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Of course chief vulture McConnell would jam a Trump Supreme Court nominee through, Republicans say The Grim Reaper of everything good in Congress, Mitch McConnell, has donned his cloak and picked up his scythe, slathering over the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized this week with gallbladder problems. Is there any...	Joan McCarter	05/08/2020	134	89	-	-
Doctors enraged at Trump administration's botched, opaque distribution of COVID-19 treatment The experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir has shown such great promise for treating COVID-19 that it received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration so it could be distributed to hospitals as fast as it can be produced....	Joan McCarter	05/08/2020	42	154	-	-
In public comments that weren't 'intended to be made public,' McSally trashes hurting cities As Arizona's cities are laying off and furloughing workers because of cratering revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, their Republican senator is telling them to toughen up. She isn't going to help them by voting for any financial support...	Joan McCarter	05/08/2020	95	113	-	-
Senate Democrats join Pelosi in calling for direct, ongoing cash payments to (almost) everyone House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has support in the Senate for her push to include recurring monthly payments of $2,000 to individual Americans for the duration of the coronavirus crisis. Three Senate Democrats have jumped on board that plan with their own...	Joan McCarter	05/08/2020	175	156	-	-
The COVID-19 small business loan program isn't doing the job. Congress needs another plan The Paycheck Protection Program, the small business loan program created by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Susan Collins as part of the CARES Act, appears to be too bogged down in problems to be worth re-upping for a third round in the next version...	Joan McCarter	05/07/2020	40	68	-	-
Pentagon says COVID-19 infection disqualifies recruits, precedent for insurers in an ACA-free market Here's a harbinger for what's to come should the Trump administration prevail in its efforts to get the Supreme Court to throw out the entirety of the Affordable Care Act: The Pentagon has decided that coronavirus is a preexisting condition and will...	Joan McCarter	05/07/2020	62	90	-	-
Pelosi endorses $2,000 every month to everybody in next $2 trillion COVID-19 response bill The elements of CARES 2, the next big coronavirus response bill, are finally emerging from the Democratic Congress, where at least the horrendous scope and urgency of the emergency seems to be recognized even if it's not accompanied by urgency. It is...	Joan McCarter	05/07/2020	180	190	-	-
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee seems to be a big blabbermouth, and corrupt to boot Sen. Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina and the No. 1 guy in the Senate for hearing sensitive, classified information about the health and safety of the nation, seemingly can't keep a secret. At least not one that has the potential to make him...	Joan McCarter	05/07/2020	69	177	-	-
The first round of small business loans didn't go where the need was greatest A couple of weeks ago the geographical distribution of the small business loans in the Paycheck Protection Program under the COVID-19 response bill, the CARES Act, raised a lot of eyebrows. It sure seemed on first glance that a disproportionate amount...	Joan McCarter	05/07/2020	17	82	-	-
Health officials privately see waves of new outbreaks resulting from Trump's reopening On May 1, while Donald Trump was crowing to the nation about his great victory over the novel coronavirus and saying he'd "solved every problem," officials in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) were on a...	Joan McCarter	05/06/2020	76	144	-	-
Trump's demands for payroll tax cut blown off by Senate Republicans who have bigger, deadlier plans Donald Trump might want to seize the opportunity provided by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis to destroy Social Security, but it appears Senate Republicans don't want to have that fight right now. That doesn't mean they're not on board with all the other...	Joan McCarter	05/06/2020	52	138	-	-
Fired vaccine doctor files whistleblower complaint, says administration ignored coronavirus warnings Dr. Rick Bright is back in the news. The vaccine researcher says he was fired from his position in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because he fought Donald Trump on things like "the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine,...	Joan McCarter	05/05/2020	72	171	-	-
