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$2.99. look, the lu makes the biggest investment ever. we invest in climate crisis $369 billion to deal with the climate crisis. and it makes it tax code fairer. in 2020, 55 of the biggest corporations in the country paid zero dollars in federal income taxes. and they made $40 billion. its not right. so we put a stop to it. and by enacting a corporate minimum tax, today the days of big profitable corporations paying nothing in federal income tax is over. every seng the republican voted against t...

Look, the law makes the biggest investment ever. we invest in climate crisis. $369 billion to deal with the climate crisis and it makes the tax code fairer. in 2020, 55 of the biggest corporations in the country paid zero dollars in federal income taxes. and they made $40 billion. its not right. so we put a stop to it. by enacting a corporate minimum tax at 15%. today the days of big profitable corporations paying nothing in federal income tax is over. guess what? every single republican voted a...

Strengthening global health security. feeding the world. we made that priority, and one year later, were keeping that promise. from the day i came to office, we have led with a bold climate agenda. we rejoined the paris agreement, helped deliver critical agreement on cop 26. helped get two thirds of the worlds gdp on track to limit warm to go 1.5 degrees celsius. now i have signed a historic piece of legislation that includes the biggest most important climate commitment we have ever made in the...

Security, feeding the world, feeding the world, we made that priority and were keeping that promise. from the day i came to office, weve led with bold climate agenda, we convened major climate summits, helped deliver critical agreements under cop-26. we helped get two-thirds of the worlds gdp on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees celsius and now ive signed an historic piece of legislation here in the united states that includes the biggest, most important climate commitment weve made in the h...

0 arbiters. poppy, despite the pressure from gop officials, theres no sign that card companies will back down at this point. >> its a really significant change, and well watch it closely. matt egan, thank you for highlighting it for us. thanks for joining us today. well see you back here tomorrow morning. im poppy harlow. >> im jim scuitto, president biden will speak in minutes. our coverage continues with kate bolduan right now. hello, everyone. at this hour, we are moments away from a majo...

0 well stay in touch with you. good information to have. >> bill: the u.n. will be on the plate for harris when she takes over in a moment here. this is the leader and joe biden follows him. >> dana: he will be here and harris faulkner is next. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with breaking news this hour. president biden is expected to speak at the general assembly of the united nations at any moment. he is next on the list there and they have been ticking along pretty expediti...

2 billion for covid testing programs. 4.5 billion to fight monkey pox. what is this latest spend apalooza. >> prior to the pandemic we were spending $4.5 trillion at the federal government. the last few years, over $6 trillion, this year talking close to $6 trillion. there ought to be enough money to take care of all these needs. the democrats passed a partisan covid relief package. theres hundreds of billions of that left unspent. now they just passed a bill that will spend about $369 billion o...

Drive the price back up at the pump. and were going to be monitoring that and watching that very closely. we have people in tennessee that drive 30 miles to work, 30 miles back home, and they are making a choice whether they fill up the tank or they fill up grocery cart. too many different days each month. its a strain. weve got people that are trying to be first-time home buyers, and because of the impacts of inflation they cant do that. then they hear about this bill with $313 billion in new t...

Drive the price back up at the pump. and were going to be monitoring that and watching that very closely. we have people in tennessee that drive 30 miles to work, 30 miles back home, and they are making a choice whether they fill up the tank or they fill up grocery cart. too many different days each month. its a strain. weve got people that are trying to be first-time home buyers, and because of the impacts of inflation they cant do that. then they hear about this bill with $313 billion in new t...

Will be felt across time. >> across time. it will fix things like medicaid, negotiate for better prescription drug prices. >> it cost 437 billion dollars. senate democrats say 369 billion is go being toward energy security and climate change. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell called the name of this legislation laughable. >> they passed a $750 billion package. laughably labeled the inflation reduction act. there is not a single independent analysis done of that package that said it had any ...