To address the remaining six appropriation bills, that includes contentious issues like funding for the pentagon and the department of homeland security. Welcome, everyone. Let go now to the decision 2024 and the tale of two vastly different candidates and almost identical geographical locations. President joe biden and former President Donald Trump both campaigning in the Swing State Of Georgia today at the unofficial start of the general election season. Biden will speak in atlanta this evening. His campaign is also launching a new ad in georgia, a critical swing state. Arizona, michigan, north carolina, nevada, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. And in it, biden acknowledges his age as he targets young voters. More on that coming up for you. Last night in his first speech since the State Of The Union address, he told voters in pennsylvania about his a compliment on jobs. 15 million new jobs in three years. That is a record in american history. Unemployment at a 50 year low. 800,000 new Ma
States will find themselves at the crossroads as the 14% revenue growth guarantee ends, while tax rate hikes seem inevitable to boost collections even as high inflation hurts demand
men s outer wear, i guess that s a jacket. 14%. cars, tvs, coffee, gift wrap up 7%. sports equipment, jewelry, flour, you name it, it s up. it means your dollar what you are making is not going to go as far and that s with a looming potential of tax rate hikes if they were to get this bill passed. all things considered, your money doesn t go as far you are going to pay more in taxes. rachel: great interview you had with brian. brian talked about if you look at all the things going up. if you live in rural america, you are feeling it more. you have to drive more. you probably eat more meat than they do here in the city. that s up like 20%, 30%. so people are absolutely feeling it and brian says that this is a direct result of president biden s policies, take a listen. get some inflation coming out of this shut down craziness for
another key program may be cut. joe manchin of west virginia has come out against four weeks of paid family leave, a hallmark of president biden s build back better agenda. that s according to two measures. it was 12 weeks initially. however, senator gillibrand of new york wants to make sure family leave stays in the bill. manchin has sourced sowering on medical care expansion. he spoke with house majority whip jim clyburn about that medicate expansion. some other elements that may be out of the spending bill, that includes free community college, clean electricity performance program, and tax rate hikes on corporations and top earners. senator ee liz both warner of massachusetts is pushing for the
extension, possible vouchers to cover dental costs, you got funding for child care centers, increases to pell grants, unspecified climate change funding, elder care provisions as well. here s what s likely out, of course, throughout all of these negotiations getting it down from $3.5 trillion to likely under $2 trillion. that is free community college, expanding medicare coverage that includes dental, vision, and hearing, clean electricity performance program and tax rate hikes on corporations and top income earnings, full well learning that kyrsten sinema is not a fan of that. thank you to you both for sticking with me at the top of this hour. i m going to bring you back later on so stay close to those cameras. i want to get to that fresh intrigue surrounding one of the key figures in the reconciliation talks i just mentioned, west virginia democratic senator, joe manchin, who had a new response this week to a claim that he s thinking of leaving his party over his ongoing battle wit