White House press secretary Jen Psaki just confirmed that Gene Sperling will be running point on the implementation of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief law. Gene Sperling speaks during a conference in Kalgoorlie, Australia, in 2015. Here’s a guide of what is in the relief plan. $350 billion in state and local aid, as well as billions of dollars for K-12 schools to help students return to the classroom, to assist small businesses hard-hit by the pandemic and for vaccine research, development and distribution.
An expansion of the child tax credit of up to $3,600 per child.A $300 federal boost to weekly jobless benefits.Up to $1,400-per-person stimulus payments that will send money to about 90% of households.The President said the rollout would require “fastidious oversight,” and he added that “the devil is in the details of implementing this legislation.” In a speech Friday celebrating the passage of the bill, Biden acknowledged the real work was only just beginning. The bill has been Biden’s biggest legislative priority since taking office in January. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed during today’s press briefing that Gene Sperling, a former top economic official in the last two Democratic presidential administrations, will serve as the point person in overseeing the implementation of the law.Ĭongress passed the relief package last week, and Biden signed it into law on Thursday. “When I signed the American Rescue Plan last week, I said help is on the way. This week I can report it isn’t just on the way. It’s here. Sooner than many thought possible,” Biden said. President Biden is delivering remarks from the White House on how he plans to implement his newly signed $1.9 trillion Covid relief law. We will do this,” the President said in closing. “We’re going to have to stay on top of every dollar spent through the American Rescue Plan.
“We have to prove to the American people that their government can deliver for them and do it without waste or fraud,” Biden said.
The President said Sperling “has hit the ground running,” and will help the administration make sure the benefits of the relief plan will “go out quickly and directly to the American people where they belong.”īiden stressed the importance of oversight and transparency throughout the implementation of the package. “Gene will be on the phone with mayors, governors, red states, blue states, a source of constant communication, a source of guidance and support, and above all, a source of accountability for all of us to get the job done,” Biden said. The President laid out in White House remarks today the role Sperling would play throughout the process, including working alongside both Republican and Democratic leaders: President Biden formally announced that Gene Sperling, a former top economic official in the last two Democratic presidential administrations, will be coordinating the implementation of his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law. While 92% of Democrats say they have gotten a dose of the vaccine or plan to get one, that falls to 50% among Republicans, per CNN’s latest polling. The question comes amid polling that shows vaccine hesitancy is higher among Republicans. So I urge - I urge all local docs and ministers and priests to talk about why, why it’s important to get in to get that vaccine, and even after that, until everyone is in fact vaccinated, to wear this mask.” “I’m hearing a lot of reports from serious reporters like you, saying that,” Biden said in response to a question on whether Trump could help promote the vaccine among skeptics.īiden continued, “I discussed it with my team, and they say the thing that has more impact than anything Trump would say to the MAGA folks is what the local doctor, what the local preachers, what the local people in the community say. Biden suggested that it is more important for local community leaders to promote the vaccine to “MAGA folks” than Trump himself.
President Biden returned to the podium after completing remarks on implementation of his rescue plan to take a question on whether his predecessor, former President Trump, should be doing more to promote the Covid-19 vaccine.
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