his decision to lift covid restrictions in connecticut. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. as the biden administration, the democratic congress, and the country as a whole try to claw our way out of an unprecedented set of national crises, the republican party coast to coast has found its mission for the year 2021 make it harder for americans to vote. right now we re on track to see the largest rescue bill in recent memory signed into law by president biden this week. it would provide direct relief to americans, billions for vaccination programs, money to reopen schools, keep restaurants open, and not a single republican in either house or the senate has voted for it. instead, after losing the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections going all the way back to 1992, republicans are laser focused on restricting voting access. brennan center s tracking all the state bills aimed at restricting access to the polls. the
cylinders, my friend. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you for joining us at home. happy to have you here. tomorrow democrats in washington will be wearing their sunday best. it is a really big landmark day for them at 9:00 a.m. they ll start the home stretch final debate to pass the american rescue plan. a big covid relief bill that is the first thing the biden administration and the democrats in congress put their shoulders to when they got sworn in just two months ago. and you know, time will tell how this legislation is viewed over the long haul. but just at face value, it is more wide reaching progressive legislation than anything past, anything passed at least the last two democratic presidents. legislatively in terms of its progressive reach, in terms of its reach to make things better for people who need the most help. it is definitely on par with the affordable care act, with obamacare. but this bill, what the senate passed this weekend, what the house
$14 billion for vaccine distribution, and expanse of the child tax credit that experts say could cut child poverty in half. and the $1400 direct stimulus checks. a promise that won back the senate for the democrats. he will address the public in the next hour no doubt to champion the success of the deal. he will announce another big deal for 100 million additional new doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine. enough to vaccinate roughly one in three americans. an advisor credited a historic partnership between johnson and johnson and murk. today they will direct jeff and the health and human services to procure an additional 100 million doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine. this order allows for the president to u plan for the future and the latter part of the year. this is wartime. and as facts still emerge, it gives us maximum flexibility for our upcoming needs. we lead a histoic partnership between two rival drug companies to scale manufacturing and speed delivery.
the biden administration s repeatedly denied that there s a crisis at the border despite the commander in chief requesting backup. john: texas governor greg abbott will join us live for an exclusive interview later in the show to talk about what he is seeing in his state. sandra: in just a moment we will be speaking about joe biden s policies pushing the district he represents to the breaking point. john: greg, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: we re here at the point of entry at brownsville where anyone can walk up, claim asylum if they have evidence of a credible fear. but let s go up in the sky to the fox drone team and show you over these ports of entries where some 25,000 asylum seekers are waiting for clearance. that s not the problem, officials say. it s the crossings illegally between the ports of entry. you see the rgc sector, they had 1500 apprehensions just in the last 24 hours. the numbers sandra mentioned about the unaccompanied children, fo
the most shockingly aggressive rescue bill of my lifetime is very likely to be signed into law. saturday after an all-night session, senate democrats passed the $1.9 trillion covid relief package in a strict party line vote. because senators made some changes to the bill, it now has to go back to the democratic controlled house which is expected to pass the identical senate version this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. so the bill would then go to the president, president biden for his signature. we re in the early part of march. not the 100-day marker yet. this is an incredible victory for both the country, the biden administrationings the democratic party which held together. they didn t get a vote in either house. they tried to break the party apart. that s bryns did by forcing tough votes on amendments and arguing against the bill in public. democrats won. and as a result, a lot of people s lives are going to get better. by passing this plan we would have delivered