We're #1! At least 81,321 people in the U.S. are known to have been infected with the coronavirus, more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen, according to data gathered by The New York Times. It didn't have to be this way: The...
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The attempted Graham/Scott/Sasse/Rubio/Skeletor Medicare Fraud shakedown of the unemployed failed: The Senate unanimously passed a $2.2 trillion emergency relief bill Wednesday night aimed at limiting the financial trauma that the.
Democratic negotiators seem to have decided to fight for more generous benefits for ordinary people rather than for tighter restrictions on the slush fund, which I think was a sound.
Although this is likely to be forgotten by history, the elite coalescence around Joe Biden was late and (for good reason, IMO) reluctant, happening just before Super Tuesday. Bernie didn't even have to win South Carolina, he just needed to keep the margin respectable enough...
It looks like a stimulus deal will pass later today: The Senate bill would direct payments of $1,200 to most American adults and $500 to most children, create a $500.
Charles has a good round-up of "you can't make an up arrow on the S&P 500 index without breaking some grandparents" "reasoning" from various parts of the Republican death cult,.
This is genuinely terrifying: President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants the U.S. economy to “open” back up by Easter Sunday, despite expert warnings about the deadly threat of the coronavirus.Easter is April 12, less than three weeks away.Trump’s remarks in a Fox News “virtual town hall”...
Ron DeSantis shows his respect for tradition by blaming OUTSIDE AGITATORS for his own malicious incompetence: While New York, California and other states shutter their economies to keep the coronavirus.
This probably isn't the only reason that Trump is considering killing untold numbers of people by encouraging his lickspittles in red-state statehouses to end social distance policies prematurely, but I'm.
An excellent way of illustrating the nature of the Republican Party is to compare their stimulus plans to what Boris Johnson is doing: Last week, the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party unveiled a plan to keep British workers paid and employed for the duration of the coronavirus crisis....
At least when Richard Epstein writes ridiculous nonsense about how a COVID-19 pandemic is nothing to worry about nobody reads it. The president misleading the public is another matter, and.
Moscow Mitch's brilliant scheme of just re-introducing the Mnuchin/Trump unconstrained slush fund, an idea so bad Joe Manchin is relentlessly dunking on it, and hoping things would be different went.