Attorney General Barr tries to get Trump to pump the brakes on killing the Affordable Care Act The opening briefs for California v. Texas, the Affordable Care Act repeal lawsuit before the Supreme Court, begin Wednesday and an interesting wrinkle on the White House side of things has popped up. The Trump administration has advanced the challenge...	Joan McCarter	05/05/2020	34	85	-	-
Governors rush to curry favor with Trump, reopening against the guidelines provided by Trump Despite the fact that the majority of us don't want to go to restaurants, hair salons, barbershops, or gyms with bunches of potentially lethal strangers, states are rushing to reopen. Some of them are doing it while their numbers of confirmed cases are...	Joan McCarter	05/05/2020	63	94	-	-
Chief Justice Roberts in the hot seat, asked to launch inquiry into McConnell's court packing scheme The chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge Sri Srinivasan, has requested an inquiry into whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and retired Judge Thomas B. Griffith engineered the latter's...	Joan McCarter	05/05/2020	243	349	-	-
Americans who aren't Republicans still don't want to share space with each other, at all The problem for the sizable majority of people who support state lockdowns is that we're all quietly staying in our homes and not attracting TV cameras and headlines. We are, however, being polled. Turns out, most of us aren't clamoring to be gathering...	Joan McCarter	05/05/2020	129	142	-	-
McConnell endangers the lives of his colleagues to push through another extremist judge The Senate is back in session, even though there is no legislative business scheduled and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing nothing about the ongoing and worsening coronavirus crisis other than taking critical aid to state and local governments...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	60	101	-	-
New ad reminds Mainers that Susan Collins prioritizes big donor tax cuts, leaves workers behind Sen. Susan Collins is the unhappy target of a hard-hitting ad highlighting her fealty to big corporate donors over Mainers, especially during this pandemic. "The pain we're feeling couldn't be any more personal," the narrator says as a local news...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	31	109	-	-
Trump's multimillionaire buddy relents, decides to give back 'small business' loan money As of a week and a half ago, Monty Bennett was keeping all the money he got from the Paycheck Protection Program in "small business" loans. Who's Monty Bennett? He's a multimillionaire friend of Trump who owns Ashford Inc., which owns the Ritz Carlton...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	33	114	-	-
Trump takes Social Security hostage in his latest COVID-19 stimulus demand Impeached president Donald Trump has decided to take his own hostage in the next coronavirus stimulus bill: Social Security. "We're not doing anything without a payroll tax cut," he said in a Fox News interview Sunday. That's exactly the kind of policy...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	202	336	-	-
Clarence Thomas breaks the internet in Supreme Court's first-ever teleconference arguments This happened Monday morning: Except the part about Justice Clarence Thomas listening in on speaker phone. He shocked the entire legal community and nearly broke Twitter when he asked questions. Seriously. He made headlines by actually talking. Anyway,...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	161	160	-	-
Senate returns to work in D.C., House still working out plan for conducting business The Senate returns to work Monday, despite the fact that the Capitol's attending physician has recommended against it and the fact there aren't enough available tests to screen every senator, much less all the staff. They will restrict testing just to...	Joan McCarter	05/04/2020	24	68	-	-
COVID-19 exposes effects of years of budget cuts to Social Security, jeopardizing seniors' coverage One of the most beleaguered of government agencies, the Social Security Administration (SSA), is struggling in the pandemic to help seniors attempting to enroll in Medicare coverage. That in turn ...	Joan McCarter	05/02/2020	115	142	-	-
As McConnell tries to hold aid to states and cities hostage, mass layoffs of public employees begin While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is saying he'll block aid to states and cities unless he gets the gift of no liability for companies that endanger their workers and customers, cities and states are laying off workers, potentially by the...	Joan McCarter	04/29/2020	92	228	-	-
