hillary vaughn, thank you very, much. congressman nancy mace with us right now, south carolina republican. congresswoman, what do you make of this? >> well that certainly hearing what some of these earmarks may go towards make then senator hillary clinton's million dollars she lobbied for a museum to help us remember woodstock, makes her fiscally conservative i might add. welcome to washington, neil, where bad ideas never die. this is simply you know, this is, they have a face-lift now in these pork projects. it is ridiculous. not shocking that nancy pelosi is trying to pedal corruption and currency here with earmarks. it is a way to control and influence not only those in vulnerable districts but voters there as well. neil: you know, congresswoman, i was thinking of this, you're new to congress. you were not there at the time these were all the rage and everything else but they were the means by which still more spending was done. in other words, you would try to, putting it in crass terms, you buy off a congressman or

. >> we begin the hour with hillary vaughn joining us from capitol hill. >> earmarks making a come back some house makers are trying to bring home the bacon by snagging funding for projects back home in their own district, the requests are posted for everyone to see online and some of them are raising eyebrows, here to sample some of the more interesting projects that they want taxpayers to pay for, $6.4 million request for a gandhi museum in texas, $400,000 to put toilets along a hiking and biking trail, also in the lone star state. one lawmaker wants 645,000 lampposts and $325,000 per string light along a roadway in arizona. in california one lawmaker wants $300,000 for a dog park and in wisconsin one lawmaker wants $400,000 to establish a cranberry research station. the house appropriations committee, the committee that's venting these projects and deciding if they are approved, she says the whole point of bringing earmarks back is to try to take back some of the spending power from the white house and put it in the hands of congress by bringing back control of those. julian? >> gill

hillary vaughn has the story. hillary, what you got?: we're now getting reaction from facebook. remember, the oversight board is completely separate from facebook, and facebook, the company, is now responding to essentially the oversight board saying that their decision to indefinitely ban a user was not okay. here's what nicholas clegg, the vp of communications, is saying: while the board has not required facebook, it is not the appropriate duration of the penalty. he continues to say we will take action that is clear and proportionate. in the meantime, mr. trump's account remains suspended. there is still kind of some vagueness around the time frame of all of this. of are we expecting another decision to come town this summer? we've reached out to facebook to get specifics on the actual timeline of this, but we are with getting confirmation that until facebook makes an ultimate decision on how long trump should be baned, his -- banned, his accounts will remain suspended. stuart: got it. hillary vaughn, thank you very much, indeed. sha

hillary vaughn in the capitol keeping track of these other little extra bits of spending that are already adding up in to the billions of dollars. hillary? >> hi, neil. ear marks coming back to capitol hill means the next budget bill could be served up with a big size of pork because ear marks went away after some of the pet projects a decade ago were considered politically scandalous. today house democrats are leading the comeback and promising to build back trust among taxpayers to foot the bill for special projects convincing them that congress should spend billions of taxpayer money on projects that not all taxpayers will get to benefit from. that might be a challenge. some of the requests already coming in are a little unique. one request from lawmaker al green in texas, $6.4 million for a gandhi museum. another request, $400,000 to put toilets in a hiking trail in texas. another $400,000 in wisconsin for a cranberry research station. others putting -- other requests are more -- considered more politically scandalous by conservatives that have concerns that they're pushing progressiv

here to report these breaking developments is our own hillary vaughn. evening, hillary. >> reporter: good evening, larry are. well, the white house is calling this the art of seeking common ground, but a republican source familiar with these negotiations tells me, bottom line, this deal is bad. here's what the white house came to the table with today. they dropped down the cost to $1.7 trillion, that's down from the $2.25 trillion they wanted. they also dropped down spending for broadband to $65 billion matching what republicans wanted to spend. they did budge a little bit on spending for roads and bridges, bringing that down to $120 billion, but that's still $5 billion more than what republicans were willing to spend. they did cut some of the costs, but they did not trim the fat. things republicans go well beyond hard infrastructure, and it's those unrelated extras that republicans are rejecting. there's still a lot of money for green initiatives and also money for what biden calls the care economy. and a republican source familiar with these negotiati

