those costs. we're thinking about rate stability as you've seen there in their presentation the the especially the first year that rate increases very high. and so this is really forcing us to look at what kind of cuts are deferrals we can make to either you know reduce the rates or smooth out the rates over the long term. but and we're also thinking about mitigating projection risk. >> so we don't want a situation where we're in now where we're looking to make up rates in the falling rate cycle. and then the last thing is really transparency and this is not just from a process standpoint but also from monitoring. so we're looking at mechanisms to help us monitor expenditures, making sure we have the right reporting requirements as well makes making sure those service level agreements are memorialized. so just kind of looking at kind of confirming what a lot of recology has presented in terms of their rate proposal. as you can see the first two years the rates were pretty flat. that second year ra

lower costs. while consumers struggle to keep up with products, the biden administration consistently hampered innovation by imposing unnecessary and duplicative resolutions on manufacturers. this will enable the trump administration to safeguard consumer choice and lower costs. i thank the gentleman from georgia, mr. clyde, the 9th district of georgia for leading this legislation and i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting h.j.res. 42. and we are going to miss our good friend from texas. i just got to know him in the last 24 hours and i missed a lot by not knowing him longer. i urge support of this resolution and i thank you and yield back. mr.griffith: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: do you have additional speakers? mr.griffith: i do. mr. pallone: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i just wanted to clarify some of the comments that we are hearing today from the other side. my colleagues across the aisle said at one point

almost 37% of their litigation costs. their liability insurance premiums have gone up 235% since 2018. their average cost for negligent security lawsuit in georgia is five times higher than in florida. nine times higher than in texas. twenty-one times higher than south carolina 27 times the average cost with a similar lawsuit in alabama. when we talk about how to continue george's success as a top state for business for the next 11 years, and how to keep our states best and brightest days ahead it starts right here. stories like a waffle house, stores like the small-town smaln grocers and childcare facilities. the mom and pop to make the community special. healthcare providers who are there for us when we need them the most. without them our state is not the same and george it will never walk to its full potential. when she was the coming days will be comprehensive but fair. in georgia what we believe those who do wrong should be held accountable. if you have been wrong you deserve justice but also believe the legislation

they care about inflation, rising costs. in a new npr pbs marist poll ahead of tonight's speech, americans are split on the administration's efforts.

you said you'd bring down costs on day one, donald trump. yet here, one month in you're doing something that would raise costs significantly for the american people. and when republicans cut medicaid, it means health care costs will go soaring for tens of millions of kids, seniors with is disabilities. why are republicans doing this? why are they creating all this havoc, this cruelty and this harm to the american people? simple. to cut taxes for billionaires and have the american people pick up the tab. make no mistake about it, this is what a transfer of wealth looks like. a way from working americans and into the bank accounts of the billionaire club. meanwhile it's not much better in terms of foreign policy and our own security. our allies across the world will look at america and see a country in decline under donald trump. they will watch in horror an american president continue to curry favors with war criminals like vladimir putin, while publicly berating friends, brave, valiant people who have risked their lives and have seen he so m

so this total cost under these findings works out to a per capita costs to californians of $7,074 annually. this report pegs a combined federal, state and local costs nationwide associated with illegal immigration at $182 billion annually. and that's probably a low number. state and local taxes paid by californians account for 1/6, just in my home state, of the nationwide costs associated with illegal immigration. including in k-12 education, housing and nutrition assistance, in-state tuition, in-state tuition at public colleges and universities, health coverage under the state's medical program, which is in trouble, sweeping sanctuary policies which make our cities less safe. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i speak unanimous consent to -- i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. mr. speaker, i rise in recognition of the outstanding leadership o

theying north rising cost -- theying north rising cost -- they ignore the rising costs. it is so bad that even members of their own caucus are breaking ranks to vote for commonsense reforms such as the rolling back these radical anti-energy agenda items that the biden administration foisted upon us in the is 1th hour of their administration and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. neguse: i thank the speaker. it feels like i'm living in the twilight zone. again, i understand the gentleman from new york very much wants to spend a half hour debating labeling requirements for pool heaters. i get it. it's important to you. it's not important to me. not important to the people that i represent. in the five minutes that you just spent describing the reasons for this bill in your view, the stock market has continued to go down. more corporations have announced that they'll be increasing prices later this week because of president trump's tariffs. i don't understand how you b

