New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that during the Covid-19 pandemic, his job has been 24 hours a day, with little time for rest or relaxation, but he has found some normalcy quarantining at home with his adult daughters.
“Who could sleep in the middle of this, right? You could get into bed, you could try to sleep, but your mind doesn’t turn off and you know that people are dying, literally every hour in this state,” Cuomo told Howard Stern on Monday.
Cuomo said while he has no doubt New Yorkers and the country will get through this very challenging time, he too, is fighting stress and anxiety caused by the pandemic that has killed at least 23,650 Americans and more than 10,000 New Yorkers, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Cuomo, 62, admits he has cried at times.
“I can’t get over the death numbers every day. I can’t, and I can’t rationalize it … The healthcare workers have been heroic and have done great work and we’ve saved every life that we could because the healthcare workers were great, but I can’t get past the death numbers. There’s nothing that abates that pain,” Cuomo told Stern.
Cuomo also said he hasn’t had a “drop” of alcohol since this crisis started to ensure he is giving everything he has to fight it.
“This is 24 hours a day and I’m not going to be in a compromised position,” he said. “I’m at the age where you have a couple of glasses of wine and you feel it the next day. I’m not going to be diminished.”
Instead, Cuomo focuses on his new daily routine as governor, which to him feels a lot like “Groundhound Day.”
Typically Cuomo’s mornings are now spent preparing for his daily press briefing at 11 a.m. ET, while his afternoons are filled with operational work and nights are devoted to conversations with scientists and healthcare professionals on the front lines.
“We get numbers in from every hospital at night, which tells you about the death rate and the infection rate. So that is what every day looks like and then it is ‘Groundhog Day,'” Cuomo said, referencing the 1993 movie in which Bill Murray’s character lives the same day over and over again.
However Cuomo still experiences everyday life moments while isolated in Albany, New York with his three adult daughters — twins Mariah and Cara, 25, and Michaela, 22 (whose mom is his ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy).
He told Stern that he has watched some of Netflix’s “Tiger King” because his daughters were watching it, for example.
And Cuomo said he also tries to exercise as often as possible to ensure his own health during the pandemic.
But Cuomo admitted that he didn’t prioritize his own safety until his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, 49, got Covid-19 in late March.
“After Chris got the virus … I took more precautions,” he said. “I got a little smarter afterwards because it really is a tough, tough thing.”
He said instead of traveling all across the state to hold public briefings and meet with health officials, he decided to stay put in Albany.
While Cuomo said he personally isn’t “frightened” by the pandemic, he worries about his mother, Matilda who is 88 and Chris.
“Unfettered panic has no place. We figured out how to slow down the beast. That is a resolution. We will start to phase into an economy again. That will be a wave of resolution,” he said.
Though Cuomo said he doesn’t believe an “ultimate resolution” will come until there is a vaccine available, which is at least 18 months out.
A group of pastors, along with the Center for American Liberty, have filed a lawsuit against California Governor Gavin Newsom and other local officials, arguing that the state’s “stay-at-home” order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic violates the U.S. Constitution by “criminalizing the free exercise of religion.”
Newsom, a Democrat, issued the “stay-at-home” order on March 19. The order banned public events and gatherings, as was the case in many other states who followed suit with their own “stay-at-home” or “shelter-in-place” orders. Some states allowed exemptions for religious services, citing constitutional separations of church and state, but Newsom’s order did not.
“Criminalizing individual participation at a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship clearly violates the First Amendment,” Harmeet Dhillon, chief executive officer for the conservative Center for American Liberty and a Republican Party official, said in a press release.
“The state and localities have granted sweeping exceptions to the shutdown orders for favored businesses and professions, while specifically targeting people of faith and decreeing to religious institutions that it is ‘good enough’ that they be allowed to offer streaming video services,” he said. “The state does not get to dictate the method of worship to the faithful.”
Dhillon, an attorney who leads the Dhillon Law Group, argued that “if a Californian is able to go to Costco or the local marijuana shop or liquor store and buy goods in a responsible, socially distanced manner, then he or she must be allowed to practice their faith using the same precautions.”
Newsweek has reached out to a spokesperson for Newsom for comment. On Friday, Newsom said during a press conference that he was not opposed to people practicing their faith as long as they did so by taking social distancing precautions.
“Practice your faith, but do so in a way that allows you to keep yourself healthy,” he said.
