You just know there are more great things to come. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im Michael Holmes in atlanta. Appreciate your company. With just hours to spare, the u. S. Senate late saturday averted a Government Shutdown by a vote of 889. Senators passed the house bill that will keep the money flowing for another 45 days. The white house sent out a photo of President Biden signing the shortterm measure into law shortly before the med night deadline. The deal came together with surprising speed in the end with u. S. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy abruptly changing course and asking democrats for help. The result was a resounding bipartisan passage of a shortterm bill. But many lawmakers on both sides are very unhappy the final bill did not contain additional aid to ukraine, especially at such a critical moment in the war. Still, Senate Leaders were relieved to have brought this showdown to an end. Its been a day full of twists and turns
The American People have worked too hard rebuilding to see their elected officials to cause yet another one. It seems like every three months around here some manufactured crisis. We have more work to do than to just try to dig ourselves out of these selfinflicted wounds. While a plan to reduce our deficit has to be part of our agenda, we also have to remember deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. We learned in the 1990s whether bill clinton was president , nothing shrinks the deficit faster than a growing economy that creates good, middle class jobs. That should be our driving focus. Making american a magnet for good jobs. Equipping our people with the skills required to fill those jobs and making sure their hard work leads to a decent living. Those are the things we should be pushing ourselves to think about and work on every single day. That is what the American People expect. Thats what im going to work on every single day to help deliver. So i need everybody who is watc
YSR Death Anniversary: "If the farmer is happy, the entire nation is happy," Andhra Pradesh former Chief Minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy, popularly called YSR, has once famously said. Such was his vision for the farmer of the state, that he made extraordinary reforms in the agricultural sector and his pro-farmer reforms were hailed by all.