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coronavirus vaccine begins rolling this morning and we expect people to get the first doses tomorrow, as congress inches closer to an agreement on the highly anticipated covid relief bill. i do have optimism that it passes. the optimism is let s get it done. speaker pelosi admitted after the election that she 4e8 held o cause more pain to try cause an outcome of the he ll e, when we could have election, when we could have had relief for the american people, for those that are unemployed, for the small businesses, i m hopeful that we get it done today. a lot of need out there. congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill following all of this and where do things stand right now, chad? reporter: we re waiting for final bill text. the last holdup was working out a disagreement with pat toomey, the republican senator from pennsylvania, who wanted to restrict some of the fed s lending procedures during the pandemic. they seem to have worked that out. ....
hi, molly. molly: wonderful to be with you, i m molly line in for arthel neville. as these talks continue on the hull, millions of doses of moderna s covid vaccine are on the way after the fda approved emergency use friday night. meanwhile, some detail of that stimulus deal still need to be hashed out including how much to give out in direct payments. house minority leader kevin mccarthy blames the holdup on speaker pelosi. speaker pelosi finally admitted after the election that he he held up to try to make it an outcome of the election. this whole time when we could have had covid relief for those unemployed, the number of small bids out of work. i am very hopeful we get this done today. molly: a lot of hope that progress is being made. congressional correspondent chad pergram is watching it on capitol hill for us. where do we stand on this potentially being wrapped up? reporter: they think they might vote tonight in the house of representatives, but just before i ....
vaccination efforts as congress works into the weekend on this $900 billion stimulus package to give americans relief from the pandemic and avoid a government shutdown. with hundreds of thousands dead and businesses suffering through months of stalled talks, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say now is the time for action. virtually, at this time do we need a bridge under an unknown but a bridge through the next several months for vaccines if we do our jobs. we will deliver the second largest federal stimulus in our nations history. chat is also live on capitol hill keeping an eye on all of this. chad, what is taking so long? why don t they have this deal get? back in the spring, emergency powers to make it easier to lend money and the authority and december 31. republican pennsylvania pat wants to make sure those powers disappear. now we have folks on the other side of the aisle will have a novel interpretation saying they don t really have to end. if they d ....
welcome to america s news headquarters, i am eric shawn. hello. i m in for arthel. the coalition of senators select say they will vote to oppose, formalizing electoral college results, it s just one more chapter in an election battle that still play out. rick is live at the white house, the latest on all of this. rich. reporter: good afternoon. this is just days ahead of congress working to formalize results of the 2020 presidential election. a session that will now feature objecting debates and voting. all that coming as now growing list of republicans joining that effort. they will object during next week s joint session including senators ted cruz, ron johnson, john kennedy and incoming oaxacan senators, roger marshall and tommy taber will among others. the right, we do not take this action lightly. rather to protect it. every one of us should act together to ensure the election was awfully conducted under the constitution and do everything we can to restore faith ....
america s news headquarters, i m eric sean. molly: from i m here for arthel neville. we have rich edison with the latest details on this as it s developing, rich, to you. rich: good afternoon, molly, days ahead of when a joint session of congress will meet to officially count the state electoral votes of the 2020 presidential election and now you ve got a growing number of senate republicans who say they also plan to object this list includes senators like ted cruz, kennedy, roger marshal, they just announced objections writing, quote, january 6th it is incumbent on congress to vote on whether to certify the 2020 election results. that vote is the lone constitutional power remaining to consider forced resolution of multiple allegations of serious voter fraud, all of that now guaranties a debate and vote on the state electoral results. senator: there are ways for us to approach this, this is one of them. we should get answers to this, the american people should be able ....