this variant is a cause for concern. not a cause for pan pick. panic. we have more tools today to fight the variant than ever before. vaccines to boosters. and thursday i ll be putting forward a detail strategy out lining how we re going to fight covid this winter. not with shut downs or lock downs. with more widespread vaccinations, boosters and testing and more. the white house did move to impose travel restrictions for non-u.s. citizens from eight nations in southern africa. biden said the move will help slow the spread of the variant. as we mention, cdc tonight strengthening the booster recommendation saying all adults should get them. and pfizer reportedly plans to ask the fda to authorize its booster shots for 16 and 17 year-olds. we ll have more on the new variant later in the hour. there are two other stories that
republicans accountable. call them out in his own way. he has done it in the past. name and shame as much as it comes out that republicans are taking credit for what democrats deliver on their own. or largely on their own. and make sure to name that. as it happens. that s something that biden has done in the first year so far. and he can do that. i think the other side that biden is going to need to do is to highlight the positive impacts here. that is what i think he needs to continue to do every time he s out on the trail. every time his cabinet members are out. every time vice president harris is out. lay out their positive solutions. because we also know republicans offer none of those. drawing that contrast isn t hard. i think that biden should fully be in power to do it in his own way and rely on other campaign committees. the dnc or to to do the additional dirty work. in the political messaging game we know and love. biden should stay true to
trump is fighting a ruling that would force him to turn over the records to the committee. tomorrow, the federal appeals court in the case will hear arguments from both sides. aside from the inquiry the next few weeks will be critical for the house and senate. democrats are under pressure to pass biden s social policy bill. schumer said he wants to get it to the president by christmas. federal agencies run out of the money at midnight this friday. and the treasury secretary warns the nations borrowing limit has to be raised by december 15. if that s not enough, it appears we re entering a new phase of the pandemic. with the emergence of the fast moving omicron variant. first identified in south africa. several days ago. cases have been seen in several nations since. nothing in this country yet. the president today stressed the u.s. is tracking the new variant and will be prepared for a potential out break.
drove a lot of conversation. over the past four days. in america. and there is little to know appetite whatsoever for another top to bottom shut down. look at the time. i have a quote for you here. with the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed in to law, democratic lawmakers and party leaders say biden needs to relentlessly hammer gop lawmakers for a opposing his economic priorities. and hampering progress on the pandemic and inflation. so, serious question to you, given hell joe is not the joe biden we know. it s not the joe biden that ran for president. so, how can he channel the has been dasher from kansas city by going give em hell? it s two prongs. he should absolutely hold
it is now in the senate where it s being held up. senate leader schumer promised to try to bring it to the floor and get that vote before christmas. it s likely of course the senate could change the bill. we have to go to a conference committee. it s unclear exactly what the changes might be. and this is a really messy and complicated negotiation that we have seen play out for months. it would take a lot for it to come to completion in the few weeks between now and christmas. chuck, let s back up. one more question about the work of the one six committee. specifically this side matter between trump the committee and the national archives. is it possible for us to say that all claims of executive privilege that aren t in the realm of national security, these claims that cover potential president s phone log, text messages and the like. from one six. is that all outside the bounds