As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few months, it is feared that ice am a and its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously and have not i. C. E. And its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously. At least 405i. C. E. Employees assigned to detention facilities have just a positive. Least twost at detainees, a potential third today in florida, and five contractors, d
Today, the subcommittee meets to examine the response to covid19 by four of the contractors responsible for managing facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. Facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few mon
Pushing fda scientists to loosen covid testing scandals, this was over several months, that the trump appointees demands meant the agency would have to, quote, bandson its responsibility for ensuring the safety and responsibility of a range of coronavirus tests. Now even when the scientific experts objected internally, the czar revoked their powers to check the quality of tests developed by labs for their own use. Trump allies argued this could get more tests to market but there were screaming maxes inside the administration. People concerned this was basically a political power grab with real consequences, and soon the fda finding widespread flaws in those very tests. Now, all of this adds to the doubt and uncertainty about what will come out from the government which is run by the Trump Administration on this matter of yes, your health, your life and death before this story even broke, a major player in the health and vaccine area, the philanthropist bill gates spoke out to basically
Prior experience of anything having to do with resettling rev few fwees so why should he run the Refugee Resettlement office. For unexplained reasons they gave him the job anyway. He decided he would use the power of his office. People were under his control. He would use that power to block a teenage rape victim who was living alone run by a shelter by scott floyds office he tried to block her from obtaining an abortion so she would not be forced to bear the child of her rapist. He decided he would block that in this country it does not matter if you are not american by birth, it doesnt matter if you are here as a legal immigrant or otherwise under our constitution, everybody is guaranteed a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In this case she wanted one. This trump appointee, scott lloyd, who knows why he was in this job in the first place. He desicided he would block thi girl from getting one. Hes the guy in charge with this agency he decided he would use that power to take
Just waking up the eye of the storm is moving over golf shores alabama. Well get landfall confirmation likely in the next three to four hours. It is crawling it has been just an epic rainfall producer throughout areas of southern alabama and western florida as we figured. The storm shifted even further east the worst is right over pensacola this morning right now they have a storm surge of 4. 5 feet. Theyve gotten estimates of 1 to feet of rain and storm surge of 4 feet they have water coming in all Different Directions especially right around the orange beach area to pensacola the area of greatest concern and the most wind damage in gulf shores the storm is just south of the alabama coastline, close to making landfall. It actually went from 85 mileperhour winds and jumped up to 105 to a cat 2 last night. Here is a close up view of the northern eye wall. You can see golf shores now clearly heading into the center of the storm, in the eye of the storm. You can see that forecast position