Border this afternoon, underscoring how important both parties view the immigration issue. Defense secretary lloyd austin facing tough questions from lawmakers about his secret cancerrelated hospitalization during the holiday season. The Biden Administration is raising National Security concerns that china could Spy On Americans through Chinese Technology in electric and connected cars. The Commerce Secretary will be here to explain. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. The Supreme Court will decide whether donald trump can be held criminally liable for actions taken while he was in office. That decision by the high court to hear the case in late april, two months from now, will delay mr. Trumps d. C. Election interference trial further. Late wednesday, illinois became the third state to find the republican frontrunner ineligible to serve under the 14th amendments insurrection klaus, or to be on the ballot. The decision to remove him from the ballot in illinois hinges
inflation reduction act into law. we ll talk about the impact it will have on families with congressman gregory meeks. we begin this very busy hour with the results of last night s critical primary races. liz cheney, once the third most powerful republican in congress, lost her primary bid last night to her trump-backed challenger by a whopping 37%. here s some of what she said about her political future in an interview with today. are you thinking about running for president? that s a decision i ll make in the coming month. i m not going to make any announcements this morning, but it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. a different story for another trump critic in alaska. senator murkowski finished first in her primary bid, allowing her to advance to the general race. but she won t be the only republican on the ballot. the candidate endorsed by donald trump will advance to the november midterms. here to start us off is
gregory meeks of new york, the chair of the house foreign affairs committee. always a pleasure to see you. just wondering what you think this law will do for all of us. well, clearly, as you just indicated, jose, number one, it helps save our planet. this is the largest amount of dollars that are going to help save our planet, it keeps us in the leadership position of making sure we work with our colleagues and allies to save our planet. number two, something we ve been trying to do, we continue to talk about how senior citizens have to make a choice between food and prescription drugs. this helps lower the prescription drug prices so they won t have to make that choice and they can get the medicine they need. number three, it keeps the individuals who have had their health care by the affordable care act, this continues the subsiies that s needed to continue their health care. and also, you know, you talk about the energy crisis that we re in.
gains from the affordable care act. at the same time the federal government would save a lot of money on health insurance subsiies which this legislation would use partly to roll back the tax increases in the affordable care act, give more money back to higher-income people, and partly reduce federal borrowing. part of the way they save money is people who are subsidized up to amounts of $12,000, $13,000, would only get a subsidy, if they got a subsidy at all, of $4,000 or less? right. so the subsidies, people can get through these insurance marketplaces would fall by about half by the end of a ten-year window the cbo does projections for. even more importantly, a lot of people would lose medicaid coverage because of the cutback in medicaid spending. so both the insurance marketplaces and through medicaid, people would lose access to health insurance.
transfer of hundreds of billions from dollars from moderate and low-income people who benefit from the premium subsidies that are part of the aca, a critical part. their taxes go up under this plan because they take those subsiies away while tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are in the hundreds of thousands, so yeah. this is robin hood in reverse big time. but i think the key here, lawrence, is that the republicans are struggling with a very concrete problem. say what you want about obamacare. obamacare has set a health care baseline. it is now the benchmark against which all these other plans are going to be judged, and the president donald trump