#Relief

Jervis Manahan

JervisManahan

Personal observation, from someone doing fieldwork:The situation on Twitter is vastly different from the situation on the ground. While Twitter netizens are active on asking for accountability in disaster response,

Frank Thorp V

frankthorp

Wow, ok, Pres Trump is asking Congress to come back and amend the COVID relief/Omnibus spending bill: "I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

My reporting is Dems long assumed they'd have to do Covid as a reconciliation measure — GOP sincerely, albeit wrongly, simply does not want to spend huge sums of money on

Catholic Democrats

CatholicDems

Ted Cruz is a United States Senator. Here are various things he could have done besides fly to Cancun:1. Work closely with FEMA to coordinate relief2. Work closely with counties

Alison Trollop

AlisonTrollop

Often (you'll see throughout history), the gentry expects the workers to do the grunt work so that they can have a nice life. But they don't want to pay enough

Steve Milloy

JunkScience

Swamp sticks climate language and cash in COVID relief bill.Bill will pointlessly raise the price of air conditioning and shovel $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies at wind/solar fraudsters.Please veto this,

Scott Wong

scottwongDC

Congress clinches sweeping deal on coronavirus relief, government fundinghttps://thehill.com/homenews/senate/531074-congress-gets-sweeping-deal-on-coronavirus-relief-government-funding Pelosi/Schumer: The package includes bipartisan, bicame

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

Ppl arguing for targeted $2K checks aren’t saying that more $ should be given to the poorest or that we would apply the savings toward things like rent cancellation, they’re

Craig Caplan

CraigCaplan

Bipartisan, bicameral ‘908 coalition led Senators Manchin (D-WV) and Collins (R-ME) on the omnibus-spending/COVID-19 relief bill, ahead of tomorrow's midnight gov't shutdown deadline: “Mr. President, we are asking you to

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BradKutner

Once considered among the worst states in the country for evictions, Virginia's progressive Democrats hope to enshrine #COVID19 tenant protection laws into the state’s notoriously landlord friendly law books.2K words

Jesse O'Connell

jesseocnl

Here’s the piece of the student debt forgiveness discourse that I want to say something about. The assertion that we can’t do it because not all Americans have student debt

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

Good to see: By moving on reconciliation, Dems show they're learning. They're wise to McConnell's scam, in which he used filibuster to *withhold* cooperation. Going big on spending now could

Tristin B. Brown, Esq.

trisquire

Biden needs to realize -and quickly- that the people who elected him into the office he currently occupies do not care whether an equitable and substantial COVID relief package has

Hafsah Faizal

hafsahfaizal

In 10 minutes, a child will die.Yemen has the worst humanitarian crisis in history. Their healthcare system has collapsed. 24 million people are starving—most of them children. The pandemic is

T. R. Okuna

XivTroy

I have a question. Do you people really have people that you are truly comfortable with enough to share how you feel? Enough to tell them your life's challenges without

Congressman Jared Golden

RepGolden

If Congress worked like it was supposed to, we would have passed bills to provide additional COVID-19 relief and fund the government months ago, through a transparent process that could

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