President-elect Joe Biden holds a press conference to announce to his economic team, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary and Neera Tanden as Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
“We act urgently, ” said Yellen. ” Inaction will produce a recession that strengthens itself and will cause even more devastation. “
Over the weekend, Dominic Rushe, editor-in-chief of Guardian US, and I wrote about how Yellen can replace the course:
Teresa Marez has never heard of Yellen, but she and millions of Americans are highly dependent on the decisions Yellen will make if she shows up next year.
The coronavirus has turned Marez’s life around, her savings are almost exhausted and she is worried about her unemployment benefits, which are depleted next week. “It’s so hard. It’s a disaster,” said the mother of two in San Antonio. , Texas. ” We just want Congress to make a decision,” Marez said. “As long as they’re in limbo, we’re in limbo. “
. . . As Secretary of the Treasury, Yellen will have more power to act, in theory, than at the Fed, setting fiscal policy, regulating banks, and overseeing priorities as the country tackles its massive debt payments. other people and has a budget of $ 20 billion. Yellen will occupy the fifth place after the presidency and her signature will appear in the currency of the country.
But the 2020 election gave Biden a split congress and Yellen will want to win Republican votes for any primary movement. To this day, omens bodes bode well.
A bipartisan organization of senators and members of Congress unveiled a $908 billion plan for new economic relief measures to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession.
The multitude of proposals includes:
The legislative framework has been approved through the leaders of either party, nor through the White House, so it is transparent how it can move forward.
It designed through legislators, adding Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah; Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine; Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Independent Senator Angus King of Maine.
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri wrote a captivating article: “Here are the most productive cats for the white house mascot role. “
The humor column written in reaction to the first girl, Jill Biden, who said over the weekend that she would like to have a talk after she and President-elect Joe Biden move into the White House.
Petri writes about the first felines:
Olivia, Meredith and Benjamin: Taylor Swift’s cats are unlikely to resign from their existing positions in the personal sector, but never bother to ask.
For his part, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he needed to verify any of those cats, but provided a list of cats belonging to the Federalist Society that he would be pleased to see through the Senate.
The Biden had shown in the afterlife that their dogs, Major and Champ, would move to the White House. For the past 4 years, the White House has been exceptionally pet-free: Donald Trump is the first president since 1897 to have no pets. mandate.
Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump will stick to her best-selling exhibition on her dysfunctional circle of family life with a new e-book on “American national trauma,” her editor announced.
The Reckoning will be published through St Martin’s Press in July 2021 and, according to St Martin’s, “will examine American national trauma, rooted in our history, but dramatically exacerbated by the effect of America’s existing occasions and corrupt and immoral policies. “the Trump administration. “
Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. , the president’s older brother who died at the age of 42 in 1981 from an alcohol-related illness. Much of Mary Trump’s first book, Too and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World, was reported through her father’s remedy through her siblings and parents.
“I don’t think he has a political ideology,” he told the Guardian in July. “I would say he’s behaving like a white supremacist, certainly. “
Scott Atlas, the debatable coronavirus adviser who resigned Monday, had been denounced through Stanford University School for his “lies and misrepresentations of science. “
Stanford is the home of the curator Hoover Institution, of which Atlas is a member. He taught at the university’s medical school.
In September, more than a hundred professors signed a letter saying that “Atlas’ revisions and statements go against established science.
After Atlas announced his resignation Monday night, the university that signed the previous letter said his resignation “is long and highlights the triumph of science and facts about lies and misinformation,” in a joint statement.
“Their movements have undermined and threatened public fitness even when countless lives have been lost because of COVID-19,” he said.
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph Giulani, discussed with the president last week the option of being granted a “preventive pardon,” according to the New York Times, which cited two unidentified sources.
It is unclear why federal crime Giuliani would want a pardon, he was investigated last summer through federal prosecutors for his business in Ukraine.
Giuliani spokeswoman Christianne Allen told the New York Times: “Mayor Giuliani’s comment on the discussions she has had with her client. “
According to the Times:
A pardon so broad that preventing any fee or conviction is very unusual, however, it has a precedent: George Washington pardoned the conspirators from lifting the whisky, protecting them from treason prosecution. In the most prominent example, Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon for all his actions, movements as president. Jimmy Carter forgave thousands of American men who have illegally departed from the Vietnam War project.
Last week, Trump pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to the FBI for having had contacts with a Russian official.
And yesterday, conservative commentator Sean Hannity said on his radio show that Trump “must forgive his entire circle of relatives already himself. “
U. S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he would speak on the phone with house majority leader Nancy Pelosi to discuss an investment bill to avoid government closures.
“This is the first precedence and I’m sure we’ll also mention Covid’s problems,” Mnuchin said.
Congress is under pressure to pass a coronavirus-opposing financial aid plan with a pre-invoice set to expire at the end of the year.
Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell are testifying before the Senate Banking Committee to discuss the federal government’s reaction to the global pandemic.
Crystal Mason, the black woman sentenced to five years in prison for unknowingly voting in 2016, is asking the Texas criminal court to overturn her sentence.
The new presentation overdue Monday night is the latest challenge in a case that has attracted national attention and has been highlighted by many as a flagrant example of voter suppression.
The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has the discretion to take the case or not. Mason has been released on bail since 2018, while his case is taken to court.
In 2016, Mason was on parole, which is similar to probation, for a federal tax offense, but no one told him he was not eligible to vote. Even though the officials who tracked her at the time said they had not told Mason that she was not eligible to vote, a Texas appeals court previously ruled earlier this year that her lack of wisdom “did not apply to her prosecution. “In their Monday filing, Mason’s attorneys dispute this finding, noting that Texas law states that someone will have to “know” that they are not eligible to vote and do so anyway to commit a crime.
When Mason attended the polls in 2016, a student presented him with an interim survey because he was not on the electoral roll, which he was required to do under federal law. Mason filled out the survey, sent it, and in the end it wasn’t counted. Mason’s lawyers say that because her vote was eventually rejected, she did not vote, however, the appeals court of the previous decline this year disagreed.
Since 2014, at least 12,668 provisional votes have been cast in Tarrant County, where Mason lives in Texas, more than 11,000 of them rejected. Mason appears to be the only user who has had a provisional vote rejected and processed.
Throughout the hour, the president has shared a series of tweets from unreliable sources.
One of the false messages accused Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak of sharing a fake hospital photo, though it’s genuine. The message came here from a so-called “networkinvegas,” where some of the site’s publications appear to be generic things like “the most productive local youth assembly puts in Las Vegas” and the other side appear to be crude and hyperbolic diatribes opposed to the Sisolak and Covid-19 restrictions. This is not genuine news.
Another article on the effects of the election in Michigan and obtained here from The Great Era, which the New York Times described as “one of the leading providers of right-wing misinformation. “
And he shared a video for One America News Network, which was suspended from YouTube last week after selling a fake remedy for Covid-19.
A panel from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to vote today on who will have the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the United States.
Two drug manufacturers, Pfizer and Moderna, requested emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the vaccine, and health officials said the first distribution of the vaccine is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
The committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), is an external organization of medical experts that advises the CDC and is scheduled to discuss from 2 p. m. at 5pm ET on how the vaccine will be distributed.
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Public fitness officials and medical experts said physical care staff are vaccinated first, stand firm through vulnerable Americans, adding the elderly, others with pre-existing situations, and an essential staff. CAIP will send its recommendation to CDC. Al end, it will depend on states complying with CDC rules on vaccine distribution.