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Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump late Saturday ver the president s decision not to sign a coronavirus relief bill before funding for the federal supplemental unemployment benefit ran out Saturday night. Biden called Trump s veto an abdication of responsibility, though both Democrats and Republicans agreed to the $600 stimulus checks the president finds objectionable. It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families don t know if they ll be able to make ends meet because of President Donald Trump s refusal to sign an economic relief bill approved by Congress with an overwhelming and bipartisan majority, Biden said in a statement.
US Coronavirus Cases Surpass 19 Million as Pandemic Continues to Rage By Associated Press and Spectrum News Staff Nationwide PUBLISHED 5:10 PM ET Dec. 27, 2020 PUBLISHED 5:10 PM EST Dec. 27, 2020
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The U.S. has now topped 19 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows.
America exceeded that mark on Sunday, just six days after it reached 18 million. The nation’s case numbers have more than doubled in less than two months.
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. also have been rising, and now total more than 332,000. That’s more than one death for every 1,000 Americans. The U.S. population as of Saturday was about 331 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
trillion “stimulus” spending bill being pushed by Congress in response to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is loaded with pork. And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is defending that pork with claims that he is “concerned” about the plight of women in Pakistan, for instance, whom he says need tens of millions of dollars’ worth of American taxpayer-funded foreign aid to fund their “gender programs.”
Speaking on
Fox News, Graham told a sob story about how women in Pakistan are currently not allowed to open up bank accounts without first getting signatures from their husbands. Because of this, Graham wants to send Pakistan $10 million of American taxpayer money for “gender programs,” along with another $15 million for “democracy programs.”
A day before unemployment benefits for millions of Americans were set to expire, President Donald Trump had a different insult in mind: his former-model