Saving the nation is taking a backseat to McConnell's primary aim: promoting more extremist judges The House of Representatives, on the advice of the Office of the Attending Physician, has delayed returning to D.C. and to resume in-person work, even while the next phase of coronavirus stimulus becomes more urgent. "The House physician's view,"...	Joan McCarter	04/29/2020	27	82	-	-
McConnell's new 'red line' for state and local government aid: Let business endanger workers, public Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has traded his no "blue state bailouts" demand in the next big coronavirus stimulus package—CARES 2 or Phase 4, if you're keeping track—for a new "red line": no liability for companies who force their workers back...	Joan McCarter	04/29/2020	108	121	-	-
The backlash over fumbled coronavirus stimulus is starting, and it's all on Trump After a concerted two decades of Republican efforts to destroy government—to the extent that they put a corrupt, sociopathic clown of a Russian puppet in the White House—it shouldn't come as a surprise that this government is disastrously failing at...	Joan McCarter	04/29/2020	119	287	-	-
The Mayo Clinic told Pence to wear a goddamned mask in the hospital. He refused Republican coronavirus denial has already gone to ridiculous and dangerous lengths. Now this. Vice President Mike Pence isn’t going to let a little thing like possibly infecting people in a hospital setting by not wearing a mask make him actually wear...	Joan McCarter	04/28/2020	487	308	-	-
North Carolina's Tillis won't break with Trump enough to say it's not a good idea to drink bleach You would be hard pressed to find a bigger Donald Trump sycophant today than North Carolina's Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. The vulnerable senator, up for reelection in 2020, is saying that it's probably a good idea for his constituents to stay at home,...	Joan McCarter	04/28/2020	85	142	-	-
House reverses course, won't return next week. It's time they figure out a plan for doing their job On the advice of the House physician, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced this morning, the House will not return next Monday as planned. "We made a judgment that we will not come back next week but that we hope to come back very soon," he said. "The...	Joan McCarter	04/28/2020	66	82	-	-
McConnell gives Pelosi an ultimatum she needs to ignore: Save the states or save lives Sen. Mitch McConnell's game plan for the next big coronavirus stimulus bill became a little clearer Monday. After several days of railing against "blue state bailouts" and saying the states should just go bankrupt, drawing the ire of governors and a...	Joan McCarter	04/28/2020	124	143	-	-
Republicans in disarray! Not everyone agrees with McConnell's desire for their states to go bankrupt It's worth noting that while House and Senate Democrats and their presidential candidate, Joe Biden, are all in agreement about the need for and elements of the next big coronavirus crisis response bill, Republicans are most definitely not....	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	171	302	-	-
Pelosi says she's playing hardball now. She needs to. The next COVID-19 stimulus bill has to be huge Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne that she's not taking a backseat to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell again on coronavirus stimulus. "We'll pass it in the House," she said. "If [the Senate wants] to...	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	94	132	-	-
Small Business Administration emergency loan program overwhelmed within minutes of relaunch The Small Business Administration (SBA) didn't learn much from its failings in the first round of small business loans under the Paycheck Protection Program in the CARES Act coronavirus stimulus response. The SBA was completely overwhelmed Monday...	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	19	68	-	-
Trump declares only the states that like him are America President of just the part of the country that likes him: Trump is on the McConnell “blue state bailout” bandwagon, it looks like. What a way to unify the country in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic and economic crisis. He should know about...	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	579	354	-	-
Supreme Court issues narrow ruling upholding part of Affordable Care Act, sticking it to Republicans For the tea leaf readers, which is a dangerous game when it comes to the Supreme Court, here's some fodder: the court ruled against the Trump administration in an Affordable Care Act case Monday. It's not the big ACA case, whether the law can still...	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	64	227	-	-
