challenges for customers to earn bonus points could be pushing people to spend more than they can afford. that s the warning from consumer groups. i ll be taking a look. in sport it s the start of a new adventure for emma hayes. we hear how she s settling in to her new manager role in the united states as she prepares to lead them into the olympics this summer. to lead them into the quite to lead them into the a cloudy start this morning. some quite a cloudy start this morning. some outbreaks of rain out there, but things should brighten up. a bit of sunshine developing in the afternoon. all of the details shortly. it s thursday 30th may. our main story. the conservatives and labour have both ruled out increasing vat if they are elected in five weeks time. the promises have raised questions about how the parties will fund their spending plans, and deliver on their commitments if they win the elction. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has this report. midnight
They know with republican votes it would pass. nancy pelosi doesn t want that on the floor because of the old hastert rule that the majority wouldn t be the majority in this vote. there would be a hunger to say something about her comments. ed: when president trump had infrastructure week and stepped on that with tweets and other things with democrats had a field day. seems to me this new house majority, they want to talk about jobs, healthcare. that s what they told the voters heading into the mid-terms. now they re dealing with this controversy or jerry nadler and the 81 letters to trump associates. what about the messaging from democrats being stepped on by their own controversies? they re happy with the investigations. they re not scared of those. i think this particular issue and all the days that it has taken up, a lot of the oxygen in washington is not what the democratic leadership was hoping for. you saw that in some of the
Public? it s very concerning, john. you know, it s just one more piece of evidence that his relationship with both russia generally and vladimir putin in particular, deserves very close scrutiny. will you try to get that interpreter before the senate foreign relations committee? not that you can, you don t run the democrats, the minority and the senate. but in the house, will you tell your counterpart over there that they should try speak with the interpreter and get their hands on those notes? absolutely. that is something i actively pressed for. the judiciary committee for a while had a functioning investigation into obstruction of justice. it ground down and then finally stopped because of partisan differences, the republican majority wouldn t support our asking a series of i think relevant questions that the house judiciary committee will now take up on this specific question about how our president conducts meetings with foreign hefds state. i do think chairman evening wnge
Entitlements, savings versus additional spending i think has to be done with the understanding that at the end of the day if we don t make an agreement, the number is going to be $967 billion in discretionary spending. let me pick up on that with you, senator durbin. because as senator blunt suggested, republicans have some leverage here. if nothing happens the sequester spending cuts kick in on january 15 and discretionary spending is cut by $21 billion. paul ryan, the house budget chair, is proposing a kind of trade in which they would agree to some short-term spending increases, which you guys want, in return for some long-term spending cuts through entitlement reform. does that sound reasonable? well, i can tell you this. if this is the bargain that the republicans are now pushing for that we have to cut medicare to avoid cuts in the department of defense, let us step back and take a look at this. paul ryan couldn t pass his budget in the house of representatives. the republica
Entitlements, savings versus additional spending i think has to be done with the understanding that at the end of the day if we don t make an agreement, the number is going to be $967 billion in discretionary spending. let me pick up on that with you, senator durbin. because as senator blunt suggested, republicans have some leverage here. if nothing happens the sequester spending cuts kick in on january 15 and discretionary spending is cut by $21 billion. paul ryan, the house budget chair, is proposing a kind of trade in which they would agree to some short-term spending increases, which you guys want, in return for some long-term spending cuts through entitlement reform. does that sound reasonable? well, i can tell you this. if this is the bargain that the republicans are now pushing for that we have to cut medicare to avoid cuts in the department of defense, let us step back and take a look at this. paul ryan couldn t pass his budget in the house of representatives. the republica