A warning that the president is making plans early from a press conference in the White House. Yesterday, the briefing was postponed from 3 p. m. at 3. 30 p. m. ET and it’s rare for those occasions to start on time, so let’s see.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton will enroll Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris on a virtual fundraising occasion Monday, Joanna Walters writes.
“Hi, I’m Hillary. You’re an integral component of this race, so Kamala and I need to see you at a very special base fundraising event,” Clinton said on an online flyer.
Clinton notes that she and Harris “will discuss precisely what is at stake in this race and our party’s plan to fight and win over the coming weeks. “
The proceeds go to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint venture of Biden’s campaign, the DNC, and the state’s Democratic parties, the Washington Post notes.
Hopes are fading that there will be an agreement in Congress on a new financial aid package for the coronaviruses before the November 3 election.
This leaves tens of millions of Americans in a state of constant anxiety about income, food, housing, and physical care after wasting their jobs on the crisis through the coronavirus pandemic, Joanna Walters writes.
Here’s a sponge.
This piece explores what happens next, without holding your breath.
As expected, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell failed to get all 60 votes to advance his “slight” coronavirus relief bill.
In an almost online vote, the final count 52 votes “yes” and 47 “no”.
Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who faces a re-election candidacy in Alabama this year, voted against the legislation.
Republican Senator Rand Paul, who opposed increased spending on aid programs, also voted against the bill.
Despite blocking the bill, McConnell is already proclaiming a message of victory over the vote, accusing Democrats of gambling policy, while Americans have lost jobs and income.
Democrats, however, criticized McConnell’s law for being extraordinarily insufficient to satisfy the wishes of American families amid the pandemic.
Meanwhile, negotiations between the White House and Congressional Democratic leaders remain stalled, so lately there seems to be some way ahead for the next aid package.
Senator Mitt Romney criticized Trump for downplaying the coronavirus pandemic, as he acknowledged the president in March with journalist Bob Woodward.
“I think we’re more on par with the American public and that maintains credibility, rather than looking to tell them one thing when we create another,” the Republican senator told a CNN reporter.
Trump, who mocked Romney for his defeat in the 2012 presidential election, again presented the attack on the Republican lawmaker in a tweet this morning:
Here’s the day so far:
The blog will have more to come, so stay tuned.
Senior management staff member Seema Verma has questions about her consulting fees that were paid with taxpayers’ money.
Politico reports:
When Seema Verma, a senior Medicaid official in the Trump administration, visited a reporter’s space in November 2018 for a “girls’ night” held in his honor, taxpayers paid the bill to host the event: $2933.
When Verma wrote an editorial on Fox News this fall, promoting President Donald Trump’s adjustments to Obamacare, taxpayers were billed for a representative’s value in positioning him: $977.
And when experts spent months selling Verma to win awards like Washingtonian magazine’s “Washington’s Most Powerful Women” and appear on high-level panels, taxpayers were also billed: more than $13,000. . .
They are among the revelations included in extensive congressional research on how Verma spent more than $3. 5 million on a variety of consultants connected to the Republican Party, who subtleted his public profile, wrote his speeches and posts on Twitter, held meetings with high-profile people. figures, and even billed taxpayers for connecting Verma with his Republican colleagues in Congress.
Critics of Trump’s management have pointed to Verma’s spending as the latest example of “brazen grafting and corruption” among the president’s advisers.
From a professor at the University of Texas:
The Treasury Department announced sanctions against a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker who had met in the past with Rudy Giuliani, while the president’s non-public attorney sought to uncover Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
In a statement, the Treasury Department said Andriy Derkach was sanctioned for “his efforts to influence the 2020 U. S. presidential election. “
“Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s Parliament, has been an active Russian agent for more than a decade, maintaining close relations with Russian intelligence services,” he said.
“Derkach has been involved, sponsored, undercover, or otherwise directly or indirectly complicit in foreign interference with the goal of undermining america’s next presidential election by 2020. “
Giuliani met With Derkach late last year while the president’s non-public lawyer was looking for potentially damaging data on Biden and his son, Hunter, who was doing business in Ukraine.
More recently, Derkach has promoted leaked recordings of Biden talking to Ukrainian leaders while he was vice president, raising considerations that the pro-Russian lawmaker seeks to directly influence the presidential election.
