if you take climate change into consideration, that s the kind of money we need. we ve already made a significant compromise. we ll also get a look inside at where things stand with wisconsin democratic congressman mark pocan who met with the president yesterday. also the fda could finally authorize a booster shot for those under 65. but we don t know yet. there s a special u.s. envoy for haiti who has resigned over sending haitians back to their homeland, and we ll talk with dateline s keith morrison about what the intense interest of gabby petito s disappearance tells us about america s obsession with crime. let s start this hour with the fight against the pandemic. right now it s up to a cdc panel to decide who falls with the risk category to be eligible for a booster shot. that decision could come as early as today. jeff last night the fda authorized the booster shot of pfizer s covid shot to those 65 and older and those other adults with compromised immune syst
6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in household wealth. nearly doubling the unemployment rate to 9%, and increase borrowing costs for all americans. it would be a catastrophe, and that s don t take it from me. let me quote mitch mcconnell when this came up during the donald trump years. mitch mcconnell said the following. he said much mcconnell stated that not supporting a debt limit suspension this is what he said. assures that congress will not throw this kind of unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth and thriving economy. when trump was president, they didn t want to throw a wrench, a wrench, unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth. today he s threatening to do just that. we are to stop holding the debt and the economy hostage. we ll do ndaa on the floor today. strengthening our security, honoring our service members, upholding our values and today we will have legislation on the security interests that we have in the middle east by putting ad
To pay incurred cost. last year democrats and republicans together encured costs for covid that need to be paid for. this is a credit card bill that we owe. under president trump. only 3% of the debt of the cost what only 3% have occurred under the biden administration. this is largely under the trump administration. and again, democratic and republican presidents, we have to lift the debt ceiling. so when trump was president he increased the debt by $7.8 trillion. now, we take participation in the covid expenses, but not the tax scam that added at least $2 trillion to the national debt. so, again, we ve done it we ve worked in a bipartisan way. it s always been bipartisan. that s how we want to keep it. again, it could it would cost