The fight between americas Biggest Car Companies and the uaw over pay and Better Benefits is playing out in a key Battleground State in the 2024 president ial election. That is michigan. So this visit by President Biden is no accident. Hes trying to turbocharge the market for Electric Vehicles. That is part of his policy to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. His signature legislation, well, its known as the inflation reduction act, and it includes billions of dollars in incentives to get more clean cars on the road. But republicans, including biden s likely president ial opponent, donald trump, who is also visiting michigan on wednesday, well, theyve argued the shift to Electric Vehicles will killjobs because after all, it takes fewer people to make a battery than a combustion engine. And many of the new Battery Plants are being built in states that are hostile to organising. Add to that biden s push for clean energy. Well, it hit another roadblock on monday. That is after ford said it w
Off topic but i want to run it by you anyway. Is the president aware of the story of the staff who worked for the florida congresswoman who was recently arrested attempting to leave the country. I they aware of that particular circumstance and is he satisfied with the pace of the investigation. I have not had a conversation with him specifically about it. Its something we should fully look into. And there should be a thorough investigation. If to make it count. He wrote into family members. I want to extend my sincere apologies. That was inserted into the jamboree. As the president there. I was at that event and i saw nothing but roughly 40 to 45,000 boy scouts cheering them on. And i think they were pretty excited that they were there. And happy to hear him speak. [indiscernible] a lot of them had expressed frustration in the need of that. I was at that event. And i heard nothing but a lot of cheering and probably one of the most energetic crowds ive seen in front of the president. I
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[applause] good morning everybody. Good energy in the room it is great to see everybody here how many people work here with a the va . That is great i am glad you could be here today this is important and i really want to thank you for your involvement what you are doing to make va a better place. As you know va has a great tradition of developing and disseminating in and innovation that we rely upon every day and that came out of the va systems your falling in those footsteps. One of the thing settled think people realize as it is incumbent upon you is that with all of the responsibilities that come with so many people who work in jobs with productivity with health care and Everything Else the va is one of the best places to have the time and ability to innovate so i the ink we have to understand and promote this is a great place to doing those things that we can do that those that worked in the private sector those unspent time and energy on innovation so to take you were doing that
Stability in washington and any hint i mean, any hint that the growth agenda could get done. And perhaps overshadowing, pun intended, all those headlines today, the Solar Eclipse. Many are wait what many millions are waiting what many are calling a once in a lifetime event. Varney Company Begins right now. Ashley we begin with sad news this morning, the search continuing for ten u. S. Sailors missing after an Early Morning collision between a Navy Destroyer and a tanker or near singapore. What on earth is going on. Whats the latest . Yeah, search and rescue underway. It happened east of singapore. It hit an oil and chemical tanker three times its size. So basically this is the second serious collision in about a month. The uss fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of japan, seven sailors dead there. Sailors are being evacuatedded, and so the search is on right now for the ten missing, five injured as well. Ashley all right, thank you very much. Lets bring in colonel ralph