Joe Biden is embarking on a weeklong series of events to promote his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan, but his administration also faces the challenge of winning over vaccine skeptics.
Although the numbers of Americans who say they will not get the vaccine has dropped, an NPR/Marist poll from last week showed that 30% still do not want to get the shots. Republican men and supporters of Donald Trump were the most likely to say that they would not get the vaccine.
CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked Biden today whether Trump himself should be out there promoting the vaccine to convince those who refuse to get it.
Biden, who had just made short remarks at the White House, said, “I discussed it with my team, and the thing they say has more impact than anything Trump would say to the Maga folks is what the local doctor,...
Although the numbers of Americans who say they will not get the vaccine has dropped, an NPR/Marist poll from last week showed that 30% still do not want to get the shots. Republican men and supporters of Donald Trump were the most likely to say that they would not get the vaccine.
CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked Biden today whether Trump himself should be out there promoting the vaccine to convince those who refuse to get it.
Biden, who had just made short remarks at the White House, said, “I discussed it with my team, and the thing they say has more impact than anything Trump would say to the Maga folks is what the local doctor,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Gene Sperling is White House point man for what may be the most delicate negotiations of the Obama presidency. Lloyd Grove reports on the latest turns in the debt-ceiling drama.
Gene Sperling-a key White House player in the bipartisan negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling-is a devotee of the iron fist/velvet glove school of politics.
As President Obama's top economic adviser, he had a hand in the recent presidential speech that trashed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan as a savage attack on old folks, college students, disabled kids and sick people, as well as an obscene gift to millionaires and billionaires.
Sperling loved that speech.
Ryan, not so much. An invited guest who sat in the front row at George Washington University during the speech, the congressman was at first surprised, then angry as he listened to Obama demonizing him and...
Gene Sperling-a key White House player in the bipartisan negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling-is a devotee of the iron fist/velvet glove school of politics.
As President Obama's top economic adviser, he had a hand in the recent presidential speech that trashed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan as a savage attack on old folks, college students, disabled kids and sick people, as well as an obscene gift to millionaires and billionaires.
Sperling loved that speech.
Ryan, not so much. An invited guest who sat in the front row at George Washington University during the speech, the congressman was at first surprised, then angry as he listened to Obama demonizing him and...
- 5/19/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
STRIKE ZONE: LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES
CORRECTED 9:45 a.m. PT Jan. 18
WASHINGTON -- A group of Emmy-winnning writers from "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," "The Colbert Report" and "The West Wing", along with WGA East president Michael Winship, plan a comedy event at the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 23 as a way to help lawmakers understand the issues at stake in the strike.
Washington has been sitting on the sidelines as the strike grinds on, but that doesn't mean lawmakers and the writers have been ignoring each other. In November, labor leaders pushed their cause with lawmakers and the FCC when WGA West president Patric Verrone and SAG president Alan Rosenberg met with lawmakers and the FCC in an attempt to educate policymakers on the issues.
"Daily Show" writers Rachel Axler, Tim Carvell, Jason Ross and Kevin Bleyer; "Colbert" writers Michael Brumm, Tom Purcell, Peter Grosz and Peter Gwinn; and "West Wing"'s Allison Abner hope to put a different spin on the issue.
While the writers' mock "State of the Union" debate on the strike and other issues is supposed to be funny, it also will lay out for lawmakers and their aides what is a serious issue, said Margaret Cone, a WGAE representative here.
CORRECTED 9:45 a.m. PT Jan. 18
WASHINGTON -- A group of Emmy-winnning writers from "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," "The Colbert Report" and "The West Wing", along with WGA East president Michael Winship, plan a comedy event at the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 23 as a way to help lawmakers understand the issues at stake in the strike.
Washington has been sitting on the sidelines as the strike grinds on, but that doesn't mean lawmakers and the writers have been ignoring each other. In November, labor leaders pushed their cause with lawmakers and the FCC when WGA West president Patric Verrone and SAG president Alan Rosenberg met with lawmakers and the FCC in an attempt to educate policymakers on the issues.
"Daily Show" writers Rachel Axler, Tim Carvell, Jason Ross and Kevin Bleyer; "Colbert" writers Michael Brumm, Tom Purcell, Peter Grosz and Peter Gwinn; and "West Wing"'s Allison Abner hope to put a different spin on the issue.
While the writers' mock "State of the Union" debate on the strike and other issues is supposed to be funny, it also will lay out for lawmakers and their aides what is a serious issue, said Margaret Cone, a WGAE representative here.
- 1/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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