let's get right to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary?eporter: liz, the white house says it is republicans move after they put their counteroffer on the table on friday but senate republicans are hinting that white house staff behind the scenes might be to blame for derailing part of the progress saying the offer is way beyond what could get bipartisan backing and saying this, the group seems further apart after two meetings with white house staff after one meeting with president biden. republican so far are not impressed with the white house offer even though they cut the cost, republicans want some extras like child care to be on the chopping block. the white house says biden will not budge on money for what they called the care economy but so far both sides are at an impasse between what is infrastructure and what isn't. some democrats are losing their appetite for getting republicans on board. senator bernie sanders saying sunday democrats may need to go forward alone and the clock is ticking. president biden marked memorial day as a

liz: great reporting, great stuff, thank you hillary vaughn let's get to kt mcfarland with her reactionwhat happened today, dr. fauci today, good to see you, he did not testify that he told the wall street journal he can't track how china h spens its money and what china is doing francis collins testified to that today, what do you think of theay controversy. >> what are we doing funding research in chinese labs, china is a very wealthy country, why do they need american grants to study viruses or whatever else, how many other grants do we have in other research laboratories in china and for other purposes, why are we doing this, why are they getting back, if we were giving money to a chinese lab and now and a another tiny military actively studying something else, why does that money not give us thebi abilityo find out what was going on with the coronavirus when it started happening, immediately after the chinese understood the litholog, in the contagious nature, they shut down travel within china in and out of wuhan but they insisted that travel throughout the world would continue to

to hillary vaughn with up to the minute details in d.c. >> reporter: hi, liz. facebook put this board together to help them with tricky situations exactly like this. but this ruling today really put the buck back in facebook's court, putting them in the hot seat saying they have six months to decide whether or not they will make the ban against former president trump permanent, and then they need to explain why they are doidge that or are not doing that. but in this ruling today, they also criticized facebook for how they handled the ban in the first place saying that it's not okay for facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period of time with no guidance on when or if they'll be allowed to come back on the site. >> anyone who is concerned about facebook's excessive concentration of power should welcome the oversight board clearly telling facebook that they cannot invent new unwritten rules when it suits them. >> reporter: trump's account will remain suspended until they decide what to do, but democrats on capitol hill are already applauding

is missing out, hillary vaughn has more. >> president biden backing a waiver for the company and theline is getting backlash from workers whose jobs were killed off when biden canceled the keystone xl pipeline. >> it is a gut punch to the blue-collar american energy. >> the waivers are getting russia over green light the fossil fuels to russia to germany even though it's bigger than keystone xl, norge dream will pump 940,000 barrels of oil a day to europe that is the power 26 million homes, the keystone pipeline would've funneled a little less, 830,000 barrels of oil headed to canada every day canceling keystone meta- job lot to 11000 u.s. workers who missed out on potential work tied to the pipeline, norge dream and russia means massive job gains for the country but biden's battle and big oil here in the u.s. means u.s. energy independence is dwindling, under biden oil and gas have nearly doubled to 14% of supply. elizabeth: thank you hillary vaughn it's good to see you let's welcome back to the show nicole malliotakis from house transportation. it's great to have you on congresswom

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hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with more. hillary? reporter: liz, the head of the nih, dr.rance chris collins admitted that the u.s. grant money did make its way to the wuhan institute of virology through a group called ecohealth alliance. that group was awarded $3.7 million grant from the nih and that group gave $600,000 for the to the lab for a bat project. that helped build a library of 15,000 bat samples and lawmakers wanted to know if the wuhan lab could have been using using thit library of virus to get one more dangerous or dangerous, something called gain of function research. >> we are not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have taken outside of what our approved grant allowed. >> so we could have sent money through echo health alliance, money could have ended up in the wuhan institute of virology which might be doing gain of function research? reporter: what was happen to the lab was concerning enough for nih at the height of the pandemic they froze grant money going to the lab citing biosafety concerns and those concerns still exist to

