washington on the big news regarding vaccines. 100 million of these johnson & johnson single dose vaccines that will be out there. i guess, kevin, pronto, huh? yeah, sooner than some expected. although to be fair, not as many doses unfortunately, neil as had been hoped for. this is a boon for all americans that still need to take the vaccine. this is great for everyone especially as we try to get the economy rolling again. the white house today actually told governors on tuesday to expect fewer than 400,000 doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine next week that is far below what they initially had expected to be available however, in making the announcement today with johnson & johnson and merck, the president said he s helping manufacture this vaccine under the deal brokered by the white house. that s a win for all of us. you may recall last week, mr. biden announced the u.s. would have enough covid-19 doses for every adult american by the end of may. that was in itself a t
They just need tax relief and this is taking a tax burden off their backs but the stimulating nature is well designed so for example, i was at a Manufacturing Company not long ago and my constituents in suburban chicago. The company said this. Peter, were going to invest 30 million in our plant next year if that Tax Bill Plans with full expensing as we proposed, were not going to spend 30 million. Were going to spend 50 million its that type of approach that were trying to create here which is why there was so much enthusiasm about it among republicans in the house. You havent seen this in a long long time. Maria well you have enthusiasm sure but not so much from those 13 republicans who voted no against the house bill. God bless them and if youre chasing everybody all the time in terms of a Roll Call Vote youll be waiting a long time. To get 227 House Republicans to agree on something as big as this is i think incredibly
significant and a good milestone but we still have good work to
100 is not a large number of employees anymore. if you own two restaurants you may have 100 employees. we know all our employees 5 to 8 people in each salon and know their names and families and the stresses and struggles they ve got. to add this on and with all the fear and uncertainty in the workplace is unconscionable. we ll lose employees. we re 70 employees down from where we need to be. it s a struggle to get back into the workforce now and it will add one more layer. harris: do you feel like this administration is on your side as a business? i don t think they are on the small business side. i think they are on someone else s side. harris: jerry, thank you for being on the program and breaking it down. you talk about all the things that you have provided for your employees. this layering is tricky. thank you again, the best.
that we haven t had a full year of where tax have come down for american businesses. what we have had, we have seen american optimism go up on small business side. they are starting to hire a lot more. that s why you are seeing jobless claims down. that s why you are starting to see new order indexes go up. so you are seeing that companies are reinvesting in themselves as well as their people. pete: to me, that s the most important. here are all-time highs hit in the market, right? so from the dow, i think the s&p 500 we are hitting new marks. yeah. pete: which is an indicator. what i care about more than anything else is opportunity, wages, confidence, you are saying those things are moving it s not just your 401(k) it s your prospects as an employee. indicators are forward looking indicators. the stock market is actually forward-looking. someone is not going to buy a stock if they don t think it s going to group compared to the alternatives. we know interest rates are going up.
coming into today, that s a pretty tall task. can you pick your fate metaphor, for how hard this must be for mitch mcconnell. he has to satisfy a couple blocks of people. first you mentioned the budget hawks, bob kirker and jeff flake. they were upset to see this trigger provision would out last night. they are trying to build something else into this bill to address some of those deficit concerns a. lot of their colleagues in the senate don t like that and the house really doesn t like that susan collins is somebody still sitting out there. she wants an amendment to this bill to change how it deals with state and local stacks deductions. we know she is willing to vote on public priorities. we ve seen it before. you got the ron johnson, steve danes folks, who want the small business side this morning. steve danes came out and says he wants to see if that gets ron johnson on board. if you lose two, you can lose corker and flake and pass this it s an ugly look for republicans to lose the