the measure. lucas tomlinson is on the lawn of the white house with more on the story. hey, lucas. jacqui, many people are wondering if the president is so concerned about the environment why doesn t he want to go to east palestine. the president says he wants to go, but didn t give an exact date. i ve spoken with every democrat in ohio and in pennsylvania and laid out what i think the answers are and we will be implementing an awful lot into of the legislature h here. as you mentioned off the top, jacqui, what some would call a negligent discharge, a memo was accidentally fired off or posted the biden administration looking to increase royal fees off the coast of alaska, despite saying lower fees would help attract investment. the department favored higher fees, it constitutes the balancing of economic and environmental factors. senator joe manchin says he s outraged by the memo and says to fox digital is crystal clear that this administration is putting their radica
it s concerned it s concerned many, rather, that even these higher interest rates may be on the horizon for quite some time and inflation is going to stick around. joining me now is madison venture s plus principal and university school of business research fellow, mitch roschelle. thank you for coming on. we don t have february s numbers yet even though it s march so we ll have to rely on the latest data from january, but i want to ask you, you know, we ve sort of been in this posture from the fed for a while, inflation doesn t seem to be going anywhere, but we have the other indicators of resilience. so, are you at all concerned that the fed s soft landing is maybe not as possible as we once thought it was? jacqui, i think we never thought the soft landing was going to be possible and we all thought that the recession was right around the corner, but the recession hasn t started yet and the economy still seems