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Ex-Defense Secretary Delivers Scathing Rebuke Of Senate: Vegetating, Not Legislating
02/27/2020 07:02 am ET Updated 2 hours ago
Ex-Defense Secretary Delivers Scathing Rebuke Of Senate: Vegetating, Not Legislating
“But you have to ask yourself. Why are you a senator? Why are you there?” asked former GOP Sen. William Cohen.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-cohen-donald-trump-gop-senators_n_5e5773a6c5b66622ed76d676
By Lee Moran
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen on Wednesday issued a blistering critique of the GOP-controlled Senate, scolding its lawmakers for “vegetating” instead of legislating.
The Republican former senator for Maine, who led the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton, told CNN the Senate’s failure to curb President Donald Trump was not a new phenomenon, but one that stretched back at least a decade.
“Some of it has to do with external pressures, that of social media, talk radio, specific channels that have a particular view and then hammer that view home to the constituents who then pressure the members of Congress,” he explained.
“But you have to ask yourself. Why are you a senator? Why are you there? Are you acting out of sheer fear that if you speak up and take a position that’s controversial you’ll be punished?” Cohen continued. “If that’s the reason you’re in the Senate, to simply be safe and to play it safe, then you really, you really are undercutting what the role of that Senate should be.”
Earlier this week, Cohen joined a bipartisan group of 70 former senators with an open letter calling out Congress for “not fulfilling its constitutional duties.”..................................
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Live updates: CDC confirms possible community spread of coronavirus
Source: axios
Updated 7 hours ago - Health
The CDC reported on Wednesday the first case of the novel coronavirus in a person in the U.S. who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case.
The big picture: COVID-19 has killed more than 2,700 people and infected over 81,000 others. By Wednesday morning, South Korea had the most cases outside China, with 1,261 infections. Europe's biggest outbreak is in Italy, where 374 cases have been confirmed.
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....................U.S. cases: There are now 60 confirmed cases in the U.S., the CDC said Wednesday.
The latest is a person in California with no previous history of association with the virus. ........................
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Read more: https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-latest-developments-8b8990c4-6762-494a-8ee0-5091746bda9b.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Confirmed cases of COVID-19
As of Feb. 26, 9:45 am EST
Total cases
81,193
Deaths
2,768
China 78,064
South Korea 1,261
Diamond Princess 705
Italy 322
Japan 178
Iran 139
Singapore 91
Hong Kong 89
U.S. 57
Thailand 40
Taiwan 32
Bahrain 23
Australia 22
Malaysia 22
Germany 18
Vietnam 16
France 14
U.K. 13
UAE 13
Canada 11
Kuwait 11
Macao 10
Spain 9
Iraq 5
Others with < 5 cases 28
Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins, the CDC, and China's Health Ministry. Note: China numbers are for the mainland only and U.S. numbers include repatriated citizens.
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Manhattan DA Cy Vance files brief in Supreme Court Case seeking Trump's tax records
Source: New York Daily News
Feb 26, 2020 | 6:24 PM
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is pressing the Supreme Court to enforce a grand jury subpoena for President Trump’s financial and tax records amid a probe of crimes allegedly committed before he moved into the White House.
In a brief filed Wednesday, prosecutors argued that shielding Trump from investigations of his private financial dealings pre-Oval Office will set a dangerous precedent that runs contrary to “the bedrock principle that no person is above the law.”
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The memo further adds Trump’s lawyers “failed” to prove the subpoena would interfere with his presidential duties.
“The grand jury is conducting an investigation into potential criminal conduct by multiple individuals and corporate entities, and its gathering of information does not intrude on (Trump’s) ability to perform his official duties,” the brief states.
After two lower courts ruled against Trump’s bid to quash a August 2019 subpoena Vance’s office served on Mazars USA, the president’s longtime accounting firm, Trump took the case to the Supreme Court in November.
In December, the high court announced it will hear oral arguments in March related to the probe of citizen Trump’s alleged financial and tax-related crimes. SCOTUS will also hear two other cases related to Trump’s records brought by the House Oversight Committee.
Trump’s lawyers have argued as long as he’s president, he, his business and associates are immune from having to provide evidence of private and possible criminal acts that predate his presidential stint. Vance’s lawyers counter Trump doesn’t have immunity from a subpoena for documents unrelated to his presidency..........................................
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-cy-vance-files-brief-supreme-court-20200226-ajrjelqtujbqxh5lroagup37va-story.html
(L) President Trump (R) Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance (Getty / Jesse Ward for New York Daily News)
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-cy-vance-files-brief-supreme-court-20200226-ajrjelqtujbqxh5lroagup37va-story.html
Trump Reportedly Trying to Siphon $37 Million From Heating Assistance for the Poor to Fund Coronavir
Source: common dreams
Trump Reportedly Trying to Siphon $37 Million From Heating Assistance for the Poor to Fund Coronavirus Response
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
"Because if we have to prevent the spread of an infectious disease, we might as well take the opportunity to make some poor families freeze."
Critics are denouncing it as an unconscionable attack on the nation's poor after reporting revealed President Donald Trump has floated plans to shift $37 million away from a federal program that provides heating assistance for low-income families to help fund the White House's response to the growing coronavirus threat.
