The US President Joe Biden is planning to host the late George Floyd's family on his death anniversary, The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.

Floyd's death after being kneeled on the neck by a white police officer for more than nine minutes exposed the systemic racism against the blacks in the country and sparked a wave of protests around the country.

Floyd died on the 25th of May 2020. The police officer who killed George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of multiple charges relating to Floyd's murder last month.

Biden’s plans to host Floyd’s family come, however, as talks focused on the police reform bill named after, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, have stalled on Capitol Hill.

Biden had previously set the anniversary of Floyd’s death as the deadline for the bill’s passage and left much of the negotiations up to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, but there’s been little movement on the legislation in recent weeks.

Psaki said Friday that the White House is “in close touch” with the negotiators and “they still feel there’s progress being made,” but they’ve acknowledged it’s “unlikely” they’ll pass a bill by Biden’s deadline.