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The White House applauds the adoption of the foreign aid legislation and urges the US lower House to approve the long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war efforts against Russia. "The president urges the House to send this legislation to his desk immediately so that he can sign it into law," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law a relief plan to help Puerto Rico address its $70 billion debt. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
President Donald Trump has changed his thinking, and now says he wants a big stimulus bill passed before the general election on November 3rd. Fed Chair Jay Powell also wants to see one passed and has warned that without one, the US economy's recovery will surely falter. But the Republican-led Senate hasn't passed a new coronavirus relief bill since April 21st, and shows little signs of doing so before the election. According to Business Insider, the GOP is far more concerned with getting the Supreme Court tilted to the right by having Amy Coney Barrett confirmed. For more than five months, Congress has held up a comprehensive stimulus package for tens of millions of Americans and left them in limbo. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants a so-called 'skinny' bill, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding out for far more for the American worker.
San Juan, Feb 17 (EFE).- Former US president Bill Clinton was on Monday in Puerto Rico, where he is slated to convene the fifth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery in San Juan between Feb 18-19.Ahead of the scheduled meeting of his initiative on Tuesday, Clinton on Monday visited the Sagrada Familia Cooperative in Corozal, a municipality in the interior of Puerto Rico, where he recognized the social work of said institution and the cooperative savings movement throughout the Commonwealth. He also visited the nonprofit Caras con Causa, in Catano and met with the music band Viento de Agua during a visit to La Goyco, a school that was closed by the Department of Education and reopened by the community as a community center, in Caguas, San Juan. (Camera: THAIS LLORCA).FOOTAGE SHOWS THE VISIT OF FORMER US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON TO NGO CARAS CON CAUSA IN CATANO AND THE SAGRADA FAMILIA COOPERATIVE IN COROZAL, PUERTO RICO.SOUNDBITES: BILL CLINTON (IN ENGLISH).
Beyonce will donate the proceeds of her new song, a remix of J Balvin and Willy William's hit 'Mi Gente', to the hurricane relief efforts following several devastations around the world.
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