Vaping and smoking, but the Office For Budget Responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. Heres our business correspondent, emma simpson. Did you catch any ofjeremy s budget . It was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party. But was it enough . I think its good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. But then if you think about the Cost Of Living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. Anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, were in a position where were living off savings. I think theyre trying to do it in light of a General Election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit to the country is. The centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to National Insurance, a tax paid by workers. So who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax and thresholds
set. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the battle over the nation s debt ceiling is upon us. the united states just hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion. and that means that the treasury department must now begin to use a series of what is called extraordinary measures to avoid default. extraordinary measures that are no longer so extraordinary since they have been they ve had to be used so often. this is a completely avoidable problem that falls entirely on congress to raise the debt limit. something that republicans with right now refusing to do without cutting spending to the actual bills that have come due, by the way. democrats say that is not on the table. if the u.s. defaults, it will cause absolute chaos in the global economy. christine romans is standing by for us with this. kind of saw this one coming, christine. but we have hit the moment. what happens now. so, kate, the clock starts now. once the u.s
been the question that dutch is raising, which is who actually how did a live round end up on set and in that gun. i don t see if it is declared here in this in this information coming from the district attorney. but khloe, just in general, have a statement in from alec baldwin for from hannah gutierrez. no, we have not. and i sat down with him in august and he said he had nothing to do with hiring the prop masters, with hiring the woman in charge of the weapons on set hannah gutierrez reed which is charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and when he was handed the gun on the set it was declared cold and that he did not pull the trigger and that irregardless of pulling the trigger, there never should have been a live round on set to the guest that you just had on said on point. and at the same time alec baldwin saying from the beginning, this is a tragic