PHILADELPHIA: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pack carrots and apples into food boxes for the hungry and volunteer at a food bank as part of a day of service for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Sunday. chatted with.
The couple traveled about a half-hour from their Wilmington, Delaware, residence to Philbandense, a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia that serves about 140,000 people a week in the Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey area. Before moving to the warehouse floor, where conveyor belts used to carry cardboard boxes filled with donated food, Biden said the child tax credit needed to be renewed.
The traditional day of service is a holiday on Monday, but a bad winter storm was approaching the region and events around the region were being rescheduled.
The monthly credit bids were part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and the president has proposed to extend them for another full year as part of a separate measure focused on economic and social programs. The extra boost was used by families to buy food and other supplies.
But Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.VA, objected to the lending because of concerns that the money would discourage people from working and that any additional federal spending would fuel inflation that had already climbed to nearly 40-year highs. has gone.
The Child Tax Credit was really helpful. We have to renew it, Biden said.
They walked to the warehouse floor as Wish I Didn’t Miss You by Angie Stone played softly, put on some gloves, and got to work. Jill Biden wears a Philadelphia Eagles T-shirt under her blazer for the team’s playoff game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon.
Biden interacted with volunteers, including a man standing near a basket of macaroni and cheese, who told the president that his daughter was a teacher. Biden talked about the first lady’s teaching career and then asked the man for his daughter’s number and said he would give her a ring.
The food boxes contained spices, fruits, vegetables, noodles, cans of tea and juice, and peanut butter and chickpeas.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D.N.Y., said the Senate will take voting rights legislation on Tuesday, missing the deadline he initially set for action until Monday, which is MLK Day. Biden spoke vehemently of the need to pass the law, comparing it to modern concerns over election sabotage and extended voting restrictions in the states to the 1960s civil rights struggle. Biden said last week that he supported changing Senate rules to allow a slim Democratic majority to push the package, though he later acknowledged the uncertainty it would pass to Congress this year at the Manchin and Sen. May pass after the objections of D-Ariz.
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