republicans did seem to win on many of hair talking points. i think for those that dissent, congressman dan bishop, senator mike lee who said, you know, a winning strategy is not punting when you re sitting on your opponent s 1-yard line. you don t punt at the 1-yard line, that s not how you win. the implication republicans do have the leverage because they control the house, and joe biden would take the blame for a failure on the debt ceiling. he needs a deal. and in that context, $1.9 billion on the irs funding isn t much when the democrats get $781 billion to fund this 78.1 billion. i will say, like you, i don t know what s accomplishable, i m not in those negotiations. if they were actually sitting on the 1-yard line dis. joey: and that s the misnomer there. will: but i will say this, that it is always a loss for those who think we are spending way too much money and we are headed towards fiscal oblivion at some point. and it s weird when we re
marianne rafferty, carl demaio. we are talking about snacking. americans love their snacks. we were looking at research. sales last year of snacks reached $181 billion, up 11% and nearly half of americans are consuming three or more snacks per day. some are even swapping snacks for meals, you know, kind of like the charcuterie culture where everyone kind of snacks all night. do you find yourself snacking instead of dining? if so what s your go-to snack, jonathan hunt? cookies! trace: really? i have a real weakness for cookies as my multiple chins reveal. sadly, i don t do it instead of meals. i do it as well as meals. [laughter] trace: it s so funny. marianne rafferty? come on. when you have kids around the house, you know there s always snacks. there s everything in the pantry. you can pretty much get anything you want to. are you a snacker? do you replace meals with snacks? i am a snacker.
India foreign exchange reserves declined by USD 5.681 billion to USD 561.267 billion in the week ending on February 17, according to the Reserve Bank of India
pay? these are self imposed rules after all by the government. exactly. when we talk about what the government can afford, we should remember we are talking about political choices. the government s finances are about as unlike household s finances as it is likely to get. we don t have a printer to print all the money we want. that s exactly what it is for the government, they have a magic money tree which can print money from nothing, it s called the bank of england, it did it in the pandemic, £300 billion to get us through that, so the government is not limited in what it spends by what it receives in taxes but even if it was limited by taxes, we see a huge upsurge so in the financial year to date, £81 billion more was received in taxes by this time the previous year. when you see figures like that, you raise questions as to why £2.6 billion is
to ministers access to the vip lane. links to a tory politician. while this is for authorities to decide whether or new law is broken and i won t be commenting on the ongoing investigations, we do know that ppe was referred to the vip lane by a sitting member of the cabinet. after lobbying from another tory politician. five days, five days before it was even legally registered as a company. the house said before that this particular company was subsequently awarded two contracts worth £230 billion to supply ppe. 81 billion. million pounds to supply 210 million facemasks was awarded on may 2020. £122 million contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns was awarded injune 2020. madam deputy speaker,