Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
First Public Comments after house members, including 11 fellow republicans, voted to strip her of her Committee Assignments over the Crazy Conspiracies shes pushed before. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson In Washington along with our nbc news team, Peter Alexander at the white house, Leigh Ann Caldwell on capitol hill, nbc News Business correspondent jo ling kent has the new jobs numbers, and Austan Gooslbee served as chairman of the White House Council of economic advisers under President Obama. And just to map out, right, what were watching during our hour, because it is going to be a pretty packed one. Youve got that meeting with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs, along with President Biden, to talk about the next steps on covid relief. In an hour from now, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene holds that News Conference. Also at 11 00 eastern, were going to hear from members of the white house Covid Response team, who will probably have a whole lot more to say on Johnson
Time in a bipartisan way. And so i want to yield to the distinguished chair because the bill that the Senate Passed is identical to our instructions to the budget as we said to them. Get behind the microphone. Yeah. The speaker is right. We got the same amount in instructions back from the senate that we passed, so we can pass it with a simple vote today and intend to. Then the committees will draft the legislation that actually creates the assignment of those dollars, and well bring that back to the floor in just a couple of weeks. And, you know, we only lost two democrats in the vote. They just voted for 1. 9 trillion. So we dont anticipate a problem. Madam speaker, do you have any concerns that a package this large approaching 2 trillion might sacrifice progressive policies Going Forward . Absolutely not. One of the things that we always discuss is, as we try to address the emergency that we have now, to crush the virus, to save the lives and livelihood of the American People, were
Mitigation plans in our schools, that was, until the ctu blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring. We waited for hours last night. Hours, and still did not receive a proposal from the Chicago Teachers Union leadership and as of this morning, we are still waiting. But to be clear, not patiently, not anymore. We are failing those children by not giving them the option to return to school. Failing grades, depression, isolation, and so much more. My patience for delays from ctu leadership is over. Jesse San Francisco has had enough as well be at the situation is a ridiculous that the city is now suing its own Public School district to get classrooms reopened. Where is joe biden in the Democratic Party for all of this . Why isnt he backing up local leaders in San Francisco with mayor lightfoot . Michael bloomberg seems to have an idea why. He is telling the president , grow a backbone. Its time for joe biden to stand up and say that kids are the most important things.
Education and Budget Committee assignments that she holds. Moments ago democrats said this about House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy. Why would Kevin Mccarthy continue to associate himself and the republican conference with someone who leader Mitch Mcconnell has characterized as a cancer . The last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. And Kevin Mccarthy has the ability to do the right thing he should. But greene will not be the only urgent topic the republicans will need to address when they meet here in a few hours. Wyoming congresswoman liz cheney is on the fence of being ousted for voting to impeach former President Trump in his second impeachment. She has been shoring up support behind the scenes. That includes from Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. Republicans are facing a critical reckoning. Will they encourage, quoting one gop senator, the coux of their party or those who vote their conscience like liz cheney or try to get away with