This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wilflitzer in the situation room.

We're following breaking news tonight.

President Biden takes action on the deepening economic crisis here in the US.

He just signed executive orders to speed stimulus checks, expand food stamps,

and raise the federal minimum wage.

He says this country cannot let people go hungry or lose their jobs during this national emergency created by the

coronavirus pandemic. The president also seemed to welcome a potential delay

in the Trump impeachment trial in the US Senate. He says the more time his administration has

to get up and running and respond to the crisis in America,

the better.

The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now set

to deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate, the article

of impeachment against former President Trump on Monday. Let's go to our

chief White House correspondent Caitlin, she's working all of this for us.

Caitlin, today President Biden turned his focus to the US economy as another

casualty of this pandemic.

Yeah, Wolf, and he said that we need to act like we are living in a national emergency because in his opinion the crisis is only getting worse.

And you're right, today he was trying to address the economic fallout from the pandemic and trying to take measures that he can through the power

of the presidency by trying to stop the bleeding that you're seeing happening so

much across the United States when it comes to the economic pain that people are

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