the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temper
w. bush was defeated by a boomer. in 2024, governed by a boomer president 32 years and the time has come to pass the mantle of leadership in my opinion to a younger generation to be the chief executive of the united states. john: well, there are a number of them out there, nobody on the democratic side willing to put up their hand and say i m going to challenge joe biden. let me ask you about this bill that just passed in the house. you can call it a godzilla bus or megla bus or whatever, it s huge, 1.7 trillion, but a lot of things are not in it? there are some things look, the republicans got a couple of victories in this thing, and i don t want to disagree with brian reidl, this is a sign of how broken it is and don t want to get on the opposite side of kim strasel, she can kill a moose with a single shot, dress it and put it in the freezer to feed the family, so i don t want to get on the wrong side of her.
take control of the house in january. rashida tlaib voted by proxy, she voted present, even though she was absent. john. john: one other point, the point was made there that mccarthy is talking like that because he doesn t have the votes. come january 3rd, do you think he ll have the votes? it depends on how many members vote for him by name inside the house chamber. it s not about the math, it s about the algebra. you don t know the magic number until you get to that vote. and so far, based on the metrics and what we know, the make-up of the house of representatives, he s about five votes short. john: we ll keep watching that. chad pergram, thank you. aishah: proxy voting is something else, too, worth looking into. critics say the race against the clock to pass the bill is
john: all with her pen. she also knows how to shoot pretty damn good. but look, the democrats wanted extension, permanent extension of the very expensive child tax credit, didn t happen. no irs budget increase included in this for the coming fiscal year, no typically what happens on the omnibus, equal amount of increase in defense spending and discretionary domestic spending or mandatory, did not happen. no weed banking measure to allow the marijuana growers to use public banks, no tech regulation bill. unfortunately, title 42 did not get reinstituted nor did any other immigration things. but look, i want to focus on what brian said. this is a sign how broken it is, and an opportunity for the republicans. if they want to be serious, they need to go through the regular order and begin preparing in january the budget bills for the next fiscal year. we are now five months into the fiscal year and we with the
4,000 pages and it s going to cost $2 trillion. they are expanding discretionary spending 9% for the second straight year. which is going to go on to the baseline and cost $2 trillion over the decade. it goes on. they also, in this bill, waived $260 billion in automatic spending cuts that were supposed to enforce the democrats pay as you go promises to pay for their new spending. they made the promise they are going to pay for the new spending and waived all the automatic spending cuts and republicans went along with it. aishah: brian, let me ask you this. why do they do it last minute? the whole country is watching this, sitting at home, stuck in the storm, and why does congress wait so long to get this together, because it was not always like this, right? i mean, before you would go through committees, you would go through audits, you would have debates, talk about every section of this giant spending