Biden calls for massive COVID-19 stimulus to start making big, structural change Former Vice President Joe Biden called for a much bigger and greener stimulus bill out of the Democratic House for the next round. That includes layering more and stricter oversight on the Trump administration and making business more accountable for...	Joan McCarter	04/27/2020	136	163	-	-
Republicans on McConnell's 'let the states go bankrupt' plan: It's 'ridiculous' and 'dangerous' Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might not have realized the firestorm he was inviting when he uttered the words "blue state bailout," and said the states would just have to declare bankruptcy rather than get any federal assistance. It's not just...	Joan McCarter	04/24/2020	146	189	-	-
Astroturf group FreedomWorks looking for 'someone to give us free cash' in COVID-19 loans FreedomWorks, one of the astroturf groups created in the previous decade primarily to not let a Black president create anything nice for this country, has been doing its astroturf thing in the past week by encouraging its members to protest Democratic...	Joan McCarter	04/24/2020	11	72	-	-
Black business owner on COVID-19 small business loan program: We're 'just screwed' The good news is that public shaming works sometimes; Ruth's Chris Steak House, Shake Shack, Sweetgreen, and well-endowed elite universities are returning the loans they secured under the coronavirus emergency Paycheck Protection Program ostensibly...	Joan McCarter	04/24/2020	24	97	-	-
Luxury hotel chains, including Gordon Sondland's, among those capitalizing on 'small business' loans Remember Gordon Sondland? Of course you do, from back in the before time when the national crisis was impeachment. He’s the now-former ambassador to the European Union, who got that cushy job by being a big donor to Donald Trump's inaugural committee....	Joan McCarter	04/24/2020	12	83	-	-
1,900 Veterans Affairs healthcare workers test positive for COVID-19, 20 have died The always underfunded, often chaotic Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system is straining to cope with the novel coronavirus. According to agency documents the AP obtained, so far 1,900 VA healthcare workers have become ill with the novel coronavirus and...	Joan McCarter	04/23/2020	22	91	-	-
Daily Kos screwed up, and we apologize In the rush of news Wednesday, Daily Kos wrote and circulated this petition that erroneously states that the bill the Senate passed Tuesday and the House will vote on Thursday, the Phase 3.5 bill that pumps up the small business loan fund, doesn’t...	Joan McCarter	04/23/2020	147	502	-	-
New House oversight committee into administration's COVID-19 performance gets vote Thursday In early April, which is like five years ago in coronavirus time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would create a select committee to oversee the Trump administration's COVID-19 response. It would be overseen by Rep. Jim Clyburn of South...	Joan McCarter	04/23/2020	33	94	-	-
House is in session for a long day of not doing enough to respond to COVID-19 The House is preparing to pass the Phase 3.5 coronavirus stimulus bill Thursday along with a bill to create a special House coronavirus committee. It's promising to be a prolonged two votes, with members voting in groups of 40 or so and the chamber...	Joan McCarter	04/23/2020	60	51	-	-
Collins refuses to commit to helping Maine nurses or to condemn extremists trying to 'Reopen Maine' Sen. Susan Collins tweeted Wednesday about her appreciation for Maine nurses, who are "among the many heroes who are working on the front lines in Maine and throughout the country to combat the COVID-19 pandemic." She said that she "spoke with several...	Joan McCarter	04/23/2020	35	108	-	-
The 'Paycheck Protection' part of the COVID-19 small business fund isn't protecting some paychecks That "Paycheck Protection Program" small business loan money that Sen. Mitch McConnell has been so adamant about? The one that some very big businesses have been exploiting to the tune of tens of millions of dollars? Turns out that for a lot of...	Joan McCarter	04/22/2020	14	60	-	-
'Let them go bankrupt': McConnell declares war on blue states, dismisses more COVID-19 aid Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, having secured his goal of getting more "small business" loan money out of his colleagues in the Senate on Tuesday, immediately threw cold water on a big Phase 4 bill that would fund all the things the country so...	Joan McCarter	04/22/2020	356	372	-	-
Trump's bored. That's why he and his lackey Republicans are trying to kill us all The "press conferences" Donald Trump conducts every day (and which for some unknown reason the broadcast media feels compelled to force on us) aren't doing the job for him. He needs his brainless zombie crowds egging him on. He has had to pretend he's...	Joan McCarter	04/22/2020	113	157	-	-
