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Week, which is, and it seems sort of weird and small in relation to what i just showed you, but the fight over the bipartisan infrastructure bill. you may have seen today there was a procedural vote just to begin debate on that bill that failed because republicans filibustered it. even though the bill omits what president biden had pledged to support to fight climate change, it does include $47 billion to help communities become more resilient to disasters and severe weather caused by a warming planet and up to an additional $530 billion to support electric vehicles, public transport, energy and tax credits and some other climate friendly policies. now, it sounds like a lot of money, i guess, until you remember the trump tax cuts alone cost the government $2.3 trillion. okay? those tax cuts, which by the way continue to fuel inequality and produce a world in which the richest man on earth seeks to leave it with aims of polluting ....
The markets are counting on a deal. trump needs it politically and china needs it economically. we were buying $530 billion worth of goods from china. with these tariffs, it s questionable whether how much we will buy. now china has lowered the value of their currency because they hope to sell more goods to countries other than the united states. neil: are they a manipulator? no. i think neil: they play fast and loose. it s a sensible policy. you know? if you can t sell to a country where there s tariffs, you try to so your currency cheap enough to neil: absorb the body blows. right. one of the things that has come up that maybe you can help me with, a lot of people that look at the gains they ve had in stocks, say it s a good time to get out. i don t know how this is going to sort out, but i don t like ....
Because we do a lot of charitable work. that is not a good explanation. the president should call them out on that. some of the chairable work they re claiming, brian, putting very well-compensated ceos on local boards. that is part of the charitable works. you re seeing trend in the nonprofit hospitals, the reason they have to the non-profit status, increase benefits to communities, low-income communities around the hospitals. they re cutting services as they made in record profits. i made a point in the op-ed, 84 largest hospital systems in the country, nonprofits made 530 billion in 2017. guess what they don t want? health care providers and insurance companies don t want pricing transparency. he can talk to it today saying it to mnuchin. he doesn t need to ask congress because it is in the tax code. brian: low income patients are not getting away with murder. the money spent on low income ....
Financial and military aid from us this year, what are we getting in return? why are we putting up with this? coming up in moments, ambassador john bolton is here to respond to that. we re tracking a developing story in washington right now where a group of republican senators furious about the possible sale of another taxpayer backed green energy company to the chinese. fisker automotive, taxpayers loaned the company roughly 530 billion dollars and fisker struggle and china is moving to buy a majority take and lawmakers are voicing concerned, technology paid for by american money is sold off to boost china s economy. well, an american ceo meantime is causing a controversy overseas making major headlines when he blasted the french work ethic. ....
Budget has nearly doubled. doubled from roughly $290 billion to $530 billion. and that is not including the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. $530 billion without them. add those in and we re spending more than $700 billion on our military and wars. now the defense budget is about to be put on a big diet. the outgoing secretary, leon panetta, has already signed on cutting a trillion from the defense budget. and frankly, a lot of people think we should go even lower. my colleague has put together charts that show just how insane american defense spending has gotten, and what the next defense secretary may want to think very hard about when looking at the budget. chart number one, and i love this one. the u.s. spends more than any other nation on defense, by far. but in our budget, in 2011, we spent a total of $718 billion on ....