Growth and trade had notably increased. They said significantly in the minutes. The fed thinks that trade tensions are weighing on Business Investment and business confidence. They discussed this at length at their meeting. While the base case is for a continued expansion in the economy, many attach, quote, significant odds to scenarios with less favorable out comes. Now it is interesting to note that the fed did discuss how the markets expect a rate cut and that is creating more loose financial conditions. That perhaps if they werent pricing in a rate cut, then the market would be more vulnerable to some of these uncertainties like slowing Growth Growth and change. Was surprising to see fed officials more on the same page in terms of the out look on the economy and a rate cut would be warranted at one point and there was a small group in the fed that said not quite yet. Back to you. Charles that group seems to get smaller, right, jennifer . Reporter exactly. That is very interesting a
the biden strint. the president looking to get everybody a vaccine by may 1th. now 10% of the population is fully vaccinated. to get to 4herd immunity, we ar nowhere close right now, and one major challenge is people choorsing not to get vaccinated. like everything else in the country, right now, a lot of the choice comes down to politics. just listen to brian temp today. we are seeing vaccine he is tansy really as the pharmacists and i were talking about, making south. a lot of that is dealing with white republicans quite honestly. macon south, white republicans, quite honestly. the governor of georgia came out and said it. and the poll shows what he said, 36% of respondents, of that group, nearly 60% are republican. so just imagine if trump had made a big public showing of his vaccination, stuck him arm out there, and did it on video just like his pretdecessors have don here. we have lost enough people and suffered enough damage. it s important for the fellow citize
against them. jon: but given the identification of the folks are difficult to achieve, how do you find out that person a, over here is tapping the public till for benefits that they are not entitled to? they are more and more able to keep track. dhs will have to figure out how to track people down to keep better records of who is getting various benefits. this is an important first step in that direction. it is fascinating to which and one of the promises that candidate trump made and part of the reason he won, i guess. james and katelin thank you very much. there will be martha mccaulum