and groceries are need harris went on from there. trillions of new government spending for the current inflation crisis. we re in good shape in terms of getting employment back, getting growth back and so forth. the march stimulus package literally manufactured inflation. it was financed with printed money. his build back america program would just make things a lot worse. inflation has skyrocketed now. energy up 33%, gas up 58%. that s not all. 16 cities across america stretching from portland to jackson, mississippi and philadelphia all experiencing record-breaking number of homicides. borderer patrols says illegal migrants, the highest total on record. hillary clinton offered the falling warning to democrats ahead of the mid-term elections.
questionable provisions. it s the better of the two. the second bill, the reconciliation bill, you know, is really way out there in terms of spending. it s changing every day. it s going to be a lot more expensive than the advertised cost. progressives are trying to use a bill that they support, the infrastructure bill, to bludgeon more moderate members to supporting a bill that some of them don t support. so it s been turned into sort of a blackmail instrument inside the democratic party. neil: do you have a sense that your democratic colleagues are going to come up with something in the next couple days? i mean, any whispering from them i know you re not part of it. anything as you know, we re another few weeks away after that, hitting this debt limit thing again. so priorities are in in orderer. what are you hearing? my instinct is that the merry chase will go on for a while
not done in a way that it is consistent enough, but when there are emergencies, congress provides money that is necessary, but the biggest thing that i hear from fema is that the ruls governing who they can hire and what they have to do in order to be current in terms of the lengths of the deployments and things are so restrictive, they hurt the recruitment and the retention ability, so what they are looking for from congress and the administration is to perhaps relax some of the rules so that people with expertise in areas that are important for disaster recovery and face it, we are dealing with very different disasters from the pandemic to refugee reset resetelements and in orderer to get the highest expertise to attract those folks, they need to relax those rules a little bit. yeah, it is interesting when the bureaucracy gets in the way of the bureaucracy.
they will try to get power to people between 7 to 10 days. the sewage and draining company authority here, they obviously need to be able to sanitize water, so they re getting some help from the electric utility. police, infrastructure like street lights, hospitals. but if you are a commercial or a residential power, you are not getting power. if you don t have a generator in new orleans and it is a densely packed city, so a lot of people don t have generators here, you are not getting power for 7 to 10 days. in the hard hit areas, they re saying three weeks or longer. some of the parishes outside of new orleans that did flood, by the way, they are not getting power for a while. while there is very little loss of life in new orleans, i believe we only have one confirmed death in the city, there is a lot of threat in outlying parts of louisiana in those parishes that in orderer new orleans parish to the west. due south of us in lafayette.
the final details that we saw the white house top advisers walk into the meeting and we know that the biggest problems continue to be how to pay for that legislation, and both senator schumer says that he is going to start the process, and he says that as far as the 3.5 trillion much bigger human democratic infrastructure bill that he needs agreement from all 50 senators from next wednesday in orderer to start that process. and now, we are watching the moderates again, and senator joe manchin who is at the center of every story with moderates to see if it is something they can support, and today, the center of all of the moderates, and joe tester for one saying they need more details to come out to equivocally support it, and again, how the pay for it is going to be complicated and key, geoff. and leigh ann caldwell, i hope that you don t have summer vacation plan, because they have