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Gabrielle Canon (now) and Lauren Aratani and Martin Belam (earlier)

Senators Schumer and Gillibrand urge Cuomo to resign amid sexual harassment allegations – as it happened

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks on 8 March.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks on 8 March. Photograph: Reuters

Today so far

That’s it for me tonight! Thank you all for reading along. To recap, here’s what we covered:

  • The feds arrested Thomas Sibick for his role in the 6 January attack on officer Mike Fanone during the riot at the US Capitol.
  • New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand joined in to call for Andrew Cuomo to step down, after several women accused him of sexual harassment and misconduct.
  • Republican state lawmakers are crying foul over a last-minute add to the Covid relief bill that bars them from cutting taxes after they take federal funds.
  • New polls show that vaccine confidence is strong across demographics – but that people of color still struggle to get equal access.
  • Hundreds of migrant children detained in Texas are being held in a crowded facility without access to beds, regular showers, or the ability to contact their families. Read this for more:

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Hundreds of immigrant children and teens, detained by border patrol in Texas, have been forced to sleep on the floor in dangerously crowded conditions, without access to regular showers or essential hygiene products such as soap and shampoo, according to the Associated Press.

Nonprofit lawyers who interviewed more than a dozen children this week in Donna, Texas, found that many had been detained for weeks and had not been allowed to contact their parents or relatives. The lawyers, who were denied entry by the Biden administration, were not able view conditions inside the tent facility where more than 1,000 people are being held.

“It is pretty surprising that the administration talks about the importance of transparency and then won’t let the attorneys for children set eyes on where they’re staying,” lawyer Leecia Welch of the National Center for Youth Law, told the AP. “I find that very disappointing.”

The number of unaccompanied children crossing into the US is rising, and thousands have been apprehended since the start of 2021. Roughly 3,000 children are currently in detention, according to government data obtained by the AP, with the numbers only increasing.

Last month, the Biden administration opened the first migrant child facility in order to house 700 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, a move that sparked outcry from immigration lawyers and advocates who hoped for change when Trump left office.

“It’s unnecessary, it’s costly, and it goes absolutely against everything [President] Biden promised he was going to do,” said Linda Brandmiller, a San Antonio-based immigration lawyer who represents unaccompanied minors told the Washington Post in February. “It’s a step backward, is what it is. It’s a huge step backward.”

For more on what the new administration is doing to address the surge in child migrants, read this story from the Guardian’s Amanda Holpuch:

Updated

Earlier today, New York Magazine published an account from Jessica Bakeman, a former New York statehouse reporter, described an incident in 2014 between herself and New York governor Andrew Cuomo at a holiday party for the press taking place at the governor’s mansion.

Bakeman describes how she went up to Cuomo to thank him for inviting her and to offer her best wishes for the recovery of his father, Mario Cuomo, who was dying at the time. She describes how Cuomo grabbed her, one hand around her waist, holding her in place as they were taking pictures. Bakeman said she tried to squirm away, but the governor continued to hold her in place.

Here’s more from the piece:

He turned to me with a mischievous smile on his face, in front of all of my colleagues, and said: “I’m sorry. Am I making you uncomfortable? I thought we were going steady.”

I stood there in stunned silence, shocked and humiliated. But, of course, that was the point.

I never thought the governor wanted to have sex with me. It wasn’t about sex. It was about power. He wanted me to know that I was powerless, that I was small and weak, that I did not deserve what relative power I had: a platform to hold him accountable for his words and actions. He wanted me to know that he could take my dignity away at any moment with an inappropriate comment or a hand on my waist.

Confidence in Covid-19 vaccines is growing in the US, but equal access issues have taken a toll, CBS news reports.

The results of a new Edelman Trust Barometer poll, released today, show close to 60% were eager to get their shot, compared to 33% asked the same question at the beginning of the year.

Meanwhile, more than 40% of Black and Latino respondents said that they they had struggled to get an appointment even though they were eligible for the vaccine.

“This whole idea that African Americans and Hispanics have deep hesitancy because of fear, it’s not so,” the CEO Richard Edelman told CBS. “They don’t have access.”

A separate survey, done by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist, had similar findings. NPR reports that 73% of Black people and 70% of white people said they planned to or had gotten the vaccine.

From NPR:

The findings come amid concerns in some states over who is getting vaccinated and who is not, with data in some states suggesting stark racial disparities. The pandemic has had an outsized impact on people of color, especially Black Americans”.

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Senate Democrats snuck a last-minute amendment into the $1.9tn covid relief bill signed by Joe Biden this week, to ensure cash-strapped states receiving the federal funds couldn’t turn around and cut taxes, the New York Times reports.

Roughly $220bn will be distributed to states to cover costs associated with Covid, or to fund essential governmental services, but state leaders will now be unable to subsidize tax cuts through 2024.

Democrats, including Senators Joe Manchin and Ron Wyden, argued that the amendment was an essential guardrail to ensure the intentions behind the relief package were acted upon by the states that received help from the federal government.

Republican legislators, however, see the move as an overstep. Some state leaders are now pushing for that part of the bill to be repealed.

From the NYT:

“It is an intrusion into what would traditionally be a state prerogative of how we balance our budget,” said Ben Watkins, the director of the Florida Division of Bond Finance. “If they want to give us this money to deal with Covid, then they should just give it to us with no strings attached.”

Funding for state and local governments was one of the most contentious issues during stimulus talks, with Republicans saying Democrat-led states were being rewarded for mismanaging their finances and labeling the aid as a “blue-state bailout.”

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With mounting pressure on the New York governor Andrew Cuomo to resign, the New York Times has taken a closer look at the lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul, who would take over if he relinquishes his seat – and become the first woman to serve as governor in the state.

