Following the killings of six Asian Americans in Georgia, Rep. Andy Kim flew to Atlanta to meet with a community already traumatized by the uptick in hate crimes during the coronavirus pandemic.

“One question kept coming, which is, ‘What are you going to do about this?’” Kim, D-3rd Dist., said Tuesday. “That is the demand being made right now, It’s a demand that is justified given the violence and discrimination that the AAPI [Asian American Pacific Islander] community has faced.”

Kim, who had come to Atlanta March 28 with three other Asian-American members of Congress, joined other lawmakers Tuesday at a Capitol press conference called to push legislation designed to make it easier for Asian-Americans to report bias incidents and to help federal and local law enforcement authorities address them.

New Jersey child care providers that have felt the financial pain from the coronavirus pandemic are eligible to apply for $10 million worth of federal aid under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Tuesday.

The money is in the form of grants and won’t need to be repaid. It’s one of several relief packages Murphy recently signed into law recently that totals $100 million in federal grants for organizations and businesses crushed financially by the pandemic.

“Child care providers are absolutely critical to New Jersey’s workforce, and the COVID-19 pandemic has hit them especially hard,” Murphy said in a statement. “This legislation will help to ensure that these providers can continue to weather the pandemic and remain open and able to meet the needs of so many New Jerseyans who rely on them.”

President Joe Biden on Monday nominated former New Jersey state Attorney General Anne Milgram as head of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Milgram, who served as the state’s chief law enforcement officer under Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine from 2007 to 2010, serves as a special counsel for the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler and teaches law at New York University School of Law.

“Anne is a great choice for this extraordinarily important position,” said another former New Jersey attorney general, Chris Porrino, a partner at Lowenstein Sandler. “We look forward to her swift confirmation and continued success in this new role.”

New Jersey on Saturday reported another 2,993 cases of the coronavirus and an additional 33 deaths as nearly half of the state’s adult population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose. Meanwhile, the rate of transmission dropped below a key benchmark.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced the latest data on social media, the day after the governor and First Lady Tammy Murphy both received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Atlantic City mega-site.

The state’s 71 hospitals reported 2,344 patients as of Friday night, down 14 people from a day earlier. Hospitalizations had been rising this week, but remain well below the recent high of 3,873 on Dec. 22. The last two days, hospitalizations have dropped.

New Jersey restaurants that have been crushed financially by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible for aid under a $35 million package Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law on Friday.

The grants from federal aid to the state won’t have to be repaid by restaurants.

“These are not just small businesses. These are places where communities come together,” Murphy said at an event in Atlantic City to sign the legislation.

The federal program to help fund the Gateway Tunnel and Portal Bridge, and grants to help Camden, Newark and other New Jersey communities would see more money under President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for the 12 months beginning Sept. 1.

The spending proposal was released Friday in advance of a more detailed budget, including proposed tax changes, that will be announced later this year.

Overall, Biden proposed spending $769 billion on non-defense programs, up 16% over current levels, and $753 billion on the Pentagon, up 1.7%. The spending is just part of the overall federal budget.