Biden’s big relief package a bet gov’t can help cure America
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden’s big relief package a bet gov’t can help cure America

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden wants America to know that he’s from the government and he’s here to help. Besides stopping the pandemic and jumpstarting hiring, money in the rescue package — now awaiting final approval in the House — is supposed to start fixing income inequality, halve child poverty, feed the hungry, save pensions, sustain public transit, let schools reopen with confidence and help repair state and local government finances. “People have lost faith government can do good for them,” says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who spoke daily with Biden while ushering the bill through the Senate last weekend. Now, as vaccines become more available and other changes take place, “people are going to see that government actually is making their lives better — which is how Americans used to think of it, and we’ve gotten away from it.” Republicans say Americans have plenty of reason to be skeptical, calling the American Rescue Plan excessive and wasteful. It would save a lot of hardship and suffering.” But Burman also has misgivings about the design of Biden’s package because it distributes direct payments and other benefits to almost every household in the United States, rather than directing the money to the poor and to businesses and organizations most damaged by the pandemic and ensuing shutdowns.

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GOP gives thumbs down to Biden’s $47B emergency request
2 years, 4 months ago

GOP gives thumbs down to Biden’s $47B emergency request

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s request for more than $47 billion in emergency funding to help Ukraine and tackle COVID-19, monkeypox and natural disasters is encountering deep skepticism from Senate Republicans, signaling a showdown ahead. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that while Ukraine aid “is obviously a priority,” he downplayed the need for other funding — even in …

Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation
2 years, 4 months ago

Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections. In a triumphant signing event at the White House, Biden pointed …

What’s in big Biden bill? Health, climate goals become law
2 years, 4 months ago

What’s in big Biden bill? Health, climate goals become law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea. Also in the legislation is a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients as well as a new 15% corporate minimum tax to ensure big …

Biden urges local leaders to boost public safety spending
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden urges local leaders to boost public safety spending

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Flanked by law enforcement officials and local leaders in the Rose Garden, President Joe Biden said Friday his administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package is boosting public safety by investing in police departments. “The answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.” Biden said more money should be spent …

Biden relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews
2 years, 9 months ago

Biden relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s not often that a president gets everything he asks for, but that’s what happened. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said she had no regrets about any inflation that the legislation might have caused, describing it as a “consequence that we have to work through.” “There’s no question that the American Rescue Plan put money in people’s pockets, kept …

Biden’s $1.9-trillion relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews
2 years, 9 months ago

Biden’s $1.9-trillion relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews

LA Times  

President Biden speaks before signing the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan in the Oval Office on March 11, 2021. Friday was the anniversary of Biden’s signing of the American Rescue Plan, and the second anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that COVID-19 had become a global pandemic. Rep. Pramila Jayapal said she had no regrets about any inflation that the …

Yellen: Biden pandemic relief ‘like a vaccine’ for economy
2 years, 11 months ago

Yellen: Biden pandemic relief ‘like a vaccine’ for economy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told a gathering of America’s mayors on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief bill was like a vaccine preventing catastrophic economic damage that could have returned the nation to the financial woes seen at the beginning of the pandemic. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan “acted like a vaccine for the …

Biden and Dems scramble to salvage social, climate package
3 years ago

Biden and Dems scramble to salvage social, climate package

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, along with progressive and moderate Democrats, appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party’s signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative. In the days since the West Virginia lawmaker gave a thumbs down on the package, delivering a stunning blow to months of negotiations …

Why Biden is hosting more than 100 countries to talk about democracy
3 years, 1 month ago

Why Biden is hosting more than 100 countries to talk about democracy

NPR  

Why Biden is hosting more than 100 countries to talk about democracy Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images When Joe Biden rolled out his foreign policy platform for the 2020 presidential campaign, he made a big promise: if elected, he would gather the world's democracies at a major summit, where they would show solidarity against …

Biden hails infrastructure win as ‘monumental step forward’
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden hails infrastructure win as ‘monumental step forward’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to seal the deal. “I’m so happy to say that: infrastructure week.” The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday, prompting prolonged cheers from the …

Biden hails domestic policy victory before heading abroad
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden hails domestic policy victory before heading abroad

Al Jazeera  

Biden unveiled a pared down social services package he says will unite the party, before departing for G20, COP26. Biden’s declaration that the new package has the votes needed to pass represented a domestic victory shortly before he departs for a G20 leaders summit in Italy and the United Nations COP26 climate forum in Scotland, where he is expected to …

Prisons, border wall: How GOP is looking to use COVID money
3 years, 3 months ago

