paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the remaining presidential candidates are making hair closing arguments in new hampshire ahead of that state s first in the nation primary on tuesday with recent polls showing nikki haley in second place behind donald trump and ron desantis coming in a distant third. the former president is stepping up his attacks on haley as he looks to build on his win in iowa with a knockout blow in the granite state. here are trump and haley trading fire this week. the people behind nikki haley are pro-name testy, they re pro-china, their pro-open borders. don t kid yourself. pro-war and they re pro-biden. we don t want more of the same with the trump-biden thing. we don t want more 80-year-olds in d.c. we don t want for the more of the same where both of them are distracted by investigations and all these other things. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel andtorial board member kyle peat
good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
determine whether its coronavirus vaccine is safe for infants and young children. this is so important. it s important for school. it s important for getting and keeping the country back to normal. the first participants have already been vaccinated. the plan is to ultimately enroll nearly 7,000 children in the u.s. and canada between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old. also the white house drawing up plans to increase the supply of vaccines to emerging hot spots. the vaccination rate in the u.s. is accelerating. now standing at an average 26.4 million shots reported a day. president biden meantime heading to pennsylvania. a bit later. his first stop on the help is here tour where he ll promote the benefits of the coronavirus b relief bill. let s bring in dr. sanjay gupta. obviously, very important because when we talk about getting everyone, all adult americans vaccinated by may 1st or july 1st, we re not even beginning to talk about kids yet. that s why this trial ma
we know the history of trying to do that, it s really tough. you really need to have kind of a bipartisan willing to hold hands to do steps that are likely to be hard, either side, raising taxes or cutting benefits for some recipients. both of those things are hard to do, and one party is not going to do it alone, and it doesn t sound like it s going to happen anytime in the next few years. there s one other way you could help address the social security problem, and that s by expanding the number of young workers who are contributing to the system, and you might do that by making progress on immigration reform: that s one more issue that remains pretty stalemated as a form of social security and medicare are. that s one thing i have asked the white house about this multiple times. why don t you change the conversation around immigration, restate to make it more about the economy and funding the future. try to take it out of the politically contentious realm that it currently lives i
can make this case. he made the case against government employee unions better than anyone. he made the case for reform. i think the second part of it though is that it didn t go that far in new jersey and there s a question here. this is a start at what he s talking about but to be clear, what he s saying now, he s talking about raising the retirement age a few years, he s talking about means testing social security benefits. which means that well-to-do retirees get fewer benefits. right. in the future. in the future. not right now. but in the future. you, james, not dan and me but you. theoretically, yes. the point is that this is not going to solve the social security problem, never mind the larger entitlement problem. i would like to see him go bolder especially if he s thinking i m a long shot i want to get out there and try and stretch the debate with some big thinking. i would like him to go bigger. i have to disagree with james on this. nobody else is running on