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The Supreme Court rejected a Republican request to block a trial judge’s decision, allowing the Rhode Island electorate to vote by mailing the coronavirus pandemic.
Key figures of the day
U.S. officials reported at least 1,470 deaths Wednesday, the total on a single day in August, according to a New York Times database, and a picture of the number of victims of the early summer outbreak in the Sun Belt states.
More than some of the deaths reported Wednesday occurred in five states that experienced some of the peaks in the June and July cases. Texas reported more than three hundred deaths on Wednesday. Florida over 200. And Arizona, California and Georgia have reported more than a hundred each.
Although the number of new cases has fallen since its peak at the end of July, deaths have remained constantly high. For more than two weeks, the country recorded an average of more than 1,000 deaths consistent with the day, more than twice as many as early July.
The more than six weeks have marked a tragic reversal of months of progress in reducing deaths. By early summer, deaths had dropped to less than 500 by day, well below the peak of more than 2000 according to April. But even when reports of deaths reached their lowest level, the uptick was already expected due to solar belt outbreaks.
Because some other people don’t die until weeks after contracting the virus, more death reports may remain the best even after new cases begin to decline. Arizona, where the number of cases has been declining for weeks, recorded one of its highest deaths on Wednesday. Although the new cases show sustained expansion in only two states, the death trend is spreading by 14.
With the exception of 3 days this summer, the total death toll on Wednesday was the highest in the country since last May. The figure was higher for each of those 3 days, as only one state reported a large number of deaths waiting for undetermined days. Tuesday’s death toll of 1,450 was also the highest since May, excluding 3 summer days.
Efforts to reach agreement on the pandemic recovery plan may be even more complicated after new weekly unemployment demands fell below $1 million for the first time since March and the federal budget deficit continued to succeed at record levels, reaching $2.8 trillion in July – two primary points that can simply replace the negotiating landscape.
Republicans and Democrats have disagreed on how much to spend on a stimulus circular, with Democrats headed by President Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, pushing for at least $2 trillion and the White House insisting on staying in a circle. $1 billion.
Democrats have insisted that more than $1 trillion is needed for humanitarian and economic reasons. Republicans opposed the award, and some lawmakers and White House officials said the economy was starting to recover and they didn’t want that foothold, and others said the U.S. might no longer be in debt.
These positions can be further tightened, as weekly applications for unemployment, which had been above one million for months, fell below that number last week, with 963,000 more people filing for the first time under the state’s normal unemployment programs. On Thursday, Pelosi doubled the Democratics’ position, saying they would not settle for a stimulus package unless it provided at least $2 trillion in additional aid.
Pelosi also said he planned to deliver his speech to Congress from Washington, D.C., and said he was expecting face-to-face negotiations in the coming days.
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the budget deficit reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion, largely due to spending on the first $2.2 trillion pandemic package approved by lawmakers in March.
Even before the numbers were released, some Republicans in Washington already said they hoped they would not be provided with more aid because of the growing deficit.
“From my point of view, the breakdown of negotiations is very clever news. It’s very smart news for long-term generations,” Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said in an interview last week with Breitbart News. “I hope the talks are still interrupted.”
But economists warn it’s too early to withdraw aid, especially as the virus has slowed and reemployment has slowed. Millions of Americans remain unpainted and much of the purchasing force in the most recent stimulus package has been exhausted, adding another $600 per week in unemployment assistance.
“It remains unexpected that Congress has not yet agreed on a new set of emergency laws with so many Americans in monetary difficulty,” said Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.com’s senior economist.
In the U.S. news:
On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed Rhode Island to facilitate mail voting in the November election. The court rejected Republicans’ request to block a decreasing court order that suspended the requirement to complete the ballots by mail to witnesses or a notary.
Initial weekly unemployment applications,
both the normal and the unemployment pandemic assistance programme.
Initial weekly unemployment applications, either normal or the pandemic unemployment assistance program
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