inflation feels, the need for accountability from the left-wing media and texas congressman kevin brady will tell us where he stands on the push to oust liz cheney. first, earmarks are back in washington opening the floodgates for pork barrel spending. lawmakers tallying up billions of requests on top of the trillions in spending, they re already pushing. hello and welcome to the thursday edition of america report. the controversial spending project will ban after a high profile string of scandals, they inefficiently reinstated them in february, now under new transparency rules. they are requiring two repose the request. so far they ve asked for $6 billion in additional funding for local projects, and some are of the requests, their little out there. congressman kevin brady joins us with how the spending spree could actually derail president biden s legislative agenda. we begin the hour with hillary vaughn joining us from capitol hill. earmarks making a come back
A kilometer or a quarter of this cave remains completely submerged. that s equal to 11 football fields. wow. that these kids who have never been in a scuba mask, would have had to go under and get out and is worked. so here s the question. if that worked, why did they stop? you mentioned it earlier. they simply used up all their oxygen doing this. they have to recharge. that could take from 9 to 20 hours, according to officials, and yes, they are racing the clock. this is all the water they have been pumping out, the stuff that s already fallen. they have had a little lull. and you saw a minute ago as the rain was returning, that s the forecast. they have to work fast, even in this incredibly dangerous work, if they want this to be fully successful. dana? such important context and explanation of what s going on down there. tom foreman, thank you so much. with us now for more is an experienced diver who has taken part in other rescue missions, rick murkar, president of the nation