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Matter with their refusal to even consider a short term funding bill known as a continuing resolution. Its a measure which could realistically be brought to the floor of congress over the past few days before funding runs out next saturday at midnight. Instead, republican holdouts want to consider each appropriations bill separately which is a time consuming and extensive process that would take more than a week. Ahead of the call with republicans yesterday afternoon, speaker Kevin Mccarthy expressed a bit of hope, telling reporters he things when it gets down to crunch time the holdouts will, quote, hopefully move off. A few hours later, however, this meant, delusion a congressman garrett grace, a mccarthy ally, you will remember him, he was instrumental in the Debt Ceiling Negotiations of few months back. He had tougher words. He compared the holdouts to arsonist ....
Who is also the board of supervisors president is working on issues of housing and neighborhood violence, proposals she was already engaged in since she joined the board of supervisors in 2013. But today, she holds a great deal more power as mayor. This afternoon, she will make an announcement on a gun buy back event similar to this one recently held in San Francisco. Breed is scheduled to make a joint appearance with the San Francisco chief of police and in a city hall where flags will fly at halfstaff for 29 more days, the supervisors are holding their regularly scheduled meetings. And i ask for your patience, and i ask for your support, and i ask for your prayers. Reporter there will be a Mayoral Election on june 5th of next year. And mayor breed will remain mayor until that point unless the board of supervisors decid ....
That that ratio will continue to rise in an unsustainable fashion , so the addition to the debt taking what is already a significant problem and making it worse is, it is of concern to me and i think it does suggest that in some future downturn which, well, could occur just for whatever reason, the amount of fiscal space that would exist for fiscal policy to play an active role may well be limited. Sam and then victoria. Sam flemming. A couple of longer term questions. First of all midway through the year you talked about issues of whether inflation targets might need to be raised and a lot more debate in the fed system since this. It may not be an imminent issue but is it something the fed should discuss over the coming years some sort of change to the target and second of all the amount of stimulus tools that the fed may have at its disposal in the next downturn strikes are fairly limit limited. One of the incoming governors, Mar ....
President of the united states. President trump thank you very much. Thank you, everyone. We are joined today by college students, young entrepreneurs, families, mothers, and fathers from all over our nation. You make this country run. It is an honor to be with you and to have you at the white house. Thank you for being here. Really fantastic. Thank you. [applause] great people. As a candidate, i promised we would pass a tax cut. Now, we are just days away from keeping that promise and delivering a truly amazing victory for American Families. We want to give you, the American People, a giant tax cut for christmas. And when i say giant, i mean giant. [applause] as we speak, congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that will deliver more jobs, higher wages, and massive tax relief for American Families an ....