trillion could soon approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in, neil. president biden is calling for more taxes on the rich. he speak recently in virginia beach. i want to make it clear, i m going to raise some taxes. any of you who are billionaires out there, you re going to stop paying 3%. not a joke. biden met with kevin mccarthy just once since he became speaker and with a debt of over $31 trillion, many republicans are concerned about potential cuts in national against, a time when the biden administration is arming ukrainian forces with billions in american weapons and with the threat from china increasing. the 2022 and 2023 defense budgets are 3% when the kennedy administration was spending 9% of u.s. gdp on defense, building up the arsenal which the pentagon says is aging and is needed upgrades to the tunes of billions ever dollars. and jfk cut taxes and shortly after his death. that was then. lucas thank you very much. i raised this issue with jo
effect at this hour in multiple mississippi counties. those warns are bound to pop up in alabama as well as the storm system keeps moving east. we ll have breaking news, updates on what transpires across the south as the show goes on. tension with the teheran are growing for r the second day in a row. u.s. forces were under attack by irairanian proxy group. an american contractor was killed and several u.s. forces were wounded. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live on how the u.s. is responding. good evening, the u.s. still has troops in syria. they have been there since 2015. there are around 900 troops on t tthe ground and they are und attack once again tonight. fox news learned there had been injuries in these new rocket attacks in eastern syria. believed to be carried out with iranian weapons. on thursday, a drone attack again using iranian equipment killed one u.s. contractor and wounded several u.s. troops. prompting retaliatory strikes by american forces
Winners have been announced for NASA's Student Launch competition where over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets.