bill: okay. we ll go with that for now. good morning to you. dana: president s week did go from bad to worse yesterday. supreme court striking down one of his vaccine mandates applying to businesses with more than 100 workers. a mandate for certain healthcare workers does remain in effect. bill: that decision comes down after a surprise floor speech from center kyrsten sinema. for a year she is saying she won t do this, the filibuster. she said i want do that. her opposition leaves the white house with no path forward on its plan to overhaul u.s. elections and various other items. while i continue to support these bills i will not support separate actions that worseen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. the debate over the senate 60 vote threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. dana: we have mike gallagher with reaction. let s go to the white house where jackie heinrich is standing by. i m trying to find the good news for them. maybe
that inflation was above 6%. for months the white house claimed inflation was transitory and would go away. republican senator ron johnson says democrats need to take responsibility now. this is a democrat s tax on the middle class. this is how they inflate their way through deficit spending. people need to understand that. this is very dangerous. i m concerned we re in an inflationary cycle. people s wages have gone up their wage gains are being wiped out by this inflation and this didn t just happen. this is caused by democrat policies. harris: so it s not just the prices, it is whether you can actually find what you need. look at the picture. seem familiar? #bare shelves biden trending on social media. as americans are fed up over the supply chain crisis that could get even worse thanks to a nationwide labor shortage. fox digital interviewing shoppers to find out what they think. what they are experiencing. no juices, no orange juice. it s like a soviet store durin
he will head to georgia to talk about that. i m bill hemmer. we re on different floors. we ll take turns, right? this is officially a podcast. dana: it is a brand-new podcast. my home during the five this week as well. it is small which fits me just perfectly. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the white house sees georgia as ground zero in its push for election reform. president biden and vice president harris will speak there this afternoon as the white house pressures democrats to get on board even if it means breaking the filibuster. republicans calling all of it an attempt to distract from a failing agenda. hysterical claim that our democracy is in crisis rings hollow. it would destroy a key feature of american government forever. this is nothing more than an election power grab by the democrats. they want to federalize the election. not about improving access to the ballot, the ballot changing the political dynamic in this country to crow ate an
president harris and congress. he said the former president bears singular responsibility. the vice president oddly used the ceremony to push for voting reform. president biden: for first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. harris: now the backlash for the white house going full hog politics. put former republican congressman trey gowdy and some republicans say it is time to bury the divisiveness. this country is not going to be united because of some speech of made by a president and former president but only when people are sick and tired of the conf
omicron subsides or new safety measures are put in place despite their 91% vaccination rate. remote learning is very negative impact on children s mental health. president biden says schools are fully equipped to stay open. president biden: i believe schools should remain open. they have what they need. because the american rescue plan the first or second month we were in office that i signed in march we provided the states with $130 billion with a b, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. garrett tenney is live for us from chicago. good morning. trace, good morning. this vote wasn t even close. the teachers union says last night s 73% voted against showing up for in-person classes today. in a move to essentially try and force the school district to go completely online. this morning the union s president defended that decision saying the city has not done enough to protect teachers and keep them safe. what the mayor doesn t understan