Stay updated with breaking news from Budget thing. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
for you on this sunday night, not only was he one of the nba s greatest players he was a civil rights i con. she changed television for millions of americans on star trek. nichelle nichols passed away at the age of 89. also, body cam in the arrest of a georgia mother just before she dies. hear from the family is now saying. you are in the cnn newsroom. tonight the loss of a legend. bill russell has died at the age of 88. the nba hall of famer passed away today. the announcement did not give the cause of death. this from nba commissioner adam silver who called russell the great oeast champion in all of team sports. former president obama writes perhaps more than anyone else bill knew what it took to win and lead. on the court he was the greatest champion in basketball history. he was a civil rights trail blazer. after his playing career russell stayed connected to the nba attending major events and continued to be a voice in the fight for civil rights. andy shoals lo ....
Infighting on the right as tensions explode. And tonight, republicans have no clear way out of the mess of their own making. A new Government Shutdown threat just over a month away, and very real questions about funding the military and the war in ukraine. Already, as republicans are searching for a new speaker, the same magafueled turmoil that took down mccarthy is on display. Multiple republicans already announcing bids, including jim jordan and Steve Scalise. Some on the far right and Foxs Sean Hannity floating Donald Trumps name as speaker. One republican senator giving his gop house colleagues some advice. This ousting of Speaker Mccarthy and now we have a pro tem as speaker. I dont have a lot of a ....
Have all this stuff in this 500 page bill. so that they can enshrine and put in place these things. they don t really care about the debt. so, people like manchin and perhaps sinema can say see, we lowered the amount of money. i hope that doesn t happen but we will see. steve: there was one other bit of bad news for the democrats yesterday. that is the senate the senate parliamentarian, once again, said no, you cannot put immigration into a reconciliation bill. they can only be you can t put policy in a budget thing. so, for the second time, they got a no on that. they were trying to wedge that into the 3.5 trillion. brian: joe biden did all this personal diplomacy yesterday sinema manchin twice. nancy pelosi again. dozen much lawmakers. so far according to a the washington post - new york times all the friendly publications he doesn t see much progress. so much on the line. democrat, i don t know if they ....
Democrats. there just is at this point. with joe manchin saying that he doesn t support as it stands right now the $3.5 trillion spending plan, and then you have some progressive democrats, particularly in the house, who say, okay, you re in the going to not going to vote on that now, we re not going to vote on infrastructure. she basically says, you know, we re not voting for infrastructure if we don t do this overall budget thing. so how does this get solved? well, john, first, we have a very tight marriagen in the senate. it is 50/50. there is a very small margin in the house. this has always been a high degree of difficulty high dive that we were attempting to pass both robust bipartisan infrastructure bill, which has already come out of the senate and is waiting for action on the house and to conclude a bold and ....
Of legislation, both infrastructure bill and a budget thing, a reconciliation bill, that calls for significant investment in being able to deal with what is about to come. in other words, for example, when you guys are putting back up those high-tension wires again and that s working, you re not going to put up the same exact system. you guys are going to have to build it better, and it s resiliency. that budget reconciliation bill the president mentioned included vital pieces of his climate initiative but faces challenges. joe manchin penned an op-ed in the wall street journal of all places calling for a pauts to the $3.5 trillion framework which he voted to pass three weeks ago or continue ahead. greg sargent writing in the washington post says manchin s move could have dire long-term consequences especially did it ....