Lets say theyre in scranton just for the sake of argument, one is working as a nurse, the other is a teacher making 120,000 a year should get a check. Thats in his plan. And the plan presented by republicans, they would not get a check. His view is that at this point in our country, when one in seven American Families dont have enough food to eat, with he need to make sure people get the relief they need and are not left behind. As was also part of our readout last night, there was discussion of technical followup with opportunities to discuss things like Small Business and covid relief. Im not suggesting reduction, im suggesting how to do it effectively and those technical discussions at a staff level will be part of whats ongoing over the next couple of days. But the president s bottom line is that this is the package, the risk here as he said many times is not going too big, it is going too small. That continues to be his belief and thats why he supports the efforts by senator schumer, Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi to move this package forward. Can i ask a question on impeachment. The Impeachment Managers have now laid out their case. Trumps team is leaving open the door, it seems, to arguing Election Fraud in the trial, to repeating the fall claims that somehow trump won the election, those same claims that fueled the riot. Is this administration concerned that the former president s defense could incite further violence . Certainly watching reactions in the country, watching the potential for violence is something we will do closely from the white house. Across the country, no matter what prompts it. And thats something we will certainly keep an eye on. But i think in this case, as you know, there have been dozens and dozens and dozens of court cases that have been debunked. The president of the United States is sitting in the oval office, engaging and governing the country, and obviously, weve moved forward even more than we were prior to the inauguration in proceeding in delivering on what the American People decided on in november. On immigration, some reform advocates criticized the action for being reviews of certain programs like the remain in mexico program, rather than cancellation. Why review and not reverse some of these programs . Well, sure part of our effort, mary, is to assess the damage thats been done by the policies that were put in place by the Prior Administration. We want to act swiftly, we want to act promptly, but we also need to make sure were doing that through a Strategic Policy process. And the president s commitment to immigration is indicative in the fact that he announced an Immigration Bill his first day in office and that he has signed after this afternoon, a number of bills, to overturn the immoral actions of the Prior Administration. But we want to ensure that our team, led by the new hopefully newly confirmed soon, maybe right now secretary of Homeland Security has the ability to review the process and policies and make sure hes putting the right ones in place. Can you set the timing for these reviews, when the task force may put out their first one . We do. Its important there are markers to give updates to the American People on this and many other issues. So there will be a report issued within 120 days and then every 60 days thereafter, on the progress being made. As i think you all know from covering this issue, this is very difficult. It is emotional for a lot of people for understandable reasons. We need to find out first where all of these kids are and figure out where their parents are so. So were starting at square one here but our team wants to ensure were providing an update on what progress is being made, how its going to be approached and what the task force will be able to get done. On the same subject, jen, this is going to be big news across Latin America, especially the countries where people have come from. What is the Biden Administrations message to people who may see this in the news the next few days and think oh, theyre changing the policy . Now might be a good time to go north . Well, the message continues to be what it has been, and i appreciate you asking the question because it is confusing as we take a lot of these steps forward. One is that this is not the time we want to put in place an Immigration Process here that can that is humane, that is moral, that considers applications for refugees, applications for people to come into this country at the border in a way that treats people as human beings. Thats going to take some time. Its not going to happen overnight. Obviously, we have a bill that we are hoping we will be able to move through congress. But we also feel i dont think any parent can look at whats happened to those kids over the last couple of years and not feel that we should do everything in our power to get those kids back with their parents. So were trying to repair the damage and the horrific actions of the Prior Administration by trying to do everything we can to reunite these kids with their families. But it remains a dangerous trip. It remains a time. This is not the time to come to the United States. We need the time to put in place an Immigration Process so people can be treated humanely. One of the other things immigration groups have been talking about, some democrats as well, is action to shield Immigrant Workers who are considered essential workers from the from the threat of deportation. Is that being worked on . This will not be the end of our actions or efforts to work on that issue. I dont have