meghan markle s explosive interview with oprah. so what is next the queen and the royal family? it is way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early oig, the show that know that when grandma talks, you better listen. the house is expected to vote today on president biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. debate on the bill scheduled to begin just after 9:00 a.m., timing of the final vote is fluid given that republicans may try to slow the process. house democrats aim to get the bill to president biden s desk so he can sign it before key unemployment programs expire this coming sunday. it can take days for congress to formally send a huge bill down the street to the white house. once biden has signed it, the money can start flowing including those $1400 relief payments for eligible americans, $300 a week federal jobless benefits and those additional funds for vaccine distribution. new polling from the pew research center continues to show just ho
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin
$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.
another state going against the science tonight. the state of wyoming announcing it will repeals it mask mandate, meaning that as of this hour 15 states now do not have a mask mandate and three more states, including wyoming, are planning to end theirs in the next coming days. dropping masks, despite coming a plateau of the number of cases in the united states. right now the united states is averaging about 60,000 cases. now it is just hovering there. it is plateauing. it is exactly where we were in the summer when many of the states, including texas had mask mandates. so here is the problem with this. if we get it right now, this could be the turning point. there is so much that is critical that is riding on the next two months. how quickly that we vaccinate versus whether we have another surge really relies on what happens in march and april. so, it is crucial right now. on that front let s take a look at what is happening in boise, idaho. there is a burn the mask rally
intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with payments, payroll, banking and live bookkeeping. we have breaking news. the biden state department has completed its 45-day review of the former president s executive orders that restricted immigration from certain countries often referred to as the muslim ban. and it is officially ending those restrictions. the biden administration says applicants from the affected countries may no longer be denied on the basis of nationality, and the department has taken a number of steps to ensure that applicants previously refused visas will not have future applications prejudiced in any way. a state department official tells cnn those applicants may now re-enter the diversity visa lottery. also under current regulations, those who visas were denied prior to january 20th, 2020 may also be reconsidered but those individuals must split new applications and pay a new application fee. don t miss full circle, our digital news