Get to questions want to share a few updates with you President Biden signed two executive actions to restore and strengthen americas access to quality affordable healthcare specifically he directed agencies to reexamine rules and other policies that limit americans access to healthcare and consider additional actions for the Affordable Care act taking continue to provide access to lifesaving care for millions of americans as a result department of hhs will open healthcare. Gov for special enrollment. Every 15 to may 15 the administration only had ever six weeks this is double the length of time. Those without Health Insurance can sign up with Health Coverage too little or no cost the president rescinded the gag rule that prevents outputs of International Funding to provide abortion counseling referrals to receive your spending and directed hhs whether to resend under Title X Family Planning Program also built on the actions he has taken at the heart of the response to covid19. Second
Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
A next brenon talking with experts. Policy good morning everybody in d. C. , good evening to nerve korea, welcome. This week on the capital cable, global threat. The bidenharris transition and the Foreign Policy environment theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus
So every ten years to get people in the media to come because those who say the been down here and talk about it so spread out overwhelmingly white and poor persons and will bear a child or socially and economically tos communities. So dispersed its not concentrated or visible or a way of life with newspapers and Media Companies so it tends to fly under the radar a bit. To get in and get out . Or how you connect with people. Yes. We do have those similar things that i get in the car and i talk to people. Is a magical process called journalism and harass people questions and you write down what they say. So that particular story came from a long trip from dallas to southern virginia and back was places along the way that we would about and tennessee and West Virginia and tennessee and West Virginia and to be very good at crossing the bridge not just writing the story or recording it but with the storytelling to talk to these people in these communities how much storytelling for them is