We have to act now : Biden outlines economic rescue legislative package By Audrey McNamara, Kathryn Watson
Updated on: January 14, 2021 / 8:29 PM / CBS News Biden unveils COVID-19 response plan
President-elect Joe Biden outlined his COVID-19 relief proposal in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday. The massive stimulus bill is expected to cost roughly $1.9 trillion to fund vaccinations and provide immediate, direct relief to working families and communities bearing the brunt of the crisis. A crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight, and there s no time to waste. We have to act and we have to act now, Mr. Biden said.
The president-elect said his plan is two-pronged a rescue plan, which he outlined Thursday night, and a recovery plan, which he will outline after he s in office. The vice president claims his rescue plan will lift millions of out poverty. Mr. Biden was expected to announce his vaccine rollout plan Thursday night too, but s
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Teton County resident and a leader of GOP messaging in the House as its third-ranking Republican, will vote to impeach President Donald Trump.Â
She announced her decision today in response to last week s violence at the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the federal building, damaging the halls of the U.S. Congress, sending lawmakers into hiding as they met to certify the President-elect Joe Biden s electoral college win. There were at least five deaths, including that of a Capitol police officer. What we know now is enough. The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack, Cheney said in a statement. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.
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Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, a 12-term veteran of Congress, was holed up in her office when the mob arrived. Thousands of MAGA diehards had followed President Donald Trump’s call to march to the Capitol to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote. “It was like a declaration of war against the United States, issued by the president of the United States,” Schakowsky told me.
The inauguration of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th president of the United States. Amid security concerns and rampant disinformation, the Biden administration officially begins. Biden and VP Kamala Harris are tasked with fighting the pandemic and reuniting a deeply divided country.