Prisons, border wall: How GOP is looking to use COVID money

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — When Democrats passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Republicans called it liberal “pet projects” disguised as pandemic aid. In Galveston County, Texas, Republican county commissioners approved a plan to spend $6.6 million of its total $27 million in coronavirus relief money for security roughly 350 miles away on the U.S.-Mexico border. “These prisons need to …

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden $3.5T plan tests voter appeal of expansive gov’t role

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society — a prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs touching the lives of nearly every American. Biden cited the climate change provisions of the plan, declaring that they …

Biden Meets Dems At Capitol To Firm Up Support For Reconciliation Package
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden Meets Dems At Capitol To Firm Up Support For Reconciliation Package

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 14: President Biden is on the Hill to discuss with Senate Democrats the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package they have reached overnight that would expand Medicare benefits, boost federal safety net programs and combat climate change. Drew Angerer via Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden stepped up his bid to push his multitrillion-dollar domestic plans through …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget: Social spending, taxes on business
3 years, 7 months ago

U.S. President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget: Social spending, taxes on business

The Hindu  

President Joe Biden on Saturday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation’s spiking debt from spiralling totally out of control. With the deficit largely unchecked, Mr. Biden would use proposed tax …

Joe Biden has become the anti-Reagan, and his speech to Congress will make that clear
3 years, 8 months ago

Joe Biden has become the anti-Reagan, and his speech to Congress will make that clear

LA Times  

Forty years ago, a newly elected President Ronald Reagan spoke to a joint session of Congress, calling for deep cuts in federal spending. “Government is the problem.” Twenty-five years ago, then-President Bill Clinton spoke to a similar session of Congress and confessed that he had overestimated the public’s appetite for federal programs. “The era of big government is over.” This …

Infrastructure Talks Mired In Gridlock Over Scope, Taxes
3 years, 8 months ago

Infrastructure Talks Mired In Gridlock Over Scope, Taxes

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans and Democrats agree on the importance of infrastructure spending. But that topline number would represent a fraction of Biden’s broader $2-3 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, which includes things like elder and child care, as well as affordable housing and school funding. That’s not the way to go.” Sen. John Hickenlooper, Senator Mitt Romney, Rep. Charlie …

Joe Biden Unveils $2 Trillion Infrastructure And Jobs Plan
3 years, 9 months ago

Joe Biden Unveils $2 Trillion Infrastructure And Jobs Plan

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled a massive proposal aimed at overhauling the country’s aging roads and bridges, boosting manufacturing, mitigating climate change and making key investments in elder care and housing. The $2 trillion “American Jobs Plan,” which Biden announced in a speech at a union hall in Pittsburgh, is part of the president’s “Build Back …

Biden’s $1.9 trillion ‘American Rescue Plan’ all set to boost U.S. economy
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden’s $1.9 trillion ‘American Rescue Plan’ all set to boost U.S. economy

The Hindu  

WITH President Joe Biden having put through Congress and signed a $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan”, the world is set to experience one of the biggest fiscal boosts of recent times, larger than the plan that was resorted to in response to the 2008 global financial crisis. The money will immediately unleash spending; the key components of the package include …

Biden plays the long game as he sells benefits of COVID bill
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden plays the long game as he sells benefits of COVID bill

Al Jazeera  

The US president and his fellow Democrats hope the effects of the relief package result in electoral success. Unlike former President Donald Trump’s frenzied zig-zagging from one message to another – a seemingly deliberate exercise to feed each news cycle with something different – Biden’s strategy is clearly designed as part of a long political game to cement what he …

Column: Why Stockton is a myth-busting case study for Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan
3 years, 9 months ago

Column: Why Stockton is a myth-busting case study for Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan

LA Times  

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Friday, President Biden took a moment to reflect on the true impact of his administration’s humongous $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package, also known as the American Rescue Plan. “This bill puts working people in this nation first.” Rejecting the trickle-down economics favored by Republicans since Ronald Reagan occupied the White House, Biden added: …

Biden played ‘sheriff’ on ’09 aid, now salesman on COVID law
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden played ‘sheriff’ on ’09 aid, now salesman on COVID law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden was “Sheriff Joe,” the enforcer making sure federal dollars from a massive economic aid package were getting to the right places and quickly. This time, President Biden’s role is different: He’s lead salesman for the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid package, eager to score political points as Americans begin to reap benefits from …

Joe Biden Signs $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
3 years, 9 months ago

Joe Biden Signs $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Another round of stimulus checks is on the way. President Joe Biden signed a COVID-19 relief package worth nearly $1.9 trillion into law on Thursday. In that same provision, however, Senate Democrats also decided to forgive taxes on the first $10,200 in unemployment income for Americans with household incomes of less than $150,000 — a major relief …

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems
3 years, 9 months ago

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Congress riven along party lines has approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on legislation marshaling the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation. “Today we have a decision to make of tremendous consequence,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, …

