all that context. be careful. now to china. leaders may be changing some of their strict covid policies. they cite high vaccination rates and the weakening of the omicron veronica as their motivation. there are those mass afshg protests to the government s approach to the pandemic. ivan watson has more. reporter: the chinese government says it is not scrapping its zero covid policy. instead it s making tweaks so one of those tweaks, one of those relaxations has been removing a requirement that if you want to travel on public transport, a subway or a bus, you no longer have to get a negative covid test every 48 hours to do that. in more than 20 cities across the country and that is a relaxation of these harsh restrictions that is being welcomed by some citizens. public transport is no longer restricted. that is more convenient. translator: this might be the
to figure out what to pass to pass with manchin and sinema, get the 50 votes from democrats in the senate. so their hope at this point as they continue that outreach to senators from the democratic side is that a lot of this is worked out and that really it is just a matter of making tweaks around the edges before to send it back to the house to get it passed, signed, sealed and delivered by president biden by the end of the year. daniel, the clock is ticking and when you get into a midterm election year a lot of process goes by the wayside and folks back in the districts and trying to get re-elected and we have control of both houses up for grabs. republicans feeling very positive about it but we have had so many, not just a handful
minus the corporate tax. it s not that salt is negotiable. what we are focused on right now is making tweaks to the system to make sure we have a middle income tax cut and the people in new york, new jersey, connecticut and others aren t hurt too much by the elimination of state and local deductions. bret: you off talk to about growth and getting the economic engine growing. there are concerns about from deficit hawks. are you concerned you can get them over the finish line if you have senator corker saying he s not going to vote for any tax reform that raises the deficit. senator corker has been very helpful. he was critical to getting the budget out of committee. i ve gone through the numbers with him. this is relatively simple math. we hope to have a budget that s a trillion and half dollars and reconciliation. as we ve said, there s half billion dollars, $500 billion of
in the lead up to that vote which wound up not happening said that donald trump had done everything he possibly could have done to make that path. so it s sort of like what now? what else is out there? i m not sure making tweaks here and there, i think you lose as many people as you gain. and it sounds like some of the moves that are at least on the table, and of course this is conceptual t sounds like it makes it difficult for the pre-existing condition provision to really stick. making sure everyone you can t be kicked off health care and you have to be be given access to health care. are you going to be able to pay for the health care you offered . it seems they re walking into difficult territory. they re caught a little between a rock and a hard place. on the one hand i think they do hear from their constituents who said we elected you are the last six years to repeal and replace obamacare. but at the same time, i think
senators bowling. it worked with house members. laura, you ve been doing reporting on the travel ban 2.0. it s already facing legal challenges in hawaii, washington state. update our viewers on the latest information you re getting. last night, we saw a filing from washington state. they still say this travel pban is flawed for statutory and administrative reasons. they re now using their own words against them last month using statements from white house press secretary sean spicer and the policy advisor said on fox last month, we re making tweaks around the edges, minor tweks. they re saying if that s the case this order is still very flawed and the motivation is the same. if the courts oppose, reject 2.0, the second revised version, there are significant changes from the first travel ban proposal it would be another