This is Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howell.

It's Tuesday, February 28th, and this is your morning wire, afternoon update.

President Biden said today he's nominating the current Deputy Secretary of Labor, Julie

Sue, to be the next Secretary of Labor.

Sue has come under criticism in the past for indirectly overseeing the California Employment

Development Department as one-tenth of the $114 billion in pandemic relief claims the agency

handled reportedly involved fraudulent activity.

If confirmed, Sue would replace Marty Walsh who left the administration to become head

of the National Hockey League Players Association.

On Tuesday, the Biden administration requested that Congress reauthorize the surveillance program

known as Section 702.

The controversial spying program is intended to monitor the communications of foreigners

abroad, but critics warn that it has the potential to electronically record American

citizens.

Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claim it is necessary

for American safety.

This morning, 16 members of Congress sent the Biden administration a bipartisan letter

urging the president to send F-16s to Ukraine.

The Pentagon has said that F-16s are not needed at this moment in the fight against Russia,

but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say differently.

Here's Republican Congressman Michael McCall.

We can certainly write into our appropriations bills prioritizing weapon systems.

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