Dean Moffatt, a Riverside County pastor and one of the lawsuit plaintiffs, was reportedly fined $1,000 after he held a Palm Sunday church service. Two of the other plaintiffs are pastors in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, while another is a churchgoer from San Bernardino. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and also targets California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, as well as local officials in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Other pastors in California have also pushed back against the stay-at-home order, despite serious public health concerns. Pastor Jon Duncan of the Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, California attempted to push forward with services on Palm Sunday, but was locked out by his landlord.
“We were advised that the building has been closed down to us, that the locks have been changed,” Duncan told worshippers on April 5, Sacramento-based NBC affiliate KCRA 3 reported.
The Bethel Open Bible Church, the Lodi church’s landlord, had changed the locks after a warning order from San Joaquin County Public Health Officer Maggie Park that explained holding services would be a misdemeanor offense, punishable by fine or imprisonment.
At the time, Lodi Police Lt. Michael Manetti told The Los Angeles Times that local official’s understood “people’s desire to practice their faith…but at church, generally people are closer to one another…shaking hands and singing.”
The new lawsuit against Newsom came as the governor announced that social distancing restrictions in California will soon be relaxed. On Tuesday, Newsom will reveal plans to begin gradually easing regulations keeping state residents at home.
As of early Tuesday morning, California had more than 24,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to a tracker updated by Johns Hopkins University. The state has already seen 732 deaths due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel virus.
Joe Biden is looking for a running mate, having effectively clinched the Democratic nomination after Sen. Bernie Sanders exited the race.
Biden recently informed donors he was moving ahead with the process even before Sanders had dropped out, according to a pool report. He has a long list of potential candidates he will now start winnowing.
“You have to start now deciding who you’re going to have background checks done on as potential vice presidential candidates, and it takes time,” Biden said during the donor call. “It’s kind of presumptuous, but sometime in the middle of the month we’re going to announce a committee that’s going to be overseeing the vice presidential selection process.”
Biden has already made a pledge that narrows the field considerably: He announcedduring the March debate that he’d pick a woman as his running mate. It’s a smart political move; President Donald Trump is considerably less popular with women than he is with men; a CNN poll last week showed Biden leading Trump among women by 30 points. Independent women voters helped propel Democrats — and a historic number of women candidates — to the majority in the House of Representatives in 2018. They could do the same for Biden in 2020.
Biden also wants a running mate ideologically aligned with him and someone he can work well with. Some of his advisers, including House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), are publicly pushing Biden to select a woman of color.
Biden knows well what the vetting process entails; he went through it before spending eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president.
“Joe Biden is familiar with the process of selecting a vice presidential candidate, having been on the opposite end of the process in 2008,” a Biden campaign official told Vox. “Our campaign will run a vigorous vetting process.”
The selection of a vice presidential candidate is particularly important for Biden.At 77 years old (and 78 when he would assume office), he would be the oldest first-term president ever elected. Biden has been clear he wants someone considerably younger and ready to assume the duties of the presidency should health problems or other unforeseen circumstances arise. He’s already seeking advice on this front from Obama.
“The most important thing — and I’ve actually talked to Barack about this — the most important thing is that there has to be someone who, the day after they’re picked, is prepared to be president of the United States of America if something happened,” Biden said.
Do vice presidential picks actually matter?
There’s a prevailing idea that a vice presidential candidate can “deliver” their home state for the party, which could be why a number of people on Biden’s list hail from Midwestern states. But the data supporting this idea is very slim, according to two political science professors — Chris Devine of the University of Dayton and Kyle Kopko of Elizabethtown College — who have been studying it for years.
“We’re pretty skeptical of the home-state advantage too,” Kopko told Vox in a recent interview. “You have to make a lot of assumptions that someone’s going to feel so strongly about their home state, that’s going to override any partisan predispositions.”
Kopko and Devine analyzed election and voter data going back more than 100 years, and found vice presidential candidates usually only make a difference to the outcome of a general election when they are either very popular or very polarizing.
The Wall Street Journal in 2016 also analyzed years of election data and found that even when a vice presidential pick was viewed favorably by voters in their party, a majority of voters ultimately said the VP pick ultimately had no measurable impact on their vote for president.
The real value add of a vice presidential candidate has to do more with what the selection says about the presidential candidate and their judgment. A vice presidential pick sends an early signal about what a future administration might look like.
“It provides some info to voters about how this person would operate as a president, what does he or she stand for, what are going to be the priorities in office,” said Devine.
The fact that Biden is only considering women candidates for his running mate says more about where the Democratic party is at than it does about Biden’s personal convictions, Devine and Kopko said.
“Up to this point it’s seen as picking a woman would be a bold move, an unconventional move, a strong signal,” said Devine. “At this point, I think the script is flipped somewhat, and it would be a slight to have an all-male ticket.”
