Biden News Live: Latest updates as President plans ‘vaccine passports’

One of America’s pandemic comedy stars, famous for her TikTok videos posing as Tiffany Trump’s best friend or the rarely heard wife of Republican Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton, has fun with the latest the former president’s desperate call for attention. last clip.

Opening arguments begin Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by kneeling on his neck during an arrest last May.

Floyd’s death was caught on camera and the anger and grief it inspired sparked some of the biggest protests against political brutality in American history as the Black Lives Matter movement spread around the world to demand the racial justice.

Derek Chauvin is charged with second and third degree murder and manslaughter.

His trial will be the final test to determine whether an officer accused of fatal wrongdoing will be held accountable.

Here’s Josh Marcus on what to expect.

The president this week will outline the first part of his multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package, which focuses on rebuilding roads, bridges and other infrastructure, followed by a separate plan later in April for children and children. Health care.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Sunday confirmed the administration’s plans to split the package into two legislative proposals, as part of an effort to gain support from Republicans in Congress.

“We will work with the Senate and the House to see how this should go forward,” she told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

Biden will release details in a speech Wednesday in Pittsburgh on his proposed federal investments in physical infrastructure, an issue that has drawn support from Republicans despite mistrust of a costly package so soon after the plan was passed. $ 1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief.

Some 75% of Americans approve of the new president’s response to the pandemic and the deployment of Covid-19 vaccines, according to the latest poll.

Biden has already delivered on his promise to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine in the first 100 days of his administration and raised that target to 200 million doses.

However, the ABC News / Ipsos poll also shows that nearly 60% disapprove of its administration’s handling of the situation of migrants and unaccompanied children at the southern U.S. border with Mexico.

Oliver O’Connell has this report.

Court challenges to Republican-led electoral restrictions in Georgia and elsewhere face an uncertain road in a legal system that has become more conservative in recent years.

Groups opposed to Georgia’s drastic overhaul of election laws filed a lawsuit in Atlanta federal court on Thursday after the bill was signed by state governor Brian Kemp.

Richard Hasen, an electoral law expert at the University of California at Irvine Law School, said the outcome was difficult to predict.

“A lot of the things the bill does are consistent with what other states are already doing, so the question is whether a contraction in voting rights for bad purposes is illegal, even if the contraction is not going so well.” far than some other states (or Georgia has considered), ”he told The Associated Press.

The legislation is part of a wave of GOP-backed election bills introduced in states across the country after former President Donald Trump fueled false allegations of fraud regarding the 2020 election.

The controversial bill includes sweeping voting restrictions such as limiting the use of ballot boxes, reducing the time people have to request a postal vote, and setting photo ID requirements for the ballot box. absentee vote.

Critics claim that the restrictions in the bill violate the constitutional rights of all Georgians and also disproportionately affect voters of color in violation of the Basic Voting Rights Law of 1965.

Additional Associated Press reporting

Fox News’ Chris Wallace criticized the White House for being “ less transparent than Donald Trump about the border crisis after pressing Joe Biden’s press secretary to open border facilities to media to report on conditions.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki pledged transparency, but declined to provide an exact timeline on when reporters would be allowed to monitor the scene.

When Mr Wallace accused Ms Psaki of being less transparent than the Trump administration at the border, she replied, “We pledge to allow cameras to enter border patrol facilities.”

Donald Trump showed up to a wedding at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend, lashing out at President Joe Biden and asking the crowd, “Do you miss me again?”

In a video shared by TMZ, the former president speaks into the microphone fully dressed in a black tie and begins to separate the decisions of the Biden administration.

“I get all these splashing reports, and they talk to me about the border, they talk to me about China, they talk to me about Iran,” Mr. Trump said.

“The border is not good. It is the worst that has ever been, ”added Mr. Trump later. “What happens to the children, they live in poverty. They live like no one has ever seen them. There has never been anything like it.

“I still miss you?” the former president asked at reception, who responded with loud cheers.

Joe Biden said the US bailout is on the verge of “halving child poverty”, calling the projection a “big deal”.

The promotion came on the president’s official Twitter account alongside an official White House graphic touting the provisions of the $ 1.9 billion (£ 1.3 billion) economic stimulus bill passed on last month.

More than two months after taking the oath of office as vice president, Kamala Harris still cannot move into her official residence due to ongoing renovations.

An administrative source told CNN that it is not known why the work takes so long at the traditional home of the vice presidents, on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.

Vice President Harris is said to be “frustrated” according to another source, with the network saying she “apparently lives in suitcases.”

Oliver O’Connell reports:

President Joe Biden said the first thing he wanted to eat at the end of the loan was ice cream, after revealing he had given up on candy this year.

Speaking before boarding Air Force One on Sunday, Mr Biden was asked what he had given up on a loan, the forty days leading up to Easter this year.

“I gave up all the candy for Lent. You have no idea how difficult it is for me, ”replied Mr. Biden.

The reporter then asked, “What’s the first treat you look forward to after this is over?”

“Ice cream,” replied the President.

Mr. Biden, who is the second Catholic president in US history and the first since John F. Kennedy, speaks frequently about his faith and how important it was to his life.