She’s won two statewide elections with Cuomo, who chose her as his running mate in 2014, and that experience could be essential. As the Times reports, along with navigating New York’s vaccination program and a difficult economy recovery from the Covid crisis, there are also a “series of urgent legislative deliberations and responsibilities” coming up quickly on the agenda.

Cuomo has rebuked the sexual harassment and misconduct accusations as well as the growing number of calls for his resignation from New York lawmakers and Democratic party leaders.

The Assembly has taken some initial steps toward an impeachment inquiry, but, as the Times reports, a removal from office is still a long way off. From the Times:

If Mr. Cuomo is removed or resigns, Ms. Hochul would become the governor. She would also serve as acting governor during an impeachment trial.

Ms. Hochul, for her part, has said little about the accusations against Mr. Cuomo other than that she supported the independent investigation underway into the claims of sexual harassment”.

Updated

Stimulus checks are officially on their way! The treasury department said some will see the funds arrive in their bank accounts by direct deposit this weekend, and people are already sharing that the money has been deposited.

The payments, which can also come by mail as checks or debit cards, are expected to be sent out over the next several weeks, according to the treasury department and Internal Revenue Service officials. Folks can begin checking the status of their stimulus by Monday on the IRS website.

They are expected to be doled out a lot faster than they were last year, the New York Times reports, because the first round of checks were delayed for a redesign – all so they could feature Donald Trump’s name on the memo line. This time around the memo will simply read, “economic impact payment”.

Click below for more about who qualifies for the $1,400 checks and other details on the Covid relief bill:

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Schumer, Gillibrand urge New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign

In a joint statement released today, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand broke their silence on the mounting number of sexual harassment allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, urging him to resign.

Commending his work during the Covid crisis, the New York senators said it is “clear that governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of New York,” due to the “serious allegations of abuse and misconduct.

They join a chorus of Democratic legislators from the state who have called for Cuomo to step down. More than a dozen Democratic House members, including representatives Jerrold Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, released a joint statement Friday morning.

Cuomo, a third-term Democrat who was praised for his leadership early in the pandemic, pushed back on the charges and the requests for his removal, resolutely committing to staying in office.

“Women have a right to come forward and be heard, and I encourage that fully, but I also want to be clear that there is still a question of the truth. I did not do what has been alleged,” he said.

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Earlier this week, defense secretary Lloyd Austin approved a request from the US Capitol Police to have 2,300 members of the National Guard stay in Washington DC for security purposes following the insurrection at the US Capitol. An anonymous defense official recently told CNN that Austin rejected a recommendation from the US Army that the Capitol would need just half that number. The Pentagon says that the US Capitol Police successfully made an argument that they were not well-equipped to handle ongoing security concerns.

The National Guard was scheduled to leave DC completely today, but the Pentagon’s move to keep members at the Capitol means that only about 2,500 members will be leaving. The defense department said that keeping the National Guard at the Capitol will cost an additional $111m, making the total cost of securing the Capitol from January through May $521m.

Along with the scaling back of National Guard members, some of the fencing and razor wire around the Capitol is scheduled to come down this weekend, according to a Fox News reporter.

Hello everyone! Gabrielle Canon here, to take you through the rest of Friday’s news.

First up – HuffPost is reporting that the FBI has made its first arrest for the assault of Mike Fanone, a DC metropolitan police officer who was tasered and dragged by rioters trying to gain entry into the Capitol during the 6 January attack.

Thomas Sibick, of Buffalo, New York, was allegedly caught on Fanone’s body camera ripping the officer’s badge from his vest and taking his radio. Sibick, who buried the badge in his yard when returned home, now faces five charges, including obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, assaulting or impeding officers, and taking a thing of value by force or intimidation.

From Huffpost:

FBI agents first interviewed Sibick on Jan. 27, and he acknowledged being in D.C. on the day of the Capitol insurrection. He told agents that he heard someone say to “get [Fanone’s] gun and kill him,” but claimed that he was trying to help the officer. In early February, Sibick once again denied taking part in the assault. But by late February, he said he needed to “recant” his prior statement, and admitted to grabbing the officer’s badge and radio. He said he dropped them in a trashcan in D.C., but later called up an agent and claimed he “wanted to do the right thing.”

Sibick, the FBI affidavit states, said he “had buried the badge in his backyard,” purchased a metal detector to find it, dug it up, and wanted to return it.

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Afternoon summary

It’s been an eventful day so far in US political news and our colleague Gabrielle Canon will take the blog on now from the west coast. Here are some of the highlights of Friday.

  • The US surpassed 100m administered doses of the Covid-19 vaccine earlier today, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and top Congressional leaders thanked Democratic members of Congress in the White House Rose Garden earlier for passing the $1.9tn American Rescue Plan, which the president called “transformational”.
  • The city of Minneapolis reached a record $27m settlement with George Floyd’s family. Floyd died during an arrest attempt last May by now-ex police officer Derek Chauvin, who is on trial for murder in the city right now.
  • New York governor Andrew Cuomo again refused to resign and said of accusations of sexual misconduct or harassment: “I did not do what has been alleged.”

Reaction is coming in from the record settlement between the city of Minneapolis and the family of George Floyd.

Correspondent Amudalat Ajasa sends this from an interview in Minnesota moments ago:

“That dollar amount shows that what happened to George Floyd was wrong. It goes to show that we matter but it’s an opportunity to show that these types of injustices are wrong. It was a clear violation of George Floyd’s civil rights. It shouldn’t have happened,” said Todd Gramenz of Black Lives Matter St Paul.

Black Lives Matter Saint Paul was established in 2014 after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. They have been organizing protests and lobbying since then.

Gramenz added that you cannot really put a dollar value on a life. “How do you value a Black man, who’s innocent, that’s killed?” he said, and called for more police who kill to stand trial.

