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yahoo! news reports the president will address the nation thursday. rates rose. stick close to our website at c-span.org to follow along with the president's comments. the president visiting new york and new jersey yesterday to tour the damage done by hurricane ida. one of the statements he made while visiting queens, new york was not only disasters but relating that to issues of climate change. here's part of the present's comments from yesterday. pres. biden: sometimes some very bad things happen that have a tendency to bring out the best in people and country. i think what people are seeing

across this country from the wildfires in california and far west, which i'm heading to and a couple days, all the way to down in louisiana and the golf where i was a couple days ago to new jersey and pennsylvania to a lesser extent, delaware to a lesser extent, and new york. people are beginning to realize this is much bigger than anyone was willing to believe. the whole segment of our population denying this thing called climate change. >> right. pres. biden: but i really mean it. sometimes my mother used to say out of everything bad, something good will come if you look hard enough for it. i think we have all seen that even the climate skeptics are saying that this really does matter. it is not just whether or not people who are just trying to get by in these homes and alleys

here working their butts off do well. it's people in high towers along the shore that find that as there is rain and this change takes place in the groundwater, the buildings are beginning to tilt. 100 story buildings. this goes so far beyond what anybody is willing to speak to up to now. host: when it comes to issues of funding for aftereffects of biden and other things, the washington post reports biden administration is calling on congress to address other urgent needs, responding to ongoing natural disasters and commitments to our afghan allies and partners. this comes as the short-term funding request comes as the white house also works on legislation for $3.5 trillion budget deal and other matters. you can see more in the washington post. patty on this open forum starts us off with the

democrats line. caller: thank you. there has been an expression around all -- around all the time, old men make wars and young men and women fight them. my family will be leaving to go help out in germany at the hospitals there. my concern is yes, we must remember those that died in the military and citizens -- private citizens, but we also must remember those that did survive with lost limbs, concussions, and citizens also. so may we try to be peaceful with one another? thank you for this program. thank you. host: that's patty in wisconsin. this is joe on the republican line. caller: hello, pedro. how are you? i'm glad i got through finally because i have a lot to say about what has been said on c-span for the last couple weeks really.

since leaving afghanistan and the pullout. number one, i would like to give a small criticism to c-span. you guys -- and it is important like the woman said about the people who served in afghanistan. you always put up a number of people who fought in afghanistan or served in afghanistan. why don't you put up nypd or people lost in 9/11? really this whole thing comes to them, how they feel, how they will. we wonder how president biden will accept or react when he comes to new york for the 91120 thin avers for you. let's get to the pullout. number one, let's remember what general powell said when he was secretary of state. we seem to forget what was going on with this. this was a generational war. he said his children's children would be fighting this war way

long after he was gone. this was a war that could not ever end. we had to beat it or make sure we never get attacked again. mr. whitlock was wrong. this is not a loss. were we attacked in the 20 years we were in afghanistan? was there another 9/11 strike? no there was not. that is victory itself. if you remember the number one thing either ally set about being over there, they were scared as us. host: that is joe in somerset, new jersey. let's hear from steve in missouri on the independent line. caller: good morning, pedro. thank you for taking my calls. i want to know why we are spending all of this money in all of these other countries and letting all of our stuff crumble, infrastructure, you know, helping people out and all of that. the second point is with texas law, they want to get rid of the mail-in voting. the more people that vote, the

more people they lose. host: that is steve in missouri. when it comes to issues of spending, axios reporting senator joe manchin privately warned the white house and congressional leaders that he has a specific policy concern with the president's 3.5 trillion dollars social spending dream and will support as little as $1 trillion of it at most. he is open to supporting $1.5 trillion according to sources familiar with the discussion. in a 50-50 senate, it says that could mean a ceiling for bidens build back better agenda and many priorities like free community college are in danger of dying with this. you can see that from the axios website. we hear from anthony on the democrats line. caller: good morning. what i would like to say is texas with their restriction on abortions and restriction on voting and no mask wearing or

mandates. but now the governor of texas once everyone, all of the united states, to chip in for mortuaries because they have no place to put the dead dying from covid. if they can do everything else on their own and do not want help, they should not ask the federal government to help or spend money. or the rest of us spend money for texas because people are dying. that is my point. host: anthony in maryland, and we hear next from jane also from maryland -- we hear from walter also from maryland on the republican line. caller: hello. this is so hypercritical. i can't see how we have to, especially down in texas, having to monitor every single president now -- single

pregnancy now? if i want to preach a small government, i would preach small government. but it is the biggest game i could ever imagine. i do not understand why at every turn we just want to be hypocritical to everything in bidens budget. i understand it spends a lot but a lot needs to be spent. if we came to the table with reasonable suggestions, i'm sure he would want to listen. don't understand what is so complicated about understanding how we should all work. host: that is james in maryland on the flipside of the president's spending initiatives , how to pay for the section that is also the subject of the story in the new york times this morning. they say members of the senate finance committee meet this week to go over more than two dozen tax proposals. lobbyists are expecting the top individual tax rate to return to 39.6% from the 37% rate

president trump's tax cuts created in 2017. corporate income tax rate will also rise to 21% of the trump tax cuts, though not to the 35% of the obama years. lawmakers say a 25% rate is more likely. even more significant, the finance committee is looking at taxing the accumulated wealth of billionaires regardless of whether it is sold. extremely wealthy americans like jeff bezos would have a decade to pay a one-time tax on the value of assets like stocks that had been accruing value for years. they would also pay taxes each year on the annual gain and value of their stocks, bonds, and other assets like many americans pay property taxes on the annually assessed values of their home. more on caller: this is roberto. i think -- first of all, i want to thank a