to hillary vaughn in washington d.c. any chance of beltway diplomacy behind the scenes could loosen the log jam in time? [laughter] >> reporter: well, republicans are planning to meet today at least to huddle and discussoverrer what the white house put on the table on friday. but you're right, progressives are getting impatient with the wait, and they want to move forward without republican support. but the white house press secretary, jen sackty, saying today at this -- jen cac city, saying today at this point the ball is in republicans' court. >> i would say we're eager to see their proposal, and i think it doesn't take anything more than simple math that if they came up by $500 billion and they came up by $50 billion, we have a ways to go. >> reporter: some republicans say they can't agree with the white house over what is infrastructure and what is not. >> -- the white house is really interested in an infrastructure bill. they're more interested in a federal takeover of childcare so they can control the curriculum an

hillary vaughn on the growing backlash. chris wallace with analysis and reaction. live on the hill today. good morning. >> good morning. house speaker nancy pelosi is really trying to build back trust with taxpayers who have been turned off by fatty pork barrel spending in budget bills of the past. but there is already backlash as the public is getting a peek at some of those projects being requested and lawmakers are now on defense. congressman gonzalez is the one that requested that $400,000 for toilets on the trail. his office defends the request telling us that the toilets, quote, improve the quality of life for south texans and project will invest in outdoor spaces and trails. lawmakers do need to persuade the committee that she should spend federal taxpayer cash to pay for projects that most taxpayers will never benefit from but they also have to pledge that they are not benefiting from them financially. the american accountability project is calling out congressman graves for requesting $35 million for a new usda sugar cain research unite after receiving alm

hillary vaughn on that. llary touching on spending that is sparking inflation worries, comparison to 1979. look at this chart to show how high inflation spiked in the 70s and '80s. can president biden take a page from the reagan playbook to stop this before it gets any worse? let's get reaction from former reagan economic advisor art laffer. great to see you. let's start with the question of inflation. what should this administration do? seems like they are getting out of hand and they're just saying we'll let it go there? >> you know you're right, the comparison is very close. when we took office on january 1st, 1981, the inflation rate was double-digit. we had a prime interest rate of 21 1/2%. it is an economy killer. they ever looking at something like this. it could happen. now all the inflation indicators are not bad but some of them r gold has been rising quite substantially. all these raw material prices have been rising. i think it's a fool's errand for them to pretend there is no inflation threat it.

hillary vaughn with the latest. hillary? reporter: hi, neil.makers today that u.s. grant money did make its way to the wuhan institute of virology through an outside group called echo health alliance and that group got millions of dollars in u.s. grant money and gave some of that $600,000 of it to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project that built up that library of coronaviruses in the wuhan lab. the project helped build that library of 15,000 bat samples from those , they discovered 400 new coronaviruses including one that had a 96% match to covid-19 today, lawmakers wanted to know if that wuhan lab could have been using this bat library of viruses to try to engineer one of them, to be more dangerous and more contagious. something called "gain of function research." >> do we know whether the wuhan institute of virology does gain of function research? >> they were not approved nih for doing gain of function research. we are, of course not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have undertaken outside of what our

jackie: hillary vaughn live on capitol hill, thank you so much.cops as nationwide police reform is growing louder, philadelphia police say that mass retirements and suspension of a new officer training because of covid are partly to blame because of the recruiting problem, jeff flock and philadelphia with those details. >> hello to you from a town which is difficult to police, but doing it with about 400 fewer officers, philadelphia is the tip of the iceberg, take a look at what's going on around the country with this problem, new york, 72% up in terms of retirements, minneapolis, 20% of the force has left on leave or quit, chicago also up in terms of retirement, seattle says there in a staffing crisis right now, goes on, las vegas 39% of retirement up, louisville says it's in dire strings in terms of recruiting, portland 93 (with a hiring freeze on and philadelphia the ceo and the president of the order of police told fox business there in a perfect storm right now. listen. >> what i see is a lot officers are moving the retirement up earlier to l

