it's why i'm proud that my budget makes state government and going to state government a more attractive to work with competitive wage increases to fill positions like registered nurses and attorneys and emergency response technicians. because our work force, both public and private, it is the key to our state's future. [applause] and study after study tells us the same thing. every business across the country says their number one factor for relocation, for growing their companies where they are is a trained and educated work force. in this isn't something we need to create from scratch. that work force already exists. the state just needs to strategically use its assets and resources to unlock its potential. [applause] .. no longer separate our vision for economic prosperity. from the duty to make maryland's public schools the best in the nation. [applause] [applause] these two things are inextricably linked. intuit she'd thousand twin goals we need more teachers and we need to do a better job supporting the educators we already have. [applause] [applause] this a pandemic dealt a serio

body and the general assembly and members of the congressional delegation and colleagues state and local government and my fellow marylanders. for almost three years i have had the joy in the pleasure of traveling the entire state talking to marylanders from every region, race and creed in many districts and i listen to what they had to say. some of the voices are actually here today but all of the voices that i heard in my heart and my head into my memories and they worry about the economy and whether or not it can keep pace with the cost of living we read about safety in our communities to find affordable healthcare and childcare and pre- k and people of all ages are lost in the maze of behavioral health in crisis. despite the challenges we have seen i note the marylanders that we have spoken to are not only fast to offer solutions but they have also expressed a deep hope and desire to be part of the solution. the first to organize a food drive at the local school and raise their hands and to serve of a a nonprofit organization and willing to work in our state governments. these individuals who a

this is merely an attempt by state government to stay competitive with the market. if we allow government to fall behind, we allow missourians to fall behind. with more than 7000. [applause] with more than 7000 positions open across state government, this wage increase is necessary and it is the minimum we must do. on behalf of all state employees i ask for your full support to pass this increase and deliver it to my desk by march the first. [applause] also intro the services we provide to agencies like the children's division this division is critical to the health and safety of some of missouri's most vulnerable children. yet it is critically understaffed and under resourced. by investing $22 million we can help alleviate the strain, hire more employees and support struggling families and their children. we must do more and do better for our children, our families and the future of our state. we have come a long way, but for missouri to stay on the move, so it must state government. in 2022 fresh out of the grips of covid-19 we understood the need to do better in t

our general assembly, members of our congressional delegation as well and colleagues in state and local government and my fellow marylanders -- now, all right. [laughter] for almost three years, i have had the joy and the pleasure of just traveling our entire state and talking to marylanders from every region, every race, every creed, and in many of your districts. and i listened to what they had to say. some of the voices are actually here today, but all of the voices that i heard, they're in my heart, they're in my head, they're in my memories. and marylanders, as you all know, they're worried about the economy. and whether or not it can keep pace with the cost of living. we worry about safety in our communities. families struggle to afford and find affordable health care, childcare and pre-k, and people of all ages are it -- getting lost in this maze of behavioral health crises and trauma. yet, despite the challenges that we have seen, i know the marylanders that i have spoken to the, they are not only fast to offer solutions -- as you all have known, i think -- but they have also expressed a d

that our state government would never be the same. well, they were right about the last part, but not in the way they expected. they were wrong about everything else. six years after these reforms were implemented, we have seen what is possible when taxpayers have a seat at the table. and we have seen employee relations improve, public employees now get rewarded for their work, not just for their seniority. and rather than seeing each other as adversaries, our managers and employees are working together. at the iowa veteran so for example, the number of corrective actions has been cut in half. the number of terminations has shrunk by more than 50%. we ignored the hysteria and iowans are better for it. [applause] [applause] >> ike year after collective bargaining reform, in 2018, we began the overhaul of iowa's tax code. it was long overdue, yet so called experts said we were delusional, that we would cripple the state budget. one state senator said our tax reform bill was quote the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation in i

state government's customers aren't citizens, their tax dollars also make them as shareholders. that means meeting their needs effectively and efficiently is one of the most important parts of our job. but like any large organization, government is marked by bureaucracy's natural tendencies to grow. and if that growth isn't constantly checked and rechanneled towards its core function, it quickly takes on a life of its own. a longstanding priority of mine has been to steward iowans tax dollars responsibly, ensure they get the value from the many services that state government provides and to minimize the economic burden of regulation. last year, we merged the department of human services and public health to create the health and human services department. the change paid off. no employees lost their jobs nor was any service downgraded in importance. in fact, just the opposite happened. the streamlined organization allowed parties to take advantage of scale and integration. related functions were knit more closely together and collaboration between agencies improved. we saw simila