The real question now is whether Biden will pick a woman of color like Sen. Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams, a progressive like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, or a figure from the Midwest like Sen. Amy Klobuchar or Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The veepstakes list, explained
Biden’s list is still pretty long; he recently said he hoped to narrow it to a “shortlist” of around 11 or so contenders. Here’s a list of potential contenders either mentioned by Biden himself or raised by his prominent allies and advisers.
One young political star, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), won’t be on the list. At 30 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is still five years shy of the age minimum for a vice presidential candidate — not to mention more ideologically aligned with Sanders.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Kamala Harris tops many vice presidential lists, for good reason. Biden’s onetime competitor for the 2020 presidential nomination represents California in the US Senate; she was elected to that position after serving asthe state’s attorney general. As a black woman, she may naturally appeal to the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency. However, Harris’s criminal justice record as a former prosecutor has not always translated into the easiest relationship with black communities — especially with groups on the left.
Sen. Kamala Harris at the Senate chamber on January 27.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Despite some tense moments between Harris and Biden early in the campaign (she scored a polling bump after criticizing his record on racial issues at the first presidential debate), the two seem to have reconciled. In Harris’s favor is the fact that she hails from California, a Senate seat that will be easy for Democrats to fill. Biden has showered Harris with praise and confirmed she is on the list.
“She is solid. She can be president someday herself. She can be the vice president,” he said in December. “She can go on to be a Supreme Court justice. She can be attorney general. I mean, she has enormous capability.”
Harris has also shown she’s not afraid to go toe-to-toe with members of the Trump administration or Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Having a vice presidential nominee who is a fighter can satisfy the base andleave Biden free to pitch himself as the commonsense unity candidate going up against Trump.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
In order to win the presidency, Biden needs to win the Midwest. Amy Klobuchar could help him do that.
Another one of Biden’s former 2020 opponents, Klobuchar has already proved her worth to Biden. When she dropped out and endorsed him, she delivered him an important boost in her home state of Minnesota on Super Tuesday in March. Biden has credited her with his key win in that state. It begs the question of whether she could do the same inWisconsin and Michigan.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks during a campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire, on February 10.Scott Eisen/Getty Images
Sure, Minnesota is seen as bluer than Michigan and Wisconsin because of the influence of the relatively large and thriving Minneapolis/St. Paulmetro area. But in 2016, Hillary Clinton won just nine of Minnesota’s 87 counties, whereas Klobuchar won 51 of them two years later. There are a lot of red areas in the state, and Klobuchar is beloved in many of them. It’s a decent test case for the senator’s electability argument, and could make Klobuchar an appealing pick.
Another thing Klobuchar has going for her is she’s a good match for Biden ideologically, and at 59, she’s considerably younger. Klobuchar is not without baggage, given past allegations about her mistreatment of staff — but voters didn’t seem to care about that when she was running for president. Perhaps more worrisome is her lack of traction in black and brown communities around the country, an area of strength for Biden.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI)
Gretchen Whitmer’s political star is rising, and Biden is taking notice.
Whitmer is the 48-year-old Democratic governor of Michigan and served as the state Senate minority leader years before that. She’s a pragmatic, middle-of-the road governor focused on health care and infrastructure whose 2018 campaign slogan was “fix the damn roads.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2018.Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Michigan is one of the states representing Democrats’ recent troubles (and possible redemption) in the Midwest, and Biden’s path to the White House runs through it. Whitmer could be a big asset in this endeavor. She worked to appeal to Michigan’s Republican and independent voters in the 2018 election, where she beat the state’s Republican then-attorney general Bill Schuette by 9 points. Whitmer won counties that went for Trump in 2016, showing her appeal across party lines.
“We are a state that goes back and forth; we are not a state that comfortably fits into one party or another,” she told Vox in a 2018 interview.
As Detroit has been hit hard during the coronavirus crisis, Whitmer has become a fixation of Trump’s as she’s attempted to secure more federal aid and health care equipment for her state. Whitmer is far from the only governor (Republican and Democrat alike) to call for more help, yet Trump has reserved some of his worst insults for her. He called her “Gretchen ‘Half’ Whitmer” in a tweet, and said he had a “big problem” with the “young … woman governor” in Michigan.
Biden recently invited Whitmer onto his weekly podcast, where he called her “one of the most talented people in the country” and a “friend.” In addition to talking about the challenges facing the country, the two seem to have an affinity for each other; Whitmer recounted how Biden shared Fig Newtons with her and her daughter during a campaign stop.