Meanwhile, only one Minnesota police officer has been convicted of murder before, a Black officer who killed a white women, yet several hundred Minnesotans have suffered police-involved deaths in the last 20 years.

A seventh juror was just seated in the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, a white man, charged with murdering Floyd, who was Black.

This is a great dispatch from Ajasa last weekend #ICYMI:

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US surpasses 100m administered Covid-19 vaccine doses

The US surpassed 100m administered doses of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nearly 20% of the US population has received one dose while 10% of the population is fully vaccinated.

About 2.3 million Americans are being vaccinated a day on average. The CDC reports that over 133m doses of the vaccine have been delivered.

During a public address, Joe Biden said yesterday that he plans on having every American adult eligible for the vaccine by 1 May with the goal of achieving a semblance of normal life by Independence Day on 4 July. The administration said it will increase the number of places where people can get vaccines to help get their shots at a faster pace.

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People are scoffing at a part of New York governor’s Andrew Cuomo’s defense against the sexual assault and harassment allegations he faces that he delivered during a press call earlier today.

Cuomo, when rebuking the Democratic lawmakers who have called for him to resign, said that “part of this is that I am not part of the political club. And you know what? I’m proud of it.”

People on Twitter pointed out that Cuomo is the son of a former New York governor and ex-husband of Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post with the headline “If Andrew Cuomo isn’t ‘part of the political club’ then Mickey Mouse isn’t part of Disney”, Philip Bump pointed out that “for 23 of the last 50 years, the governor of New York has had the last name Cuomo.”

During the White House’s press briefing earlier this afternoon, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Biden’s primetime speech on Thursday night, in which he condemned “vicious hate crimes” against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Many in the Asian American community still live in fear, are still being threatened, are still being attacked,” Psaki said. “He felt the need to make clear that was not acceptable.”

Psaki was asked whether the president believes Donald Trump had stoked prejudices. Psaki said it was no secret that Biden believes the sentiment was fueled by the “provoking of hate speech by his predecessor”.

Biden lauds $1.9tn Covid relief bill as 'transformational'

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and top Congressional leaders are thanking Democratic members of Congress in the Rose Garden right now for passing the $1.9tn American Rescue Plan.

“I promised the American people… that help is on the way,” Biden said. “Today, with the American Rescue Plan now signed into law, we delivered on that promise.”

“It’s historical and they call it transformational, and it really is.”

Biden outlined the way the bill will impact Americans, starting with the $1,400 stimulus checks that Americans will start receiving this weekend.

“Think of the millions of people going to sleep at night staring at the ceiling thinking ‘My God, what am I going to do tomorrow? I lost my healthcare, I don’t have a job, unemployment’s run out, I’m behind on my mortgage. What am I going to do?” Biden said. “They’re going to be getting that check soon.”

He said that the bill will create 7m new jobs and will “change the paradigm”.

“The theory was cut taxes and those at the top and the benefits they get will trickle down to everyone,” Biden said. We’ve seen time and time again that that trickle down does not work.”

“This bill puts working people first.”

Speaking before Biden, vice president Kamala Harris emphasized that the bill’s passage means that help is on the way.

Biden at the White House with Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer.
Biden at the White House with Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

“[Americans] will feel the impact of this bill for generations to come,” Harris said. “Help has arrived, America.”

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said that the bill “is the most significant piece of legislation in so many ways… and we are just getting started.”

House speaker Nancy Pelosi said “promise made, promise fulfilled”, citing Biden’s promise to deliver aid during his presidential campaign.

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Biden to speak in Rose Garden at White House to celebrate $1.9tn bill

Joe Biden is about to speak at the White House in an event to celebrate the passing of the American Rescue Plan $1.9tr coronavirus relief bill this week and his signing of that legislation yesterday in the Oval Office.

This will be the president’s first such event, in the Rose Garden, but expect face masks and other precautions, against spreading the virus the bill is designed to combat.

Unlike the super-spreader event Donald Trump held in the Rose Garden last fall to introduce his supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

A flurry of coronavirus infections rippled from that event, where few wore masks and people mixed closed together outdoors and indoors.

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Attorney Ben Crump, representing the family of George Floyd, just said the $27 million settlement by Minneapolis is “the largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in U.S. history.”

Developments as jury selection continues in the murder trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis, for the killing of George Floyd.

On the day that the city announced a $27m settlement with Floyd’s family, over a lawsuit charging Minneapolis with the wrongful death of Floyd, the AP reports from the county courthouse.

Another potential juror was dismissed Friday after she acknowledged having a negative view of the defendant (Chauvin).

The woman, a recent college graduate, said she had seen bystander video of Floyd’s arrest and closely read news coverage of the case.

In response to a jury pool questionnaire, she said she had a “somewhat negative” view of Chauvin and that she thought he held his knee to Floyd’s neck for too long.

“I could only watch part of the video, and from what I saw as a human, I, that did not give me a good impression,” she said.

She said she did not watch the bystander video in its entirety because “I just couldn’t watch it anymore.”

The woman repeatedly said she could put aside her opinions and decide the case on the facts, but Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson nonetheless used one of his 15 challenges to dismiss her.

With jury selection in its fourth day, six people have been seated, five men and one woman. Three of those seated are white, one is multiracial, one is Hispanic and one is Black, according to Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding.

Cahill has set aside three weeks for jury selection, with opening statements no sooner than March 29.

Friday’s quick dismissal echoed others earlier in the case for similar reasons. On Thursday, one woman was dismissed after she said she “can’t unsee the video” of Chauvin pinning Floyd.

Potential jurors’ identities are being protected and they are not shown on livestreamed video of the proceedings.

Chauvin and three other officers were fired. The others face an August trial together on aiding and abetting charges. The defense hasn’t said whether Chauvin will testify in his own defense.

