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.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan advocated for President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan in a White House news conference Friday, saying it would help get more Detroiters employed as many struggle with work during the pandemic. The second-term Democrat mayor took part in an Oval Office meeting Friday…
The resolution also “allows our residents to pay for fees in Bitcoin, and also would allow the city manager to cooperate with Miami-Dade county to allow for taxes to be paid in Bitcoin,” said Suarez.
The city official said that the resolution also “requests of the state legislature that the City of Miami supports efforts to make Bitcoin an acceptable currency for us to potentially invest in the future.”
Why It Matters: The commission approved the mayor’s resolution 4-1 but agreed only to study the cryptocurrency-related proposals instead of acting on them as the resolution had originally proposed, Bloomberg reported.
At an event at the White House Friday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez spoke about the city’s response to the coronavirus and his relationship to the Biden.