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Biden focuses on small businesses as pressure mounts at border 2 minutes read By Lucia Leal Washington, Mar 16 (efe-epa).- United States President Joe Biden and the Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday focused on addressing the pandemic challenges faced by small business owners of minority communities, as controversy grew over Biden’s management of the situation at the Mexico border. Biden began his tour in Pennsylvania to promote the recently approved $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, while Harris completed the second stop on her own route in Denver, Colorado, to promote the stimulu...

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Joe Biden has finally set a press conference date — for eight days from now, so he can go eight days without people asking when it will be. But that doesn’t mean his handlers are being any less vigorous about steering him away from reporters when they try to ask questions. Biden is supposedly going on the road to tell folks what a great thing his $1.9 trillion bill is. Translation: If it were really great, you wouldn’t have to try to sell it after it already passed. He’s calling it the “Help is Here” tour. There’s no question that Democrats are better than...

In Pennsylvania, Joe Biden showcases aid to small businesses President Joe Biden speaks with owners Kristin Smith and James Smith as he visits Smith Flooring in Chester, Pa., Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Image via AP. President Joe Biden turned up at a minority-owned flooring business in suburban Philadelphia on Tuesday to highlight how his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package can help small businesses, stressing along the way that the massive bill passed without any help from Republican lawmakers. The visit to Smith Flooring, Inc. was Biden’s first stop in an ongoing cross-country admini...

Biden is talking with owners Kristen and James Smith. ⁦@POTUS⁩ speaks with Kristen and James Smith at their Chester business, Smith Flooring pic.twitter.com/IwnaELTwh7— Kathleen E. Carey (@dtbusiness) March 16, 2021 - Advertisement - EARLIER:  Vice President Kamala Harris dropped in on a COVID-19 vaccination site and a culinary academy in Las Vegas while first lady Jill Biden toured a New Jersey elementary school Monday. “We want to avoid a situation where people are unaware of what they’re entitled to,” Harris said at the culinary academy. “It's not selling...

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