Meanwhile, some are already wondering if the massive settlement is an attempt by Minneapolis to buy peace from protesters, no matter the verdict in the trial...

News of the settlement reached between the city of Minneapolis and the family of George Floyd comes at an interesting moment, just as the murder trial is underway of the former police officer, Derek Chauvin, who is white and who kneeled on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes last May.

Cortez Rice, left, of Minneapolis, sits with others in the middle of Hennepin Avenue on Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Minneapolis to mourn the death of George Floyd, a day before jury selection began in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged in Floyd’s murder.
Cortez Rice, left, of Minneapolis, sits with others in the middle of Hennepin Avenue on Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Minneapolis to mourn the death of George Floyd, a day before jury selection began in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged in Floyd’s murder. Photograph: Jerry Holt/AP

The Associated Press has this report:

Minneapolis today agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, even as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.

The Minneapolis City Council emerged from closed session to announce the record settlement, which includes $500,000 for the neighborhood where Floyd was apprehended.

Floyd family attorney Ben Crump has called a news conference.

Floyd’s death sparked protests in Minneapolis and beyond and led to a national reckoning on racial justice.

“I hope that today will center the voices of the family and anything that they would like to share,” Council President Lisa Bender said.

“But I do want to, on behalf of the entire City Council, offer my deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd, his friends and all of our community who are mourning his loss.”

Floyd’s family filed the federal civil rights lawsuit in July against the city, Chauvin and three other fired officers charged in his death.

It alleged the officers violated Floyd’s rights when they restrained him, and that the city allowed a culture of excessive force, racism and impunity to flourish in its police force.

Minneapolis reaches settlement with George Floyd's family

More Breaking News: The Associated Press brings us the development that the city of Minneapolis has reach a $27m settlement with George Floyd’s family in their lawsuit over his killing while in police custody.

George Floyd died during an arrest attempt last May by now-ex police officer Derek Chauvin, who is on trial for murder in the city right now, with jury selection underway. More in a moment.

Taking questions from reporters about the lawmakers who have called for his resignation, New York governor Andrew Cuomo, repeating much of what he said in a statement moments earlier, said that people need to wait for the facts about the case to come out.

“A lot of people allege a lot of things for a lot of reasons,” he said, citing his time as the state’s attorney general. “You don’t have facts now. You have allegations.”

Cuomo affirmed that the allegations are not true, saying “I never harassed anyone, I never abused anyone, I never assaulted anyone, and I never would.”

The governor was apologetic for a photo that was taken at a wedding where he is seen cupping a young woman’s head.

“I have taken thousands of pictures. I never meant to make anyone feel uncomfortable, I never meant to make anyone feel awkward.”

When asked if he had any consensual romantic relationships with any of the women who have come forward, Cuomo repeated his assertion that the allegations are not true.

“My statement could not be clearer. I never harassed anyone, I never assaulted anyone, I never abused anyone.”

During his statement, which appeared to be largely free-flowing, Andrew Cuomo said that he is “not part of the political club, and you know what, I’m proud of it”.

Cuomo said the state has to pass a budget soon and continue vaccination rollouts. “I have a job to do, I’ve been doing it for 11 years. This is probably the most critical time in the state’s history.”

“The people of the state, they have known me for 40 years,” he said.

“Wait for the facts, then you can have an opinion. I am confident that when New Yorkers know the facts from the review, I am confident in the decision based on the facts. But wait for the facts, an opinion without facts is irresponsible.”

He finished the statement saying that he is going to cooperate with the investigation but is going to “avoid distractions” and will “focus on my job”.

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Cuomo says he will not step down: 'I did not do what has been alleged'

New York governor Andrew Cuomo just addressed the cascade of House Democrats who called for his resignation earlier this morning, making a firm commitment to not step down and criticizing the lawmakers who put out statements asking him to step down.

“Women have a right to come forward and be heard, and I encourage that fully, but I also want to be clear that there is still a question of the truth. I did not do what has been alleged.”

Cuomo said that as a former attorney general, “there are often many motivations for making an allegation, and that it why you need to know the facts before you make the decision”. Of the investigation into the allegations, Cuomo said “no one wants them to happen more quickly and thoroughly than I do”.

He then went into a rebuke against the lawmakers who have said he should resign, saying that they don’t know the difference between facts and opinions.

“Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are in my opinion reckless and dangerous,” he continued. “The people in New York should not have confidence in a politician who takes a position without knowing any facts or substance, that my friend is politics at its worse.”

“People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth,” he said. “Let the review proceed, I’m not going to resign, I was not elected by the politicians, I was elected by the people.”

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a question just now on Joe Biden’s response to the 13 House Democrats who have called for New York governor Andrew Cuomo to resign in light of the sexual assault and harassment allegations that have come out against him.

Psaki said at the press briefing that Biden “believes that every woman who has come forward ... deserves to have her voice heard, should be treated with respect and should be able to tell her story” and supports the state’s investigation into the allegations.

“We have of course watched the news of the number of lawmakers who have called for that, but I don’t have any additional announcements.”

Cuomo is set to have a call with the press at 1 pm. We’ll be keeping an eye on that to see if he addresses the calls for resignation then.

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Michigan’s health department just announced that all adults 16 or older will be eligible to receive the vaccine on April 5, nearly a month before Joe Biden’s target date to have all American adults eligible for the vaccine.

Almost one million people in the state have received at least one dose of the vaccine since December.

Dr Joneigh Khaldun, the state’s chief medical executive, said that the state hopes an opening of vaccine eligibility will help address disparities and barriers in the vaccination rollout.

“We will continue to focus our efforts on removing barriers to access for our most vulnerable to exposure and those at highest risk of severe illness,” Khaldun said.

