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Current situation would be it s complicated. the world is largely at peace but americans can see the country is no longer the sole superpower. the afghanistan withdrawal was an ugly reminder of that fact. growth is coming back fast, but restarting the global economy after a long period of induced paralysis has caused huge logjams and hiccups for a variety of reasons, some of which can be blamed on biden, we are seeing more inflation than in decades, and that has often weighed on presidential approval rating. violent crime was up nationwide in 2020. and the pandemic has not ended with a bang but rather continues to wax and wane, causing new anxieties just when you thought it was safe to get back to normal life. presidents often get rewarded for being around in good times, whether they caused them or not. ....
Across the country. we have broken logjams there as well. private-sector port terminal operators at the ports of los angeles and long beach, for example, have announced that they re going to the main fees when truck drivers, on the port to pick up containers. if they do not look night or weekends when roads are more les congested. a major ocean carrot, the largest in the world, announced on monday a new $100 discount on containers picked up quickly with larger discounts for nighttime and we can pick ups. we ve announced that we are extending through february extra flexibility that allows truckers to drive more hours when they are transporting gas, food, and medical supplies. paired with these important safety measures, all of them are going to help move goods more quickly and get products that people want on the shelves all across the country. over the last month, the number ....
Combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful. all the way through the supply chain. there s been a lot of innovation, end of quote. here s what the progress has looked like the first thing we had to do was speed up the operations at our ports. americans are buying more goods than ever, and a lot of those goods come through our ports. 40% of the good that s come into the country on the west coast come through two ports los angeles and long beach. to help relieve congress jeff sessions, i brought together congestion, i brought together labor and management and asked them to step up and cooperate more. to move forward in operating those ports not five days a week, 40 hours a week, but 24 hours a day, seven days a week, more shifts at night and on the weekends. then we had to make sure that people could transport those goods from the ports to stores and homes across the country. we have broken up logjams there, as well. ....
Something where they are pulling out all the stops at the state level to try to get, you know, the logjams, and the bottlenecks out of the way so people can get stuff. ainsley: calling it operation open road. a group of republican governors. steve: there they are. ainsley: that want to save christmas. there they are, tennessee, texas, florida, ohio, arizona, montana maryland, georgia, idaho, south carolina, missouri, iowa, nebraska, oklahoma, and north dakota. and they have put together a plan of action because they re saying the president is not doing it we want to get involved. what we want to do is we want state agencies like transportation, commerce and workforce. we want to help them coordinate with the private industry, local governments and mariuccis states to ensure more efficiency, they can share data about the port, what is taking coming in and what s not try to get the supply training running again. there is a shortage of 80,000 truck drivers all-time high. brian: by the way ....