and then comes back on, it doesn t come back on perfectly. it takes time for different things to start working again. you ve got to sign into your accounts again, you ve got to open your e-mail again. that s what happened with the global economy. when it started functioning again, it didn t start simultaneously. reporter: as for the empty shelves and rising prices, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the administration began looking at supply chain issues earlier this year in case something like this happened. this is a capitalist country. nobody wants the federal government to own or operate the stores, the warehouses, the trucks or the ships or the ports. our role is to try to make sure we re support anding those businesses and those worksers who do. reporter: in all of his recent interviews, secretary buttigieg has mentioned president biden s build back better plan. the administration official, the president himself, they believe that this build back better social spe
requires a covid vaccine for worksers directly conflicting with the federal mandate. now, most employers want their workers vaccinated. it dramatically reduces health care costs and sick days. most workers say they want it, too. now, southwest and american airlines say they will follow president biden s vaccine requirement for federal contractors rather than governor abbott s contrary order. and dell still plans on january 4th return to the office with vaccine requirements and testing protocols in place. here s the mayor of austin. it also seems to be inconsistent not only with the federal orders coming from the president, but this is texas. i mean, this is a pro business state. and for us to be telling businesses in their own businesses what they can or can t do in order to be able to protect their employees and their customers just doesn t seem to be in keeping with the freedoms and liberties we talk about here in texas. this shouldn t be political,
san francisco s e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. tens of thousands of auto workers who have been striking against general motors are now starting to feel a pink. the united ought other worksers receiving their first union strike paychecks. by the way that amounts to roughly $250 versus the more
citizens shelling out of thousands for expensive washington attorneys, answering the same questions over and over again. this has become a government abuse of power. plain and simple. stealing from government worksers who end up paying more than they make to play for the legal fees they accrued during this time. mainstream media doesn t care. it s not their money. they are not working overtime. the new york times just featured a draft article of impeachment against trump and a scenario for democrats to achieve their dream. this would be like manna from heaven. but it s not going to happen. we had a top edit from the fake
reelection, i can t fathom going into that campaign saying we came up short on the wall. ann a what do you think of the state of play? do you think he s going to wind up taking a deal of short term c.r. that doesn t have anything like this in it and the democrats take control and they won t let it happen? honestly, chris, i m going to have to do a marco rubio. and drink some water because that was way smoother than marco rubio. i m about to do some say some good things about donald trump, and i may have to sit, you know, lay down and take two aspirin after this. look, at some point you ve got to be less political and you ve got to do what is right. you ve got to govern for the people of america. forcing a government shutdown is going to put a lot of people in pain, a lot of government workers, a lot of federal worksers are going to be in pain. is that what we want over the christmas holiday? we are right now heading towards the worst december in stock market history, in d