White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds briefing

Washington — White House press secretary Jen Psaki held her daily briefing on Monday, as the new administration continues to begin implementing President Biden's agenda.

Mr. Biden is signing an executive order Monday afternoon strengthening federal agencies' commitment to buy American goods. The order will make it harder for federal agencies to gain waivers to buy foreign goods, and increase the threshold required for products to qualify as American made, the White House said.

The president has signed dozens of executive orders in his first days in office, issuing directives to bolster the federal government's response to the pandemic, reenter the Paris climate accords, rollback Trump-era immigration policies and more. Mr. Biden also revoked former President Donald Trump's ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. Psaki also announced that international travelers to the U.S. will have to begin providing proof of a negative COVID-19 test within three days prior to traveling.

Over the weekend, a group of 16 senators from both parties met virtually with a trio of White House advisers over the administration's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with some lawmakers pressing the White House to explain how the money would be spent and emphasizing the need to speed up the rollout of vaccines.

"There were certainly a consensus that the number one priority is vaccination," said Maine Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. "And also testing and tracing, we can't let up on that. But a consensus that we need to identify the bottlenecks, whether it's production, distribution, administration of the vaccine, and move aggressively on that. Everybody believes that's the that's the No. 1 priority, and there was absolute consensus on that."

Psaki left the door open to passing a COVID-19 relief bill through reconciliation.

"I will say as it relates to reconciliation just to take a step back, everybody watching is not as in the weeds on the Senate process as all of you, so let me just take a moment to explain," Psaki said. "Reconciliation is a means of getting a bill passed. There are a number of means of getting bills passed. That does not mean, regardless of how the bill is passed, that Democrats and Republicans cannot both vote for it."

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