Electors Seal Biden's Win, Sanders Pushes For Direct Cash Payments
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🗓️ 15 December 2020
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Biden is now 36 days away from inauguration, waiting to face a public health and economic crisis that is growing by the day.
NPR political correspondent Asma Khalid reports on the economic experts close to Biden's team who are advising the next president on how he can offer economic relief to Americans without Congress.
And Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tells NPR why he's urging Democrats to reject an emerging pandemic relief package if it does not include direct cash payments to individual Americans. Sanders spoke to NPR's Ailsa Chang.
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| 0:00.0 | A little after 5 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, California put Joe Biden over the top. |
| 0:06.6 | I-55. |
| 0:08.6 | Nose zero. |
| 0:12.1 | California's 55 electoral college votes officially cast sealed Biden's presidential victory, taking him over the 270 vote threshold. |
| 0:21.6 | He eventually wound up with 306. |
| 0:24.9 | Electors from every state voted Monday, and as that was happening, there was applause in some of those states for a very different reason. |
| 0:33.3 | The first coronavirus vaccinations were given to frontline healthcare workers in New York, Florida, California, and other states. |
| 0:44.5 | The votes and the vaccinations, two historic events that took place on the same day, both of which gave America a clearer picture of the future and the challenges ahead. |
| 0:57.1 | There's urgent work in front of us. |
| 0:59.1 | Joe Biden spoke in Delaware on Monday night. |
| 1:02.1 | Getting his pandemic under control and getting the nation vaccinated against this virus, delivering immediate economic help so badly needed by so many Americans who are hurting today. |
| 1:13.6 | Consider this. |
| 1:16.2 | Immediate economic help is being negotiated in Congress, and if they can't make a deal, President Biden will have other options. |
| 1:24.2 | Coming up, what those options are, and Senator Bernie Sanders tells NPR why he's pushing Democrats to demand more in an emerging coronavirus aid package. |
| 1:34.2 | From NPR, Amadi Cornish, it's Tuesday, December 15. |
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