Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
Representative Marjorie Taylor greene and the thirdranking house republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach former president trump. Stand by for new information on that. And the republican infighting continues. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is trying to stay focused on covid relief. The president meeting with fellow democrats today, urging them to go big and stick together as they move ahead on his nearly 2 trillion package without at least for now republican support. In just a moment ill talk with senator Bernie Sanders. Hes the new chairman of the Senate Budget committee. He was in that meeting with the president earlier today. But first lets go up to capitol hill. Our Congressional Correspondent ryan nobles is joining us. Ryan, were standing by to learn the outcome of this really critical meeting of House Republicans. What are you learning so far . Reporter well, wolf, the one thing we know for sure is that that meeting is still ongoing. More than two hours it has been as re
i ll try to reduce the number of migrants seeking asylum in our country at the southern border. white house plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars they say and aborted communities like el paso and other places that are over run with the migrant problem. but critics say it will not go far enough to stop the endless flow of illegal crossings. s third start of the first day this administration check office. that is in the surge started. we are just getting more and more highs and lows obviously but with title 42 going the news is out. they realize they come right now. that s overseeing so many individuals come across and continue to come across. the right political will is in place. these people need to be det detained. arthel: griff jenkins is live in branson, texas and the latest. what are you seeing there? arthel, we are seeing firsthand every hour of today group after group after group of migrants coming here. last 24 hours and just this area and brownsville par
governor greg abbott say the situation that now needs disaster relief apparently, is president biden s fault but democrats like house speaker nancy pelosi blame former president trump while joining biden in refusing to label it a crisis. the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration inherited is a broken system at the border and they re working to correct that in the children s interest. it is entirely you cannot notice the administration changes and there is a surge. the 11-year high for crossings without documentation at the border was in the middle of trump s presidency. is idea it is joe biden s election that prompted more people to show up is belied by the actual facts. harris: more now. kevin mccarthy is leading a delegation of one dozen republicans to the southern border today. casey stiegel is live along th
democratic senator joe manchin who has staked out a position as the most powerful member of congress. then it is now time to open texas 100%. chris: governors in both parties end pandemic lockdowns, and the president pushes back. the last thing we need is neanderthal thinking. chris: we ll ask arkansas governor asa hutchinson about starting to lift restrictions in his state and former cdc director tom frieden about whether some states are moving too soon. plus, growing calls to impeach new york s governor over his handling of covid nursing home deaths and accusations of sexual harassment. we ll ask our sunday panel whether cuomo will survive the twin scandals. and our power player of the week, the head of peloton, on how the pandemic gave his bikes a big push. all right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again from fox news in washingtonment washington. president biden s push for his $1.9 trillion covid relief package is now in the home stretch after the s