From Washington: Cartel Kidnapping Reveals Extent Of Border Crisis

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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President Biden revealed his federal budget proposal for 2024 at an address in Philadelphia. The plan featured increases in taxes for the wealthy, expansion of social policies like Medicare and free community college, and one of the largest boosts in military spending in the history of the United States. FOX Business Correspondent Grady Trimble joins to discuss how members of Congress feel about the historic proposal, how House Republicans could counter with their own budget, and how the Biden administration can work to reach a bipartisan deal. Four Americans were kidnapped by a cartel in a Mexican border town last week, leaving two dead and two injured. Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin shares details on the kidnapping and discusses political reactions to this pressing border crisis. Later, Former Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf discusses the impact of this crisis on the United States' sovereignty, stressing the importance of correspondence with the Mexican government and offering advice to the Biden administration in navigating a diplomatic path forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Saturday, March 11th, 2023.
0:06.6	I'm Ryan Schmelz.
0:08.0	The president's budget has been released, and it comes with a hefty price Republicans
0:12.7	aren't willing to take to the bank.
0:14.8	What's the next step in negotiations?
0:17.0	I think it's all up in the air to be honest, and I think until we see the proposal, uh,
0:21.7	the full proposal from House Republicans, it's going to be hard to pick through, oh,
0:26.6	we could do this, we could do that.
0:28.5	I'm Kevin Cork, two deaths, an apology, and international outrage.
0:34.2	As a Mexican drug cartel, kidnaps four Americans, south of the border, killing two.
0:39.6	This is really lit a fire under politicians on both sides of the aisle.
0:43.0	I'm sure you've been seeing all the sound bites, Democrats, and Republicans now pushing
0:47.0	harder for the U.S. to get involved directly against the cartel, some even calling for the
0:51.0	use of U.S. military force.
0:53.6	The search for justice not limited to those impacted by this week's carnage.
0:58.1	But by generations who called the Borderlands home.
1:01.8	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington, 31 trillion.
1:16.3	That's the current national debt of the United States.
1:19.1	To put that in perspective, some believe if you were to stack that in dollar bills, it
1:23.2	would be taller than the majority of the world's skyscrapers.
1:27.1	This to the problem have resulted in a lot of finger pointing.
1:30.3	But President Biden believes his budget, which is expected to cut about 3 trillion from the
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