February 14, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) United States (US) President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors at the White House on Friday as part of his push to give financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic to state and local governments a clear source of division with Republican lawmakers who view the spending as wasteful.
As part of a USD1.9 trillion coronavirus package, Biden wants to send USD350 billion to state and local governments and tribal governments. While Republicans in Congress have largely objected to this initiative, Biden’s push has some GOP support among governors and mayors.
“You folks are all on the front lines and dealing with the crisis since day one,” Biden said at the start of the Oval Office meeting. “They’ve been working on their own in many cases.”
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Data on the South Africa variant of the coronavirus is sobering, and current vaccines are less effective against it than the original strain or U.K. variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
Fauci, speaking on NBC s Meet the Press, said less is known about the South African variant than the U.K. version, which has proved to be more transmissible than the original version of the virus.