Biden Calls for ‘Wartime’ Virus Fight as GOP Lawmakers Balk
- Biden says 100,000 people will die in U.S. over the next month
- Fauci returns to spotlight after being pushed aside by Trump
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President Joe Biden warned the nation to prepare for its darkest days in the yearlong pandemic, predicting that as many as 100,000 more Americans will die over the next month as he overhauls the federal coronavirus response and presses Congress for more aid.
But Biden’s plea for the nation to assume a “wartime” footing did not immediately sway a recalcitrant Congress, where Republican opposition to his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan only hardened. Even some liberal Democrats made clear they would not rubber-stamp the new president’s approach.