The Biden administration officials said the first batch of $1,400 stimulus payments was processed on Friday with additional large batches of payments to be sent via direct deposits or through the mail as checks or debit cards in the coming weeks.
Wells Fargo and Chase Bank issued a statement on Saturday and said eligible customers can expect electronic stimulus payments to be deposited on Wednesday, 17th March 2021.
The IRS Commissioner Chuck Retting issued a statement and said, âIRS employees again worked around the clock to quickly deliver help to millions of Americans struggling to cope with this historic pandemic, even though the tax season is in full swingâ.Retting added, âThe payments will be delivered automatically to taxpayers, even as the IRS is continuing delivering regular tax refundsâ.
The officials said this round of checks will also go to all qualifying dependents, unlike the first 2 payments which were limited to children under 17.
It will be based on 2019 or 2020 tax returns, depending on which was the latest filed or data supplied to the IRS last year by non-filers.
More than 85% of Americans are estimated to be eligible for the payments.
Economists and labor advocates said President-elect Joe Biden proposed a plan to more than double the federal minimum wage.
It would provide an urgent pay increase to millions of low-income workers and help stem inequality in the US.
On Thursday, Biden called for raising the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, in detailing his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal.
He said, âNo one working 40 hours a week should still be below the poverty lineâ.
It includes essential workers such as grocery clerks and home health aides whose jobs have put them on the front lines of a pandemic yet whose earnings are among the lowest.
The international president of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Marc Perrone issued a statement in CBS MoneyWatch.Perrone said, âEvery worker should be paid a $15 minimum wage, and essential front-line workers need hazard pay for the enormous health and safety risks they face during this pandemicâ.
Biden said a high school diploma is no longer enough for the occupational demands of the 21st Century.
He tweeted and said, âThatâs why under the Biden-Harris plan, the community college will be free and public colleges and universities will be tuition-free for families earning less than $125,000 a yearâ.
Sen. Charles Schumer has urged Biden to alleviate the financial pressure facing American students.Schumer delivered his remarks earlier this month and called for the erasure of student loan debt.
He pointed out $90 billion in arrears being held by students in the Empire State alone.
Reps.-elect Mondaire Jones, Jamaal Bowman, and Ritchie Torres are newly-elected progressives headed to the US Congress from the metro region attended that announcement with Schumer.
It says, âAll of these proposals will be implemented in partnership with states as well as school faculty and staffâ.The statement adds, âEducators must play a key role in decisions affecting teaching and learningâ.
US President Donald Trump brushed aside calls for his removal over last weekâs attack at the Capitol.
Be careful what you wish forâ.
He said the impeachment effort mounted by House Democrats is dangerous for the USA, especially at this very tender time.
It is noteworthy that the US House is moving forward with plans to impeach the president if Vice President Mike Pence fails to invoke the 25th Amendment.
It allows a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president from office.
US House Democrats planned to bring a resolution to the floor on Tuesday evening calling on Pence to take action and will move forward on Wednesday with a vote on impeaching Trump if Pence declines.
The administration of President Joe Biden has prepared to inform US Congress and others that the US has planned to increase the admissions of refugees in the country.
The White House officials and other sources linked to the matter informed that President Biden plans to announce a plan this week.
Point to be noted that former president Trump had drastically reduced the refugee admissions cap to only 15,000 before he left office.
President Bidenâs plan would raise that number to 125,000, an increase of 10,000 over the high ceiling set by former President Barack Obama before he left office.The White House officials and other sources spoke ahead of the formal announcement.
They said President Biden will make his plan public during a visit to the State Department on Thursday.
He may also address asylum claims for residents of Hong Kong there, according to one official.
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden signed several executive orders designed at combating climate change, building on unilateral action.
He took his first day in the office and heightening the federal governmentâs focus on the issue.
President Biden said his actions will supercharge his administrationâs ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.
We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bonesâ.President Biden also said the nation desperately needs a unified response to the climate crisis.
Biden also directed the Interior secretary to freeze new oil and gas leases on public lands and offshore waters wherever possible, and review existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on federal lands and water.
Biden stressed that his administration isnât going to ban fracking, as he promised during the presidential campaign.
The former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs urged Republican leaders in Congress to accept the reality that President-elect Joe Biden won the presidential election.
However, Biden has projected as the winner of the election nearly a month ago, but Trump has refused to concede.
President Trump and his lawyers have pushed unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud without providing evidence.
