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Those types of things. some of the breakdown here vaccine treatment and development, about $6 billion vaccine distribution, $9 billion. detection, testing, and tracing, including this administration plan about $48 billion. genome sequencing and surveillance at $1.75 billion and covid supplies for the defense production act at $10 billion. much of that $2 trillion bill was for economic rescue tax credits, types of direct economic payments to people to try to keep the economy afloat. bret? >> bret: rich edson live on the north lawn, rich, thanks. chicago's crime crisis is not taking a holiday br...

Communication. the fwo places i would say the administration needs to do a better job, communicating with the american people an making testing more widely available. >> two months ago the biden administration rejected a proposal from several public health experts for free rapid tests for the holidays. based on what many other countries are already doing. the concept the white house press secretary derided earlier this month according to "vanity fair." the white house argues there wasn't enough production capacity on the market in october. in march the president signed the american rescue plan...

Night with the key players and i think they mean it. the night with the key players and i think they mean it.— night with the key players and i think they mean it. the big players in the private _ think they mean it. the big players in the private sector— think they mean it. the big players in the private sector want - think they mean it. the big players in the private sector want to - in the private sector want to transition to zero carbon, but investing it as well. in london, are divesting away from our pensions being invested in fossilfuels. moving to investing in renewables. the green ...

Companies claimed uk tax relief on £48 billion of r&d spending, yet uk business investment was around half of that at just £26 business investment was around half of that atjust £26 billion. we are subsidising billions of pounds of r&d that is not even happening here in the united kingdom. that is unfair on british taxpayers and it puts us out of step with places like australia, canada, hong kong, singapore, switzerland and the usa, who have all focused their r&d tax reliefs on domestic activity. from april 2023, we are going to do the same and incentivise greater investment here at home. s...

Votes because any one senator can force the threshold by objecting. there are multiple republicans who are objecting. that means they need 60 votes to advance this short-term debt ceiling hike. 10 republican senators need to break ranks and join with democrats of the behind the scenes, republican leaders are having a hard time finding out who those republicans are. many don't want to just cast this vote after they said they would support the debt ceiling hike. this to the tune of $48 billion, saying the debt would increase that much taking it through december. leadership is trying to get membe...