ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Clock running on Biden bid for bipartisanship: The Note There are small deals to cut, but perhaps not all that much time to cut them. • 7 min read New vaccine efficacy concerns raised as new COVID-19 variants found in the US Highly contagious U.K. variant now found in 26 states, and Minnesota has reported the first known case of Brazil variant, plus, more on President Biden's race to fix the vaccine shortage.Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images The long national civics lesson is getting some new chapters. Next up is budget reconciliation, which matters as a means to pass things with a relatively small number of members of the minority party in the Senate. It's not President Joe Biden's first choice, for a range of obvious and somewhat less apparent reasons, many of which he articulated directly just one week ago in his inaugural address.