Legal challenges from Trumpâs lawyers have nearly all failed in court.
An analysis by the Washington Post published Saturday said just 27 of 249 Republicans currently serving in Congress have publicly accepted the fact that Biden won.Krebs informed CBS News Face the Nation on Sunday.
And I think the rest of them have to acknowledge that the system in place to conduct the election was legitimate, and particularly in the House [of Representatives], theyâve accepted their outcomes and their racesâ.
On Tuesday, the US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time.
The acknowledgment came more than a month after Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
McConnell waited until the Electoral College formally voted to elect Biden on Monday, officially finalizing the election results.
Heâs devoted himself to public service for many yearsâ.
McConnell said, âBeyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first timeâ.On Tuesday, the departing for a campaign event in Georgia, Biden said he had a good conversation with Mitch McConnell today.
The president continues to falsely insist that the election was rigged, promoting unfounded claims of voter fraud.
On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden said he will ask Americans to commit to 100-days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president.
He is stopping just short of the nationwide mandate heâs pushed before to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The recent move marks a major shift from President Donald Trump whose own skepticism of mask-wearing has contributed to a politicization of the issue.
It has made many people reticent to embrace a practice that public health experts say is one of the easiest ways to manage the pandemic, which has killed at least 275,000 Americans since it began.
Biden has frequently emphasized mask-wearing as a patriotic duty and during the campaign floated the idea of instituting a nationwide mask mandate.Point to be noted that Biden later acknowledged it would be beyond the ability of the President to enforce.
He was speaking with CNNâs Jake Tapper and said he would make the request of Americans on Inauguration Day, 20th Jan 2021.
Buttigieg is nominated to lead the Department of Transportation.
Biden praised the Cabinet he has assembled so far as one that is âhistoricâ and composed of nominees who would break barriers with their confirmations, including Buttigieg, who is poised to be the first openly gay Senate-approved member of the Cabinet.
He also admired Buttigieg as a new voice with new ideas, determined to move past old politics.
President-elect said, âThe department of transportation services a critical mission with critical responsibilities, particularly in this administration.
We need someone who knows how to work with state, federal, and local agenciesâ.
The former mayor of Indiana, Buttigieg skyrocketed to prominence during the Democratic presidential primaries.Point to be noted that he is the youngest member in a vast field of candidates.
On Tuesday, Republican lawmakers and conservative groups opposed President-elect Joe Bidenâs forthcoming immigration plan as massive amnesty for people in the US illegally.
They said the measure will face an uphill fight in a Congress because Democrats control just narrowly.
Several pro-immigration groups said they would press Biden to go even further and take steps such as an immediate moratorium on deportations, detentions, and new arrests, in a further complication.
Their demands pointed out the pressures Biden would face from his partyâs liberal wing as 4-years of President Donald Trumpâs restrictive and often harsh immigration policies come to an end.
This move will hopefully spotlight his emphasis on an issue thatâs defied major progress in Congress since 1986.
US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said Trumpâs impeachment trial, confirmation of Bidenâs Cabinet nominees, and more COVID-19 relief will be the chamberâs top initial priorities.
The comments of Pompeo came just a week before the Trump administration leaves office and appeared aimed at President-elect Joe Bidenâs stated desire to resume negotiations with Iran over the 2015 nuclear deal.
Point to be noted that President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.
He alleged Iran for secret ties with Al-Qaida, citing newly declassified intelligence suggesting Tehran harbored the groupâs No.
He was killed in August, reportedly by Israeli agents.It is noteworthy that Shiite-ruled Iran and predominantly Sunni Al-Qaida arenât natural allies in the Islamic world.
Iran alleged Taliban after two years for murdering several of its diplomats in the northern city of Mazar Sharif.
However, the US officials had previously confirmed the death of Al-Masri and his daughter, and the widow of Osama bin Ladenâs son Hamza.
On Wednesday, Russia called its US ambassador Anatoly Antonov back home for consultations, as Moscow mulls avoiding what its foreign ministry called an irreversible degradation of relations with America during the early days of the Biden administration.
Tensions between both countries are increasing following recently declassified reports on Russiaâs suspected attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, US condemnation over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, and Joe Biden calling Vladimir Putin a killer in an interview on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova said, âThe new American administration has been in power for two months, and a symbolic 100-day anniversary is just around the corner, which is an appropriate milestone to try and assess what the Biden team is successful in and what itâs notâ.Point to be noted that the recent situation allows Americans to acknowledge the associated risks of the fraying relationship between both countries.
