Because its 50 50. Putting Democrats O Step further to approving a final bill. The republicans went after that massive price tag and called the plan a wish list of far left policies. Thats not in line with bidens call for unity at all. You are watching outnumbered come on im a harris faulkner. My cohost, emily compagno. Host of kennedy on fox business, kennedy. Former white house to Communications Director under President Trump, alyssa farah, is here. An nfl player, Ordained Minister Command Spokesman for the National Association a Police Athletic league, jack brewer. Jack, great to see you, alyssa, great to see you too. Jack come i want to start with you on pushing ahead without any republican support. Ive heard that the clock is ticking, i know that and i know where the economy is for people. A lot of people are struggling to. At the same time, we have seen eight months go by with nancy pelosi to get to what we got to at the end of last year. Jack it adds to the divide. I think its u
I think it was an effective measure. The idea now is we have to hit back hard. We have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and economic payment engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong which is our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. We have constantly argued the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to put this virus behind us. I want to quote Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day. I think it was a week or so ago that inflationary risks are also asymmetric. He said, im much more worry about falling short of a complete recovery and losing peoples careers and lives they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about the damage that will do, not just to their lives but to the United States economy, to the productive capacity of the economy. Im more concerned abou
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
We will now fund the cost of their training in full. This will cut costs for businesses and Training Providers and support thousands more young people to start an apprenticeship. These announcements by the Prime Minister come amid a warning from the Industry Trade body make uk which represents 20,000 british manufacturers that output wont grow at all this year and wont be much better next, thats the findings of its latest survey of members published today. Joining me now is make uks chief operating officer, ben fletcher. This survey is quite stark. Facing the prospect of two years of anaemic growth, yet your survey suggest that your members are still pretty optimistic. Your members are still pretty optimistic your members are still pretty 0 timistic. ,. ,. ,. , ~ optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from the optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this co