the state government also has its own set of measures every year for people without a roof over their head. roger fall is a supervisor at one of the shelter thrown by the daily covenant. he said, during winter shelters operate at full capacity, offering food and lodging to everyone, free of cost, turning the man to room during the winter. the number of people coming to seek shelter, shoots up in the state. government puts up temporary tents for them, as well as opening facilities. sharissa relo via the efforts seem to have feed off families eat thing, says until a few years ago, many used to die of the called on the streets. now more people are able to survive . the punishing weather scenes organization also provides free health care every morning in the old city area where many homeless di warranty has give 1st 8 to those who are injured. and a dr. offers free consultations and medication looking for work every day and living on the streets is a challenge for many poor people in the capital. but organizations like viji carnita make life a bit easier for some of them. what know, it wi

nctc was created for a repository for the united states government. that is included specifically mandated around our knowledge meant of nonaffected. we take all information from the u.s. government holding and understand who from an identity perspective is a potential threat to the homeland and we support the operational agencies with other intelligence operations missions to make sure that information is part of the system that it that's individuals trying to come to the country and protect against encounters on the borders and does it even watchlisted. that's work we will do behind the scene with their operational partners to understand whether there is a true threat at hand is whether we as a community has traditional collaborative hyaline gaged but we as a community should do about it. it's actually a big piece of a nctc mission that i'm proud to see in action every day. >> okay, so the elephant in the room i think is the islamic state. they experienced territorial defeat in 2018 and they lost a dozen senior leaders including actual members of the

what in the sam hill is going on in our states, the federal government gives the money to the states, they have an unemployment compensation system. it is already up and running. so we are just adding fuel to them so they can take care of these people, put out of work by their government. how are foreigners, do these states not see nigeria, china, or some ip address associated with foreign country and say i wonder why foreign countries are getting unemployment compensation, do they fly back to work in america from nigeria, china or russia? i don't know, can you make sense of this to a small country boy like me? >> don't think i can make sense of it, but i can tell you it is one of the problems we have identified in the unemployment insurance program and others, that agencies are not picking up the ip addresses for these applicants because the country was largely shut down and most applications came from my time and that is one of the red flags and something as we get this data we will be looking at is how many ip addresses were associated with these programs. >> the most egregious one

the local government is doing their best, but it's a 53 billion dollar a year company and the state governmenty should have stepped in sooner and as well as that, the federal government, the federal government had to wait for the state to actually declare it a disaster, and there's been a lot of holdup on multiple levels. griff: ben, the ceo of norfolk southern is in palestine today. have you seen him? do you anticipate meeting with him. >> no. griff: if not, what would you say to him? >> i haven't seen him. they did not show up for our town hall the other night, that was really disheartening and for them to say it was out of safety reasons, i mean, we're here showing up in our town in great fear of safety reasons due to the company that caused. 4.5 million a year, making. and giving the town a payout and a million dollar payout to go to funds for the disaster. 5,000 people in the surrounding area, divided a million dollars, it's nothing, it's nothing. griff: ben, do you feel like secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg should come there? >> i would like to see him here. i mean, it is a tr

we knew it was important to provide a direct and flexible aid to state and local governments. critically, we had to avoid the mistakes of the great recession. when state and local austerity was the drug on gdp growth -- dragged on gdp growth on the first quarter of recovery. we did what had never been done at this scale. deliver relief to over 3000 counties in the united states. we also provided our recipients with sustained and flexible funding. it was clear that this crisis would evolve with new variants and that it would affect each jurisdiction differently. a one-size-fits-all approach one not have sufficed for you are plan worked. our economic recovery has been one of the strongest in moderate history -- modern history. we have seen the largest job gains in record and we have seen the creation of 10 new businesses. that is the strongest two years in history. real gdp is at an all-time high. it's also been historically inclusive. the unemployment rate has been near record lows for black and hispanic americans. and we reached an all-time low for people with disabilities in d

