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And in portland, the teachers union has proposed shifting to one at-home instruction day per week for high school students and one shorter school day for elementary and middle school students, all this despite congress doling out a whopping $189 billion in its three covid relief bills to shore up k-12 education. we're back with kim■ç strassel, bill mcgurn and jill january mel key your -- gillian mel key your. our money has gone to the public schools in the past three covid bills, where's that money going if teachers once again are staying at home? >> yeah. it almost makes you think this isn...

Us develop societies that are sustainable and resilient and green, and one of the key parts of that is shifting away from our fossil fuel funding onto clean energy. now, our countries have been talking a brilliant rhetoric about green recovery and building back better, but a recent report from tearfund showed that over the course of the pandemic the 67 nations have pumped $189 billion into fossil fuels, as opposed to 147 billion into green energy. so we have the rhetoric and then we have the reality. over this weekend, we want to see some clear plans that will get us towards building, using th...

To see the other g7 nations following that lead and also ending their support to overseas fossil fuels projects. but then, domestically, we need to be working towards a green recovery that helps us develop societies that are sustainable and resilient and green, and one of the key parts of that is shifting away from our fossil fuel funding onto clean energy. now, our countries have been talking a brilliant rhetoric about green recovery and building back better, but a recent report from tearfund showed that over the course of the pandemic the g7 nations have pumped $189 billion into fossil fuels...

♪ griff: welcome back. the left lashing out at a lone g.o.p. congressman for blocking a $189 billion disaster relief package. but what they're not mentioning is that the bill isn't addressing the disaster at the border. here to defend his move is that congressman chip roy of texas. congressman, thanks for joining us. before everyone headed off to the weekend you drew a lot of attention when you voted against the bill. why did you do it? >> good morning, griff. thanks for having me on. and i really want to thank all the families out there who's suffering because they lost loved ones and those...

Stock. in the first company of this year, companies on the s&p 500 spent $189 billion on repurchasing their own stock. you cite a study which said if companies give raises instead of buying stock buybacks, this is the kind of stuff you would key. that's not what we're seeing. >> absolutely. the trend of companies using their profits, using just money they had in pocket, or even taking on debt to buy back their shares, it really precedes the tax cuts. this has been going on and becoming a bigger and bigger economic trend for roughly the past two decades. this was frowned upon and in some ways b...