there s not really been any details laid out, you would think that the secretary would be in charge of that. but something that i found interesting, jason was just a few weeks ago he was asked how are we going to plan for this and he said well, you know, we really ought to ask congress for more money because we need to make sure that this is an issue that stays front and center for this administration, and we don t want to ask after the fact. are you kidding me? the biden administration is hell-bent on pushing through this nearly $5 trillion bbb, build back broke plan that is nothing but green new deal and social justice warrior nonsense. and we have the secretary who finally pops his head up and says we might need some money for covid when in reality there is still a lot that has yet to be spent from all of these covid packages, and so you can start to see how this is going to end up happening come the first of the year. they re going to be asking congress for more money to run
what oh, idon t think so. i know that s what games oh, i don t think so. i know that s what games the headlines in the most volume what games the headlines in the most volume but what games the headlines in the most volume but the reality isjust in the last volume but the reality isjust in the last few years we passed four major the last few years we passed four major covid packages, all on a bipartisan major covid packages, all on a bipartisan basis. those four on a bipartisan bipartisan basis. those four on a bipartisan basis. those four on a bipartisan basis anyway. the farm bill, sweeping opioid legislation, criminal bill, sweeping opioid legislation, criminaljustice reform, the va vision criminaljustice reform, the va vision act, criminaljustice reform, the va vision act, there has been big bipartisan vision act, there has been big bipartisan solution and successes. infrastructure underpins a world class economy. and if america pretends to lead the world doesn
first of all, thank you to all of our troops and our courageous men and women who gave their lives and fought for the freedom and liberty of this country. today we face even bigger threats with communist china and iran as the threats are rising, there s no increase in homeland security, there s no increase in defense spending. let s put up a bar chart that we have here from your committee, the budget committee to show us where the spending is going. walk us through this. how come there s so much money going to education and no money going to homeland security? congressman: first off, when you look at the bar chart, maria, this is additional increases. anything that is non-defense roughly has an average of 16% or more of an increase whenever remember, we already funded all of the agencies where they have tens of billions of dollars in leftover funds from the 5 to 6 different covid packages that have been passed over the year. they already have more money
first of all, thank you to all of our troops and our courageous men and women who gave their lives and fought for the freedom and liberty of this country. today we face even bigger threats with communist china and iran as the threats are rising, there s no increase in homeland security, there s no increase in defense spending. let s put up a bar chart that we have here from your committee, the budget committee to show us where the spending is going. walk us through this. how come there s so much money going to education and no money going to homeland security? congressman: first off, when you look at the bar chart, maria, this is additional increases. anything that is non-defense roughly has an average of 16% or more of an increase whenever remember, we already funded all of the agencies where they have tens of billions of dollars in leftover funds from the 5 to 6 different covid packages that have been passed over the year.