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The Fox News Rundown

From Washington: Are We Nearing The End Of COVID-19?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden stated this week that the increase of vaccinations across the country can help boost employment due to the recent mandates. Meanwhile, Pfizer claims its experimental antiviral pill can reduce the risk of death and hospitalization from COVID-19 by nearly 90%. Professor & physician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Dr. Marty Makary gives his opinion on whether we are finally coming out of the global pandemic. Earlier in the week, the President addressed delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland to set new goals to reduce deforestation & keep global temperatures within one and a half degrees Celsius. FOX News Foreign Correspondent Simon Owen was there and speaks to Jared Halpern about the conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.9

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0:14.9

This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.

0:18.4

Where were you when Congress made good on an infrastructure week pledge.

0:23.6

Chad Pergram, our Fox News Capitol Hill correspondent and I were here.

0:28.2

In said the U.S. Capitol, it was around 1130 Friday night when the House approved a long stalled infrastructure bill, a $1 trillion

0:36.8

investment in roads, bridges, broadband, and more. A key pillar of President Biden's

0:42.1

domestic agenda had stalled here in the House since August.

0:46.2

Then, late Friday night, it came together.

0:49.3

So Chad, what broke the gridlock?

0:51.8

Well, basically you needed to get an agreement between moderate Democrats and liberal Democrats.

0:56.9

Remember they wanted the social spending plan the liberals did to ride together with the infrastructure bill.

1:04.5

You know, they wanted these two things married together.

1:07.0

And that was just not going to happen.

1:08.6

I mean, frankly, you know, because you had moderates holding out saying, well, we're not

1:11.2

going to vote on that bill until we get a

1:12.5

score and evaluation from the Congressional Budget Office so somebody had to

1:15.6

blink here and frankly it was the progressives a little bit because they did not

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