"Americans are feeling the squeeze”

5/5/202643 min

Gas prices continue to soar, inflicting pain on Americans in every corner of the country.

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[upbeat music] Hi there, everyone. It's 4:00 in New York. So you know those slapstick comedies where the thief shoves an item under his shirt, and it's so obvious and so conspicuous that the scene isn't really about a robbery, it's really just to illustrate how stupid the thief is and how obvious the thieving part of the plot is? Well, that's about where we are with Donald Trump's attempt to get Republicans in Congress to steal from the American people to fund Donald Trump's gold gilded ballroom. Tucked inside a 72 billion, with a B, dollar package filled with other politically toxic items, like $38 billion for ICE. ICE, of course, the agency viewed favorably by just 30% of the American people, and containing none of the reform measures that Democrats have demanded after the killings of Rene Gould and Alex Peretti. So tucked inside of that is a $1 billion lump sum for Donald Trump's ballroom. It is listed under, quote, "Security adjustments and upgrades." The Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, says in a statement that the funds