we knew it was important to prprovide direct aid to state ad local governments. ically had to avoid mistakes of the great recession. when state and local prosperity was drag on gdp goods the first 14 quarters of recovery we did what had never been done at this scale. over 3000 counties in the united states. we provided our recipients with sustained lexical funding it was clear this crisis would evolve with new variant and affect each jurisdiction differently. one-size-fits-all approach would not have sufficed. our plan worked, economic recovery has been one of the strongest in modern history. the past two years the largest on record. we seen the creation of 10 billion new businesses, the strongest two years in history. it's at an all-time high. recovery has been historically inclusive. on a plummet rate near record lows for black and hispanic americans and reached an all-time low for people with disability in december. of o course we face significant global headway but the american economy is more resilient today because of our robust recovery. importantly we plac

time that for all american households, every family does this, every business does this, every state government, every county government, when they have spent too much, they will look where waste is at and investments would be better and sit down and talk in an adult fashion. that's the conversation i just had with the president and that's the conversation i want to continue so we can come to an agreement. reporter: would you need actual spending cuts? the speaker: i don't need a commission to tell me where there is waste, fraud and abuse or spending too much and $31 trillion debt and no one needs to tell us we have spent too much, just like any family. we don't need a commission to tell us to do our job. for the next five weeks and hopefully five months, hopefully it doesn't take that long, hopefully we can sit down and solve this problem. [indiscernible question] the speaker: i did not talk about classified documents. i came down here to talk about the debt ceiling and that's where we spent our time. [indiscernible question] the speaker: right now there is a conversation that would cause the

how in the future would we hold federal agencies and state governments accountable for failing to put in place mechanisms to reduce this risk of improper payment or just being so porous to fraud as so many states like new york were? >> one way would be to make sure they implement the recommendations that we've made by the gao, inspector general's and state auditors. the figures that you quote from the state auditors office and other states, california, kansas and others have issued reports as well so one way is to make sure all the recommendations are implemented and another way is to make sure the states certify the systems meet certain standards and that there is an appropriate independent verification that the systems are now able to meet certain standards. the department of labor should also provide some standards to the states but each state has its own different system in eligibility requirements so it has to be tailored to the individual states. >> are there any mechanisms or penalties available to prevent this sort of thing from happening again with states that won't listen to

someone hoping i can be a real example for some of our local governments in our 99 counties across the state>> let me ask one more workforce question and maybe we can jump back to kneel. we talked briefly before we came on about collective bargaining reform in iowa government which i had learned about until yesterday when i was reading up. in 2017 before the governor came in office this date did really a profound reform of labor union regulations for government employees here they seem really important and that seems like a good model for other states to follow. >> it's a really good model and we've really seen our agencies and employees, they are the face of state government. actually the environment is so much better and they're able to put advanced space permit. various agencies across the data that suchva great outcomes becae of that. i said is not often you get an opportunity to take on a state monopoly and the people to overall collective bargaining reform and then be able to bring in school choice as well. i think we have taken on two pretty big state monopolies and i think we will se

average african developing issue or latin american country, they will know, i mean, the united states government will get the information. it needs that it needs to get from a private citizen in latin america, when it wants to. and the chinese can get it, the russia, the united states can get it. who cares? one. wow. so rob, what, what a, what a fascinating conversation i learned so much when i talk to you. thank you so much . i really appreciate it. by the way, conversations like this, i find fascinating. i have a lot. in fact, i have a podcast where i as a journalist, as a latino, as a co founder of a 1000000000 dollar company, share my stories, what i've learned, how many times i screwed up, horribly, stuff that i wasn't able to get right. and the times i've been lucky enough to succeed and grow, and that's what i'd like to help you do as well. it's called the rick sanchez podcast. i invite you to check it out. i'll see you there. when we come back. well, lula lula there silva wins. in brazil, po doesn't signal a move to the left should latin america back in a minute. the ah, a pretty common

it is the full faith in credit in the united states government. i do think we are going to become more productive as the nation and continue to produce more revenue. from that standpoint, we also have two make sure we just discussed lifting the cap. i believe initially by lifting the cap of people making over 400,000, the infusion of dollars into the system allows us both to expand services that people desperately need, but then also make sure that the program is solving into the future. host: congressman larson with us the next 15 minutes. congressman, this is laura in madison, virginia. republican. you are on with congressman larson. caller: i have two issues. one is on ssi, supplemental health security income, which is actually run by social security and the impact that ssi has become a retirement program for the world. any illegal immigrant who comes here is eligible for supplemental, which includes medicaid. the other issue is, we have two get honest of the finding of social security, especially when -- there are billions of dollars that are

