speech. speak other remedies that we were going through yesterday, obviously some actions from the white house and disagreements that the private sector is calling for more federal action on some things like commercial driver s license, easing restrictions. what is the hesitation? why hasn t this happened yet? some of these actions are taken right now at a certain point, it will become too late and it s problem will bottleneck further. they actually have been happening. the department of transportation has been supporting state for months and months. they returned to even exceed prepandemic commercial driver s license issuance rates which will allow more people to have commercial driver s license so they can drive trucks and more drugs they can move goods across the country. in 2021, an average of 50,000 commercial drivers licenses and learners permits were issued each month with 14% higher than
donald trump will pick an immigration fight with amlo and then there will be a response. absolutely. congresswoman jayapal, let s talk about how this plays out. you have at the same time donald trump threatening to cancel nafta which would cancel our relationships with mexico and canada, our biggest trade partners. you have mexico reaching out to trade partners without us and at the same time he s creating a refugee crisis. his policies mean you can t get through ports of entry so you have a crisis that will bottleneck into mexico. how do you see from the points of governance this election changing with the way the u.s. deals with our closest trading partner and neighbor mexico? i think the saddest thing is that the united states has given up global leadership role, including our relationships with our northern and southern closest partners so i think