Restaurants, airlines, businesses struggling with staff shortages in many blaming big government handouts. Take a look at the astounding number of people now actually admitting they are turning down work and generous on employment benefits. And lawmakers in New York to keep Chickfila Factory Chain out of Rest Stops. Attorneys are asking if it is legal. The roof nomadic group of renegade Texas Lawyer celebrated by much of the media and their n The Left. White House Kevin Corke digging into new details who is footing the bill and the first time hanging out in the nations capital, good evening kevin. Good evening shannon, House Democrats and staffers, the cost for the texas excursion, if you will, they are quickly mounting and truth be told the party not unlimited. The democrats started making fundraising pictures to finance the camp to allow a Blocking Package of g. O. P. Voting legislation in the lone Star State my three questions are becoming increasingly relevant. Who is footing the b
Republicans efforts to restrict Voter Access at the State Level across the country. At least 14 states have passed some of those laws, all of it driven by the lives there was Mass Fraud in the 2020 election and that Donald Trump actually won. Okay. Were expecting the Senate Vote in the five eastern hour, a few hours out from now. Democrats are hoping to keep their caucus unified, but moderate Joe Manchin has yet to announce how he will vote today. Senator manchin, are you going to support this Bill Today . Were still waiting. Youre talking about the voting Rights Bill . Were waiting to see the final. Its going to be the vote on it. No, no, no, no, no. No, its not. I want to make sure were going to move to a better compromise. All right. Ryan, whats going to happen this afternoon . Reporter well, we are almost 100 sure that this bill is going to be blocked by senate republicans. It would require ten republicans to vote with democrats in order to move the bill forward, and republicans ha
of the blocks? it s a busy half hours so let s get started. the international chamber of shipping has called on more countries to remove trade barriers to give the global economy a much needed boost. in a new report, the ics says that if restrictive trade policies were removed, it would support the global economic recovery from covid i9 by 3.4%. of the 46 maritime nations assessed, it found the most restrictive included egypt, kenya, thailand and argentina. the ics added developing economies would experience an even greater increase of 7%, if they reduced their restrictions in a modest and equal way. esben poulsson is chairman of the international chamber of shipping. welcome to the programme. so what could cutting restrictive trade policies look like? well, ironically, tariffs themselves which is what most people are familiar with, have, in many cases, been reduced somewhat, but what we are really looking at is reducing non tariff restrictions, which is discriminatory trea
take time to answer important questions, including about efficacy of current vaccines against omicron. this morning, cnn spoke to a top doctor in south africa who is tamping down concerns. i think it was an overreaction. the knee jerk reaction of closing borders and people say, yes, but i m trying to protect my people. so the question would be how do you know it is not in your country yet? president biden says he does not anticipate any more travel bans or new lockdowns, that should be clear, assuring the public that both options are off the table for now. the white house is planning more extensive guidance as they learn more on thursday. obviously this could have an impact on the markets. we ll keep a close watch on them this morning. dow futures down sharply ahead of the opening bell. jerome powell will testify about the new threats the variant poses to the u.s. economy. athena jones and jeremy diamond are covering this for us this morning. athena, let s begin with yo