this is where he should talk to the border agents. and let them know that this is beyond a crisis. he can continue to deny it but the only way to solve it is to first admit what he has done. and if he will not reverse action, it will take congressional action to do it. harris: the biden administration has yet to call it a crisis. mayorkas said we re on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the past 20 years. sarah sanders served as white house press secretary for president trump and now running for governor in arkansas. congratulations on your run. good to see you, sarah. so important to get your perspective on this. you would have been the last press secretary for a white house to deal with something that looks like what we re dealing with but i ve heard even you say it s not the same. how. well, let s look at the situation certainly i think the media served as the propaganda arm for the biden campaign and they re doing the exact same
let s hold our political leaders to account for keeping americans working. [ applause ] i just want to circle back to something you said about spending. yeah. you did urge congress to pass stimulus legislation during the coronavirus pandemic. sure did. several republicans, including one of your rivals nikki haley when she was right here on the stage this sunday criticized that spending. was it a mistake, especially given what you just said? you know, i ll always be proud of what the american people did during the course of the worst pandemic in 100 years. the end of february 2020, president trump asked me to lead the white house coronavirus task force. and one of the things i did immediately, her had a group of scientists that were working and specialists in the area. some of them became quite famous. but i immediately added economic officials. the secretary of agriculture, our economic adviser larry
mandate, we actually asked the federal reserve to focus on protecting the value of the dollar and full employment. you know, we ought to look to the president, we ought to look to the congress to promote policies that ensure full employment. all right? we have been passing the buck to the fed for too long. let them protect the dollar and let s hold our political leaders to account for keeping americans working. [applause] i just want to circle back to something about spending because you did urge congress to pass stimulus legislation during the coronavirus pandemic. several republicans including one of your rivals, nikki haley, when she was right here on this stage sunday, criticized that spending. was it s a mistake? especially given what you just said? you, know i will always be proud of what the american people did. during the course of the worst pandemic in 100 years. the end of february, 2020, president trump asked me to lead the white house coronavirus task force.
expect wages to be under pressure for employers to find it easier to achieve higher wage increases. there is some political achieve higher wage increases. there is some political argument achieve higher wage increases. there is some political argument in the us at the moment about whether or not the stimulus legislation that president biden introduced a year ago may have had the unintended consequence of injecting some inflationary pressure into the us economy. is there any evidence that government efforts to help businesses during lockdown in particular with furlough and so on has contributed to this or are these other factors that really are beyond the control of individual nations economies? the control of individual nations economies? ., ,. economies? the furlough scheme overall has economies? the furlough scheme overall has been economies? the furlough scheme overall has been very economies? the furlough scheme overall has been very good. - economies? the furlough scheme
The federal government’s packages to stimulate the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic are notable for the direct relief they have offered to individuals. But these bills have also brought unprecedented