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems
3 years, 9 months ago

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Congress riven along party lines approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on legislation marshaling the government’s spending might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation. “Today we have a decision to make of tremendous consequence,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, …

Biden signs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 pandemic relief bill
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden signs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 pandemic relief bill

Al Jazeera  

President in national address will say all US adults will be eligible for COVID vaccine no later than May 1. President Joe Biden, riding high on a significant legislative victory in the US Congress, signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill at the White House on Thursday, marking one year of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Biden will …

Biden signs $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief bill, a day earlier than expected
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden signs $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief bill, a day earlier than expected

LA Times  

President Biden signed a sweeping $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package into law Thursday, authorizing a massive infusion of federal aid aimed primarily at working families. “This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving people in this nation, working people, middle-class folks, the people who built this country, a fighting chance,” Biden said after signing the bill …

Biden signs historic $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden signs historic $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden signed his sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic relief package into law on Thursday afternoon. “That’s what the essence of it is.” Congress on Wednesday passed the relief package, which has been Biden’s first and most pressing legislative priority since taking office in January. White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the enrolled bill arrived …

$1.9T Biden relief package a bet government can help cure US
3 years, 10 months ago

$1.9T Biden relief package a bet government can help cure US

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden wants America to know that he’s from the government and he’s here to help. “When I was elected, I said we were going to get the government out of the business of battling on Twitter and back in the business of delivering for the American people,” Biden said after the huge bill passed the Senate …

Coronavirus | Joe Biden’s COVID-19 rescue plan clears crucial Senate hurdle
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | Joe Biden’s COVID-19 rescue plan clears crucial Senate hurdle

The Hindu  

The U.S. Senate on Saturday voted to approve a $1.9 trillion relief package that President Joe Biden vows will revive the country's pandemic-stricken economy, capping hours of debate, frenzied negotiations and a marathon overnight voting session. "I promised the American people help was on the way," said Mr. Biden in an address from the White House, after the plan was …

Senate Passes $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
3 years, 10 months ago

Senate Passes $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill

Huff Post  

Senators worked overnight through Saturday morning to get through a deluge of Republican amendments to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which passed the Senate on Saturday. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Senate has passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan, with $1,400 direct payments to many Americans, a $300 weekly unemployment benefit until September …

Fighting Biden virus aid, GOP rekindles Obama-era strategy
3 years, 10 months ago

Fighting Biden virus aid, GOP rekindles Obama-era strategy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Republicans have one goal for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package: erode public support for the rescue plan by portraying it as too big, too bloated and too much wasteful public spending for a pandemic that’s almost over. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who is leading his minority party toward the “no” vote, said Biden’s 628-page …

Biden American Rescue Stimulus Plan Provides $1,400 Checks : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden American Rescue Stimulus Plan Provides $1,400 Checks : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR

NPR  

The Biden Relief Bill: Who Gets What Enlarge this image Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images Right now, a bill that would spend roughly 1.9 trillion dollars into the economy is making its way through Congress. This is a big bill — at almost two trillion dollars, it's one of the biggest spending bills in American history, equal to roughly …

Biden presses Senate Democrats to pass COVID-19 relief
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden presses Senate Democrats to pass COVID-19 relief

Al Jazeera  

US president pushes for Senate action on $1.9 trillion federal aid package as Republicans line up in opposition. United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Senate Democrats to stay focused on passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package now pending in Congress despite Republican opposition. Quick passage of the $1.9 trillion bill is Biden’s top priority as his new …

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal
3 years, 10 months ago

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal

NPR  

Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal Democrats are using the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill to introduce measures they say will reduce poverty. On top of the small business loans and money for health care included in previous bills, the latest round of relief includes longtime Democratic priorities, including billions of dollars for food stamps, rent …

Covid US: Joe Biden to promote $1.9tn relief plan at CNN town hall
3 years, 10 months ago

Covid US: Joe Biden to promote $1.9tn relief plan at CNN town hall

Daily Mail  

President Joe Biden makes his first official trip outside of Washington D.C. on Tuesday when he heads to Milwaukee for a CNN town hall to tout his domestic agenda. President Joe Biden makes his first official trip outside of Washington D.C. on Tuesday when he heads to Milwaukee for a CNN town hall to tout his $1.9 trillion COVID relief …

Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden hopes infrastructure can bridge partisan divide

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’ve been around long enough," Biden said, "that infrastructure wasn’t a Republican or a …

Building the big one: Behind the scenes of Biden’s $1.9 trillion bet
3 years, 10 months ago

