is closing in. both sides of the aisle pressuring president biden to do something to stop it and do it now. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas in for harris today. secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary mayorkas were both in mexico yesterday to discuss the border crisis. dhs calls the meeting with the president obrador in mexico and others, quote, very productive. republican congresswoman nancey mace says it s not close to good enough. blinken s visit to mexico is about paying lip service. independ departments, republicans and democrats are angry about what they are seeing at a border. this is a massive problem for the biden administration and they refuse to address it. julie: sanctuary cities are crumbling under the massive weight of the crisis. texas sending bus loads and now planes full of illegals their way. a tiny fraction of what border communities are facing right now. democratic mayors from new york, denver and chicago are
the tentative agreement signed, sealed and ready to be delivered to congress for a vote later this week. the challenge now is getting both sides of the aisle to agree on it. good morning. i m griff jenkins. hour three. julie: a three-hour tour. i m julie banderas. welcome to a new hour of fox news live. some details. it raises the debt ceiling for two years while rolling back discretionary spending and capping any increase in spending for the next six years. both biden and mccarty taking their respective victory laps. president biden: no one got everything they want but that s the responsibility of governing. and this is a deal that s good news for i believe you will see for the american people. the agreement prevents default for the first time in our nation s history. the language on an agreement with the president that is worthy of the american people. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted but in divided government that s where we end up. it is a very positive bi
we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there s a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people o
higher taxes proposed for big companies and high earners. that revenue would fund a big federal pay raise and the largest peacetime military budget ever. republicans quick to say the proposal is a progressive pipe dream that is going nowhere fast. the president claims his plan will actually cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit. critics are saying that expiring covid-19 payments are probably to thank for that. mcconnell called it a wish list. thank goodness the house is republican. more reaction from senate republicans here. i think that what we ll be seeing is their aspirational budget if they were king of the world and could wave a magic wand, this is what they would want. they think you should give all your money and freedom in washington because they, the biden administration, knows better who you to spend it than you do. i don t agree with that. i don t suspect that we ll pay any attention to president biden s budget. julie: charles payne is here to break it dow
let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp