it's a great pleasure to introduce a deer friend and extraordinary human being xavier becerra. xavier becerra is a leader and he was there and i'm going to go right to script he was there for us during the wildfire. he came in person and help their people heal and he brought resources from hhs capital resources and that saved lives so mr. secretary and it's wonderful to see you again and it said the hhs and the first latino to hold this office secretary becerra worked tirelessly to enhance health and well-being of all americans and it's a shared in person i was able to witness this. it's no small feat it's an extraordinary responsibility. to recover from a global pandemic was another unimaginable responsibility and secretary becerra helped oversee that effort to reduce our exposure to the effect of the pandemic to keep our health care costs contained in spite of millions of americans suffering delaying care and the extra cost of care and help us expand access to care that he was the head of the department but he tackled herald -- health disparities with great passion with his p

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please join me in welcoming to the stage secretary xavier becerra.ause ] ♪♪ >> president daniels, to you, to mike bloomberg, and certainly the folks who put together this health care, public health care initiative, thuchl for the invitation. but real thanks goes out to those of you who were out there. if you were at all involved over the last four-plus years in the effort to save lives, whether you were the researcher who helped us develop the life-saving treatments, whether you were the network organizer who made sure we reached people in places that often are left behind, or whether you are the people who continue to run our public health network, thank you for what you have done. you did and you are saving lives. i mean, literally you are saving lives. if there are any folks here from community health centers, the federally qualified community health centers, you saved lives. if you worked in a pharmacy, you saved lives. if you worked on the vaccines that saved millions of people, you know you saved lives. and so, to each and every one of you, tha

that said, it's my great pleasure to introduce our next speaker, the devoted public servant, xavier becerra powerful intersection of law policy and public health from his early days as a legal advocate for people with mental illness. secretary becerra has spent his career ensuring all americans can access affordable high-quality health care. as california's attorney general, he championed the affordable care act, fought for expanded access to medicare, medicaid and key safeguards to ensure the health of frontline workers during the pandemic. today he is the 25th secretary of health and human services and holds the distinction of being the first latino in the history of our nation. please join me in welcoming to the stage secretary xavier becerra. thank you. [ applause ] ♪♪ >> president daniels, to you, to mike bloomberg, and certainly the folks who put together this health care, public health care initiative, thuchl for the invitation. but real thanks goes out to those of you who were out there. if you were at all involved over the last four-plus years in the effort to save lives, whether y

that she has to go so not round appreciate that and look to start my fellow on what secretary xavier becerrasen. ruchard blumenthal is try to get out of think you run the airlines with unique product and airplane that can fly us to everyone ago we help and most efficient form of travel from relatively long distances and most americans cannot afford their own plane and the defendant 20 oh people to go to a family funeral across the country to a business meeting, halfway across the country. when they're planning their trip, they want to be able to give a fee, how much is the ticket going to cause and if i needed to check a bag, how much will that cost and a need to know that monday for my thursday place that i can decide with the entered pack a bag check or whether to ship a bag ahead of time to sometimes have a less costly in this market. we want to know what it will cost and with the dialogue with you just engaged in the chair reflects to me several captives on your airplane at a certain point. >> you just a pejorative big estate what is going to charge you some random amount more try to get

occupy the office and history of our nation please join me in welcoming to the stage, secretary xavier becerraause] [applause] ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> to the bloomberg is certainly to folks who helped put together is healthcare initiative think you very much. in one goes to you if you are at all involved over the last four plus years and the efforts save lives, leave the researcher who helped us develop the lifesaving treatments of you are they network organizer basically reached people pleaser that often behind, with the weather people to run a public health network, thank you for what you did and you are saving lives in me literally, you are saving lives pretty other folks hear from community health center federally qualified health centers you save lives and if you work pharmacy, you save it lives. if you were to the vaccines, is saving millions of people, you knewew you save lives and so thk you those of your students, are hoping to get to save lives, science don't change politics might but science does is my sense has been to oco and to go forward and try to to process the use in science for help be

i think what we will do is get a sense of xavier becerra in two approach fiscal morning the first 100 days. the first 100 days is making permanent or recent spending a lot of the tax increases that would have come, that would have sunsetted normally, then debt ceiling, as we saw, they were not able to get a handle on that. in terms of where yields are going to go, the first 100 days will set what the fiscal approach will be, and that is driving a lot of concern around the bond markets. annmarie: what are you exciting in terms of sequencing? you mentioned some fiscal spending. that will likely be a tax bill, but that will be challenging to get done almost immediately. marvin: yeah, for sure. tariff policy. whether or not tariffs are a means to an end or that end themselves, what we saw during the first administration, the first time the trump administration, was they used tariffs as a bully pulpit, a way to get other things they wanted. if they take that same approach, tariffs probably are not as inflationary as the worst case, where if it is a blanket tariff across the entire world --