The Washington Post's Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman reported Tuesday that the White House informed congressional Democrats that it wants to transfer "$37 million to emergency funding for the coronavirus response from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, which funds heating for poor families."
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House Democrats, according to the Post, view the LIHEAP cut as a non-starter that could further delay the federal government's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that the virus could spread rapidly across the U.S. and urged Americans to prepare for "significant disruption in their daily lives."
"After dithering for weeks as the coronavirus spread around the world, the Trump administration has now decided to pay for its belated response by cutting funding for heating assistance for low-income families," Evan Hollander, a spokesman for House Appropriations Committee Democrats, told the Post.
"House Democrats won't allow the president to shut off families' heat in the middle of winter," added Hollander. "We will craft an emergency supplemental that treats this pandemic seriously and provides robust funding without stealing from other important priorities."...........................
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/26/trump-reportedly-trying-siphon-37-million-heating-assistance-poor-fund-coronavirus
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Pelosi Statement on President Trump’s Budget Request on Coronavirus Response
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/22420-0
February 24, 2020
Press Release
San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the Trump Administration’s request for supplemental funds to combat the coronavirus crisis:
“Americans need a coordinated, fully-funded, whole-of-government response to keep them and their loved ones safe. The President’s request for coronavirus response funding is long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency.
“For almost two years, the Trump Administration has left critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant. His most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the frontlines of this emergency. And now, the President is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check.
“Weeks after the Trump Budget called for slashing the CDC budget during this coronavirus epidemic, this undersized funding request shows an ongoing failure to understand urgent public health needs.
“Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the U.S. The President should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities.
“The House will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis.”
Trumps AZ migrant detention facilities, where some sleep in bathroom stalls, are unfit for humans...
Arizona migrant detention facilities, where some sleep in bathroom stalls, are unfit for humans, judge rules
Meagan Flynn 6 days ago
A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that Border Patrol facilities in the Tucson sector deprive migrants of “basic human needs,” saying the conditions at the temporary detention facilities are “substantially worse” than those in jails or prisons and violate the Constitution.
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The Wednesday ruling permanently enjoins U.S. Customs and Border Protection from detaining migrants in holding cells at its Tucson sector stations for longer than 48 hours — “unless CBP can provide conditions of confinement that meet detainees’ basic human needs.”
That means migrants staying any longer than two days must be provided a variety of things they have not been getting: sleep free from constant disruption, in a real bed with a blanket; nutritious food; access to a shower; and a medical assessment by a medical professional.
The ruling also says CBP must immediately stop making migrants sleep in “toilet areas” because of overcrowding.
“Regardless of whether a detainee is sleeping on a mat or directly on the concrete floor, being forced to sleep in a toilet area due to overcrowding offends the notions of common decency,” Bury, a George W. Bush appointee in the District of Arizona, wrote in the 40-page order. “It is unsanitary and degrading for all detainees who either have to sleep in the toilet area or try to use the toilet when others are sleeping there.”
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Bury’s ruling, which follows a seven-day bench trial in January, makes permanent a 2016 temporary injunction that compelled CBP to provide mats and silver Mylar blankets to all detainees; many were previously sleeping on the bare concrete floor.
The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2015 by the National Immigration Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Immigration Council, Morrison & Foerster, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to combat filthy Obama-era conditions. But the case extends through the Trump administration, with most evidence at trial spanning 2017 to 2019, an attorney for the migrants told The Washington Post.
At one point during the trial, attorneys for the migrants showed surveillance video footage of a migrant trying to climb over people sleeping in a “toilet area” to reach a bathroom stall — only to find people sleeping in the stalls as well.
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Barr, DeVos speak at religious broadcasters forum
Source: AP
By TRAVIS LOLLER an hour ago
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — ..........................
DeVos spoke about her belief that religious schools and colleges should be able to receive government support on an equal footing with public and other non-religious institutions. To that end, she recently proposed a federal tax credit that would help fund scholarships for private K-12 schools. Many public school advocates oppose the plan.
“We know that every child is special and unique. They learn differently. There are different things that interest them, that excite them. And yet too many kids today are forced to be in schools that aren’t the right fit and aren’t working for them,” DeVos said.
An audience of several hundred gave DeVos a standing ovation as she entered and exited the auditorium. They also cheered her assertion that too many children are not being allowed to express their religious faith in school.
Asked how her religious faith influences her work, DeVos said, “It basically is foundational to everything that I do. It does inform all my days, all of my decisions.”
Attorney General William Barr was scheduled to speak later Wednesday. His afternoon presentation is part of a forum that will explore how the First Amendment should handle “divergent, and sometimes clashing, religious faiths,” according to the convention schedule.....................
Read more: https://apnews.com/37e1240b3cb0dc50eda91d8101ffbbb5
#WethePeople are on a dangerous path with Trump in charge.
Anyone else have the sneaking suspension that Trump is about to do to the CDC what he did to the NWS
My response via a tweet!
No, I think his staff has finally reached his stinking #Trumpswamp brain. #Trump realizes he is in deep trouble --by putting #WethePeople at risk for the #coronavirus and now will play the Hero!!
Anyone else have the sneaking suspension that Trump is about to do to the CDC what he did to the National Weather Service?
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