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more for us. hi, hillary. reporter: hi, jackie. administration officials is really a follow-up meeting to the conversation that they had at the white house with president biden. right now, republicans are still working off their counter offer that they brought to the table in april. that be the largest infrastructure package, republicans have ever backed, but it doesn't do enough or spend enough for some democrats today treasury secretary janet yellen in front of the chamber of commerce tried to make the case for nontraditional infrastructure spending on things like child care. >> to end one infrastructure project is uncertain, but what we propose is a portfolio of public investments that together , will have a significant positive directed to the american people. reporter: but other senate democrats think the best way to get a bipartisan deal is for both sides to focus on ways to pay for hard infrastructure, not the other stuff. i caught up with senator chris coons who says he's been in touch today with the gop negotiating team. h

anyway hillary vaughn looking at all of that on capitol hill. hey, hillary.pork is on the menu at least in the house as they prepare to package president biden's over 2 trillion-dollar infrastructure package. somehow lawmakers are trying to cash in to snag funding for their own pet projects back home in their districts. our brain room did a deep dive, compiling a laundry list of projects already been requested and how much money they want for them. the list runs pretty long. here is an idea just how much extra cash is being asked for. many of these have multimillion-dollar price tags that will cost taxpayers a lot of money if approved but here are some of the more unique projects that are being requested. one request from congressman jefferies, 742,000 for a program in new york that features inclusion and healthy discussions around racism, gender discrimination and cultural bias. 436,000 for meditation and rest torah tiff yoga program in new jersey. quarter of a million a expand the michelle obama obama library. three million for a smartphone app to track a b

first, hillary vaughn on capitol hill. ns are walking into this meeting today hoping they can walk out on the same page with the biden administration over what is infrastructure and what is not. senator shelly moore capito is part of the group of republican senators negotiating the deal with the white house. she says they are not planning on making substantial changes to the over $50 billion plan that they put on the table in april. they are still drawing the line at tax hikes to pay for it including human infrastructure like child car. the size is even making some of the gop colleagues in the house skittish. >> that's number 1, negotiating. number 2, if you're going to do infrastructure, we can do it for about $400 billion. roads, bridges and waterways and broad band and fully pay for it by pulling back the money that congress has already spent. >> the gop plan does not do enough or spend enough for some things. progressives in the house asking for $7 trillion writing a letter to speaker pelosi. the pursuit of republican v

hillary vaughn on what has been a whole change in attitude about how this all began. hillary?he nih director, dr. francis collins, told lawmakers today that money did make its way to the wuhan institute of virology through an outside group called eco health alliance. that group was awarded by the nih a $3.7 million grant. eco health gave $600,000 of it to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project. that project helped build the library of 15,000 bat samples, 400 new coronaviruses were discovered including one that had a 96% match to covid-19. lawmakers today wanted to know if the wuhan lab could be using this babb library of viruses to try to engineer one to be more dangerous and more contagious, something called gain of function research. >> we're of course not aware of other sources of funds or other activities that they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed. >> so we could have sent money through eco health alliance, money could have behinded up in the wuhan institute of virology, which might be doing gain of function research. >> dr. fauci wa

liz: that is a big warning, we also want to thank hillary vaughn for the great reporting coming in fromdes of the aisle. let's talk to foxes contribute to sean duffy. it is great to have you on, what do you think about elise stefanik handling the charge possibly replacing liz cheney. >> liz cheney will be a foregoing conclusion, she can say whatever she wants and is held accountable to her constituents, however, at the conference chair she put her interest over the interest of the conference and created real consternation with the republican base in congress, i think on tuesday she's going to be voted out in next week the probably come back and have elections i think elise stefanik is probably the top choice this is been a position a woman is normally held so i imagine elise is smart, articulate in support of the president's agenda will get it. liz: new york magazine reporting lease cheney orchestrated an opinion piece in the washington post earlier this year from all ten living former defense secretary's former truck. that doesn't look good for liz cheney, the biden of administration t

hillary vaughn has the latest for us. hi, hillary. energy secretary jennifer granholm already faced several questions this morning from lawmakers who want answers over the decision to shut down the keystone pipeline. one republican congressman, robert lotta, from ohio, wanted to know if she would make sure that a key energy pipeline in his state would not get shut down too? >> definitely increased in large part to the southeast experienced shortages. madam secretary, isn't it true the pipelines are the safest and most efficient way to transport energy products? >> sometimes they are. i have mean depends on what the energy product is. in the case of colonial the pipeline was only way. >> because of the destruction with the pipeline shutdown, shouldn't the decisions be made on science facts, safety, not on politics. >> i'm always in favor in favor supporting science. you must be a lawyer too. reporter: granholm is in front of energy subcommittee to outline spending priorities. cathy mcmorris rogers said they have only two pages of text

