Washington – President Joe Biden will meet George Floyd’s family at the White House on Tuesday, celebrating his first anniversary of his death.
But beyond the conference, Byden still provides concrete action to a man’s family whose death by a white Minneapolis police officer has caused a global reputation for organized racism and police reform moves. I have not. Capitol Hill’s future course in Floyd’s bill of the same name, George Floyd’s police law, remains unclear, but negotiators said this week they made progress and optimistically looked at the outlook. ing.
This favors Biden taking a particularly backseat and letting Capitol Hill lawmakers come up with a compromise, as opposed to both public and private enthusiastic advocacy for infrastructure bills and COVID. It is a legislative struggle that attracts attention. -19 Relief package.
The Floyd family will have their own opportunity to consider Congressional efforts on Tuesday. In addition to a visit to the White House, the Floyd family is expected to meet with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Karen Bass, the chief negotiator of the police bill, on Tuesday.
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Biden set Floyd’s death anniversary as the first deadline for the bill to reach his desk, but the issue of police reform is a particularly politically daunting issue, and Hill negotiators evenly set it. I had a hard time coming up with a compromise to pass-split the Senate.
Still, speaking on CNN on Tuesday, Floyd’s…
