now they dispute this. nowhere in their actual proposal are their exclusive protection for veterans. but they say i m it s unusual language we used with presidents these days, they say i m lying when i say that. the truth is, why do so many veterans groups, why have they spoken out in opposition is the republican proposal. they are not all democrats, they know what s going to happen. folks, that s a game republicans are playing. any time you single out the impact of their overall cuts they tell you no, no, no, it s not true, but they are wrong. they want to protect something, they would have written it down and say we are protecting it. you can t cut this program. you can t cut it. so you can see it. here is another example. under the republican plan, nationwide, 100,000 teachers and support staff would lose their jobs at the very time we are attempting to overcome the incredible deficiencies that occurred as a consequence of what happened with the pandemic. so many kids, t
Donald trump throwing his weight as you might have heard behind one jim jordan. Steve scalise shows no signs of backing down. All of this as the Republican Congress plans to vote on a Secret Ballot next week on who their nominee will be for speaker. Will donald trump be a king maker or could this be a deal breaker . Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Lets go to chad pergram on capitol hill. Chad, where are we on all of this . Neil, good afternoon. The endorsement of jim jordan by former President Trump cut multiple ways. It may boost jordan among trump loyalists, but some republicans think the last thing they need is a speaker endorsed by the former president. Jordan says hes the guy. Who can bring our Team Together . Who can unite our conference and who can tell the American People what were doing and why its important to them. Someone has to be able to come forward, unite the republicans around our message, around what were doing for the American People and go make that take that me
Between covid emergency spending and biden spending, we need to slow down spending and debt creation. that s what kevin mccarthy and the gop is doing. maga, maga, that s just anti-trump stuff, it has no meaning whatsoever. john was right about veterans. we don t know anything about that because the appropriation has not allocated yet. there is going to be sandra: you and both john said that. john: here i am. larry: look, if we can t slow spending down, it s it s been growing at 8 to 10% for years. during covid it grew even more than that. we did create a lot of debt. trump created a lot of debt, biden created a lot of debt. the problem is, mr. biden then went and increased it in 21 and 22 when we didn t need it. and that was the source of the inflation. and that s a very important point. inflation is still running over 5%, the economy grew at 1.1% in the first quarter of this year,
All right. there is a school of thought that says that deficit reduction shouldn t actually even be a national priority right now, as we slowly recover from the most brutal recession since the great depression, there is a strong case to be made that the government should just borrow away. the government should take advantage of how low interest rates are, should take advantage of a market in which the world is eager to loan us money. we could borrow like crazy right now, invest that money in job creation and infrastructure and economic growth. we could worry about debt creation when we are full by back on our feet. if we took that path we could get back on our feet faster if question use that spending to invest in our economic strength. but the political world is going to reject if the political world is going to reject or ignore that school of thought, if we are going to be all wringing our hands about the debt and the deficit about the debt all the time, we should at least get our
We slowly recover from the most brutal recession since the great depression, there is a strong case to be made that the government should just borrow away. the government should take advantage of how low interest rates are, should take advantage of a market in which the world is eager to loan us money. we could borrow like crazy right now, invest that money in job creation and infrastructure and economic growth. we could worry about debt creation when we are full by back on our feet. if we took that path we could get back on our feet faster if question use that spending to invest in our economic strength. but the political world is going to reject if the political world is going to reject or ignore that school of thought, if we are going to be all wringing our hands about the debt and the deficit about the debt all the time, we should at least get our facts straight about who has been better for the deficit and who has been worse. no peacocks, no jerks, no whiners. it sounds good in