tonight. good evening, peter. mike, on this memorial day, president biden is expressing confidence that there won t be a debt default while also trying to express condolences to the families of fallen american service members. god bless all those who gave their lives so our nation might live. present arms. peter: hours after solemn wreath laying at arlington national cemetery. i never say i m confident with what the congress are going to do. i feel very good about it. headlines of the deal suspending the debt limit until 2025 and limiting federal spending. what this will do is it increases defense and increases veterans. if you take nondefense with veterans out it, goes bloat level of 2022. congressman chip roy doesn t like the deal and roy sits on the rules committee where the bill goes next. he tweets a reminder that during speaker negotiations to build the collision that it was explicit both that nothing would pass rules committee without at least 7 g.o.p.
pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was k at the pry crime, it s not much better. they hapull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 s