She added, âWashington has itself sent into a stalemate in recent yearsâ.
The host asked whether Biden thought the Russian president was a killer and threatened some form of retaliation.
The back-and-forth comes as Washington once again contends with the fallout from a suspected Russian influence campaign.It is noteworthy that a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has indicated that Russia once again conducted a sweeping social media influence effort during the 2020 US presidential election.
He delivered his words in their first bilateral meeting a day earlier and that his American counterpart was open to exploring his proposals on a temporary worker program and helping Mexico obtain more vaccine.
He said he didnât come away with a deal for the US to help Mexico obtain more COVID-19 vaccine.
There were questions ahead of the meeting about how the two leaders would get along.
It is noteworthy that Obrador had a surprisingly warm relationship with former President Donald Trump that revolved almost exclusively around Mexicoâs efforts to stop migrants from reaching the US border.
But, on Tuesday, he said there was a lot of laughter in the one hour and 15-minute conversation with Biden that covered nearly all of the main issues in the bilateral relationship.
Obrador also said, âThere were not any differences, Iâm telling you categorically, not a single oneâ.Obrador said he proposed the US analyze how many workers its economy requires and then design a plan for temporary worker visas that would allow Mexicans and Central Americans to migrate legally for work.
Esther Olavarria informed US mayors over the weekend that Biden plans to sign an executive order rescinding the proclamation that suspended certain immigrant and work visas.
Point to be noted that Olavarria is deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and one of the presidentâs top immigration advisers.
Olavarria said the upcoming order would rescind the Trump proclamations that precluded the admission of immigrants and non-immigrants either deemed to be a financial burden on our health care system or deemed to present a risk to US labor markets.Olavarria delivered his words during the United States Conference of Mayorsâ 89th winter meeting.
He said, âThese were policies that ignored the decades, and centuries actually, of contributions that immigrants have made to our economy, to our society, to our culture.
So we would rescind those policies and return to a country that welcomes immigrants and acknowledges their contributionsâ.
It is unclear when Biden to sign the proclamation, but his plans to issue several immigration actions on Friday has been delayed.
Economists and labor advocates said President-elect Joe Biden proposed a plan to more than double the federal minimum wage.
It would provide an urgent pay increase to millions of low-income workers and help stem inequality in the US.
On Thursday, Biden called for raising the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, in detailing his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal.
He said, âNo one working 40 hours a week should still be below the poverty lineâ.
It includes essential workers such as grocery clerks and home health aides whose jobs have put them on the front lines of a pandemic yet whose earnings are among the lowest.
The international president of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Marc Perrone issued a statement in CBS MoneyWatch.Perrone said, âEvery worker should be paid a $15 minimum wage, and essential front-line workers need hazard pay for the enormous health and safety risks they face during this pandemicâ.
US President Donald Trump brushed aside calls for his removal over last weekâs attack at the Capitol.
Be careful what you wish forâ.
He said the impeachment effort mounted by House Democrats is dangerous for the USA, especially at this very tender time.
It is noteworthy that the US House is moving forward with plans to impeach the president if Vice President Mike Pence fails to invoke the 25th Amendment.
It allows a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president from office.
US House Democrats planned to bring a resolution to the floor on Tuesday evening calling on Pence to take action and will move forward on Wednesday with a vote on impeaching Trump if Pence declines.
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden signed several executive orders designed at combating climate change, building on unilateral action.
He took his first day in the office and heightening the federal governmentâs focus on the issue.
President Biden said his actions will supercharge his administrationâs ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.
We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bonesâ.President Biden also said the nation desperately needs a unified response to the climate crisis.
Biden also directed the Interior secretary to freeze new oil and gas leases on public lands and offshore waters wherever possible, and review existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on federal lands and water.
Biden stressed that his administration isnât going to ban fracking, as he promised during the presidential campaign.
On Tuesday, the US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time.
The acknowledgment came more than a month after Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
McConnell waited until the Electoral College formally voted to elect Biden on Monday, officially finalizing the election results.
Heâs devoted himself to public service for many yearsâ.
McConnell said, âBeyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first timeâ.On Tuesday, the departing for a campaign event in Georgia, Biden said he had a good conversation with Mitch McConnell today.
The president continues to falsely insist that the election was rigged, promoting unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Buttigieg is nominated to lead the Department of Transportation.
