already laid off around 50,000 people since just the start of this year. that is incredible and its effects so many people. thank you very much. with all of that in mind, let s bring in our chief political correspondent. byron, welcome back. from claimed they chief of staf at the white house retweeted tweet from building back together u.s. earlier today. it s a picture of president biden looking at a stack of bil signing folders. two years in, since lyndon b. johnson and he is far from done. a few more folders there. we should point that out in tha stack that there are labels to describe them. a lot of people look at the las two years of the biden administration and say they better off the answer to that question. no. the voters who elected
and this holiday decoration review period started in the spring? christmas has been saved. better than a hallmark movie. but it s important to note that we weren t fighting this battle alone. i ve never seen our town come together more than this debacle. for the longest time there s a group of people saying we were divided and it was us versus them. i m sorry. this christmas tree has brought out just a beautiful unity of different voices. the town and since you never banned christmas and they want to finish decorating at the time of the controversy. my bigger issue, carley shimkus, how does one get like that complaining woman in the first place? what has gone so wrong in your life that you have such hatred towards other people enjoying christmas? it is sad but it happens all too often. carley: it wouldn t be christmas in 2022 without christmas controversy. todd: president biden looking to fund mining project
i think the way the administration looks at these kinds of things is usually the do is i say and not as i do. if they were really concerned about saving the planet and not just a virtue signaling, which they are expert at, what if all these democrats just stop applying private? i m talking to you, john kerry. talking to you, steven spielberg, leo dicaprio. all these guys who are so into democratic causes but fly private at the drop of a hat? absolutely. leonardo dicaprio, first person that comes to mind with all the climate change warrior type stuff that he s a part of. and yet he uses a private plane. it s like you said, total hypocrisy. todd: i understand what he doesn t want to take boat spirit didn t work out too well for him on titanic. president biden looking at
get that number as close to 60 as possible. if we don t have the votes, then we will talk to senator schumer and maybe come back next year with maybe an additional senator and see if we can do better. reporter: each without action on gun reform as you can tell there s going to be a lot of action here on capitol hill in these next few weeks and of course the big question is whether this does drag closer to the holidays. melanie, thank you. a lot on the plate there for the president. joining us to discuss a rachael bade, co-author of politico playbook. let s get to these must do items. keeping the government open, funding the government, the deadline is december 16th as you heard there from melanie, there is talk about extending that to december 23rd. that having been said given that democrats have control of both chambers, why not do it now through the process of reconciliation and then think ahead to possibly even doing the same with raising the debt ceiling because you have ke
to protect same-sex marriage, already moving through the senate, we are expecting to pass the senate and the house would need to take that up and pass it. again, are expecting that to happen. moving down the list it starts to get a little trickier. congress also wants to do election reform to prevent another january 6, there s been a lot of bipartisan energy around that, but there s some differences between what the house and the senate wants to do. then there s also talk of whether they re going to raise the debt ceiling, that s something congress doesn t need to do until next year but there s concerns about whether a gop led house to be able to do that. doesn t seem like there s going to be the time or votes to do that but there will be discussions about whether they can get that dup. finally an assault weapons ban has popped into the picture recently, last week after a string of deadly mass shootings, president biden is pushing for that but even democratic senator chris murphy says