US Senate confirms Lloyd Austin, first African-American to head the Pentagon
Coronavirus Joe Biden announces that passengers traveling to the US must quarantine upon arrival
He had already said that there is no time to lose and the new president of the United States continues to
adopt his first measures
in the White House to guide the course of the country.
Joe Biden dedicated his second day of work this Friday to approve another battery of decrees, in this case
focused on economic issues
, on a day in which he received the first great support for his new cabinet with the confirmation of the new Pentagon chief.
The first decree orders an
increase in emergency economic aid to working and unemployed families
, with more food assistance programs in a country with 29 million people who are hungry and increasingly used to seeing long lines of people at food banks.
The other
restores to unions the bargaining rights canceled by Donald Trump
and proposes to pave the way to raise the minimum wage to $ 15.
"We have to act, and we have to act now to make the economy stronger, at a time when deaths from the pandemic continue to increase and the number of jobless people continues to grow. We are in a national emergency and we must act accordingly. ", he said before stamping his signature on the two decrees.
Hours before the signing, President Biden received from the Capitol the
first accolade of great significance in the formation of his new cabinet
.
In a historic express vote that was approved by an overwhelming majority, the Senate confirmed the appointment of General Lloyd Austin as the new Secretary of Defense, who thus becomes the
first African American to head the Pentagon
for the first time in history.
So far only one of the 23 cabinet posts that have to go through the approval of the Senate has been confirmed.
It is about the new national intelligence director,
Avril Haines
, who is already in charge of supervising the spy agencies, and which happened the same day as Biden's inauguration.
A speed that has caused surprise because in the case of the two previous administrations,
the first appointments of Donald Trump and Barack Obama took an average of twenty days
to be approved by the Senate.
This Friday the
confirmation hearing of Janet Yellen for the Treasury Department
, one of the most juicy positions in the cabinet that is responsible for leading the economic policy of her administration,
was still underway
.
The first woman to chair the Federal Reserve during Obama's term is now facing
resistance from Republicans,
who do not look favorably on the $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan promised by Joe Biden last season. electoral.
In parallel, the second impeachment trial against Donald Trump continues to advance on Capitol Hill.This Friday, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Charles Schumer, confirmed to journalists that the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has already informed him that
It will be on Monday when he sends the articles of impeachment against the former president to the upper house
.
Biden focused his first day on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, approving more resources to vaccinate the population, the obligation to wear masks in federal agencies or the requirement of negative tests for travelers, foreigners or Americans, who enter the country.
"We will move heaven and earth so that more and more people are vaccinated, but let's be clear, the situation will get worse rather than improve,"
warned the new White House tenant, who has set the goal of reaching 100 million doses by the end of April.
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