Morning Report. Today is Monday ! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as of this morning : 572,200. President Biden took office amid big fears and bigger promises while handing the American people a yardstick and a calendar. He invited them, at 100 days, to use as their guide his administration’s progress against the coronavirus and an economic crisis measured in vaccine doses and U.S. workers and students helped by fiscal interventions. If science and the government are performing well, he said, voters should have confidence in what’s to come.