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The Fox News Rundown

How Much Spending Is Too Much?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Senators are back in Washington D.C. this week after their summer recess and they have a lot to get done. On the top of that list, Democratic Senators hope to pass the $3.5-trillion budget reconciliation package. While getting the $3.5-trillion bill passed would be a win for the White House following the weeks of backlash from the Afghanistan withdrawal, not all Democrats are on board. Moderate Democrat Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) have already said they do not support the $3.5-trillion package. Sen. Manchin says it's too high and raised concerns of how it would impact inflation and debt. So if the Senate Democrats can't get the spending bill passed what happens to the bipartisan $1-trillion infrastructure bill? FOX News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram joins to break down what's in the bill, how Democrats are hoping to "stuff" immigration reform into the budget reconciliation, the chances of it passing and where the debt ceiling stands in all of this. As the U.S. continues to investigate the origins of COVID-19, definitive results are still inconclusive as China refuses the World Health Organization's plan to further study the source of the virus. Scientists continue to disagree whether SARS-CoV-2 came from zoonotic transmission, with the virus jumping from animal to humans, or from a leak in a virology lab in Wuhan. World Health Organization Advisor and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Jamie Metzl who has been called the first whistleblower on COVID-19 joins to discuss why the evidence supports that the virus may have been the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, how many scientists who disparaged the theory have some links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and why he believes there is need for an international coalition to demand a fair investigation from China. Plus, commentary by syndicated columnist and author of "America's Expiration Date," Cal Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Shannon Brem.

0:15.6

I'm Bill Hammer.

0:16.4

I'm Kennedy, and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:19.2

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021, I'm Lisa Brady. It's almost crunch time on Capitol Hill

0:29.9

with Democrats facing self-imposed deadlines to move the president's agenda along.

0:35.3

The Democrats, frankly, they need a big win right now coming out of Afghanistan.

0:39.9

You know, this is going to be the major thing that they pass infrastructure, you know

0:44.3

avoiding crises like the debt ceiling and a government shutdown.

0:47.2

I'm Dave Anthony as COVID surges again with a delta variant spreading widely,

0:54.6

were nowhere near finding out the virus's true origin.

0:58.6

China has engaged in a systematic cover-up

1:01.1

involving destroying samples, hiding records, silencing Chinese

1:06.2

citizen journalists placing a gag order on Chinese scientists and it's just

1:12.3

outrageous. And I'm Cal Thomas, I've got the final word on the

1:16.8

Fox News rundown.

1:19.8

Today's the day several House committees are supposed to turn in their homework,

1:28.0

the committees that have been crafting the central part of President Biden's agenda,

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