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Replay Video UP NEXT Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris resigned her Senate seat Monday, stepping down four years after she was elected as California’s junior senator. She sent a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, with her resignation effective at noon. President-elect Joe Biden volunteered at a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia as part of a national day of service coordinated by his inaugural committee ahead of his swearing-in at a heavily fortified Capitol on Wednesday.
Biden campaigned on making gig workers employees. Now he has to convince Democrats. Faiz Siddiqui, Eli Rosenberg A DoorDash bag hangs on a bicycle as a food delivery courier picks up an order from a restaurant in Los Angeles on July 6. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News) The future of gig workers including Uber drivers, DoorDash couriers, and other app workers is likely to emerge as the most explosive labor issue for the incoming Biden administration, threatening to aggravate the tensions between the centrist and more corporate-friendly wing of the Democratic Party and the fired-up progressives on the left. Although Biden’s campaign platform called for gig workers to be classified as employees, narrow Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate and those intraparty philosophical rifts could block Democrats from reaching agreement on gig worker rights. Biden s policy on the economy
US News: WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named Indian-American Rohit Chopra as the head of a federal agency tasked with protecting the inter.