anything on that Policy Question for you. That is my next question, since this is still being worked on, can you give us a sense of what would be coming . I would be getting ahead of a policy process, which i cant do from here, but this is a priority to the president to do everyone he can to obviously putting forward the bill and taking the executive actions he had in his power to take to overturp the immoral steps of the last administration. Thats why hes taking all of these steps in the first two weeks being inaugurated. The next question is similar but i want to ask it anyway, one of the things that was not addressed is the socalled title 42, cdc thing expelling migrants and Asylum Seekers will not process during the pandemic, the idea they can be sent back right away because of the pandemic. Is that up for review . And why was that not perhaps addressed right away, since its been a concern for a lot of advocates of immigrants . Certainly, i know it has been. The i would just say that continuing to take policy steps to address the plight of immigrant migrant families to do so in a humane and moral way is a priority of this administration. We obviously are going to continue to work on the Immigration Bill we proposed to congress. These executive actions are just part of our strategy. And if theres more to report to you on that, im happy to get to you directly. Go ahead. My followup on the immigration question, the Executive Orders have been described so far dont actually change or raise the refugee cap, which as you know President Trump reduced substantially and also orders the Immediate Release of children from i. C. E. Detention. The president said thats something that should be done immediately. Why didnt he do it today . I think were going to have more again soon in the coming days and weeks on more steps and actions that the president is interested in taking. Im just not going to get ahead of that now. Youre saying he might still do it immediately . Im saying there are additional steps the president will take, our Policy Experts will take to address immigration in a humane and moral way. There are also a number of steps under the purview of the department of Homeland Security and secretary mayorkas, who as you know, his confirmation was a bit delayed. Some of those, going to be under his purview, and so i point you to them to also engage with on some of those questions. But theres more the president will have to share on refugees and other issues. May i ask whether the president has made a decision on keeping or keeping the scope of the space force . Wow, space force. Its the plane of today. Its an entire thing. It is an interesting question. Im happy to check with our Space Force Point of contact. Im not sure who that is and find out and see if we have any update on that. Go ahead. A couple on covid relief, the senator mentioned voting for the Budget Proposal but made clear his final vote is very targeted. Hes opposed to the 15 minute m minimum wage. Is the 15 minimum wage a must have in the covid package . Phil, i should have brought you up here to talk about how bill becomes a law. Is that the 17part reconciliation question. Great. Ill tune in for it. Phil, i think there are a lot of points of view as should not be a surprise to anyone of different members of congress. We respect all of them. Were happy to hear them, hence the president met with ten republican senators last night, but were not going to negotiate from here or, frankly, in public about what is going to be in and out of the package. We want that to work through the legislative process that is ongoing now. And on the meeting with the republican senators, you said the word reiterate i think in a Statement Last night had the word reiterate three separate times. You like that word . Its a good, solid word. It underscores your position is firm. So i guess my question is talking about staff talks on technical details, is that basically the ball game right now in eterms of the bipartisan talks . They can improve things on the technical side but broadly this is what it is and its moving . Well, i think the president s commitment is to urgently deliver relief to the American People. Thats what he conveyed in every meeting hes had or engagement hes had with democrats and republicans. As we just talked about, theres a process that is just in the early stages thats beginning on capitol hill to do exactly that. But there are also steps that can be taken or changes that can be made through negotiations that also through the legislative process have to happen between the house and senate. There are amendments that can be voted on and proposed. We will see and allow that process to go through. As thats happening, the president will continue to be engaged, he will continue to have more discussions with a variety of members of congress from both parties to see if there are places to come to consensus and agreement how to approach some of the issues and challenges the American People are facing. Last one, you guys made very clear 130 billion is crucial for reopening schools. Something along the lines of 60 billion to 65 billion in past proposals that have been obligated but mostly unspent right now on the Public School front. What are you doing to ensure that gets out the door, given the priority it is in your package. Sure, my understanding in talking to our Economic Team is the funding that was in the 900 billion package, if thats what youre referring to, will be spent in the next couple of weeks. So what were trying to look ahead to is what are the needs as were