Jeffrey Zients, coordinator for the White House Covid-19 Response Team, reiterated Joe Biden’s message from last night that the administration’s goal is to make all adults eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine by May 1 and have enough doses for all adults by the end of May.

While all adults may not be vaccinated by the start of May, everyone should be able to sign up for a vaccination appointment. The federal government will be launching a website and a call hotline to assist people trying to make appointments.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is supporting a mass-vaccination sight in Detroit that will be able to administer 6,000 shots a day, Zients said.

Three more Democratic members of New York’s congressional delegation have released statements this morning calling for governor Andrew Cuomo to resign. A total of 13 House Democrats from New York have now said Cuomo should step down.

Antonio Delgado, Brian Higgins and Sean Patrick Maloney, who is chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, released statements this morning after nine other House Democrats from the state concurrently released statements.

Five Democratic state senators from Long Island who have been historically friendly with New York governor Andrew Cuomo released a statement this morning calling for him to step down while he is under investigation.

State senators John Brooks, James Gaughran, Todd Kaminsky, Anna Kaplan and Kevin Thomas released a joint statement as Long Island’s state senate majority that Cuomo is not fit to lead as governor in light of the allegations.

The senators say the sexual harassment and assault allegations against the governor “are beyond troubling and describe a disturbing pattern of behavior that also now includes a potentially criminal act”.

“The gravity of these claims makes it clear to us that the governor cannot lead the state while faithfully responding to multiple investigations,” reads the statement.

Cuomo has not responded to the statement nor the statements released by nine Democrats from the US House earlier this morning.

Cuomo urged to resign by nine New York Democrats

In a span of minutes, nine members of New York’s congressional delegation put out statements calling on governor Andrew Cuomo to resign in light of the sexual assault and harassment allegations against the governor.

The representatives include House judiciary chair Jerry Nadler and House oversight chair Carolyn Maloney. They were joined by representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Grace Meng, Nydia Velasquez, Yvette Clark and Adriano Espaillat, all who released nearly concurrent statements denouncing the governor and demanding his resignation.

While top Democrats in New York’s state assembly have called on Cuomo to resign, including New York Senate majority leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins, this is the first time the nine representatives have called for Cuomo’s resignation. They join House Democrat Kathleen Rice, who demanded Cuomo step down last week.

In their statements, the Democratic representatives referenced the harassment and assault allegations leveled against the governor as well as reports that his office mismanaged the spread of Covid-19 in nursing homes.

“The deeply disturbing allegations of at least six women, including several former employees, offer detailed descriptions of sexual misconduct that raise additional concerns about the Governor’s fitness to hold any position of public trust,” Jones said in his statement.

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In opening remarks to leaders of India, Australia, Japan had a virtual meeting with Joe Biden this morning, the president said that the US is committed to helping allies in the region “achieve stability”.

“A free and open Indo-Pacific is essential,” Biden told the leaders. “The Quad is going to be vital in our cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and I look forward to looking closely to working with you all of you in the coming years.”

The meeting was the first between leaders of “the Quad”, the nickname for the alliance between the US, India, Australia and Japan, who are primarily teaming up to counter China’s efforts in making territorial claims in the Indo-Pacific region. Leaders of the other three “Quad” countries expressed enthusiasm similar to Biden’s over the alliance.

The virtual meeting between Joe Biden and leaders of the other three “Quad” nations.
The virtual meeting between Joe Biden and leaders of the other three “Quad” nations. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

Senator Ted Cruz is offering signed copies of a children’s book he didn’t write as a gift to donors of his campaign.

In an email sent out to supporters, Cruz’s campaign said that supporters who chip in $60 will get a copy of Dr Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham signed by the Texas senator, calling it a “cancel culture collectible” that will “be a great conversation piece”.

Green Eggs and Ham is one of the many Dr Seuss books that will continue to be in print, but Cruz and other conservatives have latched onto the recent announcement that six Dr Seuss books will no longer be published as another casualty of “cancel culture”. Dr Seuss’ Enterprises, the company that oversees the publication of the late children author’s books, made the decision to stop printing the books last year, saying that they contain racist and insensitive depictions.

Earlier this month, Cruz blamed Joe Biden – who was not involved in the decision to end publication of those six Dr Seuss books – for the “cancellation” tweeting: “Could Biden try to ban my book next?”

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This is Lauren Aratani taking over for Martin Belam. The National Guard said yesterday that it will cost an additional $111m to extend their deployment at the US Capitol through May. That brings the total cost of their presence in Washington following the insurrection in January to $521m, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

The National Guard is set to stay at the US Capitol through 23 May after secretary of defense Lloyd Austin approved the extension, following a request from the US Capitol Police. The National Guard were originally set to leave today. About 2,300 National Guard members will remain in Washington until May, a fraction of the 26,000 members that were originally deployed in January.

The cost of extra security is tacked onto the $30m in damages and other security measures, like a fence that surrounds the Capitol, brought out because of the insurrection. Last month, Capitol architect J. Brett Blanton told Congress that the cost to rebuild will “be considerable and beyond the scope of the current budgetary environment”.

The National Guard at the US Capitol
The National Guard at the US Capitol Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

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Jennifer Rubin’s verdict on Joe Biden’s first national prime time TV address last night was that it was “a normal speech for abnormal times”:

Many Americans have almost forgotten what a normal president and a normal White House address sounds like. You might remember: The president uses his appearances sparingly to highlight the most important events and issues — such as the passage of a landmark rescue plan. The speech is devoid of insults, slurs and accusations, and it is sparing in its use of “I.” That is what the country got Thursday night during President Biden’s first prime-time address.

It was reassuring to tune in, not fretting about the next outrageous insult or abject lie. It was a delight to see someone not reading the speech for the first time.

