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Fpz. spending less and less money on space travel. they filled in this void when other countries like russia and china continue to spends a lot of money. so in some ways, it s actually filling in where taxpayer dollars aren t going anymore. to your point about mark bezos not being a slouch, in addition to running the family foundation, he s a volunteer firefighter as well. steph, thank you so much for that exclusive conversation with the bezos brothers. back with us dr. may jim, who was the first african-american woman in space. and also the head of the 100-year starship project. your final thoughts as we leave the news conference. ....
Senators. i mean, how does that process work and how did they get to those numbers? well, it s not another compensation on salary and bonuses but it s also perks. paid time off. if you are federal bureaucrat, and you get your three year anniversary, you stand in line to get eight and a half weeks of paid time off. it s ten holidays, 13 sick days, 20 vacation days, 43 days a year of paid time off. that is a perk that costs taxpayers every single year $22 billion. katie: sounds like european-style living and working to me, inside the beltway and outside as you have pointed out. the 2018 elections are coming up, republicans have been running for years on cutting spending. spending cuts are always very difficult but if you could advise politicians and congressmen on capitol hill who are worried about this issue, what would you say to them in terms of how to make sure that taxpayer dollars aren t being ....
Taxpayer dollars aren t being abused in this way? two cuts for $2 billion, really quickly. and the bonus program. it s $1.5 billion. then, katie, this is bipartisan, federal p.r. officers. there is 3500 of them. the line item in the budget every single year as a half a billion dollars on salary and total cost, and that should be cut, as well. katie: thank you so much, adam, for your expertise. we have a lot to do. have a good one page thank you for our interest in the work. katie: swamp or no swamp, the president seems to be learning about how to navigate washington after the big tax cut. there are some tricky issues ahead in the g.o.p. agenda for 2018. we will look at that with strategy guru ed rollins next. it s your last chance of the year to get our best offer of the year: zero percent financing for seventy-two months, plus an extra one-thousand cash back across a full lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. ....
Into getting into the pledge. there s one mention of respecting traditional marriage and making sure the taxpayer dollars aren t used to fund abortions. shannon breen live in our washington newsroom. thanks. disappointing economic news now as the number of people filing new unemployment claims went up last week. labor department reports first time requests for unemployment benefits jumped by 12,000 from the week before. economists had predicted claims would hold steady but this is just part of the picture. fox business network adam shapiro is with us now. give us a little perspective on this, if you could. the numbers went up, 465,000 initial claims for unemployment. wall street saw this and read into it some numbers that sound like good news. that s a horrible number. the good news is that the four week moving average fell by about 3,000 and the continuing claims fell by 48,000. but shep, these numbers are still very high. the so-called summer of recovery for millions of americans ....