this morning new york city mayor bill de blasio announced on nbc the city is implementing a sweeping set of vaccine mandates for all private sector employers as health officials try to limit the spread of the omicron variant. today marks the official start of sweeping new testing requirements for travelers. all air travelers are required to show proof of a negative test taken no more than one day before their flight. meanwhile, the spread of covid domestically is-esque mating. the 7-day average of daily new cases in the u.s. has jumped above 120,000. with more than 1300 deaths on average every single day. those numbers are a sober reminder that so much more work needs to be done to combat the current spread of delta. even as officials work to combat the future spread of omicron. and there are some potential signs of hopeful news on the omicron front with dr. fauci saying yesterday that there has been, quote, encouraging preliminary evidence that omicron infections aren t as s
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Domestic spending plan. so the white house wants to talk about how it would cap the price of insulin. cap the amount of money seniors would have to pay for the prescription drugs. and get to some of these initiatives that democrats have been pushing for for several decades now to try and lower prescription drugs. like having medicare be able to directly negotiate prices with drug makers to give them leverage over pricing and lowered drug prices that way. we re also anticipating the president to do more selling of his infrastructure bill. and try and continue to get some public credit for that, because so far we have yet to see the president s poll numbers turn around there. but of course, the administration is very well aware, so much of their domestic agenda and the president s approval rating is depending on covid. so that is always in the background here and something officials are always certainly aware of and that they will have to continue addressing. and the big omicron relate