Page 2 - Biden Priority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart on a busy wednesday morning. as covid cases continue to surge, the biden administration says it will distribute hundreds of millions of free masks. as it unveils a website where you can order free at-home tests. this comes as president biden will hold a news conference today to mark the end of his first year in office, as a top priority, voting rights is headed for defeat in the senate. we'll also take a closer look at where things stands with immigration reform. another top biden priority. meantime, former president don...

Of leverage this january six one year anniversary. the emotion around what happened at the capitol and that the very plain threat of american democracy that continues to this day. that they can leverage all of that to force manchin and sinema to come around on this filibuster and get behind the idea of pushing through this voting rights legislation which of course has been a cornerstone of the biden agenda for a year now. but it has fallen behind other issues like infrastructure and stimulus spending in terms of the biden priority. there is a feeling among democrats and especially among activi...

3.5 trillion, what do you want to cut? the childcare, do you want to cut paid leave? some progressives have threatened to vote against another biden priority, the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, without a deal on the larger plan. moderates say there can't be any more delays. do you think the progressives have gotten an upper hand in the process? >> when we vote thursday, i don't look at at this as anybody getting the upper hand. it's about the country. >> reporter: at for the government funding bill, senate blocked it o. they don't want a shutdown and will attempt another vote soon...

In our politics lead, a key biden priority is set to fail. a major test on capitol hill tomorrow when the u.s. senate votes on whether to advance a sweeping election reform bill called the for the people act. right now the bill has no republican support. and democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia wants major changes in exchange for his support. this proposal is just one of many parts of the biden agenda facing a make-or-break week, as cnn's manu raju reports. >> reporter: president joe biden's agenda is stuck in the senate with a top priority for his party bound to go down in defeat o...

They get that subpoena, it comes with an order from a federal judge saying you are to, a, turn over this information and, b, you are not to disclose it. they could have challenged it in court if they felt strongly enough about it, but they received the subpoena with a written instruction from the judge, hey, you are to keep this secret. >> ellie honig, thank you so much for that. >> thanks, ellie. okay. et a minutes past the hour. we have a deal sort of, a bipartisan group of ten senators announcing they have agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure pac package, a key biden priority. this is...