Lasted 25 hours and 20 minutes, the Senate Narrowly Passed President Bidens 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Not a single republican voted for the legislation. Now the bill goes back to the house for one final vote and will likely be on the president s desk before march 14th. When Unemployment Benefits lapse. The Landmark Legislation Provides Relief For Working Americans in the form of 1400 stimulus checks. 300 per week federal Unemployment Benefits through the summer. And 14 billion for Vaccine Distribution among other things. Its the first major victory for the administration and doesnt come a moment too soon as the world marks the oneyear anniversary of the official declaration of the pandemic and more than 525,000 americans have succumbed to the virus. This bill would not only make it easy to cheat. It would effectively make it legal to cheat. T. Would destroy the integrity of our elections in this country forever. It will institutionalize and pretty much guarantee fraud in futu
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Im laura jarrett. 5 a. M. Here in new york. Nearly two months after the insurrection, washington on high alert. Theres a possible plot to breach the capitol by an identified Militia Group on thursday, march 4th. Why march 4th . Qanon believes former President Trump will somehow magically be inaugurated today because fdr and others were inaugurated today. To be clear, theyre wrong. Thats not happening. Because its spreading on social media does not mean its real. The Warning Led House Leaders to scrap a session that had been set for today. And its better to have us, you know, scattering to the four winds as opposed to all concentrated in one building. Unless there is a very substantial welltrained force on their way to washington, d. C. , they are going to meet security like they never imagined before. Capitol police have ramped up security after we learned For The First Time wednesday that it took more than 3 hours for the pentagon to send in National Guard troop to stop the violence o
Easier for eligible voters to register to vote and improve access to voting. Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted. On this victory lap of a weekend for President Biden, hes letting his actions provide the encouragement to a nation looking to a much brighter spring and future. Fresh from his Big Legislative Win yesterday on covid relief, new poll numbers from abc news show nearly 70 of americans approve of his response to the pandemic. Including most independent voters and more than a third of republicans. This morning, the president was at the white house marking the anniversary of bloody sunday, and attacking the current flood of Voter Suppression bills from republicans with a historic Executive Order to protect Voting Rights. Its a poetic end to a week in which the absence of the late john lewis was especially felt both in congress where his own Signature Voting Legislation was passed, and of course, today as we joined the president in remembering th
Come in greater numbers. According to some reports nearly 100,000 people were detained at the border in february. We have Fox Team Coverage Mark Meredith at the white house but first you Christina Coleman life in our west coast bureau. Christina jon a administrations Lifting Covid capacity shelters that hold Migrant Children to handle the unrelenting surge of ilLegal Immigration at our Southern Borders. There were more than 5700 unaccompanied children apprehended on the Southwest Border in january alone. Thats a 113 increase compared to january of last year. A report says according to leaked documents dhs projects 117,000 Unaccompanied Minors will arrive at the border this year and Border Patrol referred to Hhs Custody An Average of 321 per day. Some Relief Groups are calling on the Biden Administration for additional help. We just need that additional investment from the federal government to make sure we do this in the most safe and dignified and humane way possible. The Biden Admini