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Free money, right, dana? it's a free education on your dime. administration planning to wipe out student loan debt for 40,000 americans. could eventually end the payments of millions of others. watch this story now. they announced the move yesterday. we're talking about your taxpayer dollars ultimately. in the last 15 years student loan debt has grown 210% from 516 billion to 1.6 trillion dollars. we shall see what they do, miss perino. >> dana: elon musk racing to secure financing to purchase twitter in the coming days. the big move he is eyeing to take the social media platform private. a ru...

Under president george w. bush. they got together and decided that they should raise the spending caps by almost between 300 and $400 billion and that was, i think, a pretty easy thing for them to come to an agreement on, karl, on the senate side. >> it is because, remember, caps are not appropriations and they -- they actually originally the democrats said if for every dollar you increase in defense caps you need to increase in the nondiscretionary -- nondefense. here is what the senate is it's $80 billion more to defense that right now defense is at 549. this would carry to 629. and then on ...

I've talked to four economists, including the dean of the columbia school of business and former chairs of the councils of economic advisers, and they believe that it will have this impact. so i think if we can stimulate the economy, create more jobs, that that does generate more revenue. >> but why isn't there a single study -- i'm going to show you three studies that we have. sort of a liberal one, a centrist one and a conservative one right up there. the most pro economic growth argument still has $516 billion to the deficit over ten years. >> well, talk to economists like glenn hubbard and...

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