The White House and congressional Democrats defended the House's passage of Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package without any GOP support, arguing the Senate must now move quickly on the proposal to address the economic crisis the pandemic caused.
THREE COVID-19 VACCINES AVAILABLE IN U.S.: Over the weekend, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for emergency use by the FDA. Members of the White House coronavirus response team are holding a briefing now.
White House COVID-19 response team lauds J&J vaccine approval, but warns that decrease in case rate has ‘stalled.’
LIVE: White House COVID-19 team briefs public as J&J vaccine doses shipped to states
WATCH LIVE: White House COVID-19 response team to hold first briefing since approval of J&J vaccine
WATCH LIVE: White House COVID-19 Response Team and federal public health officials hold a briefing
LIVE: White House COVID-19 response team delivers a public briefing (
The White House COVID-19 response team will hold a regularly scheduled briefing Monday as doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine are distributed across the country.
How White House Economists Are Thinking About COVID-19 Relief:
In a video released by the White House this weekend, President Biden spoke to Erica, a nurse in New York City running a COVID-19 testing center at a hospital.
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It is a huge conflict of interest for the White House’s new vaccine czar to own $10 million of stock in a company receiving government funding to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Slaoui should divest immediately.
White House staff members are now reportedly stepping over one another to be some of first people in United States to get Covid-19 vaccine — ahead of many seniors and front-line health care workers. Daily Covid deaths are higher than ever. Thanks for everything.
Our administration literally left this White House a playbook that would have shown them how to respond before COVID-19 reached our shores. Joe and I revisited it recently. Take a look — and then vote for a leader who will get this virus under control.
Shocking & shameful. This now deleted tweet was the reaction to President Trump testing positive for Covid-19 from @zara915 - former Obama White House staffer and Hillary Clinton’s former 2016 National Spokeswoman.
EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Miller's grandmother died of COVID-19. And his uncle blames the Trump administration. Meanwhile, the White House denies she died of COVID. But...it's on the death certificate.
The president is in the hospital with COVID-19 and the White House is putting out zero guests for the Sunday shows to explain what’s going on while also forcing administration health experts to cancel pre-planned interviews.
"RBG dies 6 weeks before the election and the ceremony at the White House to name her replacement turns into a COVID-19 superspreading event" is, on the one hand, a remarkably strange sequence of events, but on the other hand chock-full of foreseeable risks that went unprevented.
CONFIRMED: The House Appropriations Committee says it sought Dr. Anthony Fauci as a witness at Wednesday’s Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 response. It says an administration official informed it that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying.
White House press conference, March 20 Q Dr. Fauci...Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it (hydroxychloroquine) might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19? DR. FAUCI: No. The answer is no....
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