i'm hoping that i can be a real example for our local governments in our 99 counties across the state of iowa. we need to do that differently too. >> one more government workforce question. we talked briefly before we came on about collective bargaining reform in iowa government which i had not learned about until yesterday. until 2017, just before the governor came into office, the state did a profound reform of the labor union regulations for government employees. they seem really important. that seems like a good model for other states to follow. gov. reynolds: it is a really good model and we have seen our agencies and employees, they are the face of state government. the environment is so much better and they are able to advance based on merit. various agencies across the state have had such great outcomes because of that. it's not often that you get an opportunity to take on a state monopoly and overhaul collective bargaining reform and bring in school choice as well. from that perspective we are taking on two pretty big state monopolies. we will see, we will be able to show tha

it diminishes the public confidence on only in legislators but in the rest of state government as wellust also ensure the public has confidence and who and how our state judges are selected by making the process more transparent and accountable. [applause] south carolina's with two states was a general simile selects members of the judiciary. it appears the confidence in this arrangement is waning. too often the people's businesses unintended unintended. justice delayed is justice denied. i suggest our founding fathers prescribed a method for judicial selection most of the federal government while with which the public is quite familiar. gubernatorial appointment of all judges the advice consider on the senate requires the reinvention of the wheel when the star of the confidence of our people will encourage more excellent to seek public service. we should do that. [applause] last year, u.s. supreme court ruling in dobbs against jackson women's health organization gave us cause for confidence when it recognized row against wade was egregiously wrong" on the day it was decided. u.s. cons

people senators is the demand that the united states government. ready the state farm. ready or the white house authorize an f b i investigation. so even before we get to the. ready point of review in condemnation families phil. ready insisting that there be an investigation which if you think about it, there's already been a number of investigations by very credible sources, including media outlets and washers. ready most times united nations like mission for human rights in office. there islam has conduct investigation and submitted similar findings, israeli organizations that sell them and now most recently forensic architecture of all basically come to the same. and yet, despite all of that, despite all of the investigation that has been gone, gone on already, evidence collected the family still asking for an american investigation. so i think for the f b i to go into one and they're not saying go and find this person guilty or go and find that person guilty there. go there saying please go find out what happened to our sister to our cause into our daughter. ready t

well, of course, the rule of law, after all , ukraine is a state governed by the rule of law, and herebsolutely share and agree with your position on what even those in high positions against whom there are complaints from our law enforcement agencies, after all, there are corruptors, we criminals can be called more than the final verdict of the court, but you know society now er, there is a huge demand for justice and, accordingly, now really, hmm, the fight against the internal enemy with corruption is, in principle, also coming to the fore, and what er, what does it allow us to hope for. let's say that victory in this struggle is what this struggle is now led by president volodymyr zelenskyi, who in principle does not become the locomotive of this struggle, and we see that in principle the entire pleiades of law enforcement anti-corruption agencies are beginning to act extremely effectively. security of ukraine, the sbu is the office of the prosecutor general, we see that uh, appropriate investigative actions, appropriate searches, uh, and the registration of criminal proceedings de

the united states government had no intention of allowing the inspectors to do their job. the united states was going to go to war with iraq regard. regardless, it doesn't matter what the truth which and the more successful we inspectors became disarming. iraq, the more threat we posed to the american policy, at least one person is killed and for more trapped under rubble, after the latest round of ukrainian shelling hits residential areas of don yet. ah, good morning for mark international studios in moscow, and welcome to the weekly with the hour and weeks most pressing news stories worldwide. i'm paralyzed about. beijing has condemned the u. s. attack on a chinese balloon, which had been floating over the u. s. territory for several days, despite its previous warning that the balloon is not capable of surveillance and does not pose any threat some politicians and media in the u. s. have hiked it up to attack and smith, china. the chinese side is firmly opposed to that one of the tasks, of the diplomatic teams on both sides just to properly manage bilateral relations, par