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July 7, 2024
is this a moment of jeopardy for rishi sunak? tonight, the prime minister has lost two deputy chairman and one ministerial aid, and 58 of his own mps voted against him. has he lost his grip on his party? ive been talking to one mp on the right of the party who defied the three line whip today. if we dont succeed in making the bill work and providing an effective deterrent that stops people setting off across the english channel illegally, then we will not be able to win the election. s...
July 2, 2024
a parliamentary rebellion among his own mps, ahead of a crunch vote on his rwanda asylum policy. israel says the bodies of two hostages have been found in gaza. two israeli soldiers were killed in the operation to recover them. a new draft resolution is expected to be published soon at the un climate summit, after the backlash against plans which made no mention of phasing out fossil fuels. now time to go to the sport. so its last chance saloon for manchester united. they simply have t...
August 16, 2022
President Biden says he will sign the Inflation Reduction Act to help reduce health costs and promote clean energy.
August 7, 2021
Crack the filibuster. if the test vote fails, the bill works. keep in mind the frame work for the bill was agreed by a lineup of bipartisan senators and explains why congress has struggled to pass infrastructure for years. congratulations to you on your new assignment here at the white house. well miss you on capitol hill although you wont miss working on saturdays in the senate. >> and i hope to work on the other side of the street, and-- >> its article one or two. griff: were joined by republi...
July 30, 2021
Right now, but i think everyone, stephanie, is in assessment mode trying to figure out exactly how this bill works. theyre not done yet, so out of fairness youve got to give the senate a chance to work. >> as we -- moments ago former president trump put out another statement pushing against this bipartisan hard infrastructure bill. do you think he has influence over fellow members of congress? >> you know, theres no question there are strong supporters of the president in the house and the senat...
November 3, 2017
Of the political costs and challenges. if you want the lower tax rate, turning sickly cows into cash cows find a lot a lot to pay for that. >> dana: my next guest says the house republican tax bill cuts some popular deductions to deliver lower rates to workers, but every tax break has its fans, and powerful lobbying groups backing it, which shouldnt lead to winners and losers to what makes it to the presidents desk. join me now is wall street general writer richard rubin who created that wonderf...
July 14, 2017
>> if the bill works, if insurance premiums come down, jim, significantly, and we think maybe by 30% or 40%, guess what? more people can afford insurance and youre going to have more people covered. >> why doesnt the cbo reflect that. >> we will see. >> that doesnt sound like a fact to me. >> cbo has been wrong on this stuff before. look, i respect cbo, but i think on this one, theyre not giving enough credence to what happens to the market if people have more affordable care, and i think the ot...
July 11, 2017
Billion, $400 billion? it seems fairly obvious. youre a doctor. you strip $1 trillion from medicaid funding. i said medicare. excuse me. medicaid funding. it will be people disproportionately poor and lower income that will be impacted, right? >> two things about that. if this bill works, the way it will work, is if you pull back on medicaid, you actually create a private insurance option which is as effective as good for these folks as medicaid expansion. >> a private option will be as effectiv...
March 19, 2017
Are you detecting in the data any sense that trump voters in coal country are having buyers remorse? >> you know, not so far. the polling is showing trump is about 44%, thats close to what he w in 2016. not so far. i would say that members of congress seem to think that there might be some problem here. there was a meeting on friday with some republican congressmen and president trump, and one of the members from alabama said to the president, you know, the way this insurance bill works, the rep...
August 24, 2015
Representative becker, thanks so much for being on "new day." explain to us how this bill works. if a mother were to terminate a pregnancy once she learned the child had down syndrome would she face joul time or the doctor face jail time in. >> thanks for having me on alisyn, good morning. this bill is not aimed at the mothers at all. it is aimed at the doctors and doesnt prevent or in essence outlaw abortions or down syndrome people. its rather the intention, the sole intention is because the f...