Georgia's Kemp getting resistance on harebrained scheme to kill his citizens Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's (of course he's a Republican) decision to "loosen" his state's shutdown for coronavirus is getting significant resistance. That's in part because he consulted no one beyond the tiny, ranting Donald Trump that lives in his...	Joan McCarter	04/22/2020	107	166	-	-
Numerous polls point to what Democrats need to fight for: securing our elections with vote-by-mail The inevitable result of the Supreme Court's decision that in-person primary voting proceed in Wisconsin on April 7 is now happening, and  voters are being diagnosed with coronavirus . That single ...	Joan McCarter	04/22/2020	50	110	-	-
Senate likely to vote on interim COVID-19 package Tuesday The deal for the next interim coronavirus stimulus bill appears to have been struck, with a vote possible—probable?—at 4 PM ET Tuesday afternoon in the Senate. The Senate was scheduled to come in for a pro forma session, with the possibility that...	Joan McCarter	04/21/2020	49	48	-	-
$300 million in 'small business' COVID-19 emergency loans went to some very big companies You've probably already read about how some very big businesses, like restaurant chains Ruth's Chris Steak House and Shake Shack got "small business" loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. That was the emergency loan program created in the $2.2...	Joan McCarter	04/21/2020	51	88	-	-
Senate closes in on deal for more COVID-19 emergency money to small businesses, hospitals, testing Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer predicted Tuesday morning that the Senate would strike a deal on the interim coronavirus emergency bill in time to pass it during the Senate's pro forma session Tuesday afternoon. This is a stopgap bill between the...	Joan McCarter	04/21/2020	52	64	-	-
Trump creates last-minute roadblock to vulnerable families receiving emergency payments On Monday, the IRS quietly released this urgent "special alert," informing some of the lowest-income Social Security beneficiaries, those who have too little income to file income tax returns, that they will have less than 48 hours to register their...	Joan McCarter	04/21/2020	255	248	-	-
Trump's COVID-19 testing 'czar' was forced out of vaccine development job for toxic self-promotion Of course the person Donald Trump named coronavirus testing czar was so bad in a previous job developing vaccine that he was let go. Not just let go, but "told in 2015 he had 30 minutes to resign or he would be fired." His name is Brett Giroir, and...	Joan McCarter	04/20/2020	49	119	-	-
When do we call it treason? Trump is blockading lifesaving equipment from reaching states While Donald Trump is attacking governors for trying to save lives by keeping coronavirus shutdowns in place, he's also actively working to endanger healthcare workers by taking hostage the equipment they need to do their jobs safely. Go read this...	Joan McCarter	04/20/2020	231	398	-	-
A plan for covering uninsured COVID-19 patients? Trump? Fat chance Stop me if you've read this headline before: "White House still scrambling to cover virus treatment for the uninsured." What a shocker, huh? The Trump administration has no plan for covering the uninsured, either during this pandemic or in the future....	Joan McCarter	04/20/2020	16	79	-	-
Sorry, Trump. You can't fire the GAO, and it's investigating what you do with COVID-19 money Impeached president Donald Trump has rampaged through the ranks of inspectors general attempting to provide some kind of check on his corruption. Thankfully for the nation, there's one watchdog agency outside of his reach, and it’s already on the job...	Joan McCarter	04/20/2020	119	335	-	-
Trump and congressional leaders near agreement on temporary Band-Aid for gaping COVID-19 wound The slow walk toward the next round of coronavirus funding, what is still being called an "interim" bill is nearing an end with a vote likely early this week. Or as early as getting everybody back to D.C. to do it can happen. It's, as of reporting...	Joan McCarter	04/20/2020	74	83	-	-
Pence briefed Democratic senators on COVID-19. It did not go well Vice President Mike Pence and Trump administration officials finally acknowledged the existence of Senate Democrats as a part of the nation's governing coalition Friday. Sort of. They held a conference call with the senators, and the reviews are not...	Joan McCarter	04/17/2020	329	426	-	-
House inching toward plan to keep members safe with proxy voting The House of Representatives is inching closer to finally taking their role as essential workers in the coronavirus crisis seriously, and determining a way to work remotely. Inching, but not there yet. They are considering the possibility of letting...	Joan McCarter	04/17/2020	29	79	-	-