want to go to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the very latest. hi, hillary.irst time ever starting july 15th the irs will send monthly payments to millions of parents turning the child tax credit to monthly allowance for the first time ever. the irs estimates 39 million households will cash in on the government cash every month. the money will be direct lid deposited into peoples bank accounts if that is how they filed tax returns in the past. there is option to let people opt out of the monthly payout, instead get a lump sum when they file taxes. the president saying today about the announcement, quote, with today's announcement, about 90% of families with children will get this new tax relief automatically starting in july. congress must pass the american families plan to insure that working families will be automobile to count on this relief for years to come. democrats want to make the monthly cash payments permanent for families. biden only agreed to four more years but a lot of democrats want it to be a lot more than that speaker pelosi saying in a stat

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with details. t? >> hey, david, that is exactly the

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. >> he told lawmakers along with anthony fauci that u.s. grant money made its way to the u.s. institute of virology through the ecogroup health alliance. they gave $600,000 of it to the wuhan lab for a china bat research project. the project helped build a library of 15,000 bat samples, 400 new coronaviruses were discovered from those and lawmakers today wanted to know if the wuhan lab could have been using this bat library of viruses to try to engineer one of them to be more dangerous and more contagious, something called gain of function research. but the nih director today told lawmakers their grant did not fund that. but he doesn't know what else the lab was up to. it was those concerns that prompted grant money to be frozen, that ecohealth alliance was rewarded. nih last year over concerns what may have been going on in the wuhan lab wrote to ecohealth alliance in july saying this, the nih received reports that the wuhan institute of virology has been conducting research at its facilities in china pose serious biosafety concerns. we ha

tech power as a handful of executives basically canceled the former leader of the free world, hillary vaughny. >> there is, facebook essentially has gone on today to re-examine their ban on former president trump, the oversight board at facebook included harsh criticism for how the company handled the ban in the first place, telling facebook it is not okay for them to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period of time with no guidance on when or if they will be allowed to come back on the site. >> anyone who is concerned about facebook's concentration of power should welcome the oversight for clearly telling facebook that they cannot invent new unwritten rules when it suits them. >> the oversight board is an independent body separate from facebook in the company says their decisions are binding even mark zuckerberg himself cannot override their ruling, the 20 member board includes lawyers, professors, and other experts. the board members are also not facebook employees, they cannot be fired by facebook, they handle appeals from the users that have issues with facebook content, mode

frustrated border patrol agentng so much that many are considering early retirement in march hillary vaughnto be found is this situation going to continue to get worse, joining is now national border a patrol council vice president art del cueto thank you for being here we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. brian: let me start here we hear the secretaries talking about the border being closed obviously it is not you can put a closed sign on the door but if the door is open people are going to walk in your response to the secretaries comments. >> it's going to take the media to fact check what people are saying because the numbers don't slie were seen more individuals turning themselves is and more e individuals trying to enter this country and i focus on the got a ways because that's a big problem that is going to happen in the future, to give you a number during president trump's first year in office got a ways, illegal entries has always been a problem during his first year there were over 100,000 entries forgot a ways, that was his entire first year of office with five months lef

liz: hillary vaughn it's great to see you, thank you so much. forget tennessee senator bill hagerty, it's great to see you by the way it looks like the president sweeping agenda, it is not just infrastructure, its reform on gun, vote reform, d.c. statehood, immigration and police reform, it looks like all of that is probably not right now, is a far left to blame? >> i think they're touting the of the from the far left party this is not what mainstream america wants. i believe the majority of the democrat party listens to thepa extreme policy they listen to the lot is most vocal majority in their party, the policies that don't make sense for america that is related to pushback right now. they can't get their own party together much less ten senators on the republican side. liz: nancy pelosi cannot afford lose three boats that made the squad does have power, the far left is saying go it alone there same grandma through the budget reconciliation, are they going to do that, president biden told the new york times that he is not signing on, he is not

