A new federal stimulus package will aid Wyoming residents and businesses and fund COVID-19 vaccine distributions but does not appear likely to include direct financial aid to the fiscally challenged state.
U.S. House and Senate leaders on Sunday night reached agreement on the broad strokes of a deal that has eluded Congress for months, according to various national news reports. Lawmakers were working to vote and send a bill to the president by Monday evening.
The bill will extend a Dec. 30 deadline for Wyoming to allot $1.25 billion in aid it received through the March CARES Act. The state completed its allocation of the money and intended to make the deadline with a sprint of accounting over the next two weeks, according to Gov. Mark Gordon’s policy advisor Renny MacKay. The new bill will provide breathing room for that work and perhaps a chance to reassess some distributions of the remaining funds, he said.
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
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New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a