And taxpayers buckling up as President Biden is teeing up more spending. Why Pete Buttigieg says it will keep the economy humming. Hes here. So is Donald Trumps former secretary of state, mike pompeo. Remember him . He could be in the running, maybe, for a new title. A bigger title. Were on it, all of it. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to have you with us. Lets go to Grady Trimble at the white house on these fast moving developments and the president s plans to take advantage of what was a widely received and wellreceived state of the Union Address. To you, my friend. It was, neil. At a time when Many Americans are not happy with the president s handling of the economy. He used last nights address to change those perceptions touting billions of dollars of Students Loan Debt Cancellation and unveiling plans for more social programs. We enacted tax credits of 800 per person per year, reduce Healthcare Costs for millions of families. Restore that child tax credit. No child shoul
widening war in the middle east after president biden orders retaliatory iron strikes on a group in iraq. plus chaos at the border. america s top diplomat is heading to mexico where thousands of migrants are making the trek to an already overwhelmed u.s. border. local law enforcement are begging for help to deal with the ongoing surge. and lashing out, donald trump spent christmas day attacking his enemies including president biden, counsel jack smith, his christmas message to him, rot in h ell. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with the 2024 race where republican candidates are gearing up for their final campaign push in iowa. 20 days, less than 3 weeks until the caucuses, his rivals will be crisscrossing the state trying to chip away at the front runner status. who can we expect to see in iowa? how are they going to make a difference in what has been a race that trump has led by far and away over the course of the
show no signs of ending. the violence has been happening for more than a week now, worsening the country s already desperate humanitarian crisis. we have pictures of a spanish personnel and citizens being evacuated overnight. other countries have also moved their diplomatic staff to safety but foreign civilians have been reporting difficulties trying to leave the country. some have been travelling by road in convoys heading to the red sea, as well as north to the border with egypt. it has been very difficult to reach people because of the internet is down and that means people cannot get the information they need from their embassies, they can t find out how safe are certain roads are, so it is a very difficult and tricky situation and that has made a lot of the people i speak to quite anxious. one man in the city, the twin city across the nile from khartoum, was speaking to me while there was heavy gunfire right outside his door on his street. he had visited the country with
i am considering dealing with some depth reduction. i am not considering $50,000 of debt reduction. but i am in the looking at whether there will be additional debt forgiveness. are you close to making a decision on the data? yes. jesse: president biden and expected to keep his word on canceling student debt, so get ready for a subsidized liberal arts degrees. announcing the decision to raise $10,000 to student loans for earners making less then $125,000 per year. that s a lot. it s a move that one actually erased debt, but instead transfer the burden to you, the taxpayer. even some libs think it is a bad idea. as obama s treasury secretary larry summers points out student loan debt relief is spending that raises demand and increases inflation. it consumes resources that could be better used helping those that for whatever reason did not have the chance to attend college and will be inflationary by raising tuition. the biden spin team trying to downplay that narrative
fights with hamas terrorists. israel released new video of soldiers taking control of an outpost in gaza. here it is. [explosions and gunfire] harris: the idf is going room to room now inside gaza s largest hospital. they say they are finding weapons and military gear there and they are searching for any information on the some 240 hostages. hamas terrorists took those people during the october 7th attack on israel. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. israel says this is a targeted operation to protect the patients inside that huge hospital, yet go after hamas leadership. and a flip here by the biden administration. remember for days now they ve been criticizing israel over the hospital operation. and then now a change. the pentagon has confirmed what the israelis showed the world yesterday. the terrorists are, in fact, operating inside hospitals. national security spokesman john kirby here. i can confirm that we have information that hamas and the pa