Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thanks, Bill. It's Wednesday. January 4th, 2023. Here's what's happening today in America.

Buffalo Bill's player collapses on the field. Kevin McCarthy is not the speaker of the house yet. What does it

take to get in the middle class today? And what states are people moving to and moving from?

Also, Bill will be here with the message of the day about America becoming a more secular country

and how that's going poorly for us. But first, 24-year-old Buffalo Bills football player, Damar Hamlin, made a tackle late in the

first quarter on Monday Night Football, and stood back up and collapsed.

The team says he suffered cardiac arrest.

He needed CPR in the field, and he's still in critical condition.

They stopped playing the game.

The other players are too distraught to keep going.

It's worth noting that in week two of this season, another Bill's player suffered a serious

neck injury and DeMarz said in the locker room, life is bigger than football.

Kevin McCarthy has not secured enough votes to become the Speaker of the House.

They have voted twice so far. The last time that it took more than one votes to become the Speaker of the House. They have voted twice so far.

The last time that it took more than one vote to name the Speaker of the House was 1923,

100 years ago. But that's nowhere near the record. In 1855, it took not two rounds, not five,

133 rounds of voting before Congress decided who the Speaker should be.

And now that the Republicans are in charge, will they change their spending habits?

New report, the budget is so out of balance.

The federal government would need either a 40% increase in taxes or a 30% spending cut to be balanced.

Worth noting also Nancy Pelosi, who's now out of the speakership and her goodbye letter to

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