Glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the proposed cuts of 2. 3 billion are about onefifth of the departments operating level. Certainly while i appreciate and many of us appreciate the departments prioritizing limited resources and making decisions to realign programs, the fundamental question is really what you choose to cut and whether you can possibly look at that number and make an argument as to why that much of your previous budget should be cut this year. Its not the first time these kinds of cuts have come in the department. Last year president obama proposed about the same level of cuts, though he proposed somehow these programs would lean heavily on new mandatory spending for the budget caps in the law then. Of course, those budget caps are in the law still. Instead of making difficult decisions, it w
Glad youre here and appearing before this committee today to discuss your departments fiscal 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your department. I think the proposed cuts of 2. 3 billion are about onefifth of the departments operating level. Certainly while i appreciate and many of us appreciate the departments prioritizing limited resources and making decisions to realign programs, the fundamental question is really what you choose to cut and whether you can possibly look at that number and make an argument as to why that much of your previous budget should be cut this year. Its not the first time these kinds of cuts have come in the department. Last year president obama proposed about the same level of cuts, though he proposed somehow these programs would lean heavily on new mandatory spending for the budget caps in the law then. Of course, those budget caps are in the law still. Instead of making difficult decisions, it w
With us. Were going to get thinking started check your forecast with meteorologist Jeremy Nelson. Good morning. Jeremy. Jeremy hey, good saturday morning. Everyone, great to see, maybe a sliver of sunshine this morning and combine that with temperatures that are unseasonably mild, the temperatures jumped a handful of degrees overnight, 68 degrees at 5 00 and we retreated the 65. But keep in mind the average low is 39 degrees. This is almost unheard of for this time of the season. 61 degrees currently in sheboygan. And more cloud cover in that direction across lake michigan. Your forecast for today shapes us like this, could probably get by without a jacket or extra layer this morning. Temperatures will start in the middle 60s. Midday a few more clouds. Winds will swing to the northwest at five to 15 and cooler by mid to late afternoon, dimming back into the 50s. This morning renewed calls to see the video of the officer involved smoothing of 23yearold sylville smith. The shooting led t
With us. Were going to get thinking started check your forecast with meteorologist Jeremy Nelson. Good morning. Jeremy. Jeremy hey, good saturday morning. Everyone, great to see, maybe a sliver of sunshine this morning and combine that with temperatures that are unseasonably mild, the temperatures jumped a handful of degrees overnight, 68 degrees at 5 00 and we retreated the 65. But keep in mind the average low is 39 degrees. This is almost unheard of for this time of the season. 61 degrees currently in sheboygan. And more cloud cover in that direction across lake michigan. Your forecast for today shapes us like this, could probably get by without a jacket or extra layer this morning. Temperatures will start in the middle 60s. Midday a few more clouds. Winds will swing to the northwest at five to 15 and cooler by mid to late afternoon, dimming back into the 50s. This morning renewed calls to see the video of the officer involved smoothing of 23yearold sylville smith. The shooting led t
Trade as they post a rise in revenues and future orders. The retail sees its shares plunge after hitting investors with a profit warning due to poor sales. Good morning, youre watching worldwide exchange. Its two days until christmas or one day if youre celebrating in some parts of europe and germany for example celebrate tomorrow and many of the scandinavia countries. Thats right. This whole thing about the 25th being christmas is nonsense. We dont get it. You do 24th as well. Absolutely. But today were seeing a little bit of a santa rally in the markets and its curious because the mining stocks are doing incredibly well. Is it investors buying the losers of this year . Are they repositioning ahead of next year or is this not too much to talk about because volumes are so low. Should we read too much into it . Theyre low at the moment. I hike how the music makes the markets seem really sweet. But the stoxx europe 600 though higher by 1. 5 . A bit lower than that. When it comes to some