White House will not overrule $15 minimum wage decision despite progressives’ plea – live
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Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump have both been vaccinated, according to an unnamed advisor who shared the news with reporters Monday.
While other officials, including President Biden, Vice President Harris, and former Vice President Mike Pence, chose to get their shots publicly to encourage confidence in the vaccines, the Trumps opted to quietly get vaccinated while still at the White House in January, the source said. There was no detail on which shot they received or how many doses they had been given.
Trump yesterday, at CPAC, said for the first time that “everyone” should get the coronavirus vaccine developed while he was in office. An adviser tells me both Trump and Melania Trump got vaccinated at the White House in January.
In the immediate hours following Biden being sworn into office on Wednesday, sources with direct knowledge of the new administration’s Covid-related work told new scoop one of the biggest shocks that the Biden team had to digest during the transition period was what they saw as a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.
The Senate has voted 64-33 to confirm Miguel Cardona to serve as education secretary, who will now be charged with the difficult job of navigating how to reopen schools during the Covid crisis.
“At this moment of crisis, Dr. Cardona is exactly the leader we need at the Department of Education,” said the senator Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate education committee to the Washington Post. “He has the experience, principles and perspective that we need in this critical role.”
This week, the Senate will confirm:
Dr. Miguel Cardona as Education Secretary
Governor Gina Raimondo as Commerce Secretary
Dr. Cecilia Rouse as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
All three are exceptionally well-qualified.
