South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, one of President Trump’s closest allies, has rejected the additional unemployment benefits delivered by an executive measure of Mr. Trump. The executive measure provided an additional $ 300 in unemployment benefits per week, but it required states to kick in another $ 100. In a …
Read More »Former Crowdstrike co-founder says more needs to be done to secure election infrastructure
Washington – With less than 80 days until the general election, the co-founder of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity technology company, warned that the federal government and states should do more to protect election infrastructure from cyberattacks by malicious actors. In an interview Sunday with “Face the Nation,” Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded …
Read More »Transcript: Governor Tate Reeves on “Face the Nation”, August 16, 2020
The following is a transcript of an interview with Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves that aired Sunday, August 16, 2020 on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. We’re going to the state of Mississippi now. Joets with us is the mayor, Tate Reeves, who’s in Jackson …
Read More »Gottlieb says the US is probably “a long way” from herd immunity to viruses
Washington – Dr Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday that the United States is likely to go a “long way” from enforcing herd immunity against the coronavirus, even as the number of confirmed cases continues to climb. In an interview with “Face the …
Read More »How big an increase could American workers get under Trump’s tax plan?
President Donald Trump has ordered companies to defer payroll tax in a move to give Americans financial relief and lift the coronavirus battery economy. However, the plan – which instructs the Treasury Department to stop collecting payroll taxes from workers as of September 1 – raises a number of questions, …
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