Biden praised the Cabinet he has assembled so far as one that is âhistoricâ and composed of nominees who would break barriers with their confirmations, including Buttigieg, who is poised to be the first openly gay Senate-approved member of the Cabinet.
He also admired Buttigieg as a new voice with new ideas, determined to move past old politics.
President-elect said, âThe department of transportation services a critical mission with critical responsibilities, particularly in this administration.
We need someone who knows how to work with state, federal, and local agenciesâ.
The former mayor of Indiana, Buttigieg skyrocketed to prominence during the Democratic presidential primaries.Point to be noted that he is the youngest member in a vast field of candidates.
The comments of Pompeo came just a week before the Trump administration leaves office and appeared aimed at President-elect Joe Bidenâs stated desire to resume negotiations with Iran over the 2015 nuclear deal.
Point to be noted that President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.
He alleged Iran for secret ties with Al-Qaida, citing newly declassified intelligence suggesting Tehran harbored the groupâs No.
He was killed in August, reportedly by Israeli agents.It is noteworthy that Shiite-ruled Iran and predominantly Sunni Al-Qaida arenât natural allies in the Islamic world.
Iran alleged Taliban after two years for murdering several of its diplomats in the northern city of Mazar Sharif.
However, the US officials had previously confirmed the death of Al-Masri and his daughter, and the widow of Osama bin Ladenâs son Hamza.
He delivered his words in their first bilateral meeting a day earlier and that his American counterpart was open to exploring his proposals on a temporary worker program and helping Mexico obtain more vaccine.
He said he didnât come away with a deal for the US to help Mexico obtain more COVID-19 vaccine.
There were questions ahead of the meeting about how the two leaders would get along.
It is noteworthy that Obrador had a surprisingly warm relationship with former President Donald Trump that revolved almost exclusively around Mexicoâs efforts to stop migrants from reaching the US border.
But, on Tuesday, he said there was a lot of laughter in the one hour and 15-minute conversation with Biden that covered nearly all of the main issues in the bilateral relationship.
Obrador also said, âThere were not any differences, Iâm telling you categorically, not a single oneâ.Obrador said he proposed the US analyze how many workers its economy requires and then design a plan for temporary worker visas that would allow Mexicans and Central Americans to migrate legally for work.
The Biden administration officials said the first batch of $1,400 stimulus payments was processed on Friday with additional large batches of payments to be sent via direct deposits or through the mail as checks or debit cards in the coming weeks.
Wells Fargo and Chase Bank issued a statement on Saturday and said eligible customers can expect electronic stimulus payments to be deposited on Wednesday, 17th March 2021.
The IRS Commissioner Chuck Retting issued a statement and said, âIRS employees again worked around the clock to quickly deliver help to millions of Americans struggling to cope with this historic pandemic, even though the tax season is in full swingâ.Retting added, âThe payments will be delivered automatically to taxpayers, even as the IRS is continuing delivering regular tax refundsâ.
The officials said this round of checks will also go to all qualifying dependents, unlike the first 2 payments which were limited to children under 17.
It will be based on 2019 or 2020 tax returns, depending on which was the latest filed or data supplied to the IRS last year by non-filers.
More than 85% of Americans are estimated to be eligible for the payments.
Biden said a high school diploma is no longer enough for the occupational demands of the 21st Century.
He tweeted and said, âThatâs why under the Biden-Harris plan, the community college will be free and public colleges and universities will be tuition-free for families earning less than $125,000 a yearâ.
Sen. Charles Schumer has urged Biden to alleviate the financial pressure facing American students.Schumer delivered his remarks earlier this month and called for the erasure of student loan debt.
He pointed out $90 billion in arrears being held by students in the Empire State alone.
Reps.-elect Mondaire Jones, Jamaal Bowman, and Ritchie Torres are newly-elected progressives headed to the US Congress from the metro region attended that announcement with Schumer.
It says, âAll of these proposals will be implemented in partnership with states as well as school faculty and staffâ.The statement adds, âEducators must play a key role in decisions affecting teaching and learningâ.
The administration of President Joe Biden has prepared to inform US Congress and others that the US has planned to increase the admissions of refugees in the country.
The White House officials and other sources linked to the matter informed that President Biden plans to announce a plan this week.
Point to be noted that former president Trump had drastically reduced the refugee admissions cap to only 15,000 before he left office.