The speech itself was sober in retrospect and optimistic in forecast. Biden recalled our “collective suffering” and the heroic efforts of scientists and health-care professionals. He poetically announced, “Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do. In fact, it might be the most American thing we do.” As he is wont to do, Biden commiserated with the loss of life and the economic turmoil, the educational interruption and the missed family occasions. Ironically, he said, we found unity in suffering. “While it was different for everyone, we all lost something.”

Read more here: Washington Post – Jennifer Rubin – Joe Biden delivers a normal speech for abnormal times

Joe Biden’s meeting this morning with “the Quad” – the leaders of India, Japan, Australia and the US is underway. It’s a virtual one, although we are given to understand that Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga will be announced as the first foreign leader to visit Biden’s White House in person in due course. That’s a show of how significant the Asia-Pacific region is to the new administration’s foreign policy.

These Covid-impacted virtual summits are certainly providing some unique images of US diplomacy. As Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg News’ Senior White House reporter notes here, this Quad meeting hasn’t exactly been welcomed by China either. Relations with China are a topic which is sure to take up a big chunk of the discussion this morning.

You can understand that there is a pervading fascination over what Donald Trump will do next and how that might play out in a Republican party that needs the support of his base of voters to win the next election cycle. Burgess Everett has a go at reading the runes this morning for Politico:

Donald Trump sounds like he’s ready for a GOP civil war. But he’s also eager to play a leading role in Senate Republicans’ battle for the majority. The former president is dialing up GOP senators to back their campaigns and talk strategy, weighing how to approach primaries in critical open seats and making sure he leaves an imprint on the midterm elections.

The GOP’s worst-case scenario would be running campaign operations at odds with Trump in must-win states across the country next year. With that in mind, Republican senators are making a fresh effort to ensure they and Trump are aligned as much as possible — especially given lingering tensions between the ex-president, their leadership and the seven GOP colleagues who recently voted to convict him at his impeachment trial.

“He brought a bunch of new voters into the party that we want to keep,” said Sen Marco Rubio, who is running for reelection and has spoken recently to Trump. “He’s the most influential Republican in America. He’s not going to ride off into the sunset, write his memoirs and open a library.”

Read more here: Politico – Trump dives into battle for Senate

Aaron Miguel Cantú writes for us today as part of our new Overpoliced, underprotected series.

As protests against racist police violence roiled the US, students from California State University, Chico, helped swell local demonstrations last summer. Days after a Juneteenth vigil in which Phillips gave an emotional account of his son’s death, the city council approved a request from Mayor Ann Schwab to form an ad hoc committee to review the department’s use of force policies.

Some claim to have been skeptical of the gesture from the start, including the city’s vice-mayor at the time, Alex Brown.

The committee “was made up of the police chief and two members of the Chico police officers’ union, as well as three council members and their appointees,” Brown told the Guardian. “So right from the get go, it looked like the deck was stacked against real human engagement participation in the process.”

Brown’s appointee was Cory Hunt, a member of the newly formed Defund Chico PD group. The committee met virtually once a week. Almost immediately, the meetings became a sounding board for the police and their allies to tout the department’s own glowing self-assessment.

“The structure of the committee was so biased,” Hunt recalled. “Any true questions I presented were met with hostility.”

At one climactic meeting, Hunt brought up his own heart-stopping encounter with a Chico officer who nearly pulled a gun on him during a traffic stop. Hunt mentioned the anecdote to convey the need for implicit bias training for officers. He was brushed off.

“That was the only nugget of realness that occurred in the process,” Brown said of the incident. “You saw these displays of power and privilege play out in this very public setting.”

Read more here: A California town was promised police reform – then police got involved

It’s not an unexpected decision, but Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr has told New Yorker magazine in an interview today that he will be standing down at the end of the year. His highest-profile investigation at the moment features a certain ex-president. Jane Mayer writes:

Even before the Trump case crossed his desk, Vance had largely decided not to run for re-election. He and his wife, Peggy McDonnell, felt that he had done much of what he set out to do—among other successes, he and his federal partners had secured judgments in a dozen major bank cases, producing more than fourteen billion dollars in fines and forfeitures. This inflow covers the DA’s annual budget many times over, and also pays for a two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar fund for community-justice programs.

But Vance is sixty-six, and the pressure of managing one of the highest-profile prosecutorial offices in the country has been wearying. “It turned out to be tougher than I thought it would be,” he conceded. He told me that, although his larger-than-life predecessor, Robert Morgenthau, held the office for thirty-five years—retiring at age ninety—he himself was ready to give the next generation a shot. “There’s nothing worse than a politician who doesn’t know when to leave,” he said.

Read more here: New Yorker – Cab Cyrus Vance Jr nail Trump?

Not so much “cancel culture” as “uncancel culture” as a decades-old ban on yoga in Alabama public schools pushed by conservative groups could be coming to an end.

Associated Press report that the Alabama House of Representatives voted 73-25 to approve a bill that will authorize school systems to decide if they want yoga to be allowed in K-12 schools. The bill now moves to the Alabama Senate.

Yoga done in school would be limited to poses and stretches. The bill says the use of chanting, mantras and teaching the greeting “namaste” would be forbidden. It is a Sanskrit phrase that means “I bow to you”, but has been interpreted by some as part of a “non-Christian belief system.”

The Alabama Board of Education voted in 1993 to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in public school classrooms.

Democratic Rep Jeremy Gray of Opelika sponsored the bill. He said he understood some gym teachers had been teaching yoga in class before they realized it was banned, and others wanted to offer it, particularly during virtual learning.

Gray, a former cornerback at North Carolina State University, said he was introduced to yoga through football, and that the exercises can provide mental and physical benefits to students. “I’ve been in yoga for seven years. I know the benefits of yoga, so it was very dear to my heart, and I think Alabama will be better for it,” Gray said.

