able to safely keep our children in school. every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get our children vaccinated. get our teachers vaccinated, get our teenagers vaccinated. and then, to practice all of those layered mitigation strategies that have been proven to work. well, the president facing all of this and more, as he makes his way back to the white house after spending saturday in nevada, where he and other top democrats paid tribute to the late senate majority leader harry reid. harry cared so much about his fellow americans. and so little about what anybody thought of him. it was all search light, no spotlight. during my time in the senate, he was more generous to me than i have any right to expect. he was one of the first people to encourage me to run for president. believing that despite my youth, despite my inexperience, despite the fact that i was african-american, i coul
the looming and existential threat to our democracy. new laws are being written, not to protect the vote, but to deny it. not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it. not to strengthen and protect our democracy, but because the former president lost instead of looking at election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. it is wrong. it is undemocratic. and frankly, it s un-american. and he s taking his voting rights push on the road. the president and vice president harris are heading to georgia on tuesday, to specifically speak about the need for federal voting rights legislation. but several georgia-based voting rights groups are saying the duo should stay home. issuing a statement that reads in part, quote, such an empty gesture, without concrete action, without signs of real tangible work is un
Which is an antiquated and increasingly obsolescent institution, fortifying the role of the people to make sure that the will of the people in the states is not stolen away by inside trickery and games, and that s what we saw last time. we need to defend the people s right to vote, and the people s sovereignty over our leadership against attempts to use voter suppression and gerrymandering. and that is far from the only challenge on the president s agenda this week, as critical diplomatic talks between the u.s. and russia are set to kick off tomorrow. on top of all that, covid still wreaking havoc. the administration preparing to mail out half a billion at-home tests. but for schools, that help has not come soon enough as they grapple with the omicron surge. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky addressing those concerns this morning. in the fall of this year, we had a delta surge, and we were