chaskey was the first author on book tv's in-depth. live sunday on in-depth. join our two hour conversation as he rejoins us to talk about capitalism, u.s. foreign policy, and social exchange. some his most recent books including consequences of capitalism, and forthcoming notes on resistance. join in the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. ing, you can go ahead and start calling in now. speaking yesterday about the approval of an additional round of booster shots for those 50 and older, biden made his case for additional funding. [video clip] >> if you haven't gotten your food -- first booster, don't wait, do it today. those who are 50 and older and those who are immunocompromised can now get even more protection than they had from the initial

first doses. we have enough supply to give booster shots to those eligible individuals. if congress fails to act, we won't have the supply we need this fall to make sure the shots are available free, easily accessible for all americans. even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, there won't be enough money to purchase it. we cannot allow that to happen. congress, we need to secure additional supply now. now. we cannot wait to we find ourselves in the midst of another surge to act. it will be too late. we also need this funding to continue efforts to vaccinate the world. the commitments that we made, which are critical in our ability to protect against new variants. there's no wall you can build high enough to keep out of virus. host: we are asking about your

thoughts on additional funding for covid-19 relief. reaction from members of congress yesterday on the republican side of the aisle. this was jim jordan of ohio saying 250 billion dollars in covert relief has been lost or stolen. joe biden once more plus 5.8 trillion dollars for the budget. are they trying to make the inflation crisis worse? that was one of the tweets from members of congress yesterday. republican from arizona, debbie lesko, saying the new budget proposal has additional covid funding with zero accounting for how the previous aid was spent and she pointed to this associated press story, saying that in the ap overview they found state and local governments have spent nearly $1 billion worth of federal coronavirus aid on projects that had little to do with combating the pandemic.

broward county, florida, hardly alone. the ap story from earlier this month. yesterday we spoke with sean bolton for the project on government oversight. particularly fraud, waste, and abuse that has happened in the system. this is some of what he told "washington journal" yesterday. [video clip] >> with disaster spending can be a real magnet for fraud and waste. there is urgency to get the money out and you may not do the same level of due diligence before writing your checks. but i think the program that justifiably has gotten the most attention for the level of kind of fraud and potentially waste we have seen would be the paycheck protection program. a very big program, there were

not a lot of verification steps, not a lot of accountability steps before the money went out the door and we are seeing a high level of fraud that occurred in stories of companies that didn't need the money to support them but still got big loans and got the loans forgiven , a lot of people categorize that as wasteful if the money was trying to prevent job loss. host: it'shost: we are asking you this morning to you support additional covid-19 relief funding. the project on government oversight is just one of the groups that has been tracking covid-19 relief spending. another one of those groups, the committee for a responsible federal budget, according to their figures when it comes to legislative actions alone, congress still has $700 billion that has yet to have been spent that has already been approved for covid-19 funding and they

keep track of approval versus spending and also do some of that work to track fraud, waste, and abuse. president biden asking for an additional $22 billion, saying that now is the time to act. john, independent line, florida, good morning. it's caller: good morning. the wasteful spending, that's what i call it. let's go back to the first covid relief and second covid relief check that we got. i have a bunch of friends, you didn't need extra money, i didn't need extra money. the government send my wife and me 2800 dollars last year. we didn't need it. it's just our own tax money coming back at us and now they have to tax us to get it back up. biden doesn't have the democrats throwing all the money out like

the guy that just spoke. i'm not giving money to charity if i'm not eating money myself. -- getting money myself. host: janice, san diego, good morning. what are your thoughts? caller: i think that this is such bs, first of all their is no relief. and what happened to that report that they were trying to hide for the next 75 years that came out that literally spoke on how first of all the vaccine only lasts about three months to six months. they are trying to increase, trying to find another vaccine now as we speak that would actually work long term or longer. the fact that it has come out that people who have actually been vaccinated are much more prone -- host: we are talking about additional spending. sounds like you are not planning

to get an additional booster, but what do you think about the federal dollars going out, that's the debate in congress right now. caller: i don't think they are actually using it for that. i think they are full of crap and at the end of the day it's another way for the democrats to light up a bill proposed to the american people that they will use funding to do something they say they will do but they have so much pork in the bill underlying the lies that it never goes where it's supposed to go. host: that's janice in california this morning. when it comes to numbers of americans vaccinated, "the washington times" in their wrap up of the announcement yesterday on booster shots in this request, two thirds of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated with a primary series of shots, 45 percent of vaccinated americans or 97 million people

have gotten a booster shot according to cdc data and the picture that goes along with the story is president biden, rolling up his sleeve yesterday and taking the second booster shot. there's the video of him getting that second shot after making the appeal for additional funding and talking about what it would be used for. here is more from president biden on the need for additional covid-19 relief funds. [video clip] >> we are already seeing the results of an action. monoclonal antibodies have helped save lives. this isn't partisan, it's medicine. but congress hasn't provided enough money to keep providing these antibodies. without more funding we will start to run out i the end of may. the end of may. we have had to scale back our plan to purchase more preventative therapies for

americans who are immunocompromised. critical tools to protect the most vulnerable among us. without more funding we risk running out of the supply by this fall. the same is true of testing. it took months to ramp-up up testing capacity. omicron, we saw how vital it was. we have enough tests on hand to whether the surge. without funding we will not be able to sustain testing capacity beyond the month of june. if we fail to invest, we leave ourselves vulnerable if another wave of the virus hits. host: we are asking you, do you support additional covid-19 relief funding? phone lines as usual for democrats, republicans, and independents on your string. -- screen. greg saying no more money on covid, i support people eating healthy and exercising.

this is jim in highland park, new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning to you. what i have to say is we, we get our, what i'm trying to say is the paychecks have, have an account or item that says medicare. that i would think would be part of the subsidization of the covid vaccine or the booster shots. it would cover it. both, both the item concerning medicare in our paychecks and also this subsidization from the government.

that's what i have to say. it's too early in the morning here. host: that's all right, jim. what about people who are not on medicaid or medicare or don't have health insurance. should covid phot -- covid shots and testing be free for those folks? caller: those people would be subsidized by the government. host: all right, that's jim in new jersey. marlene, minnesota, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. no, i don't believe we should be getting -- giving anymore relief to any of this. i think the only ones getting rich off of this are the the pfizer, maternal, johnson & johnson. all these shots people are getting, they are putting foreign things into their body constantly and there should be no reason for that.

none, whatsoever. i think that if they did a double check on all the money that was given out that should not have been given out, which was fraud, and all the pork they put in these bills that nobody ever sees on tv, what's all in the bill. they only pick out certain things. to make it look good for the american people. when you actually go into your computer and read the bill, it shocks you. it totally shocks you. money is not spent. host: what was the last bill you went and read through? caller: the rescue one. host: what shocked you about it? caller: all the pork that was in there. things that had nothing to do with -- i mean, can you explain to me why people in prison forgetting $1200 checks? people in prison.

all of the illegals and everything else that went into that will, it should be for the american people taxpayers. people in prison aren't paying taxes. i said, we need to have a better fraud, i mean if we can hire 8000, 80 thousand, however many people they want to put into the irs, why can't we hire those people instead to check fraud? host: that is marlene this morning. the direct payments to individuals is one of the concerns she and other collars have brought up this >> we'll leave this program here to keep our over 40-year commitment to live gavel to gavel coverage of congress. u.s. house of representatives about to gavel in to consider the rules on two bills. one would reduce the cost of insulin. the other would legalize the and possession of marijuana at the federal level. lawmakers are expected to vote

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