March 16, 2021
The president and vice president are making stops to discuss the benefits Americans can expect from the recently passed American Rescue Plan.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
President Biden will visit a small business in Delaware County, Pennsylvania today. He will promote the COVID relief rescue plan.
Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Denver Tuesday and made a trip to Las Vegas Monday to do the same thing.
Harris visited a Vegas vaccine clinic and a fulfillment center where people created food boxes for those in need. Harris said the tour is not to sell the plan, but to educate. And so I m here to also make sure we get the word out so folks know what they are entitled to receive. said Harris And also, by extension, they remember this is supposed to be the job of your government.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
Republicans opposed to the new coronavirus economic stimulus and relief package claim there is $1 trillion in federal funds left over from previous rounds of pandemic relief. What should shock taxpayers across the country is that $1 trillion of COVID relief still remains unspent, said Republican Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina.
But Newsy found it’s too simple to say $1 trillion is unspent. It’s not as if there’s a trillion dollars sitting in a pot somewhere, said Marc Goldwein, who tracks federal COVID relief at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The group has accounted for how $3.1 out of $4.1 trillion approved by Congress has been disbursed since the pandemic began.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
From Saturday Night Live to HBO to South Park, major players in entertainment are starting to depict QAnon. But experts are cautious. As the absurdity of the conspiracy theory becomes the butt of jokes, does it ignore the group s roots in anti-Semitic and racist ideology?
“QAnon says there is an underground ring of very bad people who gather to undermine Trump and steal elections and eat children. I hear that and I m like whoa, where, said Kate McKinnon on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live. On the one hand, the scene is very purposefully trying to make it laughable and ridiculous and unserious in a way that it helps us to recognize that it s not going to be congruent theory that there are lots of weaknesses in the theory, said Outi Hakola, Researcher of North American Culture at the University of Helsinki.