through what this is actually going to look like. gene sperling is a longtime economic aide. he served other presidents. he has been a adviser to president biden on the campaign trail. but he is not expected at the sore money. because right now like most americans he is working remotely, has not been vaccinated yet, and is still in california according to the white house. and he won t be in the west wing doing the job for several more weeks according to the press secretary earlier today. that is interesting. gloria, this package, relief package is popular. is the white house worried that it won t be so popular, that popularity that wane? why this real effort to bolster this. well, a lot of people who were there, including the president himself, were there in 2009 when the stimulus package passed. and one of the problems with that, biden himself has said, is that they never explained the benefits of it to the american people. and it was unpopular. this bill starts out more
to continue the flow of supply chain to reduce the burden, reduce the pressure and reduce the cost. arthel: i get it. i m all for bringing it to texas and louisiana, for that matter, but then you ve got the shortage of drivers. so you bring the stuff into those ports, how does it get to other parts of the country? you know, you exactly right, and i think we need to start encouraging work again. a lot of what we ve seen, we saw $6 trillion up until this point of government spending. some of it was necessary, some people argue that some of it was not, but what we have seen is that, you know, we ve seen growth of guaranteed the basic income in cities, other spending such as the stimulus checks coming out. we need to really be encouraging able-bodied adultso get back to work. we ve seen the unemployment rate decline, but we still have a lot of able-bodied adults who are not employed. filling these jobs, i think, is exactly what we need to further reduce that burden, and that will bring b