peter doocy has more. the white house sees inflation as a problem but we re in a very good economy. today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving in a better direction. the reason the president says that, he sees a low unemployment rate as top above all. right now wages are not rising as fast as the prices on everything else, which republicans say they see as a blinking red light. the problem is that every single day americans are hurting when they re either putting gas in their tanks, trying to put food on their table or trying to pay rent or energy bills. all of these things are out of the president s control. so white house officials say those are the only things that they believe is hindering their economic agenda. remember, this price increase is due to putin s tax highs, putin s war on ukraine. that s why we have seen the increase of gas prices and food. the press secretary says that we are stronger economically than we have been
going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it s not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events were open to the press. so we did not get the opportunity to ask him any questions. they even wouldn t let the drone fly in the area once he was here. after landing in del rio, he traveled to eagle pass where the secretary visited a border patrol processing facility that opened last month. the 153,000 square foot facility is on 24 acres and has a capacity of 1,000. then mayorkas traveled down here
More than 227 million passengers since memorial day, despite rising fuel prices and hoy costs of airfare. Not to mention a high chance of Flight Delays and consolations. Travelers trying to get home hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. We wanted to get here and get in and just hope nothing gets delayed. Watch the news and said it was the busiest, a real busy weekend so did get there a little early. Live at Chicagos Ohare International airport. Garrett, it does look busy behind you. How is it going . Yeah, anita, its a busy by here, and it has been busy across the country. Tsa says this is the busiest Summer Travel on record. This so far this year, and this Labor Day Weekend is really wrapping up the unofficial summer, and this weekend alone, tsa says more than 14 million americans are expected to get on plane. That is 11 more than last year, and higher than back in 2019. Aaa says that shows there is still a huge pentup demand for travel after the pandemic, especially when y
Thec implementation. Reporter they absolutely nailed it with this second time frame of legislation on taxes to the president s desk by christmas. There had been a couple different scenarios though over the last week as to when the president would actually sign the bill, and one of those options was that he might wait until january, until the Congress Gets back here, and that they would have some sort of celebration to start the year off with a bang. As we saw within the last hour inside the oval office. He explained it by saying he wanted to keep that promise of tax legs signed by christmas. Tax legislation signed by christmas. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said that the bill would be on my desk before christmas, and you are holding me literally to that. So we did a rush job today. Its not fancy. Reporter now, over the last couple of days or so the president has touted the handful or so of major corporations that have said they will now, because of this
When he wrote that negotiations on daca have begun. Republicans want to make a deal. Democrats say they want to make a deal. Wouldnt it be great if we could finally after so many years solve the daca puzzle . This will be our last chance. There will never be another opportunity. March 5th, talking about the deadline he has put in place. One interesting note on this subject, the budget director Mick Mulvaney over from the white house to testify on capitol hill today to testify about the president s budget and he said the white house is anticipating a daca deal. Listen. The proposal that we sent you actually contemplates a daca immigration deal being done because we recognize the fact you have no interest in giving us money for full border wall unless it is part of a larger immigration bill so we fully contemplate that deal is reached. Reporter that is interesting. They work it into the budget projections. That is one subject. The other is trade, with members about the house and senate a