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President Joe Biden’s address to the nation this Wednesday night wasn’t just a victory lap for the accomplishments of his first 100 days: It was a declaration that the Biden administration’s highest ambition would be reviving America and its democracy from the sorry state his predecessor had left it in.
There have been real accomplishments, like the transformative American Rescue Plan. But in key policy areas, even ones where Trump’s approach deeply damaged America’s democratic image, the Biden administration has seemingly been content with continuing its predecessor’s policies. On immigration and the global Covid-19 response in particular, Biden has seemed unable or unwilling to move past Donald Trump’s worldview, giving “America First” a home in a Democratic White House.
India’s rampant second wave of COVID-19 yesterday topped 400,000 new daily cases for the first time, as the country opened up its massive vaccination drive to all adults, although several states warned of acute shortages.
Authorities reported 401,993 new cases in the previous 24 hours, the highest daily count globally, after 10 consecutive days of more than 300,000. Deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3,523, taking the total toll in India to 211,853, Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data showed.
The world’s biggest producer of COVID-19 vaccines has a limited number of shots available, worsening a surge in infections that has
The most trickle-down vs. bottom-up quotes of the week
Biden on economics, Thune on taxes, Sotomayor on cheerleaders, and much more.
President Joe Biden speaks during a rally at Infinite Energy Center, to mark his 100th day in office, April 29, 2021, in Duluth, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(Evan Vucci)
“My fellow Americans,
trickle-down economics has never worked. It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”
President Joe Biden (Wednesday,
“Even if the spending is popular, and a lot of it probably will be,
the tax increases I think are going to be a hard sell, not just with people in the country, or with Republicans but I think with some Democrats, too. I think they realize that you really run the risk of stepping on a lot of economic growth.”
India Expected to Receive its First Sputnik-V Shipment Today
The central government in an attempt to intensify its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to receive Russia s Sputnik-V COVID-19.
| 1 May 2021 9:47 AM GMT
New Delhi- India is all set to receive its first shipment of the Sputnik-V, a Russian COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday. Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) who is in charge of the global marketing of the Sputnik-V vaccine told that the first dose of the vaccine will be arriving in India on Saturday. However, Dmitriev did not specify the exact number of vaccines that will be sent to India on the first shipment on Saturday. He hoped that the Russian made vaccine will help India to combat the second wave of the deadly infectious virus.
U.S. To Restrict Travel From India Due To Coronavirus Surge - Across America, US - The restrictions, which ban most foreigners who have been in India in the past 14 days, with exceptions, will go into effect Tuesday.