President Joe Biden is expected to be in Atlanta on Friday to meet with Asian-American leaders following shootings that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris originally planned to promote the recently passed COVID-19 aid package of $ 1.9 trillion on their trip to Georgia, but postponed a political event in the face of Tuesday night’s shootings. Instead, they will meet with Asian American leaders and discuss the attacks and threats against the community. The White House said Thursday.
Biden and Harris will also visit the Disease Control Centers for an update on the fight against the COVID pandemic, the White House said. Biden plans to add remarks from Emory University that afternoon.
The murders by a white shooter in three massage shops in the Atlanta area followed an increase in anti-Asian violence at the national level.
Biden said in a tweet on Wednesday, “The recent attacks against the community are un-American. You have to stop. “
Biden also plans to meet on Friday with Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and was instrumental in bringing the state to her and Biden’s party in last year’s election. With democratic victories in the runoff elections in the Georgian Senate, the party gained control of the chamber. The Senate passed Biden’s COVID aid package in a party line earlier this month.
US stocks on Friday sagged After the Federal Reserve announced that it would not extend the exemption of banks from a key capital rule. The Dow Jones industrial average
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was over 250 points in the morning trades.
