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Where Things Stand: Biden Seizes On Trump’s Shortcomings We’ve been told to expect something presidential.
Where Things Stand: Dem Lawmakers Prep To Ask Trump For National Emergency TPM exclusively reported yesterday that the state of Washington has discussed applying for a Medicaid waiver that would expand the state’s ability to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, but it needs a national emergency declaration from President Trump in order to do so. The Trump administration has thus far withheld making such a move.
This morning, a Senate Democratic aide confirmed to TPM that a group of lawmakers, including a Washington senator, are preparing to ask the Trump administration to declare a national emergency over the coronavirus.
Where Things Stand: Trump Greets Supporters In FL … With A Handshake There have been plenty of reports that President Trump is a bit of germaphobe (who also has a fear of being poisoned).
I took a deep dive into the Trump administration’s failure to bring any new Voting Rights Act cases in the first three years of his term. This dry spell of new public VRA enforcement is unprecedented, and it sets Trump’s DOJ apart from that of previous administrations, Democratic and Republican alike.