Edward Helmore of The Guardian reports:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem rejected a report that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last month was a Covid-19 “super spreader” event, and called the test “very misleading. “
A 63-page report from the IZA Institute for Labor Economics released this month found that the demonstration led to an increase in cases in South Dakota and the county, while rising “public fitness prices of about $12. 2 billion. “
“This report is not a science; it’s fiction,” Noem said in a statement. “Under the guise of educational research, this report is nothing less than an attack on those who exercised their non-public freedom to attend Sturgis. “
On Wednesday, the Republican governor defended his coronavirus strategy as a “balanced approach” despite the buildup of infections that has now registered the state with the second highest number of coronavirus cases consistent with a capita in the past two weeks.
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, the average number of new cases reported through South Dakota fitness officers increased to 84, an increase of approximately 56%.
In his comments on the Sturgis report, Noem went on to criticize the media for reporting on “this un appealed peer-reviewed model, about incredibly erroneous assumptions that do not reflect actual facts and knowledge here in South Dakota. “
State epidemiologist Dr. Joshua Clayton said the document is a “white paper” that has not been peer-reviewed.
Clayton noted that schools opened in South Dakota shortly after the completion of the Sturgis rally, which may also have played a role in the recent accumulation of COVID-19 cases in South Dakota.
“At this point, the effects are adjusted to the effects of the rally among participants in the state of South Dakota,” said Clayton, who added that a total of 124 South Dakotaers attended the Sturgis rally before contracting the virus.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just finished her press conference, at which she denounced the “slight” coronavirus relief bill for Senate Republicans, to be voted on today.
It’s just that the bill will pass, given that Republicans want 60 “yes” votes to end the debate over the law and move on to a general vote on the proposal.
But if Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell gets at least 50 Republicans to sign up to the bill, he can use the law as a messaging tool opposed to Democrats.
McConnell has in the past accused his fellow Democrats of gambling policy while American families are suffering.
But Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer argued that the bill is woefully insufficient to satisfy the wishes of Americans who have lost their jobs and income since the start of the pandemic.
While the Republican bill would be a $300 bill, Democrats have asked for $2. 2 trillion to be spent on the next bailout.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that she deliberately minimized evidence of the coronavirus pandemic of the president’s “disrespect” for Americans’ fitness.
At his weekly press conference, Pelosi said Trump’s comments “showed his contempt: contempt for other Americans and his health, contempt for science, contempt for any genuine effort to reduce the virus, contempt for his supporters, his children, his parents. “. “
Pelosi went on to say, “He hid the facts and refused to take the risk seriously, leaving the whole country exposed and unprepared. I didn’t have to panic, for what?For the stock market?
The Democratic president said there was a difference between creating panic and appearing leadership, as it should warn the public of a serious threat.
“No one needs to panic, ” said Pelosi. ” We need to show leadership, show a strategic plan, stick to science [and] allocate resources to get the job done. Even now, he refuses to pay attention to science, which is just a tragedy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has denounced the “slight” coronavirus bill from Senate Republicans, to be voted on today.
“Let’s have symbolism when we have a primary disaster. Let’s have a “tight bill” when we have a primary problem,” Pelosi said.
Republican law would charge $300 billion, while Democrats have called for $2. 2 trillion to be spent on the next bailout.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding her weekly press conference, where she will likely be asked about the revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book.
But the Democratic president opened his press convention reflecting on the wildfires that ravaged the state of California at home.
Pelosi said he had won calls from his circle of relatives and electors over the orange sky that hit San Francisco because of the wildfires.
“It’s morning, they’re waiting for the sun to rise and it’s dark all day,” Pelosi said.
He noted that another 15 people had already died in the fires, adding a one-year-old boy.
“Our prayers, of course, pass with our firefighters, who are so brave,” Pelosi said.
Trump is busy seeking to panic over recent anti-racism protests, while arguing that he minimized the severity of the coronavirus because it seeks to keep the american public calm.
The president said in a new tweet: “Democrats haven’t even discussed the words LEY
In reality, the protests have generally been peaceful, however, the president’s comments point out that he has not tried to be a calming force in recent months, despite his assertions to the contrary.
According to the tapes recently released by Bob Woodward, Trump said of the coronavirus pandemic in March: “I sought to minimize that, I like to minimize it, because I don’t need to create panic. “
CNN will host a city corridor with Democratic nominee Joe Biden next week, just announced the network.
Biden will be with CNN host Anderson Cooper in Scranton, Pennsylvania, next Thursday at 8 p. m. Et.
The city corridor will have a live audience from a social distance and will mark Biden’s first star-time mayor’s office since he accepted the Democratic nomination.
Trump won Pennsylvania by less than a point in 2016, and Democrats expect Biden to break the state in November.
A published NBC News/Marist ballot showed biden was leading nine issues among the most likely electorate in Pennsylvania, where the Democratic nominee was born.