arming missiles to taiwan for their fighter jet. there s concerns that they may be planning to arm russia now. in a moment, what former director of national tell john ratcliffe thinks the u.s. should be doing to address this and democratic senator joe manchin on if we are risking war with china over all of this. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto on a very busy news day. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon. we ll find jennifer griffin. jennifer? neil, the state department has approved the sale of f-16 munitions worth $619 million for taiwan. since 2010, the u.s. has september $37 billion in foreign military sales. taipei has requested to buy 100 harm missiles along with various missile launches that can be used by the f-16 fleet. we don t believe an invasion is imminent. we re going to continue to work closely with our allies and partners to deter potential aggression. we re ininterested in the status quo, to preserve the peace that has been there a very lo
gillibrand and congressman an andrew garbarino. senator, how did this fund get decompleted? what happened? there s two changes that we need to address. the first is the cost of healthcare inflation is higher than the inflation costs of everything else. so when we originally scored the bill we didn t anticipate higher healthcare cost us because of covid and over burdburdened andr issues. the second thing is, when we first wrote the bill, we didn t realize the first responders in shanksville and the pentagon would get the same diseases. because these toxics were caused by the presence of jet fuel lighting things on fire, they re experiencing the same diseases. so this opens up the programs for the first responders and those exposed at shanksville and the pentagon as well as military responders. we didn t cover the dod military