about strains spreading in the u.s. the overall progress on vaccinations is encouraging. the daily rate is going up. the nation now averaging a new record for daily vaccinations around 2 1/2 million doses per day. that is a relief to see. this all comes as the biden add administration is scrambling to find shelter for migrant children at the u.s.-mexico border. 422 of those children are in u.s. custody. they plan to move thousands of migrant teenagers to a conv convention center in dallas. we ll get to more on the push to vaccinate america. elizabeth cohen is us with. the daily vaccinations keep going up, that s great. you have the big gatherings without masks like we saw images of and serious hesitancy, mainly from republicans. that s right. it s interesting. in a way we can t visualize the hesitancy. so many people are getting vaccinated which is great. i ve been talking with public health officials that are concerned that once everybody that wants the vaccine gets it,
administration, maybe even before that, to begin to change the paradigm. is cy vance about to nail donald trump? joins me live. and high profile new york democrats join the calls for andrew cuomo s resignation, rebecca traifter reporting from inside the office. all in starts now. hello, i m chris hayes. it s still sinking in the biden administration was able to pass this towering achievement that looked improbable even in december. think back. race called for biden. clear he was winner but sitting president was doing everything in his power attempting to overturn the election through legal and extralegal means and balance of the senate was up for grabs. came down to georgia and democrats had to win two seats and had not won a senate chair in georgia in decades. but here we are. oldest man elected president, been in public life for 50 years, ran as centrist. narrow majority came together to deliver most processive comprehensive rescue package in many generations. we demo
no trickle-down effect here. just the increase to the child tax credit alone will lift millions of children out of poverty and cut the child poverty rate nearly in half. because of this bill, some experts expect the economy to grow by more than 6% this year and add 7 million jobs, a level of growth, quite frankly, we ve not seen since the 1980s and it will boost the income of the poorest americans by an average 206%. given all that, it s important to remember that zero republicans reported this legislation. that s not stopping them from attempted to take credit. senate republicans led the bipartisan cares alkt that got us through the last year. the american people have built a parade marching toward victory. democrats want to sprint in front of the parade and claim credit. it s remarkable legislation. unfortunately republicans, as i say, you know, vote no and take the dough. you see already some of them claiming this is a good thing, this is a good thing, but they couldn
or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most kcons consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this day we celebrate. now, whether it s a success may depend on what happens next. though, a massive messaging blitz and sales pitch is underway. tomorrow president biden holds the first prime time address and next tuesday stops in the home state of pennsylvania which he narrowly won last year and republicans today rolling out their counter arguments, as well. we re doing damage to the future of this country spending dramatically more money than we obviously need. we re about to have a boom, and if we do have a boom, it will have nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion. not a single republican lawmaker voted fo
good evening. it is a historic day in the fight against covid and physical and financial struggles it created. on the day president biden s signature domestic policy passed and $2 trillion covid relief bill, the president announced plans for a deal with johnson & johnson to produce 100 million more doses of the one-shot vaccine and america should have enough vaccine for every adult by the end of may. this as cases are declining again. we ll have more on that in a moment. we want to start with that covid relief bill that passed. whether you applaud the $2 trillion bill is house democrats did immediately after the pass or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this