McConnell and Trump have rigged emergency 'small business' relief for some big businesses While Texas businesses got a suspiciously disproportionate share of the loans from the Paycheck Protection Program's COVID-19 loan fund for small businesses, not all Texas "small" businesses were treated the same. That's just one more reason Democrats...	Joan McCarter	04/17/2020	72	137	-	-
Big surprise: The Trump/McConnell 'urgent' COVID-19 small business loans were dumped into red states There is absolutely every reason for Democrats to refuse to hand Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump another $250 billion in "small business" emergency loans in the new Paycheck Protection Program included in the CARES stimulus package. The fund was...	Joan McCarter	04/17/2020	147	284	-	-
What this crisis really doesn't need is mindless, bogus 'bothsidesism' from the D.C. press Here we go again with Politico pretending that Mitch McConnell isn't the most toxic, destructive force in American public life this side of Donald Trump. Smack dab in the middle of an unprecedented public health and economic crisis, this kind of lazy...	Joan McCarter	04/17/2020	115	261	-	-
Treasury relents: Individuals on SSI won't have to file to get COVID-19 stimulus check Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is still letting banks seize people's coronavirus stimulus checks, but he has at least relented on forcing disabled people on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from having to file with the IRS in order to receive the...	Joan McCarter	04/16/2020	28	76	-	-
Small business COVID-19 emergency loans exhausted amid questions about where the money went The Small Business Administration announced Thursday that the $350 billion loan fund created in the CARES Act has been spent. "The SBA is currently unable to accept new applications for the Paycheck Protection Program based on available appropriations...	Joan McCarter	04/16/2020	52	83	-	-
Trump and Mnuchin STILL letting banks steal stimulus checks, even from disabled veterans You've probably seen the inspiring ads on television from USAA, with smiling veterans and service members touting their services. That company is the United Services Automobile Association that says it "proudly serves millions of military members and...	Joan McCarter	04/16/2020	26	104	-	-
5.2 million more people filed jobless claims last week Last week another 5.2 million Americans filed jobless claims, bringing the total attributed to coronavirus-related shutdowns to 22 million. It was down by more than a million claims from the week before, when 6.6 million claims were processed. Catching...	Joan McCarter	04/16/2020	35	70	-	-
Sherrod Brown: Mnuchin knew the banks could take your $1,200 stimulus payment and can fix it On April 1, according to new reporting from David Dayen at The Prospect, Sen. Sherrod Brown directly told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that he would have to act to make sure that banks and private debt collectors wouldn't seize the $1,200...	Joan McCarter	04/15/2020	128	291	-	-
Democrats unveil $30 billion plan to streamline COVID-19 testing and reopen the economy The reality that Donald Trump refuses to face (well, one of them anyway) is that the economy can't be reopened until there's universal testing to find out how prevalent the novel coronavirus infection still is in the population. That's a very basic...	Joan McCarter	04/15/2020	46	149	-	-
More than 2,100 cities face shortfalls, loss of critical public services without massive federal aid The coronavirus pandemic is ravaging city budgets, a new survey of local officials from the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors shows. More than 2,100 U.S. cities are going to have major budget shortfalls and are going to have...	Joan McCarter	04/15/2020	10	62	-	-
Collins is sticking with Trump and McConnell There's some brow-furrowing going on in Maine right now, where Sen. Susan Collins might just be having some regrets about her decision to fully embrace Donald Trump, the impeached president who she has been so certain must have learned some lesson from...	Joan McCarter	04/15/2020	159	175	-	-
White-collar professionals are the new unemployed, which could make Congress a lot more generous The first round of lost jobs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic hit the kind of people lawmakers in Washington—in all their disconnect from actual people's actual lives—figured a $1,200 check would make a difference for: restaurant, hotel, and...	Joan McCarter	04/15/2020	66	89	-	-