house democrats, we are working hard to lower housing costs, lower grocery costs, lower insurance costsnd lower utility costs and child care costs because we know america is too expensive. we want to drive down the high cost of living. but on the other side of the aisle, we haven't seen a single bill introduced by republicans to drive down the high cost of living, address the affordability crisis in the united states of america. not a single executive order issued by president trump has anything to do with driving down the high cost of living. not a single administrative action taken this year by the trump administration has anything to do with driving down the high cost of living. in fact canses aren't going down in the united states. grocery prices are going up, inflation is going up. republicans are crashing the economy in real-time. so you betrayed the american middle class, working class, children and seniors with this $4.5 trillion budget scheme. and don't come to the house floor and act like this was being done in the fiscal responsibility. enough. there is nothing in the republi

low cost. i know as we use this city, a limited side is trying to make this shift by phasing out that these is on onto the excess and replacing them with these electric ones. but what's in it for these drive us? let's go around town with one and find out photo to extra driver. so now i'm seeing the color blue represents an important shift away from the black and yellow office . old diesel, vic show the suff ma'am, was among the early adopters of an electric authentic shop as part of the city of its source trade in scheme. he gave up his baltic shots for years simple. and the only reason why it was 22 years old and used up a lot of fuel and cost a fortune to maintain. then what i think. so when i found out about the he trade in the scheme, i went to the agency and discovered that i could receive a subsidy for this either extra people making the step has been a real blessing because they do have the auto guarding the day. but a bounce probably sold it on his scheme, drivers for offered up to 70 p

all that will be where we cost too small. oh, for the social democrats, but i think this is watched a german government the next german government, if there will be the next german government composed by the conservative ends over democrats. needs to to do is to push for some of the highest what's going wrong. so china is the german economic model, broken. why has joined the industry failed to remain competitive? yeah. okay. i'd be a small company company, economic model. it's of course, a, a big feeling these days in germany being widely discussed, many germans, my fellow citizens here in germany. they are very much concerned about the state of germany's economy and where it is heading to in the future. i wouldn't say that everything is bad, so we still have many companies that do well. export companies, service and sector companies. smaller medium size companies including large companies that are still leading in global in each market. we still have a well functioning labor market, high employment, rising view of wages, but

but that's it for this edition of counting the cost. i'm adrian, so they've gone from a whole team here. and so how, thanks for being with us. the news on al jazeera is next the economic collapse, the east of domains and the civil war. i just want to be clear, i read opposing the roger parts of the why were you at the but they found even to, you know, we need to finish that. is it on the know, did you really? that's what allegations the new to the movie has son goes head to head with for mr . and i can president, reino, but congress thing go i am the mean for the day before you were born. i know we so much i called of the problem at the head on al jazeera ton is call me this policy is missing in the aging to set out his priorities for the yes. how, who the world's 2nd largest academy. we actually some trades hired some post 5 of us and what direction will it take to manage the worlds fastest aged supplements? special coverage of trying to send me to sessions on this. one out of the pod came into these dates, new military abuse, poco aro

to these obligation to reimburse these costs is absolute under the dda so whatever costs public works or public utilities have in support of the implementation and the program to the city is obligated to reimburse those costs we and we build them for those quarterly and again these are the the departments with whom we have work quarters and and the the budgets for the individual work orders and then we come to the subsidy cost budget. there's a fair amount of volatility in the subsidy cost budget again primarily because of the housing our of our capital support for housing projects vary can vary dramatically from year to year but also as we're looking at bringing additional parks online and we're having the conversation about switching from rubicon to to recreation and parks department, there's there's some increased costs in that area as well. but we have external funding sources to draw upon to balance this budget. there is the the $1.5 million park subsidy obligation from to cd and then we have the cfd revenues that we can draw upon for parks related costs costs related to the new

to do it in the energy costs. so a big point today is going to cost you $91500.00. if you're in the republic of ireland, the most expensive place in the world, a bit going to might be going. it will cost you $321000.00 to get that big point. there's clearly not economically viable, and there are plenty of other european countries where the costs do over a $100000.00 to do it. so there's, there's no revolt and boot time it costs to them over $9900.00 to mind. a big point . one of the cheapest places in the world to do it. that's why it works so well for the boot cities. interestingly, iran is the cheapest place on earth in terms of energy costs. so mine big coin and just over 1000, by $1200.00. that, but iran, you're writing government is clumping down, and individuals doing it because of the amounts of energy best sucking from that of that not to very stable power. so burner boots on also charges tourists a $100.00 a day to visit how sustainable as a guide given the following visitor numbers and the need for the e