Whitmer seems to have a lot of what Biden is looking for in a running mate, although she has spent fewer years in higher office than some other contenders. The larger question might be if she’d accept (she has already said “it’s not going to be me”), or if Democrats would be willing to jeopardize a key governor’s seat.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
If Biden wants to do some serious outreach to progressives, Elizabeth Warren is the obvious choice.
Warren’s campaign was the tireless policy machine of 2020, churning out plans for everything from pandemic preparedness to debt-free college. Biden recently backed a Warren plan that allows student debt to be canceled during bankruptcy — a notable move, given a famous policy disagreement between the two on a 2005 bankruptcy bill. He also mused to Axios in December that while he would add Warren to his VP list, “The question is would she add me made to her list.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Concord, New Hampshire, on November 13, 2019.Sarah Rice/Getty Images
Warren may be the choice for uniting the ideological wings of the party, and picking her would certainly say something about where a Biden administration would be willing to go policy-wise. But electorally, it might make more sense to go with a woman of color, or a moderate from the Midwest rather than an unapologetic liberal Democrat representing Massachusetts.
And then there’s the question of whether Warren would actually want the vice presidential job. As Vox’s Emily Stewart wrote, Warren’s time setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demonstrated her executive leadership and knack for “pulling administrative levers.”
With this in mind, Warren actually might be more at home — and have more of an impact — as a Cabinet pick like Treasury secretary or secretary of education, where she could actually enact a chunk of her broad regulatory agenda.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
The two-term senator from Wisconsin checks a whole lot of boxes. She made history in 2012 as the first openly gay senator. And even as Republicans spent millions to try to oust her in 2018, she cruised to reelection, beating her Republican challenger by 11 points.
Wisconsin Republicans were hoping to prove the state was red once and for all in 2018, as Vox’s Dylan Scott wrote. Instead, Baldwin hung on and former Gov. Scott Walker (R) lost to Democrat Tony Evers, showing signs of life for the Democratic Party there. Baldwin ran — and won — on the issue of health care. Her fight in the Senate to protect those with preexisting conditions is personal; she has a preexisting condition from childhood.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin is a two-term progressive from Wisconsin and made history in 2012 as the first openly gay senator.Alex Wong/Getty Images
In addition to proving her staying power in a Midwestern swing state, Baldwin has serious progressive bona fides, even if they don’t get as much attention as Warren’s or Sanders’s credentials. Like Michigan, Wisconsin is crucial for Biden to win, and Baldwin could give him a boost.
But taking her away from the Senate could be risky for Democrats; Wisconsin voters will by no means automatically elect another Democrat to take her place.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
There’s been a lot of push and pull between a woman of color and a woman from the Midwest — Tammy Duckworth is both.
A Thai American who made history as the first US senator to give birth while holding office (and then spoke to the challenges of taking maternity leave while holding that office), Duckworth is helping change one of America’s oldest institutions. She cast a vote in 2018 while holding her newborn baby.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is an Iraq War veteran and the first US senator to give birth while holding office.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Duckworth has an impressive résumé; she’s a military veteran who flew Black Hawk helicopters in Iraq and had a double leg amputation after her helicopter went down.
The senator from Illinois is also unapologetically moderate. In the wake of Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise primary win in 2018, Duckworth questioned whether that brand of progressivism could be replicated in more moderate parts of the country.
“I think it’s the future of the party in the Bronx.” Duckworth said, adding, “I think that you can’t win the White House without the Midwest, and I don’t think you can go too far to the left and still win the Midwest.”
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
Abrams, a voting rights activist who narrowly lost a bid for Georgia’s governorship in 2018, has been generating VP speculation for some time.
Abrams came within 1.4 points of being America’s first black woman governor in 2018, but now that 2020 is here and there are two Senate races in her home state of Georgia, she’s showing few signs of wanting to run in either one. Even with her relative lack of experience in higher office, she’s very popular with black women. A March poll done by She the People, an organization for and by women of color, found Abrams was the clear first choice among its respondents — even over Harris.
Stacy Abrams narrowly lost her bid to become the first black woman governor in 2018.Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images
As Abrams continues her work on the issue of expanding voting rights for voters of color, she’s still very much in the mix when it comes to vice presidential names. Even though Abrams initially brushed off talk of being considered for Biden’s vice president, she seems to be coming around to the idea.
“I would be honored to be on the campaign trail as a running mate,” Abrams recently told Pod Save America. “That is a process you can’t campaign for and I’m not campaigning for.”
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
While Catherine Cortez Masto may not be as well-known as her Senate colleagues Harris and Warren, she’s a highly influential member of the governing body.
