stubborn fight against coronavirus. the white house waiting to learn more about the new omicron variant, but bracing for a potential threat to the nation s economic recovery, which fed chair jerome powell warned congress of. greater concerns about the virus could reduce people s willingness to work in-person which would slow progress in the labor market and intensify supply chain disruptions. reporter: the president is urging caution, not panic as he traflds to cities across the country, explaining how the $1 trillion infrastructure investment could improve the lives of americans. through new roads, bridges, broadband internet service and more. the administration is also intensifying its push for the second piece of the president s economic agenda, still stuck in the senate. at the same time, the white house is ballet two-tiered crisis. rising covid cases and inflation. both global challenges hitting close to home here in the u.s. this mutational profile is very different from ot
we are up around 80, which would be excellently astonishing given what we ve seen with interaction between the parties and in the past. and mcconnell s pledge that he would be against anything joe biden would want to do. we have to keep in mind, the next time we get to this it will be tricky. it s not only getting through the senate where a lot of progressives are unhappy with what s been left out, it s that christian cinema who was a major negotiator on all this kristen cinema has dashed water on the three and a half million dollar plan that is accomplished itself in the senate. they re gonna make some adjustments. when i look at this team, the one john was talking about, even the white house, team dean, spiraling at least terrell, the liaison with congress, pete buttigieg, working hand in glove with those senators and making the outrage to the host congress of as, well they will point something out and get the votes
you, which means that there are a lot of areas, too, that don t get i would imagine the infusion of employees he would need. and that cash. what are you asking for a specifically? we are asking for over $4 billion for dhs, the dartmouth of homeland security, and hhs to be able to provide care for kids and others who come into this country, most of the money would be for hhs, for the care of these children. as a supplemental funding package. congress of has to ask. we are very glad the senate appropriators are going to take us up next week, that the house asked the act also. harris: when we see the situation in california where governor said to sign a bill that would take care of health care for some illegals in our country, then the question comes if you are not able to do what you do, can you understand the states fill in and do what they have to do? the simple fact is we don t have a choice when a child comes across the border. we can t give them to the states or anyone.