Congressional leaders are reportedly closing in on a deal totaling roughly $900 billion after months of painstaking, on-again, off-again negotiations.
Late Tuesday, after the interview with Ms. Harris was taped, the Congressional Progressive Caucus indicated that any package must include another round of direct stimulus payments.
In October, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had pushed back strongly against the notion that Democrats should have accepted a larger, $1.8 trillion offer from the White House.
Mrs. Pelosi also dismissed a question this month about whether it was a mistake not to accept “half a loaf” several months ago.
“That was not a mistake, it was a decision,” the California Democrat said. “And it has taken us to a place where we can do the right thing without other, shall we say, considerations in the legislation that we don’t want.”
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The Trump administration has agreed to purchase another 100 million doses of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine candidate as it awaits emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Moderna announced Friday that the federal government has exercised its option to purchase an additional 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate, on top of the 100 million doses the federal government previously agreed to buy. The new doses are set to be delivered in the second quarter of 2021, the company said. Securing another 100 million doses from Moderna by June 2021 further expands our supply of doses across the Operation Warp Speed portfolio of vaccines, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said. This new federal purchase can give Americans even greater confidence we will have enough supply to vaccinate all Americans who want it by the second quarter of 2021.
Wikipedia Redefines ‘President-Elect,’ Previous Versions Go Down the Memory Hole
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There’s no more timely example of how special interests are controlling our information online than the example of the definition of “president-elect” as provided by the controversial online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Ever since the day after the election, people in the media have been arguing over when it would be appropriate to use the term “president-elect” to refer to Joe Biden, particularly with the election being disputed by President Donald Trump.
Most of the media quickly took sides against Trump, adopting the term “president-elect” for Biden, pointing to various definitions that they felt weighed in their favor.
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President-elect Joe Biden celebrated the Electoral College vote on Monday confirming his victory over President Trump in the November election with a speech that decried those who refused to acknowledge it.
“If anyone didn’t know it before, we know it now,” Biden said in a speech from Wilmington, Del. “What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this: Democracy, the right to be heard, to have your vote counted, to choose the leaders of this nation, to govern ourselves. In America, politicians don’t take power the people grant it to them.”