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This includes public works employees, social service and child service caseworkers, government inspectors, sanitation workers and DMV workers.
Public-facing gov t employees, nonprofit workers & essential building service workers are eligible for the vaccine beginning March 17.
All sites can vaccinate anyone who is eligible except pharmacies which will be reserved to vaccinate 60+ & teachers.https://t.co/SqtxtKYQJ4 Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 9, 2021
New York has administered nearly 6 million doses of the vaccine so far, Cuomo said, adding that he will make an appointment for himself now that he is eligible at age 63.
The governor also said the state will lift restrictions on which providers can administer vaccines. Previously, certain types of providers were directed to focus their vaccination efforts on specific populations to ensure equitable vaccine distribution.
However, much of Martin’s work has been criticized as anti-Semitic.
“Giving someone like him a platform, it’s not something I would do again,” Clarke told The Forward in January. “I unequivocally denounce anti-Semitism.”
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Garland, who is Jewish, dismissed Lee’s line of questioning, saying, I m a pretty good judge of what an anti-Semite is, and I do not believe that she is an anti-Semite. And I do not believe she is discriminatory in any sense.
Beatty’s backing of Clarke coincided with the Senate confirmation hearing for two of Biden’s other DOJ nominees Vanita Gupta and Lisa Monaco.
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The senators highlighted a loophole in existing gun laws that allows purchasers to buy a ghost gun kit for a few hundred dollars, assemble it themselves. The ATF does not regulate these kits as firearms.
The use of ghost guns contributes to wider gun violence, the senators wrote, but because of the lack of regulation it can be difficult to collect data on ghost guns or investigate crimes involving the weapons. According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 19,233 Americans lost their lives to gun violence in 2020, the highest number in the last two decades, the senator wrote. We fear the number will only increase without swift action on ghost guns.