all right, thank you very much for that, hillary vaughn. carol markowitz, because they are still with us and i apologize for the confusion before. mike, you heard what hillary was outlining here and all of the stemming involved and beef ing up the irs. one of the things that janet yellen said was that a few billion dollars more for the irs can really go a long ways for getting trillions back from tax cheats. do you buy that? >> you know, i don't, neil. i think we saw under under the obama administration where the irs was used as kind of a police force, and kind of it appears as though it was used by one side, against another side, so i think the irs should continue to do their job, obviously, but it shouldn't be weaponized, and i think that's the road that we're going down. it's trying to use it as some sort of secret service police force, and i just don't agree with that because once we start going down that road, neil, i don't know where it ends. neil: well, you know, history bears you out, carol i'll raise this with you. i remember when

let's get to hillary vaughn whose been walking the corridors of capitol hill. 's plan is going to look like at least in some way, shape or form. reporter: we do have an idea because they say they aren't planning on making any substantial changes to what they put on the table in april and republicans walking into this meeting about an hour from now say they hope to walk out of it on the same page with the biden administration over what is infrastructure, and what is not. senator shelley moore is negotiating the deal with the white house along with a few of her senate colleagues and she says they aren't making any major changes to what they put on the table, but they are still drawing the line at tax hikes and human infrastructure like child care. the gop plan is the largest infrastructure package, republicans have backed in the past, and its size is even making some of their gop colleagues in the house a little skiddish. >> we should not be negotiating with them. that's number one but number two if you're going to do infrastructure, we could do it for about $400

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[laughter] hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with details. senate republicans and

liz: that is a big warning, thank you very much, we also want to think hillary vaughn for the great reportingpork pouring in from both sides of the aisle. let's talk to fox news contributor sean duffy. it's great to have you both under back on against the biden agenda possibly replacing liz cheney? >> i thickly cheney is going to be a foregoing conclusion. liz cheney a member of congress, can say whatever she wants and held accountable to her constituents, however, as the conference chair she put her interest over the chair, and the republican base and members of congress, i think on tuesday she is going to be voted out in next week they will probably come back and have elections. i think elise stefanik is probably the top choice this is been a position of women has normally held and i imagine that elise is articulate and supportive of the president's agenda will get the not. liz: new york magazine he reporting liz cheney orchestrated an opinion piece in the washington post earlier this year from all ten living former defense secretaries slamming former president trump, that doesn't look good

hillary vaughn is in washington.the republicans court they say, to come up with the counteroffer to put their own offer on the table. republicans say white house staff is derailing progress made thus far, the offer made by the white house is well off above and beyond what could get bipartisan backing. they seemed farther off after two meetings than one with president biden. they were not impressed with the white house offer even though they cut the cost by half a trillion dollars. the republicans want extras like child care to be on the chopping block too but the white house says biden will not budge for what he calls the care economy. so far both sides are at an impasse between what is infrastructure and what is not and some democrats in the meantime are losing their appetite for getting republicans on board. senator bernie sanders saying sunday that democrats may need to go forward alone without gop support and the clock is ticking, charles, because president biden marked memorial day as a deadline to get a deal do

fox business correspondent hillary vaughn takes a look tonight from capitol hill. >> we can't afford today under president biden they're back. >> you have to show what your project is. it's not just well slip it in. i'm very proud of it. >> house democrats want to win over taxpayers that have been turned off by fatty pork barrel spending in budget bills of the past. lawmakers have to post their projects to their website and the government accountability office is in charge of oversight. >> wasteful spend something wasteful spending whether it's coming from a republican or from a democrat. >> some of the projects requested though are already raising eyebrows. almost half a million dollars for toilets on a hiking trail requested in texas and a yoga program in new jersey. more than $6 million for a gandhi museum. 2 million to remodel planned parenthood facilities. money for a gender discrimination and cultural bias program in new york. and an equity and inclusion program at lincoln university in pennsylvania. it's not just democrat though that are cashing, in republicans are, too. a mil

