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the tax-cut jobs act no question about it but the other thing that is in the his adjustment to the amt with the other this will be subject to negotiation because if we remove salt tax not a lot of the people will be subject to amt this is a balancing act members of the freedom caucus agree we need to do something to reform salt but is unclear that removing the caps is physically and responsible. >> and you so many others that are also having a voice in this discussion you want to cut spending. let's face it you have net interest cost $881 billion in fiscal year 24. interest on the debt is the single largest item in the budget behind social security more than spending on defense, medicare and children how will you work on all of this together with the unserious constant in terms of defense 125 billion in terms of the border $150 billion at a minimum and then the new tax cuts a president trump is introduced into the conversation no tax on tips, no tax on social security and no tax on overtime not your talk about lifting the salt deduction. >> you're right the fact is we have to send a si

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if you don't renew the tax cuts about 80% of all individual rates on american families will go up, amtd kicks middle class families in the gut, 199-a, every small business in america knows it, that expires at end of this year, that is the ability for small business to get same fair tax treatment that a large multinational corporation gets, you take that away from small business owners they see a doubling in their tax rate. that would crush many small businesses. we need to keep all those tax rates where they are, what trump did in 2017 to lower the rates created millions of jobs put more money in pockets of hard working families. we don't want it to did away. larry: i am -- i would like blue collar boom started as soon as possible, working class vote put mr. trump in. and also helped house and senate. you know, the 15% tax rate for american-made products is important tax-free tips, and tax-free over time, seniors that special. russ vought, mentioned, in his budget, whatever they will put up, they have dynamic scoring, if run 3% growth rate for next 10 years, instead of puney 1. 8% from

i was thrilled to see the amt exemptions creek -- exemptions increase so so many of my clients were no longer subject to it. rep. malliotakis: it targeted the middle-class, really. that is who got hammered by it, right? ms. gallagher: it definitely targeted and hammered middle-class. no doubt about it. rep. malliotakis: he said if it does return it would affect seven point 2 million taxpayers starting in 2026 and that would predominantly within middle-class? ms. gallagher: yes. rep. malliotakis: the salt deduction, could you explain how constituents may not have benefited from salt? ms. gallagher: the salt adduction was, because of its limitation the salt deduction is actually part of the computation of the amt. it is an ad-back. you are calculating your taxable income you have to add back all of your salt taxes. my warning in my written testimony was that if there is an argument to have salt, then we have to keep amt out as well. rep. malliotakis: i agree with you. ms. gallagher: because everybody who may not be limited in salt will be paying amt and they are no further ahead than the

brothers and sisters we are here to stand with you, amte is going to stand with you every step of the way and i know all my colleagues and all brothers and sisters are going to stand with you so we need to send a loud message not just today but until we get the job done, how many of y'all are in agreement with me? we are going to get the job done, so thank you, thank you, thank you, and i would like to bring up to share a few words. >> thank you. >> thank you all for being here. my name is mj burke, national va council proudly, proudly representing 280,000 employees. i like many other came to the va because we like the va clinical environment and the mission that has been entrusted to us. i believe that va's mission is the greatest of all federal agencies. the goal of the current administration, flurry of executive orders regardless of whether it's eliminating telework or enacting hiring freezes or potentially replacing us at 1 to 4 ratio is ultimately forcing federal employee reduction so as to turn more va care over to the private sector with the results of diminishing the quality o

the first amendment do not change with the technology and has tried to maintain the fundamental first amt principles and apply them to new technology. all the technological development's which are incredibly relevanhe question sit more naturally in deci how scrutiny applies and why states are able to satisfy scrutiny than it does to revisiting the fundamental standard reports the principles of the first amendment do not change with technology the application of technolothe first amendment technology can alter what is afctg the principles. how you apply speechtections face to face might be different uations where you are talking about the telephone and all sorts of other things. historically, there been changes in the applications of law. the basic principles are the same. one othings that is striking about the case is t dramatic change in the technology of brick-and-mortar stores to the access to pornography which also seems to be dramatically different from what it was 40-whatever years ago. >> there has been a lot of change but that sounds a lot like the argument where they id the conte

i it is needed for safety amt time in addressing what public art guess thumb is one of our question system it be climbed on? is it safe? people will climb if they can climb. you know this one is in. it is beautifulism know we need something for safety is there any other option within budget constraints that will not make it electric like it is not under construction >> now that is the immediate bandaid. we had a situation we had 30 kids climbing on temperature and you know it is slippery, right. it is slick polished metal. they could have fall koren down special cracked their skulls. we had to get something up really quick. but we are looking at a better option. but now we the first option of keep kids off this thing. >> makes sense. thank you. >> and adults, too. [laughter]. we saw children for the record. [laughter]. >> are there other comments by the commission on the director's report? may i ask for public comment on the director's report? those in person prosecute seed to the podium and fill out the information card. weer item 4. comments from those in person. no requests for public c

trump's special envoy to a fer-amt trump's special envoy to ukraine a fer-amt trump's special er capitalmt trump's special er capital jk train. he ukrainian capital by train. he was greeted he is ambassador to ukraine. he is expected to meet president a zelensky later and this is a day after ukraine was excluded from those pivotal talks between american from those pivotal talks betwee| in merican from those pivotal talks betwee| in riyadh. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. why is it going up? transport costs and _ why is it going up? transport costs and food _ why is it going up? transport costs and food costs - why is it going up? transport costs and food costs are - costs and food costs are pushing it upwards. you are right to say it is higher than we expected but the general trajectory is not a surprise. we do expect inflation to continue rising for the rest of the year. there is an important distinction, this 3% compares january to last january, but actually if you compare it to last december, at prices dipped a bit. with the energy price cap be lifted in april an

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