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"World and national news over to Nancy lions in our D.C. studio hey dance Hey Carol federal health officials are defending their response to the pandemic today telling senators the science now supports keeping kids in schools despite the surge in cases CDC director Rochelle Walensky says improvements are now in place Today what do we have for our children we have vaccines Of course that we can use We have school testing programs We have new science that demonstrates test to stay This is where our child might be exposed in the classroom But if they're exposed they don't have to stay home in quarantine They can test every other day or twice a week and stay in the classroom safely Did say the Akron variant continues to surge now making up 98% of coronavirus cases but she says the infections are less severe among those who've been vaccinated Tax season opens January 24th but Treasury Department officials are warning you may need to be ready for frustration Tax filing season is less than two weeks away the IRS warns be prepared for delays as returns and refunds or processed IRS representatives were only able to answer about 10% of the phone calls last season and as of mid November the agency still had a backlog of roughly 8.6 million returns to process Treasury officials blame funding cuts and staffing shortages and they say it's critical for Congress to pass the Democrat social spending bill which includes $80 billion for the IRS In Washington I'm Annie Morris Bloomberg radio President Biden is taking his push for voting rights legislation to Georgia this afternoon He's expected to throw his support behind a plan to change the filibuster rule in the Senate in order to pass voting rights bills Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more.
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"Down to Washington D.C. now go to some of the smart people down there talk about some world and national news with Nathan Hager All right Paul thank you President Biden plans to address the nation about the omicron variant this afternoon a day after the U.S. recorded more than a million new COVID cases in one day for the first time in the pandemic Doctor Stuart Wright the Johns Hopkins university school of medicine says even as quickly as oma cron spreads there is more we can do to slow it down We are not seeing healthcare workers get infected in healthcare settings wearing those high quality respirator masks but they are not as available as they should be and I think a lot of people are still not wearing masks as carefully as they could when they're out and about Doctor Stewart ray Johns Hopkins the Centers for Disease Control is following the Food and Drug Administration cutting the wait time for a third Pfizer dose from 6 months to 5 federal government still recommends a 6 month wait for the Moderna booster Senators are returning to Washington with a to do list that will likely be delayed by negotiations over President Biden's build back better agenda Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports Lawmakers had hoped to have the president's social spending bill done last month but senator Joe Manchin opposed it and it stalled out The extra weeks of work to get that Bill done will make it harder for lawmakers to reach a government funding deal by February 18th Republican senator Roy blunt of Missouri says it could happen in March any longer in a full year continuing resolution could be on the table It could also delay President Biden's budget proposal which is technically due February 7th In Washington I'm Annie Morris Bloomberg radio On the Senate floor today number two Democrat dick Durbin said Democrats will focus on voting rights first before taking up the president's build back better Bill Global news on Aaron Don Bloomberg quick take power by more than 2700.
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"S&P futures are little changed as we head into the final trading day of the week 5 O one on Wall Street I'm gonna check the markets every 15 minutes throughout the trading day on Bloomberg S&P futures are again little change Now features down 83 NASDAQ futures up 54 that decks in Germany is down about two tenths percent The cat in Paris is down three tenths percent in the footsie 100 down a quarter percent Ten year treasury up 9 30 seconds Yields 1.55% They yield on the two year .47% I'm executive as down 8 10% or 63 cents at 78.38 a barrel Nathan Karen we begin this morning on Capitol Hill where House Democrats are expected to pass President Biden's $1.6 trillion economic agenda today They wanted to vote on it last night but Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has been delaying that plan with a lengthy speech from the house floor that began in the evening hours and is still going I know some of you are mad at me think I spoke too long but I've had enough America has had enough The house is scheduled to resume work at 8 o'clock this morning following representative Kevin McCarthy's remarks Meantime the congressional budget office released its estimate for the cost of President Biden's plan It says it would add more than $360 billion to the deficit over the next decade The debt ceiling is also a front and center in Washington Nathan's Senate leaders meeting yesterday to figure out how to resolve the impasse ahead of a possible default next month Amy Morris says the latest from our Bloomberg 99 one newsroom in Washington Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and minority leader Mitch McConnell talked about the need to boost the nation's debt ceiling sometime around mid December This just two days after treasury secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country risks default if Congress doesn't lift the limit by December 15th Republicans want Democrats to use a budget reconciliation process to raise the dead limit without GOP votes But Schumer insists any boost should be bipartisan After the meeting McConnell said they'd figure it out quote we always do In Washington I'm Annie Morris Bloomberg daybreak All right Amy thanks The fed is also in focus on Capitol Hill today There are new developments this morning over who will lead the Central Bank Let's get the latest live from Bloomberg's ready to young Good morning Good morning Nathan Two progressive democratic senators join Elizabeth Warren in saying they oppose renominating fed chair Jay Powell for a second term Jeff merkley of Oregon and Sheldon whitehouse of Rhode Island say Powell lacks a strong commitment to address the growing risks of climate change Fed governor lael brainard is more liberal on climate issues Meantime Bloomberg sources say democratic senator Joe Manchin is undecided about who would be best for the job He wants to meet with brainer didn't have a follow-up talk with Powell And The White House says President Biden will announce his choice to lead the U.S. Central Bank before Thanksgiving live in New York I'm ready to young Bloomberg daybreak All right ready to thank you about the fragile relationship between the U.S. and China is also in focus this morning It's dominated discussions at the Bloomberg new economy forum in Singapore this week Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the latest to weigh in on the conflict Of course we have to cooperate We should cooperate on a range of issues but we also can not permit the kind of aggressive military build up the kind of efforts to dominate maritime navigation the intimidation of nations in the larger Asia Pacific region Hillary Clinton is predicting the Biden administration will remove some Trump era tariffs on China she's also commenting on cryptocurrencies saying they could loom large on the geopolitical stage What looks like a very interesting and somewhat exotic effort to literally mine new coins in order to trade with them has the potential for undermining currencies for undermining the role of the dollar as the reserve currency for destabilizing nations Clinton's remarks came from a panel at today's Bloomberg new economy forum and stay tuned for more of that conversation coming up in ten minutes from now Another former Secretary of State mentioned cryptocurrencies there Karen We should mention Bitcoin is down for a 6th straight session right now trading just shy of 57,000 U.S. futures meantime are mixed as we close out this trading week yesterday Big tech drove the S&P 500 to its 66th record close of the year This session could be more volatile though Options expire today They're forecast to be the second most in recent history Nathan we're watching shares of applying materials this morning down the most 5% the maker of machinery used to manufacture semiconductors delivered a downbeat forecast citing supply chain issues and we get that story from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet Production and shipment snags have created global shortages of key parts wreaking havoc on the chip industry and that has made it harder for Applied Materials to capitalize on surging demand In a statement CEO Gary Dickerson said the supply chain can not keep up and Applied Materials expect shortages of certain silicon components to persist in the near term In New York Charlie pellet Bloomberg daybreak Okay Charlie thanks Again futures are mixed as we head toward the Friday open S&P futures are down almost 5 points down futures down a 127 NASDAQ futures are higher by 57 points European stocks are moving lower this morning The ten year treasury is up ten 30 seconds the yield 1.54% yield on the two year right now .46% Straight ahead will bring a year latest local headlines and a check of sports This is Bloomberg It's 5 O 7 on Wall Street where 43° in Central.