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Morning, sir! rishi sunak has a lot to weigh up this week. he's been chancellor through an unprecedented crisis which has meant unprecedented spending. now a trickier path — he wants to balance the books at the same time as announcing a number of spending commitments. one of the elements of building a stronger economy is having strong public services, and you will see that next week — whether it's the nhs, which we've already taken steps to support significantly to recover from coronavirus, children, schools, skills, all of these things, policing and crime. you will see investment across t...

Johnson years and then next few years. boris johnson may — years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce _ years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce a _ years and then next few years. boris johnson may announce a support package for businesses struggling with the high energy costs. what goes through your mind about where that money will be coming from? the chancellor that money will be coming from? tt2 chancellor is going to be rewarded with quite a lot less borrowing this year than at the time of the budget. economic growth so far this year has been strong. that ...

>> according to the u.s. treasury, senator, the debt limit does not authorize new spending commitments. even if the democrats are unable to pass infrastructure, unable to pass social infrastructure, if both those bills die, correct me if i'm wrong here, you would still have to raise the debt limit. >> you would not have to raise it as soon and you would not have to raise it as much. >> so our friend tony there over at cbs, he wasn't wrong. what toomey is saying is not right. >> no, it's not right. it's not. yes, the government is on auto pilot in some respects, there's lots of spending. but tr...

More. so today the white house is agreeing there's no such thing as a free lunch but disagreeing at the end of the day who will pick up the tab. neil? >> very interesting. hillary, thanks for that. hillary vaughn. we're just getting this in from bernie sanders who is not to keen on the go-ahead vote scheduled for thursday on the infrastructure only package. the $1 trillion or so bipartisan efforts. without it being attached to far bigger spending commitments, let's be clear in the bill is passed on its on on thursday, this will be in violation of the agreement that was reached in the democrati...

That we should keep running every day in the lower crawl the u.s. department because it keeps going up and up and up, and it is changing. you can see the rapidly moving numbers here. it's already up close to $2 trillion under this president, up $9 trillion under president trump, close to $10 trillion under barack obama, almost $5 trillion under george bush. you get the picture, it goes up and up and up. and they have to increase that debt ceiling to account for prior spending commitments, and they've done this at least 78 times since 1960. without a problem. they ultimately get it raised, you ...