but that's it for this edition of counting the cost. i'm adrian so they've gone from a whole team here. and so how, thanks for being with us, the news on al jazeera is next the shake model was for translation and international understanding is inviting nominations for re to 11th edition, starting january the fast and ending march the 31st 2025. for more information, please visit the awards official website at w w, w dot h t a dot q a the it's arlita is back in the gyptian proposal for garza's reconstruction and governance without displacing palestinians. the company bulk of this is just a lot from dough. so coming today, the united states wants to trade war against canada, canada, and mexico and china hit back in heavy tire of 7 post by donald trump. fee is the levies could push up prices.

and so your layering a lot of risk and a lot of cost on top of that, some government. so at the end of the day, we cannot tell a company, we cannot force a company, let's say, to share a technology to teach somebody else, you know how you make your product. um, but the reality is that governments can, in fact, put quite a lot of pressure on companies to do that because they are the ones who pay. that's public money. that's tax pare, money that is paying for the research that allows for a vaccine to be developed and produced by pharmaceutical companies in times of crisis, global south nations. believe pharmaceutical companies should be full to shape tech know how and why the intellectual property rights to allow low for production. that just would, because you need to be able to ensure that that is the best approach that it can compromise the sky. like if it's that are ongoing by that company and that the recipient company actually is able to receive that it has the capabilities, etc. or you can start on a very long road that means to nowhere. and so this has to be volu

while we tackle homelessness and the cost of housing, our families are burdened by other costs. we must do more to help them afford day-to-day life. when i travel across the state and i speak to parents, i hear one thing time and again. childcare costs are out of control. on average, an arizona family pays nearly $15,000 a year for child care. that is more than students pay for in-state tuition to public universities. more than 75,000 arizona children, one in four, have parents who need childcare but cannot access it. and every year, childcare disruptions cost our state billions of dollars in economic activity. i was a working mother who raised two kids and i understand these challenges intimately. that is why i am putting forward the working families child care act to lower the cost of caring for your kids by two thirds. [applause] >> through partnerships with employers, we can make life easier for families who are struggling with the high cost of raising a child. hard-working families will win. employers will win, and most importantly, our kids will be better off because they

and so, the, the costs before costs sharing went from 16.91 to 16.93 and after cost sharing after employers it went from 15.27 to 14.87. and so that difference was the increase in the member contributions after costs sharing. so now i'm going to turn it to anne to go through some of the specifics from this valuation and then, we'll come back to some risk assessments. >> so one of the changes that we did not anticipate in last year's valuation, we did not know where those charter amendment that's were back in the ballot back in november and two of the charter amendments did pass. the first was charter amendment h which was for the active firefighters who are currently in that prop c tier, those are the ones that were hired after 2012 or january 1, 2012. and the increases is their benefits were, isolated to the benefit multipliers in the benefit formula. your formula is a percentage of pay that final average pay service. so all of those benefit multiplier at those age members increased and now at the level of the non prove c members. there were no changes to the prop c member contributions cu

[applause] lowering costs is our top priority. no one in this room could single-handedly bring down prices, we could tackle the biggest items in the budget. let's start with housing, it is a tough market right now. mortgage rates are above 6%. home prices have shot up 50%. the median age of a homebuyer is 56 years old. that is an all-time high. just a quarter of homes went to first-time buyers. rebecca from carlton told me she wants a nice kitchen, small yard for her dog. she recently toured a house in detroit and competed against 40 other bidders. young people are suffering the most. i want to call attention to the fact that this crisis disproportionately impacts young, single men. they by just 8% of homes sold today compared to single women who by 20%. as a dad of three, i know the lieutenant is passionate about housing. he's focused on making our state a better place. we both know every young person wants to protect and provide for themselves and their family. if you can't buy a house, it is hard to build wealth or feel like yo

the cost of groceries has certainly skyrocketed. the cost of eggs is up 53 percent sat alone. we see families have tightened their budget at the same time that we are seeing corporate profits in the food sector hitting record highs of the grid hear more about this, that's not by accident. there's been years of market consolidation that have left consumers with fewer choices and higher prices. system is stacked against small businesses and local grocers and everyday americans the ones left paying the price for that. is part of why they have been pushing the ftc the federal trade commission to investigate the laws that are meant to prevent this type of price discrimination like the robinson patman act because right now those are being enforced and we are talking about a law that was designed to ensure fair competition and protect consumers from a large corporate large corporations driving up the prices. families in kansas and across the country deserve so much better. as a member of congress i do have the opportunity to work on things we can have a direct impact on this stuff we