looking to Public Schools across the country that many of them need funding, many of them need ppe, many of them need testing, many of them need better ventilation in their schools to ensure we have Adequate Funding needed to open the majority of schools within 100 days, which remains the president s goal. Go ahead. Today there was new data on the sputnik v vaccine showing its quite effective. And im wondering if the administration is concerned at all that russia could use it its vaccine to observe political power for nations in need, perhaps in Latin America . Thats not a concern ive discussed with our National Security team. Obviously, our focus is on our own fda approval process here and ensuring that we make as much of the vaccine available to the american public. We just rejoined, as you know, the World Health Organization because we believe that the more people who are vaccinated around the world, the safer we all are. But im happy to speak with him about it and see if thats a concern they have. One other question on the Covid Travel Ban thats in place. Is that a temporary thing while the cdc and the Biden Administration figure out a safe way for International Travel to occur or is that seen as more long term, especially given the variants are already here . Well, these were steps taken, as you know, by our team in order to increase the safety of the american public. Certainly, we dont want them to be forever because we want to get the pandemic under control. But they will be in place as long as our health and medical experts believe theyre necessary or essential in order to keep the public safe. So the impact of variants, which is a very good question, is something that they assess and i would certainly encourage you to ask them that question on our next covid call. There have been calls for some kind of boycott of chinas 2022 olympics. Given the administrations support of the genocide designation there, does President Biden support those calls and will that gain other allies . I have seen some reports of that, and while i dont have any update for you or preview or change of our approach to the beijing olympics, no. President biden has promised to make the visitors public, to the except youre not having any visitors. Is there talk of a virtual visitor lot or how those Virtual Meetings are being disclosed to the public . Our pledge is venture to be or hope to be the most ethical ethically stringent government in history and weve put in place hes put in place a number of steps and policies to deliver on exactly that. Youre right, that there are not currently many visitors. At some point hopefully will will be and we will be returning to the release of the visitor logs. That was not the case during the Prior Administration. At this point theres not a discussion of making Virtual Meetings a part of whats released. Go ahead. I actually have more visitor log questions. Okay. First one, has anybody in the administration looked at the logs from weeks before leading up to the January 6th Riot to see if anyone was connected to the riot . You are not the first person to ask this question. Its a very interesting one or newsworthy one, i guess i should say. I have not had a chance to talk to our team whether we even have access to those logs. We obviously know what information is put in from visits, people who come from visit and we have the ability to release that over the coming months. Im not aware of an assessment of that but i will also ask our team if we have access to them or if theres a plan to look at them. When you get back to releasing them, i know under obama it came out on a monthly basis a few days after the 5th. If its process, would you release them from the Prior Administration because there were a lot of people coming in and out that they got pictures . Im not even sure thats technically possible. That feels like the first question. Let me talk to our technical gurus and see what i can find out. The first impeachment there was a lot with the president of ukraine, is that system still intact whether theres notes intact with foreign leaders or is anybody looking at those . From the Prior Administration . Yes, phone calls by the president. Im not aware of the assessment of those, jeff. I think our focus is on foreign leader calls the current president of the United States is making to Global Leaders in an effort to rebuild our place in the world and work on some diplomacy. Katie . I just have another question on immigration. On the Family Reunification Task force, i know you said youre at square one, but can you talk a little bit about the work ahead in finding some of these kids . I think the current number higher, is it 600 or so . And i also wonder if you will talk about how officials will evaluate cases to determine whether the families will be reunited in their home countries or if they will be allowed to stay here . Great question, katie. Some of that is what secretary majorcas newly confirmed secretary majorca and the new task force will have to assess. And it will be case by case. There are estimates between 600 and 700 kids. Part of what we need to do in the early stages, or what the tachk force needs to do, is term what the accurate number is and where these kids are and determine case by case what the best process and approach is for reuniting them with their family members. So theres a great deal of work ahead. Theres time that is very committed to that work and part of what im sure will be in the report around 120 days is what progress theyve made on that effort. Go ahead. Does the president t