Senate Finance President Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, rejected the idea of including a payroll tax cut in the Republican Party’s emerging recovery plan, saying Monday it is a “public relations problem” and it would have little economic impact. Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas warned that a payroll tax …
Read More »What does Mike Pompeo do in Iowa?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made one of those visits to the Iowa-based Family Leadership Summit on Friday. There, Pompeo spoke about the United States’ relationship with China, which makes sense, given his role as secretary of state. But he also leaned heavily on the issue of religious freedom. Pompeo …
Read More »WHO applauds Oxford coronavirus vaccine data: “It’s good news”
The executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency program, Mike Ryan, speaks at a press conference on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday applauded data recently released by researchers from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on …
Read More »Trump tweets the image of himself with a mask and calls him ‘patriotic’
“We are united in our effort to defeat China’s Invisible Virus, and many people say it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you cannot socially distance yourself,” Trump tweeted Monday, nearly three months after the US Centers. Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing masks in public. “There is …
Read More »HHS Introduces New Coronavirus Hospitalization Database, Says It Is More Complete Than CDC’s
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks after a briefing by the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the Department of Health and Human Services on June 26, 2020 in Washington, DC . Joshua Roberts | fake pictures The Trump administration revealed a new Covid-19 hospitalization data …
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