Biden, a 78-year-old former vice president and centrist senator who was far from the first choice of most progressives in the 2020 Democratic primary, has gone big on policy, seeking to reshape the economy and social safety net amid a historic pandemic.
He’s sought to undo former President Trump
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While pushing a vaccination effort to open the economy and end the pandemic, he’s also been aggressive with legislation, winning passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and setting up measures on infrastructure, child care, free community college and other issues that would total more than $3 trillion.
But while Biden’s governing approach has been assertive, his style has been much more relaxed, particularly compared to his predecessor’s stream-of-conscious social media musings and impromptu sessions with reporters.
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Officials will honor 76 alumni, including a range of senators and actors, for a Monumental Alumni Award this fall as part of GW’s ongoing bicentennial celebrations, according to a release earlier this month.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and actress Kerry Washington are among the list of alumni who received the award for their careers’ influence across the world, according to the University’s website. Other honorees include Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Officials created the honor for the bicentennial celebration and said in February that they plan to invite the recipients to an in-person celebration during Colonials Weekend this fall to distribute awards.
Previously, Schumer had argued that Democrats’ use of reconciliation to pass the COVID-19 relief package pushed by Biden made bipartisanship “more likely.” He made the claim despite everyone in Washington knowing that the purpose of using reconciliation was to obviate the need to get any GOP votes at all.
Republicans also complain about Democrats talking up the importance of bipartisanship while holding over their heads the possibility of doing away with the Senate filibuster a move that McConnell has said would lead to a “nuclear winter” in the Senate.
The bigger problem, though, may lie with a Washington culture including the political media that fetishizes the concept of bipartisanship without ever delving into why this supposed virtue is in such short supply.
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday,
562,066; Tuesday, 562,533; Wednesday, 563,446; Thursday, 564,402.
When in doubt, pause.
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday postponed making a recommendation regarding the use of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) vaccine, deciding to take more time and gather more information about reports of rare blood clots.
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