the president will visit a small local business that s benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, who s live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter, i have to start with you and this messaging strategy that we are seeing from president biden. talk about it, what is the goal here and what can americans expect from this bill? because that s the big question on everyone s minds. yeah, first of all, kristen, you look nice at that desk here this morning. let s walk you through what s going on. we expect president biden to leave here shortly to head to that local business that s benefiting from ppp, that loan like so many other businesses ac
have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
Of harsh taxes on imports has been looming over american companies, especially carmakers. Donald trump has launched a series of attacks on twitter are making big us multinationals who import goods from abroad and sell them in america. In particular the President Elect has spoken out against Auto Companies manufacturing ca is against Auto Companies manufacturing cars a cross against Auto Companies manufacturing cars across the border. The north American Free trade deal allows vehicles to be sold duty free within the us, canada and mexico if they are at least 65 made in the block. Trump wants to rip up the agreement and Imposea Trump wants to rip up the agreement and impose a 35 border tax. In other news , shares of the japanese conglomerate toshiba are recovering by 2 after falling 5 earlier. That follows a report that japans Security Watchdog suspected the company of padding profits over the company of padding profits over the last three years by more than 400 million. A newspaper has
acetaminophen blocks pain signals. advil dual action. the republican party s majority in the house of representatives was already razor than. but now, it s about to get even more ten u.s., this past week gop congressman, bill johnson of ohio announced that he will resign come january 21st in order to become the new head of youngstown state university. another one bites the dust. normally, a single capitol hill wouldn t be that big of a deal, but recall that johnson s departure comes after the expulsion of everyone s favorite self made man, former representative, george santos, and former house speaker, kevin mccarthy s retirement before the holiday. when you put all three of these three departures together, it means the gop in the house is
state university. another one bites the dust. normally, a single lawmakers leaving capitol hill wouldn t even be that big of a deal. but recall that johnson s departure comes after the expulsion of everyone s favorite self made up man, former representative george santos, and former house speaker kevin mccarthy s retirement before the holidays. when you put all of these three departures together, it means that the gop and the house, their seat total is going to shrink to just a mere 2019. and that s just one seat more than the bare minimum necessary for a majority. of this has major implications for party leaders. not only will maga mike johnson and company have to walk a proverbial balance being to find the votes necessary in order to keep the government open an operational, but also secure funding for the border, israel, and ukraine. but this year, a magical shrinking will turn 2024 into a quote, barn burner, as put by