She is the former Nevada attorney general, and the first Latina elected to the US Senate. She’s close to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada — a friend of Biden’s and a still-powerful Democratic leader. Cortez Masto is also the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and is viewed as a fundraising juggernaut for the party.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) is the first Latina elected to the Senate and the former Nevada attorney general.Tom Brenner/Getty Images
The 2020 primary showed Biden had significant ground to make up with Latino voters in Western states; Sanders trounced him in Nevada, Colorado, and California after shoring up Latino support in those states. Biden may be able to count on black voters, but getting Latino voters to turn out for him isn’t a sure bet.
Cortez Masto could be a key player on that front.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)
In the same vein, Biden may also want to take a look at New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the first Democratic Latina governor in the US. Before she was elected governor in 2018, Lujan Grisham was a member of Congress, serving as the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is the first Democratic governor of the state to be elected since 2002.Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images
Even though New Mexico is no longer considered a swing state, the governor’s mansion was under Republican control for 8 years. Lujan Grisham flipped it from red to blue. She also led the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus during the Trump administration’s family separation policy — and was a loud voice against the administration’s treatment of migrants.
“We’re doing everything we can to stop the president and Homeland Security from continuing to enact pain using the terminology for zero tolerance for anybody breaking the law,” Lujan Grisham told the Associated Press in June 2018.
Lujan Grisham has proved she’s electable in her home state, but it might be tough to introduce her to the rest of the country.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
One of Biden’s earliest supporters, Bottoms has stuck with the former vice president from the beginning. She endorsed him after the first Democratic debate, rather than throwing her support behind Harris or Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the two black candidates running at the time.
Her reasoning was a belief that Biden was best positioned to beat Trump in a general election. Even when things looked shaky as Biden was faltering in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Bottoms was one of the main surrogates campaigning for him in South Carolina, the state where he staged his comeback.
One of Biden’s top allies, Jim Clyburn, is pushing Biden to choose a woman of color as his running mate. And Clyburn has made it clear he thinks Bottoms could be the woman for the job.
“There is a young lady right there in Georgia who I think would make a tremendous VP candidate, and that’s the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms,” Clyburn told the Financial Times in a recent interview.
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL)
The lone House representative on this list, Demings has developed a high profile in Congress in a relatively short time. She was one of the impeachment managers selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to present the case against President Trump to the US Senate.
Rep. Val Demings served as one of the impeachment managers in the case against President Trump.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Before she was a member of Congress, Demings had a background in law enforcement. She was the first woman chief of police in Orlando, Florida. Even though she’s not as well known as some other names on this list, the fact that she hails from the Orlando area is politically important — it’s a swing part of a key swing state Democrats would like to win back in 2020.
Demings’s role in the impeachment trial lends her some name recognition, but impeachment could be ripe for Republican attacks; Democrats might avoid wading into that area and instead focus on issues like health care. Demings recently said she’d be up to take the slot if Biden asked her.
“I love being a member of Congress,” Demings recently told Florida TV station WFTV-9. “But if asked, I would consider it an honor.”
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He also indicated he will not bend on his plans to try and push through $250 billion more for small businesses, which Democrats blocked last week after insisting on more money for hospitals and local governments. McConnell blocked their plan, too.
Democrats have said they will not back off their demands for carveouts in the small business package for underbanked businesses as well as $250 billion more for hospitals and local governments. But Republicans have not ruled out trying again on Thursday, the next scheduled pro forma session.
“President Trump, Secretary Mnuchin, and Senate and House Republicans simply want to add more funding for this job-saving program that both parties designed together. There is no time to insist on sweeping renegotiations or ultimatums about other policies that passed both houses unanimously,” McConnell said. “I hope our Democratic colleagues will let Congress act this week.”
The extension of the recess will have real and practical effects. Most urgently, the continued battle over the next round of coronavirus aid must be agreed to unanimously. Both the House and Senate are operating in pro forma sessions twice a week in which any single lawmaker can object.
Moreover, the Senate’s confirmation process is stalled. That means none of Trump’s appointees, from lifetime judicial nominees to executive branch picks, can be confirmed unless there is unanimous agreement. That gives a single Senate Democrat veto power over just about anyone.
But lawmakers are worried about doing anything that might spread the virus more or send any signal to the public that Congress is back to business as usual. Moreover, with the skeleton flight schedule right now, it would be difficult to assemble lawmakers on April 20, the day the Senate is supposed to convene again.
“I know Sen. McConnell’s been thinking about that a lot,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is close to McConnell. “My own feeling is it’s going to be pretty tough to get everybody back to normal a week from today.”
