THE NOTE: Pres. Biden's hope is that progress brings unity, more than unity bringing progress. https://t.co/FMiq449937
— ABC News (@ABC) February 1, 2021
How serious is Biden about bipartisanship? We’re about to find out. Today, 10 Senate Republicans will make a counteroffer to Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan and meet with the president to discuss their idea. https://t.co/ffJLNh4njX
— POLITICO (@politico) February 1, 2021
President Biden joked with Susan Collins he feels like he’s back in the Senate during a very brief media availability before a meeting with GOP senators on Covid relief pic.twitter.com/7bydKmFlPE
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) February 1, 2021
Psaki on Covid relief bill: "The risk is not that it is too big, this package, the risk is that it is too small and that remains [Biden's] view and it is one he will express today." pic.twitter.com/OypLZMdXlY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 1, 2021
Portman is critical of Biden for pursuing a $1.9 trillion economic-relief package without any GOP support.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) February 1, 2021
Yet Portman supported Trump’s most ambitious legislation—a $1.5 trillion tax cut and ObamaCare repeal—even though it won no Democratic support. https://t.co/QP2fUHYxGO
So Rs want Biden to drastically scale back economic relief in the name of bipartisanship. Their offer is insultingly inadequate, and their claims that using reconciliation would "poison the well" are rich given how they rammed through the 2017 tax cut. But there's more 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2021
Factbox: Biden's COVID-19 relief plan vs. Senate Republicans counter-proposal https://t.co/WRglVIqNcn pic.twitter.com/pbzopPA4ra
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 1, 2021
White House plays down prospects for Biden-GOP meeting on relief bill https://t.co/atf0FzpxJH
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 1, 2021
Republicans who passed $2.3 trillion tax cut for super rich under Trump now say we can’t afford COVID relief under Biden after 440,000 Americans dead
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 1, 2021
BREAKING: @SpeakerPelosi and I just filed a concurrent budget resolution to instruct Congressional Committees to craft legislation to enact President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 1, 2021
The time for decisive action is now.https://t.co/mChg5qu2X3
Fed officials say U.S. economy still in depths of recession, more relief needed https://t.co/T8xb3c6l8y pic.twitter.com/0XkXH8PQKV
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 1, 2021
Biden reverses Trump's last-minute attempt to freeze $27.4 billion in government programs https://t.co/u2YqxP9M4Z pic.twitter.com/4iEgimaGsi
— The Hill (@thehill) February 1, 2021
"Biden's first days in office were way better than I expected"
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 1, 2021
I went through the president's 40-plus executive orders on climate, criminal justice, racism, immigration, spending, workers' rights, & foreign policy and found a lot to like for progressives.https://t.co/75LhH57yzv
JUST IN: Biden asks Supreme Court to cancel arguments on border wall, asylum cases https://t.co/vRZPUR76eM pic.twitter.com/1UUVzRze0s
— The Hill (@thehill) February 1, 2021
Opinion: The latest attempt to normalize the Republican Party https://t.co/N1JZlxqPVY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 1, 2021
White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology. Efforts at transatlantic counterterrorism cooperation hit an obstacle: the politics of the Trump Administration. https://t.co/KIqWvg2a3Q
— ProPublica (@propublica) February 1, 2021
Here are key moments from our examination of Donald Trump’s attempt to upend the transfer of power that for 224 years had been the bedrock of American democracy. https://t.co/eWsPp1ZUId
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 1, 2021
The View From the Republican Rebels https://t.co/XxKkglIhh0 via @RollingStone
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) February 1, 2021
It’s already been decided. And the answer is revocation. Why would you allow a former president who never paid attention to daily presidential briefs access when he’s no longer president? The White House knows Jared Kushner is the one who wants them.
— Max Axel (@TheMaxAxel) February 1, 2021
Robinhood CEO expected to testify before U.S. House committee on February 18: Politico https://t.co/inF7ZB2HdS pic.twitter.com/Xn4zm4HnWf
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 1, 2021
61 years ago today four Black students staged a sit in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Their good trouble inspired protests across the South & forced lasting change. As we celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth , let’s remember the sacrifice of those who paved the way. pic.twitter.com/sTy88FwAIs
— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) February 1, 2021
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PM GRASPS AT VISION OF UPBEAT SUMMER
Exactly the wrong message to be giving out. Why focus on summer holidays abroad instead of getting schools open? Hospitality & the arts back on their feet? NHS managing well? https://t.co/mtT4bQjW6i
— Prof. Devi Sridhar (@devisridhar) February 1, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is "confident" that all approved vaccines provide a "high degree of immunity and protection against all variants" of #COVID19.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 1, 2021
More here: https://t.co/NUjuHLnMfm pic.twitter.com/4xIZJFf0pT
Will the success of the vaccine rollout save Boris Johnson? https://t.co/pcCRgAsJFI
— The Independent (@Independent) February 1, 2021
Tuesday’s TIMES: “Sage warned No 10 over mutant virus weeks ago”. #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/KaZtzV1w9y
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) February 1, 2021
The UK’s £35bn fashion and textile industry is facing 'decimation' as a result of red tape and travel restrictions thrown up by the new post-Brexit trade agreement with the EU, Boris Johnson has been warned https://t.co/WvgBdEo7hQ
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 1, 2021
Boris Johnson is poised to appoint Paul Dacre as Ofcom chair and offer him a peerage https://t.co/XJptmWeT7R
— The New European – Think Without Borders (@TheNewEuropean) February 1, 2021
A set of new investors with strong journalism/media business pedigree invest in anti-Brexit paper, The New European. They include former @nytimes CEO and ex @BBC director general Mark Thompson and fmr @FT editor @lionelbarber https://t.co/b3t0yXwbfR via @NiemanLab by @jbenton
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) February 1, 2021
Despite the EU missteps, despite the vaccines, Brexit will still prove a grave error | Polly Toynbee https://t.co/GYI7Msurzg
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 1, 2021
You sort of feel the EU is trying its best to dig itself out of a horrible hole here…but with a pope joke?! Might be best to stop digging at this point. #Brexit https://t.co/979O6g8sPe
— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) February 1, 2021
"In just one month of post-Brexit trading, British logistics expert Jon Swallow has seen exports dive, prices rise and customers so desperate that he is practically offering a counselling service." #B4BSMEhttps://t.co/29Nr8MHF7P
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) February 1, 2021
Dear @andreajenkyns I think my depiction of that night was far more symbolic – and prescient. https://t.co/GmgkSQoWjY
— Cold War Steve (@coldwarsteve) February 1, 2021
Here is my @tortoise piece on my worries that the BBC are giving the government far too little proper scrutiny on COVID catastrophe and so playing into hands of enemies on the right https://t.co/0e8X59QYJD
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) January 28, 2021
Dr Lisa Wilson calls for policy to think-through now how we might expect our economy to shift post-lockdown & plan for the transition 'people’s consumption patterns may have changed quite drastically when we come out the other end' https://t.co/Eu1BYEaI1d
— NERI (@NERI_research) February 1, 2021
This rules: farmer saves her business and makes £50,000 by charging £5 for a goat to secretly join your Zoom meeting, I kid you not. She says it’s “better than selling manure.” https://t.co/MIvG5sbD3U
— The Poisonous Euros Atmosphere Fan (@DawnHFoster) February 1, 2021
The Overnight Note 