Biden appeals for policing legislation after meeting with family of George Floyd

President Biden issued a plea for policing legislation Tuesday after meeting privately at the White House with family members of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death in the custody of Minneapolis police. The meeting came as negotiations continue in Congress on a bill bearing Floyd’s name.

“We have to act. We face an inflection point,” the president said in a statement. “The battle for the soul of America has been a constant push and pull between the American ideal that we’re all created equal and the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart. At our best, the American ideal wins out. It must again.”

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Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet next month in Geneva, the first face-to-face meeting between the two adversaries.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) rebuked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she continued to compare coronavirus masking policies to “the horrors of the Holocaust” under Nazi Germany.

The Senate confirmed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Kristen Clarke to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights.

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to regulate cybersecurity in the pipeline industry for the first time.

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