Collins' approval cratering in Maine, now as unpopular as Trump Into each horrible day of quarantine and bad news, we need to make sure at least a little light shines. Today it's the news that Sen. Susan Collins is about as popular as Donald Trump back home in Maine. Which is not particularly popular. The Bangor...	Joan McCarter	04/14/2020	104	205	-	-
Congress decides to social distance, or abdicate, until May 4 It's official now. Congress, which was supposed to return to work on April 20, has extended recess until at least May 4. There is still work happening at a distance, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell still tries to steamroll his next plan for...	Joan McCarter	04/14/2020	44	79	-	-
Trump and Mnuchin are letting the banks steal your COVID-19 $1,200 Even Republicans wanted to do something to help the plebes in their big coronavirus stimulus boon to the super rich, like Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri wanted a direct cash payment to everyone. A bipartisan Congress intended to help the now masses of...	Joan McCarter	04/14/2020	213	227	-	-
While you got an emergency $1,200, 43,000 millionaires got a massive tax break Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this pandemic. And don't think about the 43,000 millionaires and billionaires who got a $90 billion tax break for 2020 courtesy of...	Joan McCarter	04/14/2020	85	170	-	-
The most dangerous man in America right now isn't Trump. It's McConnell If you've got an hour or so to spare, this deep dive into the life and times of Sen. “Moscow Mitch” McConnell from investigative reporter Jane Mayer is worth all of it. It took me an hour, anyway, because I had to keep surfacing for clean air. Because...	Joan McCarter	04/14/2020	172	427	-	-
As Trump sabotages Obamacare, as many as 2 million uninsured COVID-19 patients could be hospitalized As many as 2 million uninsured people could end up being hospitalized with the novel coronavirus, according to an analysis released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Hospitals could need as much as $42 billion in reimbursements for their...	Joan McCarter	04/13/2020	15	89	-	-
The next trillions’ worth of coronavirus spending needs to be more transparent Sen. Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump can never again be allowed to be in charge of $2.2 trillion in emergency spending programs, because they can't be trusted to ever do anything for the country without rigging it for their base. Their real base: the...	Joan McCarter	04/13/2020	27	69	-	-
Pelosi, Schumer hold firm on emergency aid to states, hospitals, unemployed in interim funding bill Little progress was made over the weekend in what's shaping up to be Phase 3.5 of stimulus legislation to respond to the coronavirus emergency. (Phase 3.5 is a stopgap small bill that would provide a bridge until the next really big bill gets done.)...	Joan McCarter	04/13/2020	71	148	-	-
Congress can actually do stuff: A coronavirus stimulus bills primer Are you as confused about what Congress has done since the novel coronavirus hit our shores to mitigate the damage—or in the case of the Republicans, exploit the crisis—as I am? If so, maybe ...	Joan McCarter	04/11/2020	22	73	-	-
Congress is in recess, but still working on coronavirus response. Here's what to look for next week Congress is officially in recess until April 20, but there's every indication that next week will bring more work on an interim bill to fix some of the problems in the small business lending provisions of the big Phase 3 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and...	Joan McCarter	04/10/2020	24	68	-	-
Democrats demand answers to how a tax break benefiting Trump and Kushner got into coronavirus bill In addition to the extra gift to corporate America Republicans slipped into the massive coronavirus bill, allowing the Federal Reserve to keep its deliberations secret, there's also a big tax break to wealthy taxpayers that somehow got into the bill...	Joan McCarter	04/10/2020	264	468	-	-
Republicans engineered Federal Reserve cover-up for that $450 billion corporate bailout fund Democratic leaders had a lot of good reason to slap down Mitch McConnell's latest "urgent" attempt to railroad them into passing emergency coronavirus stimulus legislation. We're just learning now the things that were somehow, mysteriously slipped into...	Joan McCarter	04/10/2020	196	243	-	-
Banks, Trump administration see opening to bring back Wall Street casino in coronavirus crisis The banksters are gonna bankster. Right now, they are gleefully rubbing their hands together as if they were washing coronavirus away, but in anticipation of the rollback of regulations they've been under since the last big economic crisis. You...	Joan McCarter	04/09/2020	33	91	-	-
