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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he “doubts” the Democratic National Committee would have its convention that is currently scheduled to be held in Milwaukee in the middle of July, suggesting the party is “gonna have to move into August” amid the coronavirus pandemic. "I doubt whether the Democratic convention is going to be […]
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is working on drafting legislation to create a “nonpartisan commission” to scrutinize the Trump administration's response and handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. “After Pearl Harbor and 9/11, we looked at what went wrong to learn from our mistakes,” the House Intelligence Committee chairman said in a tweet. “Once we've recovered, we need […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is laying out an outline Democrats deemed as priorities in the “Phase 4” coronavirus stimulus relief package, with a focus on infrastructure, specifically broadband access and water resources. "The fourth bill would be about recovery. We have a list of issues that are immediate — that have a short fuse,” Pelosi […]
President Trump dubbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a "sick puppy" and called her statement a "disgrace to her country," after she criticized his response to the COVID-19 outbreak at the weekend. "It's a sad thing, [Pelosi] is a sick puppy in my opinion, she really is," Trump said in a phone interview with ‘Fox […]
President Trump announced Sunday that he is extending social distancing guidelines for another 30 days until April 30. "The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end," Trump said at the Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House Sunday afternoon. "The modeling estimates that the peak in death […]
New York Gov Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that New York's Democratic presidential primaries scheduled for April 28 will be postponed until June 23, aligning it with the states congressional and legislative already scheduled primaries. “We’re supposed to have a presidential primary election that’s coming up on April 28th. I don’t think it’s wise to bring a […]
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL.) during the House debate on the coronavirus relief stimulus package ahead of the vote gave an electrifying speech in which he called Americans "tough SOBs that are defeated by absolutely nothing.” The Florida Republican in his remarks Friday urged his fellow colleagues on the House chambers to approve the $2 trillion stimulus […]
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released his own “emergency action plan” he “would do immediately” if he were president to save the economy that has been ravaged due to the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal outlines “three key steps” the former vice president would do to execute the $2 trillion relief package passed unanimously by the Senate […]
In a letter to the nation's governors on Thursday, President Trump said his administration is working on new guidelines to help state and local policymakers to use in making “decisions about maintaining, increasing, or relaxing social distancing” based on geographic risk factors for the coronavirus. "In furtherance of this shared goal, my administration is working […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the $2 Trillion stimulus bill aimed at easing the economic impact of the coronavirus that was passed by the Senate late Wednesday evening is "reckless" that "failed to address the governmental need." "The Congressional action, in my opinion, simply failed to address the governmental need," Cuomo said Thursday morning […]
The Senate unanimously passed late Wednesday evening on a massive $2-trillion relief package aimed at jolting the economy from the detrimental impact amid the coronavirus outbreak crisis. The 96-0 vote comes less than 24 hours ago when Senate leaders and White House officials announced that they had finally reached a deal after five days of intense […]
Utah Senator Mitt Romney is the latest member of the U.S. Congress to test negative for the deadly Coronavirus, and President Donald Trump is elated to hear the good news that his Republican "'Frenemy" in the Senate
The White House and Senate leaders struck a major deal early Wednesday morning on a massive $2-trillion relief package aimed at jolting the economy from the detrimental impact amid the coronavirus outbreak crisis. The announcement caps five days of intense negotiations between senators and the White House that produced the most expensive and far-reaching bipartisan […]
White House officials urged anyone who have recently left the New York City metropolitan area in recent days to self-quarantine for 14 days to avoid spreading the coronavirus to other areas of the country. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator sounded the alarm during Tuesday evening Coronavirus Task Force briefing, saying she […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden emerged from the political shadows to address his supporters virtually for the first time in nearly a week, accusing President Trump for a slow and ineffective response to the coronavirus crisis. "For too long, the warning signs were ignored," Biden said from his basement makeshift broadcast studio in his Wilmington, […]
The Senate on Monday failed to move ahead with a massive coronavirus stimulus package aimed at helping the economy amid for the second time in two short days due to Democrats blocking the bill in an effort to include "an ideological wish list.” The vote was 49-46, falling short of the 60 votes needed […]
