Good morning the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the april 24, 2024 meeting of budget and finance committee im connie chan. Joined by Rafael Mandelman ask supervisor melgar. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting. I reminder for those here silence all Electronic Devices to prevent interruptions. Should you have documents to be include they should be submitted to myself the clerk. Public comment taken on each item of the agenda when your item come and up comment is called line up to speak to your right my leftment along the curtains and not necessary on provide Public Comment we invite to you fill out a card and leave them on the tray by the doors. If you wish to be recorded for the minutes. You may submit comment in the following ways e mail them to myself the budget clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and include part of the official file. You may send written comments Via Postal Service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place
Revolt on fisa as the House Speakers future hangs in the balance, just a few votes. But we begin at the white house where President Biden is still predicting an Interest Rate cut and defending his administrations role fighting inflation. At the same time, the president is trying to circle the wagons in the pacific against china. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. Once enemies now allies closer than ever. The United States and japan announced more than 70 Defense Cooperation Agreements among other collaborations in a not so subtle message to china, increasingly aggressive in the South Pacific and the taiwan strait. President Biden Preemptively Cooling Blowback from beijing. And our alliance we have with japan is a purely defense in nature. Its not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region. The japanese state visit comes one day before a trilateral meeting with the philippines under i
Stocks declining for a second day. A slump in chinese equities in a , which is why we might see exacerbated moves. More dovish than expected Federal Reserve. We had the minutes yesterday. We are getting pmi edit europe, better than expected. Better than expected if you look at services. Manufacturing also that are than expected. Manufacturing also better than expected. We are looking at a pretty strong economy. Au will get to europe in second. Eurodollar currently 118. 45. Coming up, we speak to alexander stubb. Brexit talk to him about and the eurozone. In the meantime, lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Democratsmany social are ready to start talks with Angela Merkel. Totin schulz is prepared offer her limited support for a full term. It is said he could back her in a minority government but not but would not offer another grand coalition. Philip hammonds budget has been welcomed by members of the conservative party, while stilla mays future is questionable. Some ball boy the
Detention camps a plan has been drawn up at a joint African Union summit in ivory coast its not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back mainly to their home countries as reports from abidjan. Fred armisen of african and European Union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traffickers and urgently repatch rate anyone whos trapped there the fund it is on fire. There are women and children living in inhuman conditions we have agreed along with the e. U. And the un to set up a task force for repatriating at least three thousand eight hundred people the. Leaders say there are more than forty refugee camps in libya where people are bought and sold by those with little respect for human life. Well the leaders here have committed to helping refugees in libya there were very few do tells us exactly how and when they will repair create them and they were also very very bad the new tas
A record twenty two billion dollars they say more than one hundred thirty five Million People around the world need help from the International Community just to survive so that the largest humanitarian crisis that were concerned about in the world at the moment is the crisis in yemen and. Yemen has a population of twenty five Million People twenty million of the. Needed systems and. Something like seven or eight million of them are right now right on the brink of famine and as you know weve been calling for. A full im winding of the blockade which has been preventing. Humanitarian assistance and commercial food and fuel get into yemen in other news taliban gunmen have stormed a college in pakistan and killed at least nine people all four attackers were killed after two hours of fighting with the army and police in the city of pasha and more now from come out hyder in islamabad. And. By that. I mean by the number of people dead and many more. Than you do me. About the groups operating