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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 37 GOP senators will call on the Education Department today to stop a proposed rule that invokes the 1619 Project. | Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP, Pool
DRIVING THE DAY
Biden visits Houston to survey damage from Texas power grid collapse, see vaccine ‘super site’
Abbott will lobby president to add more counties to major disaster declaration.
President Joe Biden greets Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, after stepping off Air Force One at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)(Patrick Semansky)
Updated at 8:15 p.m. with new information throughout.
HOUSTON – President Joe Biden came to Houston on Friday with a reassuring message that he’s from the federal government and he’s here to help as Texas recovers from a winter storm that left millions without power and heat in sub-zero weather.