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Road Ahead: Coronavirus aid, spending deadline loom, but slow start expected for Congress’ return
But just how long a stopgap funding package should last is still up for debate.
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But just how long a stopgap funding package should last is still up for debate.
Don’t vote twice: That’s the message from election officials in North Carolina following comments this week in the state by Trump, who suggested his supporters should try to vote twice, by mail and
Without adjustments, the stopgap would generally continue spending at current year levels until Congress passes and the president signs fiscal 2021 appropriations bills.
Advocates and experts in medical ethics argue there is a moral obligation to provide vaccines without delivery costs.
But he said there were “tremendous areas of agreement” between the two parties on what the next aid package should contain and “that’s what we should be doing right away.”
Public transportation options are risky but hard to avoid for those without cars. “Evacuation by bus makes it almost impossible to socially distance,” Talley said.
Without congressional involvement, airlines have signaled they will lay off thousands of workers this fall.
If Sherman wins, expect hearings that push back against the increasingly bipartisan conventional wisdom in Washington that China is a growing maritime threat that should be strongly confronted at
Pence ignores the fact that the economy had been growing without interruption for seven years before Trump took office.
Another COVID-19 relief package should be coupled with government funding, which expires Sept. 30 unless extended in a stopgap bill, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Wednesday.
“Biden has foolishly cheerled decades of war without winning, without end.”
Videos and articles suggested Biden would be confiscating weapons should he make it to the White House. But that was unfounded.
Partisan tensions are set to color talks on how long the stopgap funding bill for federal agencies needed next month should run, on top of already fraught coronavirus aid discussions.
Clinton won college graduates by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent, while Trump won voters without a college degree by 7 points, 51 percent to 44 percent.
confidence that these platforms could determine which content should be flagged,” Pew said.
But Trump’s victory should be a lesson in probability rather than a call to ignore data. We should reject the false choice between following the data and being open-minded about less likely results.
There won’t be an America to leave to our children and grandchildren without those brave law enforcement officers and first responders.
Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota, said it is hard to predict how the dynamic would shift without Trump in office but there should be less incentive for Republicans to obstruct for obstruction
“To walk away from that institution in the middle of a pandemic is like fighting a fire without water,” Loyce Pace, executive director of the Global Health Council, which advocates for access to