President Biden on Saturday announced that the $1,400 coronavirus stimulus checks will begin being distributed in March.
The payments come after the Senate passed the nearly $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill Saturday in a 50-49 partisan vote.
This is the first round of stimulus checks that will be given out under Biden. Former President Trump passed two stimulus checks last year, one for $1,200 and another for $600.
President Biden on Sunday will sign an executive order leveraging federal resources to protect and strengthen access to the ballot as Republican legislatures around the country seek to restrict voting rights in the wake of the 2020 election.
Biden will sign an order that will direct agencies to increase access to voter registration materials and reduce barriers to voting for certain groups, including military and overseas voters, Native Americans, people with disabilities and Native Americans.
One Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), joined Democrats in voting to move forward with Haaland’s nomination.
We would echo those complaints if we really cared, but we’re happy to listen to Joe Biden’s flacks and mouthpieces explain why he bombed Syria, why he blocked the passage of a $15 minimum wage, and why Dr. Seuss is racist.
Accompanied by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and the House Democratic Caucus, Biden addressed lawmakers on the topics of COVID relief and the ongoing vaccine rollout. He closed his remarks by calling on Democrats to help "restore faith" in government.
No date for the address has yet been scheduled, even though the president had suggested it would take place in February. Psaki, during Wednesday's briefing, explained the delay.
Migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday were photographed wearing T-shirts in support of President Biden at the San Ysidro crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state.
One apparent migrant held up a poster that read, "Biden, please let us in!"
Prospective U.S. residents and progressive Democrats are hoping the new president will implement more lenient immigration policies than former President Trump, though some politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have expressed concern with Biden's use of migrant holding facilities at the border.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, says he believes the Biden administration’s immigration policies are "prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens."
President Joe Biden yesterday said the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border was not a crisis and that his administration "will be able to handle it." The comments come amid an Axios report citing DHS projections that 117,000 unaccompanied children are expected to cross the border in 2021
WASHINGTON – Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden's controversial pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, withdrew herself from consideration Tuesday after her confirmation collapsed last week, dealing Biden his first major blow in his nominations to the Cabinet.
Biden in a statement said Tanden had withdrawn her nomination and said he still "look(ed) forward to having her serve in a role in my Administration," signaling that he could still appoint her to a position that does not require Senate confirmation.
House Democrats will face their biggest test of unity yet this week as they prepare to get President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package closer to the finish line. With no Republicans expected to cross party lines to support the package,
President Joe Biden's administration has revamped the White House new logo, with the redesign taking a creative agency nearly thirty attempts to get just right, according to a new report. In reality, the whole website got spruced
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WASHINGTON D.C: Preliminary estimates show United States President Joe Biden's proposed United States $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package could boost American economic output by 5% over the next three years, the chief ecnomist of the (IMF) said Monday.
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President Joe Biden has signed more than three dozen executive orders, actions and directives since he took office just 9 days ago — with Joe Biden officials telling news agencies that the moves are "previews" of the agenda items the president
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Now representatives of the House and Senate Democrats introduced lswmaking to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2025. This decision follows discussions from earlier this month, when new President Joe Biden
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United Nations (AP): Linda Thomas-Greenfield says that if confirmed by the United States Senate as America’s ambassador to the United Nations she will vigorously counter to China’s authoritarian agenda and engage in “people-to-people diplomacy for her Nation.”
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President Joe Biden's pledge that there will be sufficient vaccines for 300 million peoples of United States by the end of summer represents a bold & politically risky response to criticism his pandemic plan lacks ambition for the nation.
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The U.S. government will accelerate the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines across the Nation, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday, as his administration plans to buy 200 million more shots of the BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
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U.S. Congress should pass a Coronavirus relief bill before federal unemployment benefits begin to expire in March 2021, new White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. “We are going to hit a cliff, an unemployment insurance
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