President Joe Biden

  Joe Biden aims to distribute masks to millions in ''equity'' push President Joe Biden plans to distribute many face masks to Americans in communities hard-hit by the coronavirus beginning next month as a part of his efforts to ensure “equity” within the government's response to the pandemic. Biden, who like Donald Trump's administration considered sending masks to all or any Americans, is instead adopting a more conservative approach, aiming to reach underserved communities and people bearing the brunt of the outbreak. Trump's administration shelved the plans entirely. Biden''s plan will distribute masks not through the mail, but instead through Federally Qualified Community Health Centers and the nation''s bank and food pantry systems, the White House announced Wednesday. The Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Agriculture are going to be involved within the distribution of quite 25 million American-made cloth masks in b...

  Trump Jr deposed over inaugural funds as White House defends migrant camp after AOC attack President Joe Biden has backed his Office of Management and Budget director nominee Neera Tanden after a vote confirming her appointment has been delayed. Ms Tanden - who previously worked for President Barack Obama - has faced criticism from Republicans over her previous comments on social media and statements about Mitch McConnell. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration didn’t see it as a setback, and that they were continuing to fight for her nomination. “It’s a numbers game, right, it’s a matter of getting one Republican to support her nomination. We’re continuing to do that outreach,” she said. It comes as Psaki defended the Biden administration’s reopening of a migrant facility for children after Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the GOP in strongly criticising the move. Taking to Twitter, AOC said: “This is not okay, never has been okay, ...

  Joe Biden says millions of masks will be sent 'very shortly' The world's COVID-19 vaccine makers are rapidly ramping up production and expressed optimism Tuesday that the U.S. will have sufficient supply to vaccinate every American who wants it by the end of July, as President Joe Biden has said. Representatives of the drug companies also said they're performing on alterations to the vaccines to combat variants if necessary. John Young, chief business officer at Pfizer, said at a hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that his company will have provided 120 million doses by the end of March and reach 300 million by the end of July. That's enough of the two-dose regimen for 150 million Americans, and Young said the corporation is functioning to make sure safety and effectiveness for youngsters . "We are conducting studies in patients between 12 to 15 years of age and hope to soon begin studies in children under the age of 11," Young sai...

  President Biden mourns 500,000 dead, balancing nation's grief and hope With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country's once-unimaginable loss — half 1,000,000 Americans within the COVID-19 pandemic — as he tried to strike a balance between mourning and hope. Addressing the "grim, heartbreaking milestone" directly and publicly, Biden stepped to a lectern within the White House Cross Hall, unhooked his mask and delivered an emotion-filled eulogy for 500,071 Americans he said he felt he knew. "We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. there's no such thing," he said Monday evening. "There's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary." "Just like that," he added, "so many of them took their last breath alone." A president whose own life has been marked by family tragedy, Biden spoke in deeply personal terms, referencing...

  Biden may face an uphill task trying to form an ‘anti-China alliance’ in Asia U.S. President Joe Biden may find it difficult to collect Asian “swing states” into a coalition against China, a political analyst told CNBC. Part of that challenge stems from Biden’s promise to rebuild the American bourgeoisie — which could hamper efforts to push economic and trade policies that Asian countries would check in to, said James Crabtree, a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. “What the U.S. has done traditionally is, it’s tried to use both its security and economic power to entice allies into its camp. So as an example , it found out the first TPP trade agreement,” Crabtree told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Friday. TPP refers to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact negotiated by former President Barack Obama and 11 other countries — most of them in Asia-Pacific, which excludes China. The deal in its original form would be the world’s largest trade agr...

  Biden’s Immigration Plan Would Offer Path to Citizenship For Millions President Biden’s allies on Capitol Hill formally introduced his immigration overhaul within the House on Thursday morning, making good on his campaign promise to hunt to modernize the nation’s immigration system and supply a path to citizenship for many undocumented Americans. “We’re here today because last November 80 million Americans voted against Donald Trump and against everything he stood for,” Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, said at a virtual news conference. “They voted to revive common sense, compassion, and competence in our government. And part of that mandate is fixing our immigration system, which is a cornerstone of Trump’s hateful horror show.” The unveiling puts a spotlight on a high-profile and thorny political issue that Mr. Biden is hoping to deal with , despite the steep political challenges related to moving immigration legislation in Congress. It comes at a time when the pre...

  Biden and Harris Push $1.9 Trillion Relief Plan and Preview Other Priorities President Biden on Wednesday afternoon met with a gaggle of labor leaders he described as “close friends” to debate his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and to urge input on an attempt to bolster American infrastructure that's expected to follow. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said Tuesday that the president views infrastructure as “one of the areas where there’s opportunity to work together” with Republicans, but she didn't provide details on what would happen after the stimulus bill. “We haven’t yet determined what the next priority forward would be, but he is engaging with his policy team,” Ms. Psaki said. She also wouldn’t say whether he planned to move forward with his broad economic agenda or a bill focused on infrastructure. Mr. Biden met Wednesday with several labor leaders including Richard Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; Sean McGarvey, president of North Americ...