Page 80 - Policy Changes News Today

The mixed messaging and confusing messaging further undermines public trust. the cdc is an esteemed institution with career scientists and public health experts. they do great work. but the communications communic been off. since the beginning of the pandemic, i think many of us assumed with the change of the guard in january of 2021 that we would see things differently. but weve seen confusing messaging around masking guidelines. now with testing guidelines. so i think at this point in the pand...

Abide no administration is facing a covid testing shortage now just as millions of americans are returning to work after the holiday and millions of kids are getting back to class. heres white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. >> unclear whether president biden thinks the revised cdc quarantine guidance should have included a testing component. >> i will be talk about that later. >> after his two top public health officials make conflicting statements about whether its necessary. >> pcr test ...

Bristow, thank _ bought £159 is a lot of money. paul bristow, thank you _ bought £159 is a lot of money. paul bristow, thank you for talking to us. well, lets get more from our political correspondent, helen catt, who is in westminster. helen, tell us a bit more about the idea that are coming forward from the government to try to keep the backbenchers happy. yes. the government to try to keep the backbenchers happy.— the government to try to keep the backbenchers happy. yes, there is a bit o...

Little bit. business goes back to normal. life goes back to normal. people might like that heading into a midterm. >> brit: i think people might indeed like that. for him to say the things that you just outlined would be for him to contradict. policies that he has adopted and many of which are still in place. it seems to me what he would need to do is announce a whole set of policy changes in which he would be overruling people like dr. fauci and his cdc director and so on. and, you know, i thin...

Priorities are simple majority and super majority and so he loves the current situation. so it has already happened. and i think the best way to preserve the future is create something that does honor the minority and thats the talking filibuster. if we do that, the minority can slow us down for a long time, huge incentive to negotiate, huge incentive to agree and republicans will want to keep that in place because they feel like more often the democrats want to do policy changes than day do. >>...

The schools, proper safety protocols to implement in the bathrooms, hallways, seems to me the teachers have to answer for all the dollars spent. >> well, i agree. but you know, theres 1 of 2 positions that people have on schools and one is an active role and the other is a passive role. and we have seen the government take a very passive role. the surgeon general issued a report theres a mental health crisis among young people. a very passive role. people throw lip service to the problem. what w...

Press that theyve been asking for, they are going to get it but they also have been asking for something substantive and so it could backfire, right? how many speeches has president biden given like this, similar to this where hes championing voting rights? many. hes given many of speeches but they havent actually translated into substantive policy changes and so that is, i think, the fear that it could backfire. also, on this issue of filibuster reform, thats something im watching closely. i th...

The prime minister to survive. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt, has more on the government policies that were announced over the weekend. there is a bit of a lull in westminster this morning. we have had that no massive revelations that have things on over the weekend, so there is a bit of time to pause and reflect about that, but as you say what we have had in their place is a number of suggestions of policy changes, which appear to be designed to appeal to a particular part of the cons...

Pause this morning. what we have had in the last 2a hours are seven news of upcoming policy changes, things like the navy being brought in to tackle migrant crossings in small boats in the channel, things like freezing and possibly scrapping the bbc licence fee, and there are suggestions this is part of a coordinated strategy to throw out policies that would be popular with particular parts of the conservative party, reports that there is even a name for this, operation red meat, although downin...

The policy changes have left americans confused. watch this, though. >> frankly, honestly, you have lost your reputation. the american people dont trust the words coming out of your mouth. >> the way this administration rolled out boosters was a disaster. you created skepticism and mass confusion. >> most americans cant make heads or tails of anything coming out of this administration. >> those republicans upset with some of the faces of the public health response from the biden administration. ...