{"id":1751617,"date":"2022-11-25T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751617"},"modified":"2022-11-25T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:33:46","slug":"friday-afternoon-update-feds-suggest-mask-mandates-home-purchases-drop-fauci-dodges-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friday-afternoon-update-feds-suggest-mask-mandates-home-purchases-drop-fauci-dodges-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Afternoon Update: Feds Suggest Mask Mandates, Home Purchases Drop, Fauci Dodges The Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffriday-afternoon-update-feds-suggest-mask-mandates-home-purchases-drop-fauci-dodges-the-press%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>This article is a companion piece to today\u2019s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/friday-afternoon-update-11-25-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Airline Travel Returns To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Still Below Record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been traveling for Thanksgiving this week, you know that airline travel is back to pre-pandemic levels \u2014 but hasn\u2019t quite hit 2019\u2019s record of 2.9 million travelers on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The TSA is expecting to screen 2.5 million passengers a day across U.S. airports on the busiest days this week. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg celebrated the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that demand is returning like nobody thought possible with more and more passengers having the desire and the income to return to the skies,\u201d Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aE58XuzIBfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mask Mandates Imminent?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services is again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-report-suggests-going-back-to-masks-social-distancing-because-of-long-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that the American public should partake in masking and social distancing to reduce the spread of COVID and guard against \u201cLong COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new report, sponsored by HHS and conducted by research agency Coforma, suggested that these policies should be either strongly encouraged or even mandated while calling for expanded government programs that offer financial support and benefits for COVID victims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Purchases Decreasing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rising interest rates and high home prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/investor-home-purchases-6831856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have led<\/a> to a 30% drop in home purchases by investors in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction means fewer homes being built or restored for future buyers. Home purchases by investors fell from 94,000 in the same quarter last year to 66,000 this year. Also driving the trend is the slowing of rent growth from 13% to just 10%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EU Sends More Money To Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s assault rages on, the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-receives-25-billion-euros-assistance-eu-2022-11-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent Ukraine another $2.5 billion in assistance<\/a> on Tuesday. The EU is expected to approve another $18 billion in 2023. So far, the EU has sent $6.7 billion total to Ukraine for a variety of necessities and supplies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bye-Bye, Fauci<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s final White House press conference went sideways this week after a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-surprise-faucis-final-message-is-a-lecture-on-masks-getting-the-latest-booster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> a question about what Fauci has done to investigate the origins of COVID. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shut down the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a process here,\u201d Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/karine-jean-pierre-loses-control-of-briefing-room-and-herself-as-journalists-balk-at-her-skipping-conservative-reporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scolded<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not calling out on people who yell. And you\u2019re being \u2026 disrespectful to your colleagues, and you\u2019re being disrespectful to our guest. I will not call on you if you yell, and also you\u2019re taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAvatar\u201d Sequel Coming Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The much-anticipated sequel to the 2009 box office hit \u201cAvatar\u201d is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/tv-movies\/avatar-2-may-be-the-most-expensive-movie-of-all-time-1993407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release<\/a> December 16 and is projected to be one of, if not the most, expensive film ever produced. Director James Cameron has declined to state just how expensive the film\u2019s budget was, but reports suggest that the production budget alone was $250 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big College Football Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, in some sports news, the final weekend of the college football regular season promises some big rivalry matchups, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-vs-ohio-state-coach-schembechlers-final-speech-still-rings-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes versus the third-ranked Michigan Wolverines<\/a>, and the seventh-ranked USC Trojans versus the 18th-ranked Fighting Irish. And, of course, my underrated Florida State Seminoles are facing off against the Florida Gators Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to the audio version of this podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/morning-wire\/id1576594336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a companion piece to today\u2019s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click\u00a0here. 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