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his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd becau ....
Already without doing too much. last year 40 year high in inflation to deep recession. other thing that happened. federal debt explodes by $1 trillion in five weeks since the deal suspending the debt limit became law. treasury department data total national debt 32.47 trillion on july 6th. 1 trillion more than the 31.47 trillion level seen last june essentially meaning with no debt ceiling in effect the borrowing jumped $350 billion in a single day. pretty stunning numbers and glazed over those numbers. it is so stunning, bret. we used to talk about this fiscal debt cliff in the 2008, 2009. all americans are really concerned about it. i remember looking at polls this was the number one concern. but because we didn t go off the cliff, i think we are all whistling past the graveyard these days. when we do go off of it, there is no return. this is the warning we need to be out there. by the way, we are talking about interest rates. our nation going from 200 billion a year to a trillio ....
China which is highly likely to transpire. dr. anderson acknowledging as well that, quote, the ccp is not a trusted partner; however, i can tell you the committee still wants answers from fauci and collins we will see where it goes. bret: griff, thanks. bret: new information tonight indicating students who lost classroom time during the covid pandemic are not yet making up the learning loss. correspondent jonathan serrie looks at the numbers tonight from atlanta. despite an unprecedented $130 billion in federal spending to help schools reopen, a new study from a leading education research group found student progress stalled during the last school year. looking at test scores from 6.7 until public school children grades 3 through 8 nweu researchers estimate the average student would need an additional 4.1 months of instruction to catch up in reading and 4.5 months in math. much like carrying a debt ....
Good news for american families who are struggling to pay their bills. yesterday 35 million families with 60 million children across the united states started receiving their third monthly direct payment of the child tax credit which president biden and democrats expanded. not a single republican in congress voted for that expansion, but treasury department data shows that the top ten states by average monthly child tax credit payments are all states that voted republican in the last presidential election iowa, nebraska, kansas, north dakota, south dakota, montana, wyoming, idaho, utah, and alaska. all families earning below $150,000 are eligible to receive the full child tax credit of $3,000 per child under the age of 18 with an additional $600 per child under the age of 6. ....
Treasury department data shows over the four years of the trump administration, merge added $7.8 trillion in new debt. joining us now, co-founder of punchbowl news, jake sherman. he s also a contributor with msnbc. we talked about it, infrastructure, debt ceiling. correct me if i m wrong, but the government could shut down by the end of the month. how possible is it they could do this? jon, good to be with you. i think right now you have to make the calculus that the reconciliation and the biden agenda is no longer the priority for capitol hill and shouldn t be. the money runs out in 16 days and congress has made literally no progress toward funding the government, zero, none, and the debt ceiling follows shortly after that. but right now the leading plan is to twin the debt creeling with government funding. ....