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Cue up the curvy-couch crew — their clueless leader has got some more made-up “misinformation” to spread:
Analysis by Maeve Reston, CNN — Aug 16, 2020
[Trump] sought to reframe the fall election two days before the Democratic National Convention, arguing on Saturday that key economic and pandemic indicators were moving in his favor, while attempting to shift blame for US Postal Service funding problems to Democrats and refusing to acknowledge his administration's efforts to undermine the agency three months before Election Day.
[Trump’s] finger-pointing and misinformation about the upheaval within the USPS was his latest attempt to rewrite history in real time into a version that better suits his reelection narrative.
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Blaming Democrats
At a time when his administration is engulfed in controversy over its efforts to curtail USPS operations when the demand for mail-in ballots has grown exponentially due to the pandemic, Trump tried to blame the [USPS] agency's funding woes on Democrats. He said they are blocking negotiations on the next stimulus package due to an impasse over the Democrats' proposed aid package for states that drained their coffers while fighting the pandemic.
As with all-things-Trump, responsible observers of current events are obliged to ask:
What are the Facts?
Congress 'miles apart' on stimulus deal: What are the sticking points?
finance.yahoo.com — Aug 14, 2020
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Here are the issues that Democrats and Republicans have cited as the biggest obstacles to striking a deal:
State aid:
The two sides are at odds over whether states should receive additional funding in the next round of emergency aid -- and if so, how much. Democrats' proposal allocates about $1 trillion in new funding for state and local governments, while Republicans' package includes no new funding for states.
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Food aid:
Democrats have requested $60 billion in food assistance, while the GOP bill allocated $250,000.
Rental assistance:
An eviction moratorium that protected an estimated 12 million renters in federally backed properties expired at the end of July. [...] up to 23 million renters — or 20 percent — are at risk of eviction by Sept. 30
Democrats are seeking $100 billion to help renters; Republicans have proposed zero.
There are also “sticking points” on the $600 supplemental Unemployment benefits.
Democratic leaders what to keep the pandemically-unemployed solvent — and in their homes.
Whereas the Republican-Do-Nothing slackers don’t.
Democratic leaders wholeheartedly support a functioning, efficient, and solvent Postal Service.
Republican-privatize-everything saboteurs DON’T — they don’t support anything that they do not personally profit from.
Just ask the millionaire Louis DeJoy — how much he will personally profit from his dismantling of the essential front-line service, that keeps America running. Now more than ever, in these pandemic-times.
Ask him, if he even bothers to show up, and explain his actions to an outraged and rightfully-concerned Democratic Congress.
Because the Republican Trump-enabling Congress … ISN’T — not in the slightest:
Cuz you know, Trump might send mean-Tweets about them — THAT is their TOP Priority.
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There is one Party on the side of ordinary Americans …
And one Party that isn’t — on our side.
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That is what the next Election is about. Choosing sides. In these extraordinary Trump-manufactured chaos times.
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