BALTIMORE (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to take executive action to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans.
Biden wants to get assistance flowing while Congress begins to consider the Democratic president's much larger $1.9 trillion package to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The two executive orders that Biden is to sign Friday would increase food aid, protect job seekers on unemployment and clear a path for federal workers and contractors to get a $15 hourly minimum wage.
The Biden White House has not provided a timeline for getting its proposed relief package through.
