I was not aggressive enough in locking down the false today. We were busy, trying to make lives, i will not make the mistake again. This is the normal political garbage. And it hurt them. Thats what i feel badly about. Undermining his claims of a partisan witch hunt, today new York Democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez called for a full investigation into Governor Cuomo quote thousands of vulnerable nursing home residents lost the dear max their lives. This is republican u. S. Senators are demanding the Senate Judiciary committee open investigation to begin public hearings warning President Bidens Attorney
it would be his first opportunity to offer the democratic response to over an hour of trump lies delivered by cnn, and over the course of the previous hour. so, this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president of the united states advocating a default on the debt, stuff that we ve never heard before. you know it s been a crazy hour when we didn t even have time to get to that part of global financial catastrophe, because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through first. i am appeared to see leader jeffries response to all of that madness. thank you, alex. have a great show. thank you. well, as i said, hakeem jeffries is our first guest tonight. and our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in washington, nothing matters more than who was in the room. and yesterday, the democratic leader of the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries, was in the room with three other congressional leaders and the president of the united