Weekly Roundup: September 10th

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The number of new COVID cases hasn't been this high since before the vaccine was widely available. Aiming to curb the rise, President Biden has announced a series of expansive new policies covering the bulk of American workers.

And the Department of Justice is suing Texas over its near-ban on abortions, launching one of many expected court fights over the law.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, business correspondent Andrea Hsu, and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.

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0:00.0	ODE to NPR. ONPR, my politic muse, relied upon for the latest news. As your humble listening
0:10.1	champ, I offer you this timestamp. Republican or Democrat, this podcast was recorded at 11
0:18.8	p.m. on Friday, September 10. So Tam, Dom, Daniel and Osma, Ayesha, Susan, Don and Mara,
0:29.0	Carrie, Kelsey and two Scots. Run, Ryan Miles and who have I forgot? Y'all do you and this
0:37.5	I know I'll continue to enjoy this show. I love that. Oh, that was glorious. Yeah, it felt
0:47.8	a little like Christmas at the end, right? You get a gift. You get a gift. It was wonderful.
0:52.8	Thank you. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamra Keith. I cover the White House.
0:58.4	And I'm Osma Khaled. I also cover the White House. My job as president is to protect all Americans.
1:04.6	So tonight, I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require
1:12.8	all employers with 100 and more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure
1:21.8	their workforces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week. That, of course,
1:30.6	is President Biden speaking yesterday, announcing a significant escalation in his effort to get
1:37.3	Americans vaccinated by requiring more Americans to get vaccinated. Andrea Shoe of NPR's business
1:44.8	desk is with us. Hello. Hey there. So let's talk about that. This is a big step going through
1:53.3	OSHA, the agency that is designed to keep American workers safe and basically requiring
2:00.3	vaccination for 80 million Americans. That is huge. This is a huge shift, Tam. And you know,
2:07.4	it's really the president responding to what happened to the economy in August as the Delta variant
2:13.7	took off. You know, we saw job growth slowdown dramatically. You know, things are not back to normal
2:19.5	as we had hoped. And still not that many companies were mandating vaccines. I mean, we had some.
2:25.4	We saw United Airlines do it, Tyson Foods, Disney, some tech and media companies. But I think that
2:32.6	the president felt that it's we were not getting where we needed to be for the economy to get back on track.
2:38.4	You know, I was struck in listening to the president just how different he sounded from his previous
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