“If we’re called back, and this is my opinion, I think it sends a message that this isn’t really that real. And I think it’s very real,” added Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who said the Senate too needed to take into account social distancing.
McConnell’s team would give senators at least 24 hours notice if they were required to return to regular session, according to the notice. Some lawmakers have pushed for remote voting during the crisis, but both McConnell and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have resisted.
“It is irresponsible for us not to be continuing to legislate, it’s irresponsible for us not to be going back and making fixes to the first second and third coronavirus package,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “We can do that through a system that allows for remote debate and remote voting and Sen. McConnell has opposed that remote capacity.”
The U.S. government has started sending $1,200 checks to Americans to help ease the financial pain caused by shutting down the economy to fight the deadly coronavirus. By Wednesday, 80 million people are expected to receive a direct deposit in their bank account, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
The checks are the centerpiece of the U.S. government’s economic relief package, and many Americans have taken to social media to celebrate the arrival of the money by posting photos of the money hitting their bank account. Singles earning up to $75,000 a year receive a payment of $1,200. Married couples earning up to $150,000 a year receive a payment of $2,400. Parents receive an additional $500 for each child under 17.
Early evidence indicates Americans are using the money to buy the basics, including food and gas.
Netspend, which processed nearly $1 billion in relief payments by Monday, said its customers are using the government money “for groceries, fast food, pharmacies and gas, as well as withdrawing cash from ATMs.” More than half of the transactions were PIN-based at ATMs or grocery stores, and about a quarter were done online.
Daniel Ruffner received his payment Friday night on his Netspend prepaid debit card. It was a huge relief, as he’s out of work. He is a cook at a restaurant that’s currently closed at a popular Upstate New York campsite. He used some of the $1,200 money to buy groceries and pay the heating and Internet bills. The rest is going toward rent.
“I’ve just been stocking up on food and paying all of the bills. It’s nice to finally be able to see my bills go to zero,” said Ruffner, who lives in Rochester and takes care of his mother and son.
Some Americans such as Camilla Chavez of Delaware say their check is “pending” in their bank account. Chavez banks with a credit union and saw the pending notice Sunday. Although the government sent the money out Friday, many banks needed three business days to process the checks, which is why millions of Americans will have the money available in their bank accounts Wednesday.
About 125 million Americans are expected to receive the one-time payment. The first wave of recipients includes mainly people who filed a 2018 or 2019 tax return and gave the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) their direct deposit information.
The IRS plans to have a “Get My Payment” website running by the end of the week where people can check the status of their payment if they have not received it and input their direct deposit information. Seniors and disabled Americans on Social Security will automatically receive the checks in the coming weeks. Other low-income Americans who do not normally file a tax return need to input their basic information on a new website the IRS set up. It will take time for the IRS to send people checks in the mail who do not have their direct deposit information on file with the government.
On Twitter, people said they plan to spend the money on everything from paying credit card bills and child support to buying wish list items such as shoes and video games. The last time the government sent most Americans checks was 2008, when it took months to dispense the funds. This time most of the payments are hitting bank accounts in 2.5 weeks.
Financial planners have urged people to use the money to buy basic necessities or pay off debt, which should help relieve pressure if someone loses a job.
In the past three weeks, nearly 17 million Americans have applied for unemployment. Economists say the nation’s unemployment rate is likely to hit 15 percent this month, the worst since the Great Depression era.
Chavez is one of the millions who lost their job. She worked at an outlet mall near Rehoboth Beach, Del. The mall shut quickly after President Trump announced March 16 that it wasn’t safe for more than 10 people to gather. The past month has been a huge strain on her and her parents. Her mother tested positive for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, so both of her parents have stopped working, as well.
“Losing my job and not working for four weeks now has put me in a position where I had to use my savings and put charges on my credit card,” Chavez said. “This really put me in a tough situation.”
Chavez, 22, bought her parents groceries and left them at their door, so they would not have to leave their home. Her mother is improving, but the family remains careful. Chavez applied for unemployment but was denied. She has tried to call the unemployment office numerous times, but the phone lines are always busy. She lives in a residence owned by her parents, and they gave her a break on April rent, but she plans to use the relief check to pay them by the end of the week.
The Washington Post spoke with five others who had received their checks or saw them pending in their bank accounts. One was using it for rent. Two were putting it toward students loans or college fees. Another was saving it out of fear of being furloughed soon. And another planned to donate the money.
A study of what happened in 2008 found that 50 to 90 percent of the checks was spent over three months, a boost to the economy and much needed help for many families out of work.
