COVID-19 Roundups
Biden Budget Increases Spending for Education and Poverty Reduction: April 9 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration First draft of the budget proposal: Today, the White House will release its budget plans for the 2022 fiscal year. The plan proposes $1.52 trillion in spending, including a 16% spending increase on domestic priorities like education and reducing poverty. President Biden has yet to nominate a replacement for the Office of Management and Budget…
Black Women Nominated for Appellate Court & Op-Ed on Tech CEOs Testimony: April 1 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration Biden’s First Appellate Court Nominations: Three Black Women. For his first three federal Court of Appeals nominations, President Biden named three Black women—Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tiffany Cunningham, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. The Joint Center—which urged President Biden to prioritize Black federal appellate court nominations in February—commends President Biden for this major step. The nominations are critical because…
DC Statehood, OMB Director, Gun Reform & Tech CEOs Testify: March 25 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration Funding for infrastructure: The Biden Administration may propose $3 trillion to spend on its Build Back Better jobs and infrastructure proposal, The Hill reports. The new package will reportedly be “split into two separate bills” including one focused on infrastructure (manufacturing and climate measures, broadband and 5G, and roads and bridges) and another focused on funding…
Joint Center Recommendations in Stimulus Package & Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: March 18 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration Biden promises 100 million vaccines & stimulus checks: On Monday, President Biden promised to deliver 100 million vaccine doses and 100 million relief checks in the next 10 days. So far, 109 million vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. (93 million under the Biden Administration and 16 million under the Trump…
Stimulus Will Cut Black Child Poverty, Confirmation of Marcia Fudge: March 9 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administation Biden will likely sign COVID-19 relief bill this week: On Saturday the U.S. Senate passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, and the House is scheduled to vote on the bill on “Wednesday morning at the latest” according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). President Biden is slated to sign the legislation before unemployment programs…
Push for Shalanda Young for OMB Director, House Vote on Policing Bill Thursday: March 3 Joint Center Roundup
Remembering Joint Center Co-Founder Vernon Jordan The Joint Center mourns the passing of Vernon Jordan, a civil rights icon, former president of the National Urban League, one of President Clinton’s closest advisors, and a key player in establishing the Joint Center. Mr. Jordan co-wrote the original draft proposal for the Joint Center in 1969 and helped establish…
Feb. 24 Roundup: The Possibility of a Black Woman as OMB Director
Biden Administration Aid for Black essential workers: In a roundtable with Black essential workers, President Biden said the White House is focusing on the needs of “the most left-behind community: the African American community” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. An April 2020 report found that Black workers are overrepresented in public transit, childcare and social services, health care, trucking, warehouse,…
Stimulus, HBCU Funding & Black Woman on Fed Board Possible: Feb. 18 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration Biden talks equitable COVID-19 recovery in stumping for stimulus: At a CNN town hall, President Biden talked about his plan to address the challenges and solutions to ensure vaccine distribution is equitable. Solutions include ensuring more communities have facilities with vaccines and spending $1 billion on public education to help people get online to register…
CBC Agenda, Black Appellate Judges & 230 Reform: Feb. 10 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration President Biden pays tribute to Black service members: President Biden visited the Pentagon for the first time since taking office and spoke about the significance of Black service members throughout history who served the United States while the struggle for civil rights at home is continuing, and the first Black Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. Yellen…
Democrats Prepare to Pass Biden Stimulus: Feb 3 Joint Center Roundup
Biden Administration Democrats prepare to pass Biden stimulus: Senate Democrats moved forward with a procedural vote to allow them to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan with a simple majority rather than requiring 60 votes to defeat a filibuster. The resolution passed with a 50-49 vote with one Republican member (Senator Patrick Toomey (PA)) not present. The vote…