in march hillary vaughn found overworked border agents asleep in their tracks with migraines who justoard of virtual counsel vice president art del cueto, thank you for being here we appreciate it. >> take you for having me. >> we hear the secretary talking about the border being close, obviously it is not, you can put a closed sign on the door but if the door is open people are going to walk in, your response to the secretary's comments. >> it's going to take the media to fact check what they administration is saying, the numbers do not lie were seen more individuals turning themselves in and more individuals entering the country and i focus a lot on the got a ways because that's a big problem would happen in the future and to give you a number during president trump's first year in office, got a ways, illegal entries have always been a problem during his first year they were over 100,000 entries for got a ways that was his entire first year of office, with five months left to go in president biden's first year of office were well over 200,000 got a ways for the nation. that in a pro

hillary vaughn has the news from capitol hill. >> house lawmakers are looking to sweeten president biden's home districts. they are adding on requests for earmark funding to pay for things that they're calling community projects for themselves. amazing research team at the fox news brain room did a deep dive compiling a laundry list of projects requested and how much money they want for them. the list of projects runs long. here is a scroll of how much extra cash is being asked for. many of these have multi-million dollar price tags that will cost a lot of taxpayer money. some of the more unique projects being requested. $742,000 for a program that features inclusion and healthy discussion around difficult issues such as racism and gender discrimination and cultural bias. over $436,000 for a meditation and restorative yoga program in new jersey. over a quarter million for an expansion of the michelle obama library. $166,000 for the development of an equity and inclusion program at lincoln university. $3 million in one district for a smartphone app to track a bus's location and 1.8 million

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. question, hillary, is why are republicans turning their noses up? reporter: because they don't like what is included in the package and that includes things they say have nothing to do with infrastructure but just this afternoon white house press secretary jen psaki said the ball is in republicans court to come back with a counteroffer but the time is ticking because president biden marked memorial day as a deadline to try to get a deal done. but the latest offer on the table is stalling talks and senate republicans are hinting that white house staff are to blame for derailing progress saying this after friday's meeting, quote, based on today's meeting the group seems further apart after two meetings with white house staff than they were after one meeting with president biden. the white house in its counteroffer did agree to cut over half a trillion dollars from the price tag but that is not the problem for senate republicans negotiating the deal. it is not the cost but what the white

pushing to make the child tax credit authorized in the covid relief bill permanent, fox business hillary vaughn by reminding moms to file their tax returns so that they can cash in on the extra cash coming to families every month, starting in july. president biden beefed up the child tax credit but he also made the credit paid out in cash upfront for families every month , and now democrats want to make that permanent, but this extra cash flow hitting bank accounts starting in july is happening at a time when employers are already having a tough time, getting people back to work. >> people don't want to go back to work. we've sent them so much money that they compare what they could receive by staying home versus going back to work, every employer i've heard from in kentucky is having trouble getting people back to work. reporter: but some democrats think that it's this extra cash in other benefits coming to families that will help americans get back on-the-job. >> a lot of the people who are not going back to work because they cannot find care for their children. reporter: biden has already ag

hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the very latest. hi, hillary. reporter: hi, david.that the immigration system is " absolutely broken" but he also told lawmakers on capitol hill that he is absolutely not disappointed that neither president biden nor vice president harris have made their way to the border themselves to see exactly what crisis is unfolding there. he said the reason why he's not disappointed is because he is the one in charge, but he says that the surge of migrants flooding the border now under his watch is former president trump's fault. >> the surge of unaccompanied children first began in april of last year, april of 2020 and it swelled from there. >> so could you explain how the trump adminitration anticipated and began making preparations for this increased arrival? >> they did nothing to facilitate addressing the surge. reporter: but some senate republicans on the committee came prepared with charts showing what they say shows a direct tie between the spike of arrivals at the border and president biden taking office. >> i know you're in a state of

to hillary vaughn has been looking at the comeback of earmarks here, maybe this employment report is what can you tell us? reporter: hey, neil. well house speaker nancy pelosi is really trying to earn back trust with tax pairers turned off by the return to pork barrel spending in budget bills of the past but some republicans are not excited or thrilled with this idea that pork is making a return to the appropriations process. >> here is why speaker pelosi likes them so much. they become the currency by which the leadership buys votes, for unrelated legislation that's terrible. its been corrupting in the past. we've had former congressmen go to jail in years gone by because it was just too tempting. reporter: already backlashes that public is getting a peak at some of the projects being requested and lawmakers are having to defend them. congressman gonzalez is the one that requested $400,000 to put toilets on a hiking trail. his office tells us that the toilets would improve the quality of life for south texans and that they are invest ing in our outdoor spaces and trails, but that's

