This is CNN Breaking News.

And welcome to the lead. I'm Pamela Brown and for Jake Tapper on this Friday.

And we begin today with Breaking News minutes ago, President Biden unveiled more of his plan to help ease the

economic pain many Americans are feeling during this pandemic right now.

Biden signed two executive orders, one focused on expanding assistance to Americans in need, and another

that lays the groundwork to raise the amendment wage to $15 an hour for federal workers.

President Biden is also proposing Congress pass a 1.9 trillion dollar relief plan, but

as CNN Phil Maddenley reports, that will take more maneuvering than just the stroke

of a pen.

We need more action, and we need to move fast. President Joe Biden in his second full day in office,

zeroing in on the second major crisis facing his administration, a teetering

economy.

Now is a moment not to under shoot or to wait and see, now is a moment to act.

With new weekly unemployment claims still hovering just shy of 1 million, Biden unveiling a pair of executive

orders, one that would expand food assistance, speed up distribution of stimulus checks,

and expand eligibility for unemployment benefits for workers who refuse jobs

due to unsafe working conditions. We're in a national emergency. We need to act like we're in a national emergency.

So we've got to move with everything we've got. And we've got to do it together.

And one that lays the groundwork for a $15 minimum

wage for federal workers. The executive orders capping a week of more than two dozen

actions to try and ramp up or completely reverse his predecessor's efforts

to deal with the same issues. But as the White House grapples with a cascade of

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