Congress intended for most middle-class and less affluent Americans to receive a check, but there are some groups that were left out. Most high school seniors and college students are not getting any money, even if they lost a job. People who are claimed as a “dependent” on someone else’s tax return, as many college students are, do not qualify for the stimulus checks. And parents receive additional payments only for children under 17. Adult dependents, including some disabled who live with relatives, are also excluded.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tore into President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his claim to have “total” authority over the restrictions that states have put in place to combat the coronavirus.
“This wasn’t a bending of the Constitution. What the president said last night was a breaking of the Constitution,” Cuomo said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“He basically declared himself King Trump,” Cuomo said, “And all that annoying federal-state back-and-forth that our Founding Fathers went through, he just disregarded that.”
Trump appeared to respond to Cuomo later Tuesday, accusing the Democratic governor of “begging” the government for critical health-care equipment, “most of which should have been the state’s responsibility.”
“I got it all done for him, and everyone else, and now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen!” Trump tweeted.
Cuomo, whose state is the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis in the U.S., was responding to Trump’s claims on Monday that he has the power to lift the restrictions put in place by governors to try to slow the spread of the disease.
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total, and that’s the way it’s got to be,” Trump said at his daily briefing on the virus.
“The president of the United States calls the shots,” Trump said. “I have the ultimate authority.”
Trump has expressed impatience with the strict social distancing measures imposed by governors — such as closing nonessential businesses and ordering residents to stay at home — that have helped contain the virus but have devastated the U.S. economy.
Legal experts say Trump is wrong to claim authority over measures imposed by states to protect the health and safety of their residents.
When a reporter at the Monday night briefing noted that states, not the White House, ordered schools and nonessential businesses closed, Trump replied, “That’s because I let that happen.”
“Because I would have preferred that, I let that happen. But if I wanted to, I could have closed it up. But I let that happen, and I like the way they’ve done it,” Trump replied.
The president had tweeted earlier that “it is the decision of the President” on whether to “open up” the states that have put themselves in lockdown, “and for many good reasons.”
Cuomo said Tuesday morning that Trump’s current stance “is a total 180 from where the president started.”
“When this started, he could have closed down the economy. He didn’t want to,” Cuomo said. “So he left it to the governors, and I have had to do this, and I’m in this position because the federal government, frankly, didn’t want to be in this position. So now the states are doing it.”
Cuomo has praised the Trump administration for its assistance to New York as the state grapples with the coronavirus crisis. Federal agencies have sent resources and equipment to the Empire State and have helped set up temporary hospital space to deal with the surge in patients in the nation’s worst hot spot.
On Monday, Cuomo said that the strict social distancing measures are working, pointing to the flattening in the rate of hospitalizations and a drop in the number of people on ventilators. “The worst is over … if we continue to be smart going forward,” Cuomo said.
The next phase will be the reopening of the economy, Cuomo said on MSNBC on Tuesday. “I understand the president wants to do it quickly. I understand the political environment. I get it. But I also know that if we do this wrong, you will see the number of infections increase dramatically.”
“We reopen too fast, you will see those numbers go up, and we’ll go right back to square one,” Cuomo said.
WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama, who has remained neutral for the entirety of the 2020 Democratic primary, will endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden, according to a person close to Obama.
Obama is expected to announce his endorsement in a video Tuesday.
There have been questions for months about when or if Obama would weigh in on the 2020 Democratic primary, especially during the early state primary and caucus contests in which Biden placed lower than anticipated.
Obama, who tied with President Donald Trump for the most admired man in America in a Gallup poll this year, is also the most popular Democrat, according to YouGov. He had large support among young voters, a group that Biden has struggled with throughout the primary cycle. Obama’s endorsement could help the former vice president grow support among that voting bloc, and also help with young-voter turnout.
According to polling and election data, Biden has overwhelming support from black voters. Some black voters pointed to his history of support for their community and his relationship with Obama. Biden has also received the endorsement of several iconic black leaders, such as Rep. Jim Clyburn and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis.
“I know Joe Biden as a man of character and dignity,” Lewis said in his endorsement statement. “A man who cannot, and will not rest when he sees injustice in our American home.
Biden throughout the campaign has invoked Obama’s legacy, noting that he would build on the Affordable Care Act, colloquially called Obamacare. The health care legislation is often cited as one of the former president’s biggest accomplishments while in office.
Most recently, Biden has touted his and Obama’s efforts to keep the Ebola outbreak from overwhelming the country as the United States reels from the coronavirus pandemic.
