Has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the Coronavirus Pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, Child Tax credits, prek, expanded medicare benefits. Free community college. A whole range of things in the Budget Bill that was advanced today In The House of representatives. He is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, Legislatively On Covid and the states and Voting Rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. Today was a step on the path. Mr. Brownstein the budget package, huge. It could transform american lives. But, you are not convinced its going to actually help biden or democrats politically. Why . Why is that . In the near term. Yeah. Look, i think it is a Split Scr
House correspondent John Harwood, senior political analyst ron brownstein. Gentlemen, so happy to have you. Good evening to both of you. Its the top of the hour now. Were glad that youre here. John, two big wins for the biden administration today. The House Voting to move forward on this massive 3. 5 trillion budget and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The president also talking about the economic plan before the afghanistan announcement. Does this show you where he thinks americans are focusing . Its not only where he thinks americans are focused, will be focused, but its also what he thinks will be the best way he has to counter some of the political damage that he has sustained over afghanistan. Joe biden has centered his presidency around trying to bring material changes to peoples lives, trying to get the Coronavirus Pandemic under control, trying to deliver concrete benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, in the form of human benefits, Child Tax credits, expan
This as leaked documents show new panic surrounding the delta variant around the center for disease control. Today president biden vowed more restrictions are likely headed our way. Have a look. Reporter: and americans expect more guidelines and restrictions coming up because of covid? in all probability. Jason: to make matters worse, biden s surgeon general is now apparently recommending americans now wear masks outside. Watch. Speak at the people we are most concerned about are the unvaccinated. For example, the folks who are unvaccinated, let s say you are a parent like me who has young children who are not vaccinated, that is a circumstance where we are being extra cautious and wearing the mask even if you are fully vaccinated, wearing it outside, when you are in an indoor public location is an extra step to protecting those at home. Jason: so the question tonight is how is this following the science? joining us now, fox news medical contributors dr. Mcgarry. Thank you so much, wan
We head into a holiday weekend with gas prices hitting a sevenyear high and americans paying a whole lot more at the supermarket. Dana: mark meredith is following this story from washington for us. Good morning. New economic data from the labor department. The unemployment rate just unde from the month prior. Good news. Employers adding more jobs than what economists were expecting. Government reporting some 850,000 nonfarm jobs added last month. Where were the jobs added? no surprise, leisure and hospitality. Restaurants and hotels are selling out and professional businesses services as people go back to work. Fewer jobs added in manufacturing than you may expect and some jobs lost in construction. One of president biden s advisors is calling the jobs report fantastic. The white house is still to insist the recovery has a long way to go. Critics say the president s push to spend trillions of dollars could crush the economic growth after the pandemic. They want to spend so much money.
Final hours of the regular session denying republicans a quorum, which is required for final passage of the bill. Republican governor greg abbott says election integrity, those were his words, will be among the 11 items he wants considered during the special session. Democrats say the proposed legislation would add a slew of new restrictions to curtail voting. It s worth pointing out that the former president won texas during last year s presidential election. The news continues right now. Let s hand it over to chris for cro cuomo prime time. Hey, did you hear the new 2022 campaign slogan for congress? here it is. Vote for me, and i promise to do nothing. It s not a cynical thing. It s not a joke. And it s not some backroom promise. It is the ugly and the obvious of our reality. Here it is. Honestly, right now, for the next18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all that down to get to december of 2022. 18 months chaos and the inability to get stuff done. Now, the key is