it costs on the 200000, but how is it possible? i'm going to show you today got to it has given the new spring a fresh look more new features for the interior add more power under the hood. and the price remains reasonable, meaning the spring cost far less than the competition, such as the central n e. c 3, which will launch in europe in 2025. the new spring also has a lot going for it visually. let's talk a little bit about the exterior of these. i know this such as spring electric enough to say, i really liked the design. i think it was a little bit boring. i like the color. i like these brawls comp time. they're all caps. i like this overall, it's trim here on the we're just like the overall trend on the doors. it really looks great. it's upgrade to the todd to another level. and in the front you have got any d lights which is not cheap at all. i would say you have got to be not yellow, but which really fits the call. and on the bottom of the lip, you can see the album design. yeah, probably not. everybody will love it, but i li

in hawaii we face the highest housing costs in the nation. the people of hawaii also asked us to make housing more affordable and available to all of the people across our state. housing is the single largest expense for hawaii families. it accounts for up to 38% household spending on average. 38%. and even before fire destroyed nearly 4000 homes on maui in august 2023, we faced an estimated 50,000 housing units short statewide. now, hawaii's building regulations have driven up the cost of condominium development. they have driven it up 50%, making this the highest cost of housing in the country. and because of our lack of affordable housing, we face a shortage of teachers. we face a shortage of health care workers, which has plagued us for years. and more native hawaiians live in the mainland than in our state. i know that was mentioned another speeches. together, we took action. we approved 10,800 new units of low income housing for struggling families. and over the past 18 months exemptions extent -- established in our proclamations have i

to, well, they 1st set foot in cost of the cost of most of us would be there for if we're going to be this february, this $1.00 guy here would be that since november. and that's where the refugees provided to me. there was stuff here with the border and i'll do the job well done. yeah. you know, especially tell them to pick a sale. definitely. when you do papers, my rac, defiance has been shown. and the c c should that you, i've shown this might be the only place in the world when we come back to visit the ceiling. the civilians we have this little fingers of we found the most one very knowing some of the form is to say well, humans can do so each are just branding. but as the investor has cooled the grim reality, so more money families on both sides of the conflict, continue to search for loved ones, will never return. 25 years later, the pay and remains with hundreds still missing and the farm is left through the closer to key labelled will set to subject to subject to subject music i meant always just say who in 2007 when a member of the family was found in the nearby mass graves.

cost efficiency is both. it's not just about cuts costs and it's revenue and receipts as well. not raise or lower taxes. i have no opinion on that as irs commissioner. i'm saying let's collect the taxes that have already been enacted. >> this is the one that says doge presses to check federal benefits payments against irs tax records. elon musk want tosser much for fraud and privacy law bars the irs from disclosing irs forms to other parts of the government. how safe are irs tax records and does doge already have them? >> it's such a important question and if you allow me, i want to talk a little bit about this question of fraud. what is fraud and what is error and how do you stop it? then i'll address your question about the data. because when the and i've been working on this for virtually my entire career. one thing i learned and i don't have the monopoly or the right answer. not here to say i figure it had all out and know how to solve the problem. i have lessons learned and one of the lessons learned as you're getting ready to make a payment to a grantee, to a contractor,

can you, you know, come into, let's say, the cost of living continue. what you've done with the cost of living and from the subsidizing of the production, rather than subsidizing consumption as they promised them, or come pains, you remember the past demonstrations, off of the electrical, you know, 2023, about the cost of living. which also and with granted with the end, unfortunately all the most special end up with that, which is a very unfortunate incident. and it is not true that people are more strict than you open file. it is just the nature of what happens with a demonstration with a tongue violent and the police have to intervene. let me say that at this point. it's not just unfortunate. we all regret the loss of life during the 2022 demonstrations and even the demonstrations on the june last year. unfortunately, the lights have to be lost but was locked up. what files opened? so yeah, the way to live has to be lost. lives would take the right people were shot in the head. no, nor life ought to have been lost and nobody can justify the loss of l

