absolutely not. why does anybody in the united states not do something with our current asylum law? if you just stay don t come to the united states the truth is you apply for asylum legally like they ve been doing it for 200 some odd years. i want to move on to wall street journal and inflation wall street journal said this because the biden administration is taking a victory lap, yet a 7.1 percent increase in prices still a long way from victory an inflation continues to be sticky across much of the economy. food rose .5 percent, much of the decrease came in energy prices which are volatile an fell by 1.5 percent. jason stuff is just so expensive, you look at these numbers like it s all better and you walk in a store and thinking man we are getting killed. go ahead.
shelves, economic uncertainty and long lines spell sticker shock for millions of americans reeling from an 18 month pandemic. 13 year high inflation is the new reality. the consumer price index climbed 5.4% in september, compared to the prior year, matching the highest rate since 2008. food rose 4.6%, electricity, 5.2%, president biden also continuing to push his social safety net package. it s clear that it s not going to be $3.5 trillion. reporter: independent vermont senator bernie sanders of out with an op-ed in a west virginia paper, making a plea to coal country about the climate, the state s senior senator, joe manchin, fired back, writing this isn t the first time an out-of-stater has tried to tell west virginia inns what it west virginiainans what is best for them, i will not vote for a reckless expansion of government
chain crisis might pose a new threat to festive celebration as pressure mounts for president biden to take more action. david spunt is live from the white house with more. hi, david. reporter: hi, mike. on my way to the white house this morning, i was listening to the ride owe, and i heard radio, and i heard several ads for trucking companies trying to recruit drivers. there is a serious driver shortage in the country playing into all of these other problems with the supply chain. and this is in addition to some of those cargo problems that we re seeing off the coast of california. it s just the perfect storm for this supply chain crisis. dozens of these cargo ships are packed to the brim stuck this what s really just a parking lot off the california coast. on land, as i mentioned, these truck drivers are scarce. millions of goods, mike, in limbo cannot get onto trucks. the consumer price index climbed 5.4% in september, that s compared to the prior year matching the highest rate s
and long lines spell sticker shock for millions of americans reeling from an 18 month pandemic. 13 year high inflation is the new reality. the consumer price index climbed 5.4% in september, compared to the prior year, matching the highest rate since 2008. food rose 4.6%, electricity, 5.2%, president biden also continuing to push his social safety net package. it s clear that it s not going to be $3.5 trillion. reporter: independent vermont senator bernie sanders of out with an op-ed in a west virginia paper, making a plea to coal country about the climate, the state s senior senator, joe manchin, fired back, writing this isn t the first time an out-of-stater has tried to tell west virginia inns what it west virginiainans what is best for them, i will not vote for a reckless expansion of government
the consumer price index climbed 5.4% in september, compared to the prior year matching the highest rate since 2008. food rose 4.6%. electricity 5.2%. we re not learning our lessons from the pandemic. we have very serious supply chain issues that go much greater than just making sure we have presents for the holiday season. in 2020, then candidate biden during the early days of the pandemic, this was during that food shortage crisis, he blamed donald trump, then president trump for the mess. listen it s not a food shortage. it s a lack of leadership. harness the restaurant industry to help get food to those needed and help get millions of laid off workers back to work in the jobs. that s what the chefs do. this is not rocket science. it is leadership. president biden also continuing to push his social safety net package originally priced over 3 trillion dollars.