he left the door opening to not running in 2024. we ll play that for you and get reaction when bret baier joins us. jared bernstein joins us as the president remains under water on the number 1 issue for voters in america. also, maria salazar on calls for a criminal probe in to governor desantis for flying migrants to martha s vineyard. we begin with greg palkot as the world shows its gratitude, its thanks and says good-bye to queen elizabeth. hi, greg. hi, martha. we re here at windsor castle, a favorite home of the late queen elizabeth, ii. today s long good-bye started in westminster hall in london where hundreds of thousands have viewed the quie lying in state. she was accompanied by king charles iii, william and harry. president biden and jill biden joint hundreds of leaders. a total of 2,000, including regular folks were invited. in one of the moving tributes during the ceremony, the archbishop of canterbury said we will meet again. there was full military honors. ten
of the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan ignites a powerful recovery from the pandemic and helps lift global growth. the organization for economic cooperation and development said the economic recovery coming alongside the country s emotional recovery, images of vaccinated grandparents reunited with their families flood the news and social media. those reunions likely to surge permitting vaccinated americans to gather. hospitals declaring the worst of the third wave of covid in america is over. the numbers back that up. hospitalizations are down nearly 70% from january and the reduction in cases is ushering in the closest thing to a national effort to return kids to the classroom after a year of uneven remote learning. the new york times reporting on children across the country heading back to school. from nathan, i was a little scared because i didn t want to get the virus. i feel better because of the safety precautions. we have tissues and hand sanitizer everywhere. from aaron
contributing to inflation say this year. the answer based over a trillion dollars of definite situation reduction is no. that doesn t negate the point that inflation is too high. which it is. we re doing everything we can to help as you played in your introduction the last couple months have been a respite and gas prices have been a breathing room for american consumers. if you look at the government s fiscal role like you described the federal reserve, the fiscal impulses are a strong negative from the government sector this year. that is baked in the cake. oh, by the way, you said a lot of that is the spending falling off. that is part of it, martha. you re not wrong. but actually in percentage terms, the bigger increase is receipts coming in to the very surery. receipts coming in of about 25% in fy-2022. spending down about 18%. so the percentage increase in receipts is even larger that is a function of the strong biden
point and what you would like to hear from me, i m sure, my friend. that is that it s going to give americans access to high speed internet. it s going to get rid of all the lead piping in this country, the situations that we ve been hearing about, deplorable ones affecting the health of michiganders and others across this country. there s a lot going on in fixing our roads and bridges. it s good every way you look at it. the question for you is how big of a deal is this for the president and for democrats as a whole? it s a huge deal. we need many more monumental fridays in order to tout the amazing work that democrats are doing. democrats were elected to deliver, to act, to fix things and to do what they did on friday. they not only delivered an historic infrastructure bill, they had a monumental jobs report that shows that wages are going down and that the biden recovery is booming. they announced vaccines for children. they announced an anti-covid
House progressives are laying out their priorities in negotiations over Democrats' massive social-spending package, as lawmakers seek to trim its size to get more moderates on board.