year i reduced the deficit by $350 billion! and you know how much i m going to reduce the deficit this year? $1,500,000 reduction in the deficit. and, by the way, just by dealing with allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices, it means medicare doesn t have to pay out that many tax dollars to buy them. that alone is going to reach over time $300 billion reduced in the deficit. you would think the republicans really cared about reducing inflation, they would vote for the inflation reduction act, but every single republican in the house and senate voted against it. now, i admit someone voted against it they thought it made sense but they couldn t let biden, quote, have a victory. it s not my victory. it s the american people s victory. here in america every single republican voted against lowering prescription drug prices, against lowering health care costs, against protecting your pensions, against lower energy costs, against creating good paying jobs, against a fairer tax sy
at la guardia. since we have been here the past few hours the security line has schedulely grown. the people i am talking to say it is pretty much what they expected. they are calling it a bit of a blast from the past, from prepandemic numbers that stands the test of the data we are about to show you. 53.4 million people are traveling this holiday. that s according to triple a. 48 million by car, 4.2 million expected to fly. that s a 5% difference, 5% fewer than the travelers we saw back in 2019, of course, before the pandemic started. one thing that several people have mentioned here is the new variant of the coronavirus. omicron. they are talking about it. but of course their travel plans, most of them were already set by the time they heard about the virus. that couldn t stop them. they had to make their way back home. here s what some of them had to tell us a bit earlier. there is always going to be something new, apparently. that s what happened with the
update tonight from san pedro.pl [indiscernible]. managing america s supply chain begins here. these guys are all loitering. inside the control tower handling ship traffic at the port of l.a. and long beach. if they re coming from asia, it normally takes two weeks to cross the ocean at 18 knots. officials hope the logjam here is over. shipping cost and container volume from asia is down but it doesn t mean lower prices or more inventory at christmas. the gap, nordstrom, nike, all save supply chain problems are hurting sails. holiday goods or shipping right now at unprecedented rates, 20% above what the prepandemic numbers. because of that unprecedented volume, new rules. instead of ships racing over from china only to sit offshore for a month spewing pollution into the l.a. basin, going
william la jeunesse has an update tonight from san pedro. [indiscernible]. managing america s supply chain begins here. these guys are all loitering. inside the control tower handling ship traffic at the port of l.a. and long beach. if they re coming from asia, it normally takes two weeks to cross the ocean at 18 knots. officials hope the logjam here is over. shipping cost and container volume from asia is down but it doesn t mean lower prices or more inventory at christmas. the gap, nordstrom, nike, all save supply chain problems are hurting sails. holiday goods or shipping right now at unprecedented rates, 20% above what the prepandemic numbers. because of that unprecedented volume, new rules. instead of ships racing over from china only to sit offshore for a month spewing pollution into the l.a. basin, going
do to their children creates this passion like no other. and unfortunately, in our community masks are not required in the community other than school. it s confusing for parents, i think. i think parents are the ones that have more of an issue with the mask than the students. they will do anything they need to do. the first day of school, all morning long and enrollment is up considerably to prepandemic numbers and there wasn t one issue. there wasn t one student refusing to wear a mask or, you know, not wearing a mask properly. they didn t have to physically distance any longer and they were just really happy to be there. so i think it boils down to politics. unfortunately. there is so much disinformation and anger. how concerned are you about more