biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief package. will the stimulus bill help speed up the process of reopening states and cities, especially now that vaccination rates are improving? we ll dig into that next. also this hour, levar burton, the longtime host of reading rainbow is here tonight. we ll get his take on six problematic works by dr. seuss going out of print. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. the covid relief bill passed the senate, paving the way for $1,400 checks to reach millions of mailboxes. not one republican supported the bill despite its widespread support among voters. after today s senate vote, president biden had this to say i want to thank all of the senators who worked so hard to reach a compromise to do the right thing for the american people during this crisis and voted to pass the american rescue plan. it obviously wasn t easy. it wasn t always pretty. but it was so desperately needed. the b
pro-lobbying group. president biden had strongly condemned the attack which combings as pro-choice demonstrators protest outside the homes of some u.s. supreme court justices. border patrol agents tell fox news they have encountered 1500 migrants along the southern border. in just the past two days. they say five 6 them are registered sex offenders. a bit later we will look at the toll being taken by human and drug smuggling in one area. we will also look at the efforts to find $100 billion stolen by scammers from the covid relief loan fund. we are told hundreds of people have been arrested and more suspects are in the pipeline. foxconn firms democratic appropriators are making a new offer on the ukraine aid package. the new overall figure is $39.8 billion. this is on top of the 33 billion president biden initially requested. the additional funding provides 4.4 billion for food and similar amount for military equipment. stocks continued to plummet today, the dow lost 654. the
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
i ve been asking for syracuse orange highlights for weeks. this wascustomized for you. they are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook. you almost had them. keep the head up, big man. thank you so much. the next hour of new day starts now. good morning. welcome to your new day. i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. doubling down, the biden administration says they will fight in court to keep the student debt relief program alive. what does that mean for thousands of applicants and how long could that legal fight last? we ll also have the latest on the brutal attacks in ukraine as russia continues to hammer the country s infrastructure. we ll take you inside a secret workshop where ukrainian soldiers are building weapons against russia. residents in jackson, mississippi, still facing problems with the city s water and the epa is opening up a federal civil rights investigation. we ll tell you exactly what and who is getting investigated.
message ahead of the midterms. meanwhile hours away from the release of the affidavit that led to the fbi search of mar-a-lago and the redacted document that tells us anything that we don t already know. the latest in an escalating situation in ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant goes offline after intensive fighting sparked fires in the russian-controlled silo. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 26th. i m in again for jonathan lemire, president biden stepped back on to the campaign trail yesterday, with a fundraiser and a rally in the dc suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events. told donors, quote, what we re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump, the entire philosophy, it is like semi-fascism. the rnc came back with this statement, despicable, biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyer