she is also the chair of the aspen institute and kyiv right now. he represents ukraine. done so since 2017 and represents the number of european countries deeply involved with the conversation around the official sector and private sector of the reconstruction section. so we are not going to touch on the politics both of my guests today have some lines they are not going to stick into the question of reconstruction. starting with the fact the world bank together with the government of ukraine, the european commission and the un just released their updated figure of what it will likely cost to reconstruct ukraine. that number is $524 billion. that is for social infrastructure, schools, hospitals, energy, transportation, you name it. i want to emphasize the reason that $524 billion of reconstruction needs is because russia has destroyed 524 billion of ukraine's social and energy and cultural infrastructure as well. that is why we are here to talk about reconstructing ukraine. to level set i think we are also optimistic in a postwar situation you have the talent and the opp

carolina expanded medicaid 600,000 people and the senior advisor currently that the institute at the aspen institute fellowship served as magic professor the university of north carolina. >> north carolina medicaid program now serves over $3m individuals pretty has been interested in instrumental in moving health investments while lowering the cost and into the leadership of governor cooper and governor josh duncan along with the north carolina general assembly, we've crafted bipartisan approaches to be sitting access to care and investing in prevention and controlling the costs. in december, 2023, north carolina expanded medicaid. i just over your, or the 640,000 have enrolled. many of these north carolina's park farmers and firefighters and childcare providers. now with health insurance, they can be healthier, take care of their family prayed in the contributed anything come into our economy especially in her vibrant small towns. no disproportionate number of people living in rural parts of our state, it's a smart investment in them critical thus is what such broad coalition people came together t

capitol hill and former pennsylvania congressman charlie dent, who's also executive director of the aspen institutesional program. so, julie, explain what republicans are trying to do and why the math doesn't add up. >> well, the congressional budget office, which is a nonpartisan entity that basically verifies and validates exactly how much congress is trying to spend. or in this case, slash had said what many republicans have been admitting to me all along in private, which is that there is just no way that they could get to the $1.5 trillion in cuts that is outlined in this house budget bill that is championed by not only president trump, but but elon musk as well, without cutting entitlements like medicaid, like medicare, and of course, inside that budget bill are $880 billion worth of cuts that republicans, including speaker johnson, have instructed the committee that oversees medicaid to cut. the problem here is, though, as cbo or the congressional budget office is saying, that there is no way that the math adds up on that. it's what we've been hearing. it's what speaker johnson himself in so