Under the bill, the moves and exercises taught to students must have exclusively English names. Gray said students would also have the option to not participate and instead do an alternative activity.

Twenty-five representatives in the 105-member House voted against the bill. Gray said some House members said they, “got a lot emails about it being part of Hinduism. Some people’s minds you can never change.”

Amanda Holpuch in New York analyses for us what Joe Biden is doing to cope with a rise in unaccompanied child migrants in the US:

The issues driving families and children to the border in the past decade remain: the climate crisis, violence, unemployment and poverty. Two devastating hurricanes in Honduras in November and the coronavirus pandemic have added to the desperate conditions. And each year migration increases when the weather warms up.

All of this is colliding with a change in the US approach to migration. For four years, Donald Trump introduced policies that made it much more difficult to migrate to the US and essentially brought asylum to a halt last year – but people kept coming. Biden has revoked some Trump-era asylum measures and children who were being turned away two months ago are now being processed because Biden stopped a rule known as Title 42 from being applied to children.

It is also believed that at least some of the unaccompanied children initially approached the border with parents or other family members and were turned away, leading some families to send their children alone to improve their chances of entering the US. The border patrol also separates many children who are with non-parents, even when those adults may be the child’s primary guardian.

For children seeking asylum on their own, the first step is to contact a border patrol official either at a legal port of entry or while trying to cross the border outside those checkpoints. Those unaccompanied children are supposed to be moved within three days out of border patrol custody to the health department’s office of refugee resettlement’s (ORR) network of shelters. From there, they are placed with a sponsor, usually a family member or friend already living in the US while their legal cases play out.

Child welfare experts say it is essential children are moved to a sponsor as quickly as possible - but it is not happening very efficiently. As of Monday, nearly 1,400 children had been in border patrol custody for more than three days, according to CBS News. In a call with reporters on Wednesday, CBP officials would not provide information on how many children were in its custody and concerns are growing about the number of children detained in border patrol facilities.

Troy Miller, the acting CBP commissioner, said: “We’re doing everything that is possible to move the children out of our custody as quickly as we should, in a safe and healthy manner.”

Read more of Amanda Holpuch’s analysis here: What is Joe Biden doing to cope with a rise in unaccompanied child migrants?

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, to pay out his coronavirus relief package, president Joe Biden must spend an average of $3.7 billion every day for the rest of this year. That’s $43,000 every second of every day until midnight chimes on 2022.

Josh Boak at the Associated Press reports that the president signed the aid package into law yesterday without a comprehensive plan in place to distribute all of the funds, which will be a core focus of the administration in coming weeks.

“It’s taxpayer money that you want to put out fairly, but you also want to put out fast,” said Jack Smalligan, a senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute and a former White House budget official.

Some spending, such as cash transfers, can occur at speed. The Biden administration already announced that it will send the $1,400 in direct checks - a total of about $400 billion-starting this weekend. The administration also will continue the enhanced jobless aid for the 20.1 million Americans who are collecting some form of the benefits. Both the direct checks and jobless aid were part of past Covid aid packages that totaled roughly $4 trillion, meaning the government has systems in place to distribute the money.

But other elements are trickier. There is $130 billion for K-12 schools to hire teachers, upgrade ventilation systems and make other improvements so that in-person classes can resume. Universities are eligible for $40 billion. Separately, $30 billion in housing aid is available. And there is about $120 billion for vaccine distribution and coronavirus testing, among other public health expenses. The White House said the billions for schools would “begin” to be distributed this month by the Education Department.

But some funds could take time to distribute, since government agencies with their normal spending can take six to nine months to release funds through competitive grants or an application process. Schools and state and local governments also might spread out spending to well after most of the country is vaccinated.

“A fair process can inherently take longer because of the checks and balances and the internal reviews,” Smalligan said. “Having the money flow out quickly and then having state and local government spend the money over the next two fiscal years is probably responsible on their part. You want to be hiring a teacher not for a month but for years.”

The Treasury Department is planning how to best distribute roughly $350 billion in state and local aid. But it hasn’t finalized a plan and is consulting with governors, mayors and other officials.

“Our Treasury team is going to work to get this aid out as in the quickest way possible - and the one that produces the greatest impact,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said at a Tuesday speech for the National League of Cities. “To do that, we’re going to need your input and advice.”

Also away from domestic politics for a moment, president Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Indo-Pacific alliance known as the Quad are set this morning to announce a plan to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity in India, according to administration officials.

They will hold a virtual meeting of the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US today, and it comes as the Biden administration is putting greater emphasis on the Indo-Pacific region in the face of growing economic competition from China.

Secretary of state Antony Blinken and Defense secretary Lloyd J Austin III are travelling to the region at the weekend in their first overseas trips in the role.

Associated Press report that the effort by the alliance to pump up India’s vaccine manufacturing also comes as the Biden administration and leaders of other wealthy nations have faced calls from France and some global health advocacy groups to donate a small percentage of vaccine produced in the US and other industrialized nations to poor countries.

The Biden administration says it is focused on making sure that all Americans are first vaccinated, but has made a $4 billion commitment to COVAX, an international effort to bolster the purchase and distribution of coronavirus vaccines to poor nations.

“If we have a surplus, we’re going to share it with the rest of the world,” Biden said earlier this week at an event where he announced that the U.S. had acquired an additional 100 million doses.

The effort by the Quad is projected to allow India to increase manufacturing capacity by 1 billion doses by 2022, according to two senior administration officials who briefed reporters ahead of the meeting.

The issue of China is sure to loom large in the meeting. Each of the four nations has a complex, if not strained, relationship with China, and Biden, in his calls with each of the leaders during the first weeks of his administration, has stressed the need for cooperation on China.

The White House is also expected to announce on Friday that Biden will host Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga for the first in-person foreign leader visit of his presidency, according to a senior administration official. A date has not been set for the visit.