Building the big one: Behind the scenes of Biden’s $1.9 trillion bet

CNN  

Washington CNN — On January 5, as results came in from the Senate runoff election in Georgia, the texts between President-elect Joe Biden’s senior staff went late into the night and into the next morning. The more they learned, the more Biden’s team came to the view that vaccine distribution under the Trump administration “wasn’t even at the starting line,” …

IMF chief supports Joe Biden’s massive U.S. stimulus plan
3 years, 11 months ago

IMF chief supports Joe Biden’s massive U.S. stimulus plan

The Hindu  

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Friday endorsed U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan to deal with the pain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. And it is “appropriate” to use that firepower “given the exceptional uncertainties, and most importantly, given the fact that there is still a lot of pain for households and businesses.” Far from considering …

While Biden pushes crisis response, Republicans go to war — with themselves
3 years, 11 months ago

While Biden pushes crisis response, Republicans go to war — with themselves

LA Times  

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen made a succinct case for President Biden’s $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package, asserting Thursday morning in a national television interview that it will be an economic lifeline to families, workers, teachers and healthcare professionals. Although GOP lawmakers have complained about the size of the American Rescue Plan, they have not mounted a cohesive campaign to hammer …

Washington sends in the troops to help California’s virus fight
3 years, 11 months ago

Washington sends in the troops to help California’s virus fight

LA Times  

Residents line up to get COVID-19 vaccine shots at the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino. “But in my conversations with the White House, they know it’s absolutely necessary to focus on equity and how vaccines get out there and how we get vaccines into the arms.” Gomez said it has been a “night and day” difference from the Trump administration, …

Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden needs to tell Republicans to get out of his way on COVID relief
3 years, 11 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden needs to tell Republicans to get out of his way on COVID relief

LA Times  

To the editor: President Biden has to do something right now. Our problems now include a sputtering economy, poor race relations, too many voters believing made-up conspiracy theories and lies, hate groups growing and arming for revolution, a dysfunctional government, and a virus that’s mutating. Small looks like compromise, like doing a little something here and a little something there. …

Biden, Yellen Say GOP COVID-19 Aid Too Small, Democrats Push On
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden, Yellen Say GOP COVID-19 Aid Too Small, Democrats Push On

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden panned a Republican alternative to his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan as insufficient as Senate Democrats pushed ahead, voting to launch a process that could approve his sweeping rescue package on their own, if Republicans refuse to support it. As the White House reaches for a bipartisan bill, Democrats marshaled their ever-slim …

Biden leans on his Capitol Hill experience while pitching big Covid-19 relief deal
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden leans on his Capitol Hill experience while pitching big Covid-19 relief deal

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Joe Biden is relying on his Capitol Hill years to convince former colleagues to move quickly on his debut legislative effort, waging an intensive push for the sweeping Covid-19 rescue package he hopes can garner Republican support. “I think we’ll get some Republicans,” Biden said at the start of his Oval Office meeting on Wednesday, though …

Biden, Harris meet 10 Republican senators on USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden, Harris meet 10 Republican senators on USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package

India TV News  

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have held a meeting with 10 Republican senators to discuss the USD 1.9 trillion relief package for Americans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 443,000 lives and infected more than 26 million people in the country. "We have just had a very productive, cordial two-hour meeting with the …

As Biden and Republicans meet, Democrats prepare to move on COVID relief alone
3 years, 11 months ago

As Biden and Republicans meet, Democrats prepare to move on COVID relief alone

LA Times  

President Biden meets Republican senators to discuss a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Washington. As President Biden met with 10 Republican senators Monday to test the waters of bipartisanship on coronavirus relief, Democrats on Capitol Hill took the first step toward fast-tracking the administration’s $1.9-trillion proposal through a legislative …

Republicans urge Biden to scale down $1.9 trillion COVID relief
3 years, 11 months ago

Republicans urge Biden to scale down $1.9 trillion COVID relief

Al Jazeera  

Ten Republicans in the United States Senate have offered a counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, saying a scaled-down version of the aid package would garner bipartisan support in Congress. The lawmakers asked to meet with Biden in the coming days, adding: “Our proposal reflects many of your stated priorities, and with your support, we believe …

Biden warns of growing cost of delay on economic aid plan
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden warns of growing cost of delay on economic aid plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is warning of a steep and growing “cost of inaction” on his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as the White House searched for “creative” ways to win public support for a package that is getting a cold shoulder from Senate Republicans. An aggressive push for vaccinations and generous aid to individuals would help put parents …

Biden warns of growing cost of delay on $1.9T econ aid plan
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden warns of growing cost of delay on $1.9T econ aid plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden warned Friday of a steep and growing “cost of inaction” on his $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan as the White House searched for “creative” ways to win public support for a package that is getting a cold shoulder from Senate Republicans. “Certainly, his preference would be to get on a plane and fly around the …

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