‘REAL ACTION’
“Beyond an address, our communities are looking for action and leadership to show the path... toward healing and justice,” said Quyen Dinh, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.
Scott Bixby is the White House reporter for The Daily Beast. You can follow him on Twitter at @ScottBix.
CHOICES
“Eighty percent of America supports the Equality Act. Eighty percent of America has no idea who the fuck Neera Tanden is,” said one major Equality Act booster.
NEVER TWEET
Tanden’s fate was sealed when Sen. Joe Manchin announced he would not support her appointment to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
'Lack of Creativity'
“If President Biden cares about reuniting families, why is he reopening a detention center to hold immigrant children?” asked an advocate from American Friends Service Committee.
GROSS
Paul was later admonished by committee Democrats for being disrespectful to Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to be nominated for a Senate-confirmed position.
Strange Bedfellows
Neera Tanden managed to do the impossible by uniting progressives with their inter-party nemesis over their shared disapproval of her nomination to lead OMB.
UNFATHOMABLE
“I know all too well,” he said, appearing to keep back tears.
$$$
The bigger concern among education unions isn’t so much the substance of the guidelines as much as whether Congress will provide the funding to make them happen.
JOE’S BOLD BILL
The Citizenship Act of 2021 would open wide new pathways to citizenship, but as one immigrants rights advocate said, “we have lived through many broken promises on immigration.”
RACE AGAINST TIME
As lethal new U.K. and South African strains gain ground and threaten to again drive up case numbers, the CDC is enlisting top institutions for help on surveillance.