costs aren't going down, they're going up. inflation is going up and not a single thing has been done to drive down the high cost of living in the united states of america. not one executive order, not one administrative action, not a single bill has been introduced, let alone presented on the house floor and passed to address the affordability crisis in the united states of america. under donald trump and house republicans, the economy is tanking in real-time. at the same moment house republicans have introduced a reckless budget that would set in motion the largest cut to medicaid in american history. it will devastate children, devastate families, devastate people with disabilities, devastate older americans, result in the closing of hospitals and the shutting down of nursing homes. and all of this is being done to pay for massive tax cuts for their billionaire donors like elon musk. unacceptable, unconscionable and it's un-american. the house democrats are committed to doing everything we can to stop it. and we're committe

it did not cost any money in the budget.axpayer money on prescriptions which should not stop there. let's reform, let's reform the way private equity has infected our healthcare system. [applause] let me explain this. let me explain this. private equity is motivated to make a profit and to make it quickly. it does not mean they are doing something wrong or criminal. they buy up hospitals and healthcare facilities, line their pockets by stripping money and resources from those of facilities and then they compromise care. and in many cases they skip town leaving taxpayers holding the bag and communities without the care and services they need. i am done letting private equity treat pennsylvania hospitals like a piggy bank they can empty out and smash on our floor. [applause] [cheering] so, why don't you join me in standing up for our local hospitals and nursing facilities, and put in place real safeguards against private equity. most require pre-transaction notification for all sales mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy cla

our costs are getting higher. i can't tell you exactly how much is going directly to pricing, but if this continues at the rate it's going, absolutely those costs will have to be borne in future price increases. >> thank you. chief johnson, in cases of inbound shipment cargo bypasses the port of entry inspection and travels closer to its final destination before undergoing required inspection by customs and border protection. i'm the ranking member of homeland security overseeing customs and border protection and very interested in how we can make sure that they're dealing with some of these challenges, your testimony mentions the additional harm that's inflicted when cargo theft occurs prior to the cbp inspection. so if you could please for the committee detail the specific and additional risk associated with theft of inbound shipments and what actions do you believe that customs and border control could take in order to work with the supply chain to reduce this type of crime. >> thank you, senator, for that ques

the surgeon costs are partly due to an outbreak of bird fluid. this led to the calling of millions of chickens. the price hike of such an essential part of the american diet is feeding into water fears of inflation and its leaving many consumers and restaurant owners shell shocked. few foods there is crucial to the american breakfast as eggs. but the price is searched by more than 100 percent in the last 12 months. and that's left consumers and restaurant owners scrambling for solutions. eggs are really important. we go through a lot of eggs. they're usually $46.00 a case. and right now they're a $146.00 a case. this is a 3 is impose the surcharge of $2.00 on old meals containing ex employees. say most customers have sold at the move for now the others. it's yet another reminder that the cost of living in the us is going up. it's a good mix. i mean, some people have been keeping up with sort of, you know, the shortage of eggs. and so they're not surprised, and other people, you know, are upset because food's really expensive. the shortage of eggs

food costs in the months ahead. this includes the cost of beef.s say they don't expect food prices to come down anytime soon. >> prices for those type of goods go up. they tend to stay up just because there's no incentive for producers to lower the prices of any of these things. i think that what this is kind of an opening salvo of kind of the general population saying enough is enough. something has got to change. >> the same government study found the cost of sugar and other sweets will climb nearly 6.5%. we'll be paying about 4% more for nonalcoholic drinks. we've been asking you if these rising grocery prices are changing how you shop. almost half of you 40%, 47% say you're just cutting down. you're buying less. 38% say you're picking less expensive brands. 15% of you are sticking to your usual routine. you can vote and change those numbers. scan the qr code at the top right of the screen. head out to ktvu.com. the three of us get to go to the grocery store. do you make any different choices? are you are you going to the same store? let's star

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and hopefully at a, at a lower cost. i think behind the acts is a pretty simple principle, which is more so for lines, let's say less um, begging and waiting for the international community to come and save the date. in september 2024 delegates agreed to create a system. the new shows health experts have rapid access to deadly new pathogens that could cause time damage. these transactional mechanism could enable global south net. she was to access cheap protest vaccine and commercially benefit from sharing disease dawson, how to implement the system. so it's data oh, remains a challenge. currently we don't have any rules that obligated governments to share the samples or the data quickly where all countries say we will all share sex scenes, technologies, intellectual property, all of that. and the fact that we don't have those rules puts everybody address what a number of the industrialized countries i think are afraid of. and what the pharmaceutical industry is afraid of is if we allow and build capacity in other parts