President Bidenâs plan would raise that number to 125,000, an increase of 10,000 over the high ceiling set by former President Barack Obama before he left office.The White House officials and other sources spoke ahead of the formal announcement.
They said President Biden will make his plan public during a visit to the State Department on Thursday.
He may also address asylum claims for residents of Hong Kong there, according to one official.
The former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs urged Republican leaders in Congress to accept the reality that President-elect Joe Biden won the presidential election.
However, Biden has projected as the winner of the election nearly a month ago, but Trump has refused to concede.
President Trump and his lawyers have pushed unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud without providing evidence.
Legal challenges from Trumpâs lawyers have nearly all failed in court.
An analysis by the Washington Post published Saturday said just 27 of 249 Republicans currently serving in Congress have publicly accepted the fact that Biden won.Krebs informed CBS News Face the Nation on Sunday.
And I think the rest of them have to acknowledge that the system in place to conduct the election was legitimate, and particularly in the House [of Representatives], theyâve accepted their outcomes and their racesâ.
On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden said he will ask Americans to commit to 100-days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president.
He is stopping just short of the nationwide mandate heâs pushed before to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The recent move marks a major shift from President Donald Trump whose own skepticism of mask-wearing has contributed to a politicization of the issue.
It has made many people reticent to embrace a practice that public health experts say is one of the easiest ways to manage the pandemic, which has killed at least 275,000 Americans since it began.
Biden has frequently emphasized mask-wearing as a patriotic duty and during the campaign floated the idea of instituting a nationwide mask mandate.Point to be noted that Biden later acknowledged it would be beyond the ability of the President to enforce.
He was speaking with CNNâs Jake Tapper and said he would make the request of Americans on Inauguration Day, 20th Jan 2021.
On Tuesday, Republican lawmakers and conservative groups opposed President-elect Joe Bidenâs forthcoming immigration plan as massive amnesty for people in the US illegally.
They said the measure will face an uphill fight in a Congress because Democrats control just narrowly.
Several pro-immigration groups said they would press Biden to go even further and take steps such as an immediate moratorium on deportations, detentions, and new arrests, in a further complication.
Their demands pointed out the pressures Biden would face from his partyâs liberal wing as 4-years of President Donald Trumpâs restrictive and often harsh immigration policies come to an end.
This move will hopefully spotlight his emphasis on an issue thatâs defied major progress in Congress since 1986.
US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said Trumpâs impeachment trial, confirmation of Bidenâs Cabinet nominees, and more COVID-19 relief will be the chamberâs top initial priorities.
On Wednesday, Russia called its US ambassador Anatoly Antonov back home for consultations, as Moscow mulls avoiding what its foreign ministry called an irreversible degradation of relations with America during the early days of the Biden administration.
Tensions between both countries are increasing following recently declassified reports on Russiaâs suspected attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, US condemnation over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, and Joe Biden calling Vladimir Putin a killer in an interview on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova said, âThe new American administration has been in power for two months, and a symbolic 100-day anniversary is just around the corner, which is an appropriate milestone to try and assess what the Biden team is successful in and what itâs notâ.Point to be noted that the recent situation allows Americans to acknowledge the associated risks of the fraying relationship between both countries.
She added, âWashington has itself sent into a stalemate in recent yearsâ.
The host asked whether Biden thought the Russian president was a killer and threatened some form of retaliation.
The back-and-forth comes as Washington once again contends with the fallout from a suspected Russian influence campaign.It is noteworthy that a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has indicated that Russia once again conducted a sweeping social media influence effort during the 2020 US presidential election.
Esther Olavarria informed US mayors over the weekend that Biden plans to sign an executive order rescinding the proclamation that suspended certain immigrant and work visas.
Point to be noted that Olavarria is deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and one of the presidentâs top immigration advisers.
Olavarria said the upcoming order would rescind the Trump proclamations that precluded the admission of immigrants and non-immigrants either deemed to be a financial burden on our health care system or deemed to present a risk to US labor markets.Olavarria delivered his words during the United States Conference of Mayorsâ 89th winter meeting.
He said, âThese were policies that ignored the decades, and centuries actually, of contributions that immigrants have made to our economy, to our society, to our culture.
So we would rescind those policies and return to a country that welcomes immigrants and acknowledges their contributionsâ.
It is unclear when Biden to sign the proclamation, but his plans to issue several immigration actions on Friday has been delayed.