Biden will send Mexico surplus vaccine, as U.S. seeks help on immigration enforcement
The Daily 202's Big Idea
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Lina Muhammad from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily 202 for Friday |
| 0:09.0 | March 19. In today's news, the Senate confirms William Burns is the next CIA director. |
| 0:16.0 | And former President Donald Trump faces at least 29 lawsuits. |
| 0:29.7 | First, the big idea. |
| 0:32.8 | The Biden administration has agreed to supply Mexico with excess doses of coronavirus |
| 0:37.7 | vaccine, and Mexico is moving to help the United States contain a migration surge along |
| 0:43.4 | its southern border. According to the Post, Snake Muraf, Karen DeYoung, and Kevin Seaf, |
| 0:49.0 | Mexican and US officials who described the agreement said it was not a quid pro quo, meaning |
| 0:54.0 | the delivery of the vaccine doses is not conditioned on an enforcement crackdown. |
| 0:58.8 | Rather, the United States made clear that it sought help from Mexico to manage the record |
| 1:03.9 | influx of Central American minor migrants and Mexico pledged to take back more Central |
| 1:09.0 | American families while also urging Biden to share the U.S. vaccine supply. |
| 1:15.0 | The decision to send AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico as well as to Canada is expected to |
| 1:20.5 | be announced today. Both the Mexican President and the Canadian Prime Minister had asked President |
| 1:26.1 | Biden to help them fill vaccine shortages in recent talks. |
| 1:30.0 | The United States is well ahead of all other countries in the number of total COVID-19 deaths, |
| 1:36.4 | but it is now also at the top of the list of vaccine distribution. |
| 1:41.2 | Biden said last week that all Americans 18 and over would be eligible to receive doses |
| 1:46.8 | by May 1st. And that's the big idea. |
| 1:50.2 | Here are two other stories that should be on your radar. |
| 1:53.6 | Number one, the Senate confirmed William Burns as the next CIA director. |
| 1:58.6 | The Post's Shane Harris reports that the Senate confirmed Burns by unanimous consent, |
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