"Remain In Mexico" Returns
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
More cases of the omicron variant have been identified in the U.S., and the Biden administration announced a new plan to make at-home rapid tests covered by private health insurance, launch family vaccination clinics, extend the federal mask mandate on public transportation, and more.
Mexico agreed to allow the U.S. to restart the controversial “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy that was put into place by President Trump. The policy requires asylum seekers at the Southern border to stay in Mexico as they wait for immigration hearings.
And in headlines: MLB owners and players failed to reach a deal on a new work agreement, former Ohio Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade was charged with murder for the shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., and Congress approved a short-term spending bill to fund the government until mid-February.
Show Notes:
New York Times: “Why Didn’t the U.S. Detect Omicron Cases Sooner?” – https://nyti.ms/3Igjjj6
Washington Post: “Biden pledges to fight new variant ‘with science and speed,' as omicron cases multiply and winter outlook worsens” – https://wapo.st/3rLKXib
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| 0:00.0 | It is Friday, December 3rd. I'm getting Jurassic. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Priyanka Rabindi and this is but a day where we're hoping the gas prices continue |
| 0:13.4 | to decline until they are negative numbers. |
| 0:17.0 | Right, it won't be fair until I get paid to go on a long drive because driving is hard. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, I believe a gas station should have to compete for access to my car. |
| 0:25.6 | It's a no-go out-bid mobile. We want to see it. |
| 0:30.6 | On today's show, the US restarts a controversial policy where some asylum seekers at the Southern |
| 0:36.1 | border have to stay in Mexico while their case is pending. |
| 0:39.6 | Plus, Congress funds the government at the last moment again. |
| 0:43.6 | But first, more news on what we know and do not know about the Omicron variant. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's start with this announcement from the White House. |
| 0:50.6 | Health insurers must cover the cost of at-home testing so that if you're one of the 150 |
| 0:56.8 | million Americans with private health insurance, next month your plan will cover at-home |
| 1:01.8 | test. |
| 1:02.8 | Private insurers already cover the expensive PCR test and that you get to the doctor's |
| 1:08.7 | office. |
| 1:09.9 | And now they will cover at-home test as well. |
| 1:14.0 | That was President Biden at the National Institutes of Health yesterday. |
| 1:17.0 | Gideon, can you take us through everything else he was talking about? |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah, so some of this is new and some of it we've heard before in fact quite a few times. |
| 1:24.2 | But what Biden is talking about in that clip is this new plan that would allow for at-home |
| 1:28.5 | rapid tests to hypothetically be more widely available to people at home. |
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