fox business hillary vaughn has all of the details on that, hi, hillary. reporter: hi, david.ot have all the technical information they need to figure out how exactly the colonial pipeline got hacked the top republican on the committee, senator rob port man says this pipeline hack is "the most damaging attack on u.s. infrastructure ever and shows that cyberattacks can have a tangible real-world impact." the pipeline is responsible for transporting 45% of east coast fuel and now gas lines up and down the coast, are growing. the white house said yesterday, they didn't give any advice to colonial on whether they should pay the ransom to the hackers because it's a private sector company but senator ron johnson says the federal government should share information with private companies, not keep them in the dark. >> again the federal government 's role is really the information sharing, and its got to be more than a one way street it needs to be a two way street. people get attacked by the same threat because they aren't putting in place the security measures they need to be puttin

hillary vaughn with more on capitol hill.ident trump is sounding off on the news that his facebook account will remain shut down at least for now until november. saying in a statement, quote what facebook, twitter, and google have done is a total disgrace and an embarassment to our country. these corrupt social media companies must pay a political price. facebook has six months from today if it will keep former president trump's ban on the platform or not. if they do, they will have to decide how long the ban will last or if it is permanent. the ruling from the oversight board which facebook says is binding comes as they criticized facebook for how they handled the ban in the first place. one of the board members today telling reporters that for critics of big tech, this critique from them should quell some of their concerns. >> anyone who is concerned about facebook's excessive concentration of power should welcome the oversight board clearly telling facebook that they cannot invent new, unwritten rules when it suits them. r

has embraced that challenge, hillary vaughn is there at the first solar powered pub in the nations capitolially powered by the sun. my photographer, harvey, is going to show you guys around. i did talk to their ceo, justin cox this morning and he tells me he decided to make the switch in 2015 and he says he saved about 35% on his energy cost every year. >> you get not only the benefit of the cheaper electricity the green energy that you're generating but you also get solar renewable energy credits which you can sell on the market and i think we would probably still need a utility hookup, just for some of the larger equipment and to get it through the times we don't have sun out. reporter: but they still do need natural gas to do some of the job. they need to power their boilers to boil what they call water before it becomes beer but this small business, david schweikert exactly what president biden through his green energy goals wants the rest of america to look like but right now that means using a ton of local and federal taxpayer cash to cover most of it. d.c. is the most generous with

hillary vaughn, thank you so much. >>> social media site rumble bolstering its position as the leadinging from billionaire venture capitalist peter thiel. joining us the ceo of rumble. chris pavlosky. chris, great to have you with us today. >> thank you, jackie. pleasure to be on. jackie: talk about your platform rumble, how it is gaining traction with conservative users. what do you offer that youtube doesn't? >> we started back in 2013 t was on the premise that we started seeing that all the incumbent platforms were kind of deprioritizing the small creators, our aunts, uncles, friends. they were prioritizing all the big brands and corporations and icons of influencers. we decided to start the platform in 2013 to really help that small creator get same tools, same access, same distribution and monnization than any big create are could have -- monetizaton. as you foss forward, the ecosystem as evolved and small creators have being left behind. the big influencers and platforms are preferencing all the other icons and influencers. our entire focus on the small creator, get the tools the

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill. he committee she is proud of what the department of energy has been able to accomplish under her leadership in just the first few months that she has been here but as she is coming to capitol hill there are 19 states attorneys general wrote a searing letter to both the president and his cabinet talking about the colonial pipeline hack and calling for them to reconsider and recalibrate their energy policy in the wake of this. a portion of that letter reads the following, in the aftermath of the colonial pipeline cyberattack your administration quickly relaxed environmental and safety rules to secure critical energy supply chains. most americans, particularly those not located along the coast, now wish you had been so diligent and responsive before you determined that keystone xl could be sacrificed on the alter of left-wing virtue signaling. we are speaking, will you listen? i talked to one of those attorneys general, attorney general from west virginia, patrick morrissey just moments a