The Biden presidency: What it means for tech

cnet said that President Joe Biden has been in office for nearly a month. He hit the ground running on his legislative agenda, pushing for Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. And now he’s preparing to introduce his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which promises to include funding for broadband deployment to help close the digital divide.

Biden generally kept mum on the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which ended Saturday with an acquittal on the charge of inciting an insurrection. Instead, Biden stayed focused his biggest and most immediate challenge: the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden’s top priority has been the vaccination of Americans against the deadly virus, which has claimed the lives of more than 485,000 Americans. He has set a goal of administering at least 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office. With current vaccines requiring two shots, that would mean fully vaccinating 50 million Americans.

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