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'No More Room for Delay': Biden Wants Emergency COVID-19 Aid

Associated Press

   WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - President-elect Joe Biden is calling on Congress
   to enact billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 assistance before
   the year's end, according to a senior adviser who warned Friday that
   "there's no more room for delay."

   Biden transition aide Jen Psaki delivered the remarks before Biden's
   first in-person meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate
   Democratic leader Chuck Schumer since he was projected the winner of
   the presidential election. Biden hosted the pair Friday afternoon at
   his makeshift transition headquarters in a downtown Wilmington,
   Delaware, theater.

   Biden sat with Schumer, Pelosi and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,
   all wearing masks and spaced out around a bank of tables.

   "In my Oval Office, mi casa, you casa," Biden said during the brief
   portion of the meeting that journalists were allowed to witness. "I
   hope we're going to spend a lot of time together."

   Pelosi said at an earlier news conference that she and Schumer would be
   talking with Biden about "the urgency of crushing the virus," as well
   as how to use the lame-duck session of Congress, legislation on keeping
   the government funded and COVID-19 relief.

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