During a phone call with the president Friday, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican negotiator, proposed a new offer to increase about $50 billion in spending across a number of infrastructure programs, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
President Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion pandemic recovery plan, which won final approval on Wednesday with the support of Oregon s four Democrats and opposition from its lone Republican in the U.S. House.
In descending order, the largest shares go toward economic stimulus payments to individuals, aid to state and local governments, extensions of unemployment benefits, childcare and other aid to families, reopening schools and COVID-19 vaccinations and other health care.
Biden signed the bill on Thursday, ahead of a nationally televised speech on the anniversary of the pandemic.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Americans would be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but any surplus would be shared with âthe rest of the world.â Gavino Garay reports.
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delicate balance. i think that some constituents want it. others want us to move forward. i don t think we need to rule it out. i don t think we need to let trump off the hook as it relates to impeachment. we still have a constitutional duty that we have to be a check to the administration s excess. however, we cannot be distracted and create a dynamic where donald trump becomes an underdog. and he secures a re-election effort. so i think we have to be measured and really make the case before the american people that an impeachment is necessary. well, do you think do you think, congressman, at a minimum, you should begin the process, the procedure, start holding hearings in the house judiciary committee? i don t think we should rule anything out. far be it for me to tell chairman nadler what to do on his committee. i sit on the intelligence committee as well as the transportation committee. you know, chairman defazio has worked hard in trying to get an
hoyer. where s dick durbin? is he this way? the senate whip, whatever the title is in the senate. number two. debbie stabenow of michigan, leader on all of these issues in her committees in the congress. our assistant speaker, mr. ben ray lujan of new mexico. our distinguished whip of the house, democratic whip of the house, mr. clyburn, the chair of the i love saying chair, the chair of the transportation infrastructure committee appropriate to this discuss, mr. defazio, and the top democrat on the finance committee in the united states senate, ron wyden. so we came with heft, with commitment, with knowledge, we hoped with a shared vision of