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| Now that Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial is over, President Joe Biden wants to move on. (Even if Trump wants to keep talking about it.) |
| The tiny thing on Biden's mind? Oh, just a pandemic that's crippled the American economy, killed nearly 500,000 and upended the world. Totally casual. No big deal. |
| It's Mabinty, with today's top news. |
The president gets down to business to defeat COVID-19 |
| If you didn't catch my sarcasm, fighting COVID-19 is a big deal for Biden. Dare I say, the biggest deal? |
| One piece of legislation that Biden wants to be passed into law ASAP is his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. |
| He will visit Milwaukee on Tuesday, making his first official trip as president, to make the case for the bill at a CNN town hall. Anderson Cooper will interview Biden at Milwaukee's Pabst Theater that will air at 9 p.m. ET., in front of "an invitation-only, socially distanced audience." |
| Biden will then visit a Pfizer manufacturing site in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thursday, where he'll tout his administration's work to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and rally support behind his American Rescue Plan. |
| Do you know who else wants a relief bill passed into law? The American public. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found 68% of Americans support passage of the legislation, including 37% of Republican voters, 68% of independents and 97% of Democrats. |
| No Republican members of Congress have expressed support for the bill. |
| • | Struggling with paying your mortgage? Biden's got an (executive) plan for that. The president is extending a ban on home foreclosures for federally backed mortgages by three months and expanding a mortgage relief program in a push to stabilize the nation's housing affordability crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
'The race to 100 million doses' |
| Are you one of the few who's been vaccinated? USA TODAY got an exclusive look at how the White House is handling vaccine distribution: |
| • | States will receive their biggest boost yet in coronavirus vaccine doses this week, a 23% increase over the previous week and a 57% increase since Biden took office, administration officials told governors Tuesday. | | • | The White House also announced that it's doubling to 2 million the number of doses being sent directly to local pharmacies. | | • | Biden set a goal of administering 100 million doses in his first 100 days. "With the progress we're making I believe we'll not only reach that, we'll break it," he tweeted Tuesday. | |
More politics news you need to know: |
| • | Marcia Fudge is poised to become secretary of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development amid a historic housing crisis. Can she save the day? | | • | A majority of Americans do not think Trump should be allowed to hold elected office in the future, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. | | • | Biden is making an early, aggressive push to end the war in Yemen. The urgency to end the conflict may be due to guilt. | |
| Life is short. Take more naps. —Mabinty |
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