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poll revealing 75% say the country is going in the wrong direction. you are watching fox & friends first on this friday morning i m carley shimkus. hey griff. griff: hey carley, i m griff jenkins in for todd piro. while biden s away, by the way, the white house launching a victory tour to celebrate all of his so-called accomplishments over the past 18 months, that s said to include the massive spending bill which will likely pass in the house today and head for biden s desk. carley: kevin corke is live in washington with more details on the bidens. kevin, good morning. kevin: carley, good morning to you. voter dissatisfaction abounds as most don t see an economic rebound. that according to the very latest fox news survey with large majorities rating the economy negatively, including, get this, over half of democrats. joining almost all republicans and independents in being dissatisfied. so while the president spent his weekend, as you pointed out, on a luxury isla ....
Though nearly a third of lawmakers won t show up for the vote for, you know, the inflation reduction act, and a lot of them don t even know what s in the bill believe it or not. don t take my word on it, look at what the cbo says. given the scope of the amendment to title one, committee on finance cbo expect that it will be a few weeks before we can fully analyze and estimate those budgetary effects, at which point we ll provide a complete cost estimate for the legislation. republicans say the spending spree is flat-out reckless. this is ridiculous, unnecessary spending. when the government spends more money unnecessarily, it s going to lead to more inflation. 8% is still a lot of inflation. it s better than 10% but let this bill start funneling more unnecessary government money into the economy, inflation will again rise. kevin: james comber there. and apparentlyup roy agrees saying this about the democrats passing this massive spending ....