A quick one from Reuters here that the US has rather unusually joined in UN criticism of human rights in Egypt.

The United States, which has observer status at the UN Human Rights Council, was among 31 signatories of the joint statement on Egypt, the first since 2014, which called on the government to lift curbs on freedoms of expression and assembly and to end the prosecution of activists, journalists and perceived political opponents

Egypt is a close ally of the United States, but the Biden administration has vowed to speak out about human rights violations and abuses of the rule of law worldwide.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, has overseen an extensive crackdown on political dissent that has steadily tightened in recent years. For his part, Sisi has insisted that there are no political prisoners in Egypt and that stability and security are paramount.

“We urge Egypt to guarantee space for civil society – including human rights defenders – to work without fear of intimidation, harassment, arrest, detention or any other form of reprisal,” Finland’s ambassador Kirsti Kauppi said, reading out the statement to the Geneva forum.

Most of the signatory countries are European, joined by Australia, Canada and New Zealand. No countries from the African or Middle East region backed the statement.

Under former president Donald Trump the US quit the UN Human Rights Council, complaining that it was biased against Israel. One of Biden’s earliest actions was to rejoin the body as an observer nation.

Fact-checking the US president may not be quite the rollercoaster it was under the previous incumbent, but Linda Qiu is still on that task with Joe Biden, and for the New York Times last night she identified two exaggerated and two misleading claims during the president’s address.

She says that Biden exaggerated saying that Donald Trump met the virus with “denials for days, weeks, then months”, saying Trump was not exactly silent and did not fail to respond completely.

She also says he exaggerated a claim that Covid has taken more American lives than “deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and 9/11 combined”, identifying a higher toll of “deaths that occurred in service but outside of combat” during those wars.

Biden also misled over vaccinations, Qiu writes. He said that the Trump administration had not ordered enough vaccine to cover the whole US adult population, but “the Trump administration had ordered at least 800 million vaccine doses.”

Read more here: New York Times – Here’s a fact-check of Biden’s first prime-time White House address

Just echoing that point from Aaron Blake, one of Donald Trump’s former rapid response people, Abigail Marone echoed what appeared to be the thoughts of a lot of Republicans last night, that Biden was doing a disservice to the vaccination efforts of the previous administration.

Aaron Blake at the Washington Post identified his three key takeaways from Biden’s national address last night:

An Independence Day goal line — with caveats. It’s been just under a year since Donald Trump set an ambitious goal for moving beyond the coronavirus, aiming to have things fully open again by an upcoming holiday: Easter 2020. Biden gave another holiday for which to aim: 4 July 2021. Biden cast it as a chance to “not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus.”

Some stern words for skeptics. With some states moving away from mask mandates and many Americans — especially Republicans — still resisting even voluntary masking, Biden labeled it the “easiest thing to do to save lives,” sounding a bit exasperated while adding “sometimes it divides us.”

Pumping up his vaccine record — a bit too much. The biggest early test of his administration has been the vaccine rollout. But as has been the case before, Biden’s effort to pitch it as a success story was overstated.

On that last point Blake elaborates:

When Biden came into office, there had already been several days of 1 million people being vaccinated — the daily number required to hit 100 million in 100 days. In other words, to hit the goal, he mostly just needed to keep things moving in the direction they were going. There is always some game-playing when it comes to setting expectations and then beating them, and vaccines continue to ramp up. But casting this as some unthinkable feat goes too far and detracts from legitimate claims to success.

Read more here: Washington Post – 3 takeaways from Biden’s first prime-time address to the nation

Biden says all Americans vaccine eligible by 1 May

Joe Biden pledged yesterday that all US adults will be eligible for coronavirus vaccines by 1 May, as he addressed the nation on the one year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden outlined plans to speed up vaccinations around the country and hoped for a return to normalcy by 4 July.

He said the country was on track to reach his goal of 100 million shots in arms on his 60th day in office. Biden had previously set a goal of 100 million shots in arms within his first 100 days in office.

The president also condemned hate crimes against Asian Americans, and repeated his calls for unity, as he urged Americans to continue to wear masks

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Hello and welcome to our US politics live coverage

Welcome to our live coverage of US politics for Friday. Here’s where we are and what we might expect to see today…

  • Joe Biden addressed the nation in a primetime speech on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic in the US. The president mourned those who have died and offered hope – suggesting that the US could regain a sense of normalcy by 4 July.
  • Biden also said his administration will push states and local governments to make all adults eligible for the vaccine by 1 May.
  • Earlier today, Biden signed into law his $1.9tn stimulus plan. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Americans could start receiving their stimulus checks as early as this weekend.
  • The New York state assembly has authorized its judiciary committee to start an “impeachment investigation” into sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Cuomo. The panel’s investigation would run parallel to one being led by the state attorney general, Letitia James, and would be authorized to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and evaluate evidence.
  • The Los Angeles police department has been criticised over its handling of protests after the death of George Floyd, with an independent review finding that poor planning led to chaos and mass arrests.
  • Actor Matthew McConaughey has announced he is “seriously considering” a run for Texas governor, a year before the state election.
  • Heavy rains triggered flooding on multiple Hawaiian islands this week, destroying homes and bridges and setting off mass evacuations. The downpour, officials and climate scientists say, is an example of the more intense rainstorms that are occurring more frequently as the planet warms.
  • Joe Biden has two main events in the dairy today. He has a virtual meeting with “the Quad” – the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan. That’s at 8.30am EST (1330 GMT).
  • At 2.30pm, the president and vice president Kamala Harris will deliver remarks on the American Rescue Plan in the White House Rose Garden. Members of Congress will also attend.
  • He will also lunch with Harris, and in the afternoon the president and Dr Jill Biden will head to Wilmington, Delaware for the weekend.

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