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The proposed stimulus package has not exceeded the 60-vote threshold, and Washington is unlikely to be able to reach an agreement before the election to get more help against viruses.
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Dozens of Stanford University doctors and fitness experts have an open letter stating that they have “a moral duty to draw attention to the lies and misrepresentations of science recently encouraged” by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, one of his colleagues who is also an adviser to President Trump.
Senate Republicans failed Thursday to advance their very small stimulus package amid opposition from Democrats who called the measure inadequate, pointing to the decrease in the chances of Congress taking some other economic recovery step to deal with pandemic victims before the November election.
After months of struggling to trump deep internal divisions over the scope of some other bailout, Republicans presented a front almost attached to their new plan, while Democrats opposed each other en masse, denying him the 60 votes he would have needed to move on. The result was never in doubt and Republicans held the vote largely to blame Democrats for the lack of progress in a compromise.
52-47 votes basically along partisan lines, with Democrats uniformly in opposition and a Republican, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, joining them to prevent the move from moving forward.
“They can tell American families that they care more about politics than helping them,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said of Democrats. “The senators who advance will vote yes. They will vote to advance this procedure so that it is a bipartisan product and creates a law for the American people.
The plan, which Republicans called their bill “weak,” cut billions of dollars from their original $1 trillion proposal filed in July. It included federal assistance for the unemployed, small businesses, and vaccine development.
But Democrats, who refused to settle for a proposal of less than $2. 2 trillion, argued that they had done little to deal with the economic devastation of the pandemic. It did not include stimulus controls for taxpayers or aid to state and local governments. facing monetary ruin, omissions that reduced the overall value of the law in an effort to appease tax conservatives. And while it would have revived the weekly federal unemployment benefits that expired in late July, he set them at $300, part of the original amount.
Democrats are pushing to repair the full paycheck.
“This bill may not take place because it’s so emaciated, so full of poisonous pills, it’s designed to fail,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, minority leader in the Senate. “It’s not enough. It’s absolutely inappropriate. “
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who played a prominent role in negotiations with Democrats on a stimulus package, questioned Wednesday the option of reaching an agreement, saying he is not sure there is another possibility.
“We’ll see, ” said Mr. Mnuchin. It’s for a lot of people. “
The federal government will end its coronavirus symptom detection policy next week at 15 designated airports across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, it will no longer be transported to those airports from Monday.
The C. D. C. stated that, instead, the federal government would devote resources to another – and indistrict – set of procedures, adding “health education” before and after flights, “disease response” at airports, and “potential testing. “
In a statement, the C. D. C. said physical health tests, which referred to temperature controls and interviews on imaginable symptoms of coronavirus, were no longer an effective way to detect infections in the “current phase of the pandemic. “
“We now have a greater understanding of Covid-19 transmission, indicating that symptom-based screening is limited in use because other people with Covid-19 may have no symptoms or fever at screening, or only mild symptoms,” the company said. Wrote.
A federal official familiar with policy replacement said that some other detail would also be removed from physical fitness tests at U. S. airports. USA: Collect tactile data in case a passenger is found to have been exposed to the virus on a flight. the CDC may still collect airline passenger data to assist local fitness departments in their touch tracking efforts.
Airlines for America, an industry organization representing major airlines, said Thursday that it is the policy change. “We continue to spend limited detection resources where they can be used more productively and, given the incredibly small number of passengers known through the CDC as having a potential fitness problem, agree that it no longer makes sense to continue detection at those airports,” said Katherine Estep, the organization’s spokesperson.
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security instituted policy for travelers in virus-ravaged spaces around the world, adding China and much of Europe, where the peak of the first outbreaks in the United States increased again. The branch required passengers to be examined at 15 major subway airports, adding Chicago O’Hare, Washington Dulles and Newark Liberty International.
In the days following the ban by the President of Europe, workers at thirteen designated airports, a number that was then more than 15, rushed to implement the new medical examinations, creating confusion at the country’s airports. European country and readers who can enter the United States, adding those with symptoms of physical illness, said the screening procedure was lax or non-existent.
Many countries have strict measures that require evidence of negative control before access or on arrival. Passengers going to China are expected to make a check five days before boarding their flight at facilities designated by Chinese embassies and consulates. Hong Kong has implemented immediate controls at its airports for travelers from spaces it considers high risk.
Several European countries, including Greece, Italy and France, require evidence of negative evidence from some countries upon arrival. The UK has also imposed a two-week quarantine era for arrivals from several countries, adding the US.
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