fee cost? and how much does it cost to deploy a ship, a plane in an air defense system to fire at it? both ukraine and russia are now racing to expand the drone production and adapt to rapid innovations from the other side. something that ukrainian soldiers say the west and allies also need to learn is for sure. yeah. but from what i see in here and available were not a single needle army. it is that it is ready to resist the cascade of drones. and as long as you are paying the allies, look to ramp up to the defense spending. drones are already shaping how the was of the future will be for let's get more on this now with marine and they were on, she's with the defense studies department at kings college london, and she joins us from munich. tell us ukraine has been remarkably adapted, scaling up its production of drones, how they've done it, and what lessons can be learned a good afternoon. well, um we have to understand that. um, the ukrainian and forces have to be very flexible and you've see

allen: additional cost? mr. spellmeyer: additional he costs. i just heard yesterday from one of my members in pennsylvania that the prevailing wage issue there alone was driving almost to 70% difference in the state of pennsylvania for my providers. rep. allen: do many members plan to participate in bead because of this unnecessary burden? mr. spellmeyer: there were many that want to come back and come in and the good news is, i don't think we need to restart the process, as has been suggested. i think we can move expeditiously to strip out the stuff that needs to be stripped out. i think ntia could grant waivers or the department of commerce that would allow states to proceed but remove some of the provisions. rep. allen: we're seeing this in the doge effort about the excessive cost of doing business and waste of taxpayer money by the federal government. mr. hill, are you seeing the same thing in kentucky? >> not as much. that's a potential issue that we could see that we hope we don't. rep. allen: what is one barrier, mr. hale, that you would

furthermore, the cost analysis that they did, an audit by the cbp would only cost $25,000. now, having come from the business sector myself, that probably is the first day of outside attorney's fees at $25,000. it's wildly off the mark. this one-size-fits-all solution in search of a problem expands the consumer financial protection bureau's authority. unnecessarily. i would argue this was a way unintended by argue. they were supposed to be looking over the financial sectors regarding to banking, not the nonbanking systems. the cfpb also failed -- much how the biden epa and obama before that tried to expand the epa's authority under the waters of the u.s. rule. this is as expansion of the cfpb's authority which is beyond of what we want it allow them. i'm proud to be able to lead the pushback with the congressional review act to stop this unnecessary rule. i'm also honored to work with my fellow nebraskan congressman mike flood who is leading the same effort over in the house. this is an opportunity for us to ease the regulatory burden, the -- of the previous -- the previous

a lot of the costs that we pay through our electricity bill are costs that don't actually vary with howity we consume. >> reporter: he says the cost shifts from rooftop solar is not the primary factor driving up the price of electricity . but it is a piece of the puzzle. >> i think a policy to start to phase out those subsidies makes a lot of sense. we are going to have to attack all of the reasons including raining in the utility expenditures , but this is one of the reasons and otherwise we're just not going to have affordable electricity rates. >> two on the kitchen roof. >> reporter: he and solar advocates argue rooftop solar is being scapegoated as it has been before , as to what is to blame for rising energy costs. >> solar saves everybody money. there is no denying that. solar owners should not be penalized, they should be encouraged. >> reporter: from his vantage point, the more households that moved to rooftop solar, the better will be for the planet and the state. >>> at this point, scrapping solar credits is only a recommendation. entering the perks altogether would require a

efficiency, delta discount revenue receipts because cost efficiency is a bottom-line u.s. government is not just about cutting the cost it is about revenue and receipts and we should not raise taxes are lower taxes. as our irs commissioner, what i say this collected taxes. >> i would ask you for the privacy tax records this washington post of said that doge president check federal benefit payments against irs tax records and officials with elon musk groups they want to search for fraud and they brought irs tax information to the parts of the government and how safe are irs tax records and does doge re: have them is such an important question if you allow want to talk a little bit about question of fraud what is fraud and how do you stop it no address your question about the data because been working on this question of fraud in payments from virtually my entire career and one thing of learned i do have a monopoly in the right answer, not here to say i i do have lessons learned as you getting ready to make it to contractor to an individual, 99 time 700 number for me does no

we also use our bonds to manage the impact of these costs. some of our facilities are billion dollar projects and we wouldn't want to have rate payers today bear those full costs. even more importantly the tools that we use to borrow include advantaged financing. you as commissioners have the opportunity to approve tax exempt bonds, tax exempt bonds are bonds where the investors typically don't have to pay federal income tax on those and as a result they accept the lower interest costs for that debt. so you get a much lower cost than for example, corporate borrowers. we also take advantage of low interest loans from the federal government including the with your loans that you've approved in the past and also our state revolving fund loans. so we are able to borrow at much lower costs. >> the third piece the second piece of this is that we are repaying over time most of our debt is repaid over 35 years an important concept in our world and for our capital finance team and the financial partners we work with is the time value of money. a dolla

