over the last several weeks. what has been the impact of that on how the country is able to run? it s having an impact throughout the economy. early on during the pandemic, of course, covid disrupted lots of economic activity, largely because of either government interventions, shutdowns of entire industries, or at least restrictions on different kinds of economic activity, or because consumers and workers decided to change their behavior so that they wouldn t bring themselves into the risk of getting covid. today the greater disruption to economic activity seems to be the fact that people are, in fact, contracting covid, and you have a lot of workers who are absent from their regular jobs or who have had their commutes or child care situations disrupted because the other workers that they rely on have contracted an infection. so we re seeing these consequences throughout the economy. and tell us more about the
premature but it is a tough call. ashley: house republicans are urging biden to get on board with red and blue states alike calling on him to accept covid-19 as pandemic and recognize current government interventions are doing more harm than good and immediately begin the process to unwind the public health emergencies of the country can get back to normal. even biden tells humans health services secretary agrees tearing off his mask at an event this week. take a look. i m proud to tell you days ago we announced a record-breaking 14.5 million americans got themselves a health insurance plan that they could afford due to the affordable care act and open enrollment period. i m going to take office mask. this is more than a dozen blue states lifted indoor mask mandates, new jersey,
spending doesn t look responsible to me. bret: republicans don t have a lot to stand on fiscal responsibility on capitol hill in recent years. agreed. bret: fair? more than fair. bret: covid did take a chunk out of our economy. and we are bouncing back from that. can they make an argument that this is what is needed to lift up the economy as jared was saying there on various different platforms? so, the lifting up of the economy is happening. that s why we are getting a reduction in the deficit. that happens automatically. and i think jared, i have known a long time. he talks a good game. but there is no real evidence that somehow they generated the growth that produced this revenue. that s the private sector. the vitality of the private sector. it s time to get out of all these government interventions let the private sector do its job. they will grow. they got in the way of inflation. that needs to be tamed. certainly, i think if you look at the tax proposals in here, the
the student loan debt repayment so he s backed off from that. that was one of the socialist things that we were pushing for. so a.o.c. and the squad and all them try to act very upset about that when they re touting build back better which is basically socialism in its form right now. you ve got cradle to grave government interventions which is exactly what the build back better plan is about. so honestly, to tell you the truth, they say a lot about the republicans. they say a lot about conservative fractions in this party. but their party is being taken over by the socialists and communists right now and for the love of god, any democrats who believe in the future of this country, need to start standing up against that right now and stop being so afraid of the squad and what their mobs on twitter will say about it. no doubt, tommy, this is a sitting democrat senator speaking at an affiliate of communist party u.s.a. who is saying come join the communist party. how does this make sen