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congress and in moments he will sign it into law. this as vaccines are being delivered to americans with the goal of having enough vaccines for all adults by the end of may. nearly 1500 americans are still dying on average each day to a disease that didn t have a name just 15 months ago. i m going to turn now to chief cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, before you get into the details of the president s speech tonight, tell us what you know about this signing event. reporter: well, so this was a bit of a change. we were not expecting president biden to actually sign this bill until tomorrow when they were going to have a signing ceremony at the white house with all the lawmakers. but now the president says they got this bill last night earlier than going through those procedural motions up on capitol hill, so he wants to sign this as quickly as possible so it can go into effect. you ll see this in about 30 minutes or so. we re going into the oval office
day 50 of the biden administration and exactly halfway through his first 100 days in office the president is marking two big accomplishments. today he secured a landmark bill for federal aid, and he announced that over 100 million more covid vaccines will soon be in the pipeline and then in arms across our country. this afternoon congress cleared biden s signature domestic packages, $1.9 trillion national relief package. this bill represents a historic, historic victory for the american people. the bill won final passage in the house of representatives on a straight party line vote, 220-211 with biden looking on from the executive mansion. there we go. [ applause ] the white house says the president plans to sign the legislation on friday. americans should know this aid they re about to get is from the democrats. that is not a political statement at all. only democrats voted for it. not a single republican in the house or the senate. this is the most consequential l
220-211 with biden looking on from the executive mansion. there we go. [ applause ] the white house says the president plans to sign the legislation on friday. americans should know this aid they re about to get is from the democrats. that is not a political statement at all. only democrats voted for it. not a single republican in the house or the senate. this is the most consequential legislation that many of us will ever be a party to. we said if we won those two seats in georgia we would get things done. mr. ossoff and mr. warnock told the citizens of georgia if they were elected, they would make sure that the actual promises made would be promises kept. this bill offers one of the largest infusions of federal aid since the great depression. in many ways it redraws our social safety net and thus has been described in terms of the new deal and the great society. it includes those $1,400 stimulus checks, extended unemployment benefits, funds for states and small bu
our country is being destroyed at the southern border. a terrible thing to see exclamation point. texas governor greg abbott says none of this would be happening if president biden hadn t rolled back trump policies and undercut ice. it is a self-inflicted wound. going back to what the border patrol officers told me themselves they informed the biden administration about this all along and the biden administration has known exactly what has going to happen if they refused to continue to implement the policies that were previously in place. harris: william la jeunesse is live in california near the mexico border. william. harris, those checkpoints are a big deal. as you well know sometimes migrants will get over the border and then the load vehicle will pick them up and only a few miles up the road on i-10, i-8 or somewhere else where they will be interdicted and you ll catch the migrants or drugs. as you were comparing the two administrations one thing president trump di