White House launches ‘Help is Here’ tour to promote stimulus package in key states

President Joe Biden and his allies are hitting the road this week to promote the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill he signed in law last week as the right prescription for a country humbled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Biden and a slate of advocates including Vice President Kamala Harris and first lady Jill Biden are embarking on a tour to politically important states and television to promote the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that he signed last week.

The “Help is Here Tour” is a part of measures taken to overcome the year-long pandemic that has killed over 526,000 Americans and put millions out of work.

The tour includes a $1,400 check for most U.S. households as well as efforts to shore up the coronavirus vaccination campaign, prepare schools to reopen and ease poverty.

“I promised the American people, and I guess it’s becoming an overused phrase, that help was on the way,” Biden told a White House ceremony on Friday. “We’ve delivered on that promise.”

The bill was President Biden’s first legislative priority on taking office in January and his fellow Democrats used narrow majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate to pass a large measure of what Biden originally proposed without Republican support.

Biden defeated Trump in closely divided Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.