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that's not to mention that doge's cost cutting often ends up actually costing the government more. team deleted a team whose job was to literally make the government more efficient. you can't make it up. according to a 2016 press release from the general services administration, that team had cut costs at some agencies by as much as 50%. doge is also in the process of gutting the consumer financial protection bureau, which not only protects consumers from predatory practices, but since its inception in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has saved consumers a total of $21 billion. then there's doge's freewheeling cuts to usaid. right now, hundreds of millions of dollars of emergency food assistance, which was ready to be shipped to some of the poorest places in the world, is at risk of totally being wasted because some of it's going to rot. then there are the layoffs at the irs, where workforce reductions may actually end up costing the us treasury and taxpayers alike. those layoffs not only risk delaying tax refunds, but they also reduce federal revenue. one study showed that t

the soft costs in terms of supporting the effort for the litigation is part of project controls. you say litigation did it go to court? >> no sorry. in terms of the i think we went through mediation so feel free litigation. affirmative dispute. yes. oh, big fan. correct. all right. so that that answers my questions. i'm sorry to put you on the spot over. >> okay. any other questions from the committee? i have a question more about process on slide number eight. you talked about the warranty process. >> i think for one of the was it one of the public health clinics or one of the community health clinics was casa mission health center? >> yeah. yes. so can you just talk about that? i was a word that was relatively new to me warranty i think that's going through the punch list. is that correct that comes before close out or is that part of the close out process? >> this is a situation where for cash machine we also had some owner recourse to change orders that we also just finish up last year and the same time there was also a very like 1 or 2 i call it warranty as items typically p

that's cost of a to base. you can speak to katrina, you can shoot us a trunk this thing in and pose an additional 10 percent kind of on chinese inputs and that's on top of an earlier 10 percent impose last month has the been and response from patient yet. that's right there. and so 20 percent in total additional tax imposed by trump during his 2nd ton. we've had no statements from china. is a ministry of commerce saying that they are strongly dissatisfied with decision decision to go ahead with these additional tariffs. and they say that counts emissions on the way from aging. and when it comes to the reason that the trumpet ministration has impose these extra taxable time, has completely rejected that saying that it has done what it can to stem the tide of fentanyl to the us. the china is one of the strictest countries. when it comes to drug control and it has already been working with the us to try to stem the tide of not on the sense, no, but for cause the chemicals to the states and invasions own what it s

it is also cost as inflation affects the timeline of projects and drives up the cost but time is also lives in london projects if you delay when there severe traffic issues, please to more accidents and digital human life. i'm getting to philadelphia and pinzimini, and another 95 bridge collapsed any literally in 12 days, you are able to fix it so that it is possible to do these things we have relief from regulations. i'm just curious if anybody has also this. we have traffic projects are literally putting up lives and submitted an emergency declaration could be up an emergency where can we have an emergency waiver and thought to really give states the ability to short-circuit some of these delays will immediately construction nursing to save lives we know there's an issue mr. carroll to have thousand. >> i would support something like that i think we should definitely learn from states that figured out even if they don't have the delegation for authority so we could only bring is a process that works about we should certify the process and get it done that even though when you mentio

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it is really cost inches and the white house as the issues a stern warning to a master free. the other is still held in guns. the law. i'm terry martin. good to have you. with this european leaders have gathered in brussels for an emergency summit on the agenda is boosting defense spending and showing up support for ukraine. top you leaders are being joined by ukraine's president for allow me is landscape the talks com, just days after the us pause, military aid and intelligent sharing with ukraine. european nations are under pressure to stuff up following trump's decisions. the distance the us from europe's security commission chief 1st lift on the line has proposed a plan that she calls re arm europe. president soleski has been receiving a much warmer welcome here in europe compared to his meeting with us present. donald trump in the white house last week in brussels. he thank your parents for their continued support, as i want to thank all our european leaders festival and for such signal, strong support. these cons, so strong support from the wherever you know, the war an

the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity,