that ahead of the battle to raise the debt ceiling until th beginning of december not over yet for the houseboats tonight, democrats only have a slim thre vote margin to get it done. the senate passing the legislation last week that increase the nation s borrowing limit after republicans had initially pressed the democrats to go at it alone as a protest against their social policy and climate spending plans. get this as some climate activists argued the biden administration is not doing enough to protect the environment and they rallied fo a second straight day outside the white house to pressure the president to stop approving fossil fuel projects. they are also trying to accost irking on a senator for a third time during the boston marathon yesterday. the group from the senator s home state showed up at that race hoping to press the lawmaker to support the massive social spending plan, also called the build back better build. senators that attended the race but did not run it due to
, and others to try to address this. a lot of talk about task force being deployed to all these various problems, it stands out on the port issue that they said this is this something that the president ha been addressing and working on for months. one could make the case it s in the worst position today that i has been yet and it s not showing any signs of improving in this moment. let s bring in bret baier hi new book to rescue the republic is out today. we will talk about that just a second but lipsky your thoughts on this because the supply-chai problem just one more issue to add to the long list for this administration. it has been a very tough stretch for the biden administration. i agree, to say that the president has been working on i for months and some task force that we haven t heard about it.
front. that the president make any new commitment? we recently said sent $64 million in assistance for the people of afghanistan. we are still the largest humanitarian donor in afghanistan. we will continue to take steps to alleviate the suffering of the afghan people and call on other donors to step up their contributions to help deliver critical assistance. the recent $64 million brought us up to $333 million which makes us far and away the largest donor. any change to the policy about [inaudible] that would be available in afghanistan. there s been no change in the policy pair. i was wondering if you had a update on the talks and where that stands. i know there is conversation today with the israeli government. do you see that restarting soon?
to continue to press forward an address the challenges the american people are facing. speaker pelosi said the overwhelming guidance she is getting is that members of congress want to do fewer thing well when it comes to the reconciliation package. does the president supports tha approach doing fewer things well ? she also gave a furlough press conference this morning where she address this, so i would point you to that. what she said in the press conference was that if there ar fewer dollars to be spent, ther are choices that need to be mad and the president agrees. that is fundamentally true of course, if it s more than $3.5 trillion, which we know it will be, than there are choices that need to be made, but the president s view is that a bill that doesn t pass means nothing changes and the challenges they challenges were facing our too urgent to do nothing, so that i why at this point what we have to do is work with a range of members who ever range of views about what should be
and the threats to the american people to their well-being, two they re economic well-being. the supply chain has been working for months to address these issues. i know world-renowned business travel and health expert senato ted cruz has made that point, but i wouldn t say that that is widely acknowledged or echoed b business leaders who have implemented these mandates by health experts who conveyed the way to get out of the pandemic is to ensure that we are doing exactly the steps the president has announced and we are workin to implement. it doesn t mean this is hard an challenging. of course it is come over in th