1 Mar 2022

USA correspondent Kelsey Snell

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 1 March 2022

In the US,  lawmakers are pushing for further sanctions against Russia with the White House is proposing a $6.4 billion dollar fund for Ukraine. This is being opposed by some Republicans, who say President Biden should've done more earlier to contain Vladimir Putin. On the domestic front, Joe Biden has named judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. She is the first Black woman nominated to the court. 

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated for Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, February 25, 2022.

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Kelsey Snell is a congressional correspondent for NPR, based in Washington DC.