translator: we don t want to keep going through this. every year there are strikes. this is where the next phase of the war will be won or lost, in trenches like this. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 8, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where new life is being breathed into president biden s domestic agenda after senate democrats finally passed their sweeping climate health care and tax plan officially known as the inflation reduction act. vice president kamala harris cast the deciding vote after a deadlock along party lines. on this vote the yeas are 50, nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the motion is agreed to. the measure represents the largest climate investment in u.s. history with $370 billion to combat climate change. it also makes major changes to health policy such as giving medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices and it imp
masks don t work. only the expensive m95 s work. two years into this you re saying that masks don t work, the back some needed mandates are unconstitutional and you can get covid while vaccinated and transmitted. the experts have been wrong about everything. they need to put their salary back into the treasury. just send their paycheck back, because we are paying them to be wrong. we can keep paying experts to be wrong. dana: care to grovel geraldo? he mistakes my position. i was at a lawyers dinner a few weeks ago including an attorney, the seminal 1905 case, the government have the absolute right to mandate vaccines. the supreme court s it said today yes.
and now it s time to talk about jobs. all right. let talk about jobs. here s one, neil bowlen s job with the faa new on furlough. i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we re reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that s barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we re incredibly disappointed. he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day s work. here s why they failed to. it s a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running on short-term funding bills that routinely pass through congress, almost like the debt limit until now. this time politics have intruded with republicans inserting language about rural airports and faa unionization into the process, neither of which democrats support. you can decide for yourself if you re for subsidizing rural airports or whether the faa should unionize. i m not taking a position. th
might be losing their paychecks. that s because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. that s 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done with that, all they could talk about was jobs and how are going to be focused on creating jobs. the american people s p priority is the creation of jobs. creating jobs for the american peoe. create jobs in america. create jobs. create jobs. job creation. focus on jobs. new jobs. jobs. jobs. jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs. jobs. talking about jobs. are talking about jobs. and now it s time to talk about jobs. all right. let s talk about jobs. here s one. neill bolin s jo
the u.s. passport agency processed about 14 million passports last year. that s 54,000 every day. so a lot of people clearly will be impacted. also impacted by this potential government shutdown, workers here. we spoke with a member of the federal police force who said he endured six weeking without a paycheck back in 1995, the last time there was a federal government shutdown. he s very concerned the same situation could happen again this time. [ male announcer ] there s just something about werther s caramel