Half of National Guard troops helping in coronavirus response lack military health coverage The National Guard has joined the novel coronavirus response effort to the tune of 24,800 members working in their local communities. They're on the front lines—testing staff and residents in nursing homes as well as helping to clean them. They're...	Joan McCarter	04/09/2020	9	75	-	-
Majorities in both parties want another stimulus bill and they want it to directly help people Now that Mitch McConnell's latest effort jam through help the banks in the guise of small business funding has been rejected, talk can turn again to what really needs to be done—more money to more people. Voters, Democrats and Republicans are agreed in...	Joan McCarter	04/09/2020	32	79	-	-
Democrats hold firm in opposing McConnell's attempt to jam a bank-friendly supplement through The Senate, still in Easter recess, is unlikely to bend to Mitch McConnell's will and jam through another $250 billion in funds for small business loans on Thursday. Democrats aren't going to let him do that without getting other urgent priorities...	Joan McCarter	04/09/2020	37	122	-	-
Big majority of Americans would love to vote by mail this fall Donald Trump says "Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting." He means fight against it, because "for whatever reason,  doesn't work out well for Republicans." ...	Joan McCarter	04/09/2020	54	139	-	-
Playing the Republican victim card, grifter Loeffler says she's liquidating her stocks The newest Republican senator, Georgia's Kelly Loeffler, has proven to be a very fast learner when it comes to grifting in her new job. Loeffler, who is probably the single wealthiest member of the Senate, and her husband Jeff Sprecher, CEO of the...	Joan McCarter	04/08/2020	78	85	-	-
After dismissing IG report on hospitals, Trump cites Hannity to say all is well States and hospitals continue to scramble to try to secure the protective gear doctors, nurses, and all hospital personnel need against coronavirus infection, as well as ventilators and other equipment to try to save lives. That's just a fact playing...	Joan McCarter	04/08/2020	27	72	-	-
Will Congress care as much about states' broken unemployment systems as small business loans? As Sen. Mitch McConnell tries to jam through another $250 billion in emergency small business loans—something the banks have been raising hell about for nearly a week—many states are drowning in unemployment claims with clunky systems that can't meet...	Joan McCarter	04/08/2020	15	47	-	-
Democrats condition more small business aid on billions more in help to states, hospitals, SNAP On Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell made a surprise announcement that he was going to move an additional $250 billion supplement to the small business lending program in the coronavirus relief package as fast as Thursday of this week, implying he had...	Joan McCarter	04/08/2020	47	70	-	-
Polling proves it: Republicans are dangerous for your health The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll highlights how disruptive the COVID-19 crisis has been to people's daily lives, and how unhappy the populace is becoming with Donald Trump's ...	Joan McCarter	04/08/2020	35	91	-	-
Pelosi tapped for 2019 Profile in Courage award. She can really earn it in next stimulus negotiation Citing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership demonstrating "strength, integrity and grace under pressure" and "using her power to protect the most vulnerable of our citizens," former ambassador Caroline Kennedy has named Pelosi as the recipient of...	Joan McCarter	04/07/2020	32	77	-	-
McConnell concedes more stimulus is necessary, Schumer and Pelosi need to seize the moment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell popped up Tuesday morning with a proposal that he made sound like a done deal for additional stimulus money, pushed in the Senate by unanimous consent as soon as Thursday, to pump more money into the...	Joan McCarter	04/07/2020	62	93	-	-
Schumer taps key Warren staffer as watchdog on stimulus spending Sen. Chuck Schumer made a critical appointment Monday, naming Bharat Ramamurti to the Congressional Oversight Commission. This commission is one of the layers of oversight Democrats built into the $2 trillion stimulus package, otherwise known as the...	Joan McCarter	04/07/2020	100	186	-	-
Small business lifeline tied up in Trump administration knots Before the weekend was even out, Wells Fargo had announced that it had taken all the loan applications it intended to through the Paycheck Protection Program created in the $2 trillion coronavirus economic relief package, and was cutting off...	Joan McCarter	04/07/2020	40	85	-	-

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