While on the campaign trail, Biden has noted how he was still in contact with the former president. Biden said during a recent virtual fundraiser that he turned to Obama for advice on choosing a vice presidential candidate, according to a pool report of the event. Biden said Obama told him to find someone who has experience where the former vice president is lacking, a dynamic that worked well between the two.
“And so I’m going to need a woman vice president who has the capacity, has strengths where I have weaknesses,” Biden said during remarks at the virtual fundraiser, according to the pool report.
But this will not be the first time Obama has spoken out during the 2020 primary election. In March, Obama demanded South Carolina television stations and a pro-Trump group stop airing an advertisement that used his voice to attack Biden.
The ad, aired by the Committee to Defend the President super PAC, includes audio of Obama reading from his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” about Democrats who only court black voters at election time. But in the book, Obama is paraphrasing the words of someone else.
Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill, in a statement at the time, called the ad “despicable.”
“President Obama has several friends in this race, including, of course, his own esteemed Vice President,” she said in the statement.
Trump also has questioned why Obama didn’t endorse Biden early on in the campaign.
“I don’t know why President Obama hasn’t supported Joe Biden a long time ago,” Trump said at a recent coronavirus briefing, claiming that Obama “feels something is wrong.”
“It does amaze me that President Obama hasn’t supported Sleepy Joe. It just hasn’t happened. When’s it gonna happen? Why isn’t he? He knows something that you don’t know, that I think I know, that you don’t know,” the president speculated. He did not elaborate
The IMF, which dubbed the current crisis “the Great Lockdown,” said “this is a crisis like no other.” Speaking at a press conference, Tuesday, Gopinath explained “the magnitude and speed of collapse in activity that has followed (the lockdown) is unlike anything we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.”
There’s severe uncertainty about the duration and intensity of the economic shock, it added, and stimulating economic activity is more challenging given the required social distancing and isolation policies.
The IMF said it had received “an unprecedented number of calls for emergency funding.” Out of its 189 members, more than 90 of them have asked for financial support.
The fund, which provides financing to members which are struggling economically, has $1 trillion in lending capacity.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee and she’s calculated that there’s no penalty for petty authoritarianism.
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Tucker Carlson slammed Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Monday night, calling some of her coronavirus restrictions “petty authoritarianism” in attempt to be presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden‘s running mate.
“So [Whitmer] said, we want to be fair here, what a lot of people were saying last month, which is we need to slow the transmission of this so our health care system doesn’t fall apart,” the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host said. “So two weeks later, what’s happened? Well, Michigan’s health care system has not collapsed. Even in Detroit … you likely don’t see one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks anywhere in the nation.
“Now, that’s all great news that you would think Governor Whitmer, who’s supposed to be looking out for the interests of her own people, would be celebrating on television,” Carlson said. “She’s doing just the opposite.”
Carlson accused Whitmer of moving “aggressively to seize even more control of her state” by banning gatherings “anywhere for any reason” in people’s homes. He also criticized her for shutting down stores she deemed “unnecessary” and banning the sale of certain items.
The host emphasized that Whitmer isn’t motived by any scientific considerations.
“It’s about power. Governor Whitmer wants to be the vice president. She wants to be chosen by Joe Biden. That’s pretty clear, “Carlson said. “And she’s calculated there is no penalty for petty authoritarianism. In fact, petty authoritarianism might make even mediocre politicians look strong and decisive. That’s her bet. She’s willing to destroy the people in her state in exchange.”
Carlson noted that Whitmer has not acted in the same way in response to other crises that have hit her state, including suicides or drug overdoses.
“If she cared, she could have taken anyone in the state into custody at any time if that person was identified at risk of self-harm,” Carlson said. “But that wasn’t a consideration either. Then again, at the time, Joe Biden didn’t need a running mate and CNN wasn’t watching.”
While California isn’t unusual among states in that its first residents were Native Americans who were violently removed from their land by Europeans, its geography and its long history under Spanish and Mexican control have made California distinct.
Briefly, in 1846, a group of American settlers rebelled against Mexican authorities and declared a “Republic of California.”
“The historian in me wants to go back to the days of the Gold Rush, and the notion that California was so far beyond the reaches of the union itself,” Mr. Deverell said.
More recently, in the late 1960s, California pushed for many of the environmental regulations that would eventually become federal law. And during the AIDS crisis, Californians’ activism was far ahead of the federal government, he said.
“The union is set up with this glorious tension,” Mr. Deverell said. Mr. Newsom’s description of California as a nation-state is “a recognition of that tension, which has been exacerbated in recent years by the blueness of California and the redness of the administration.”
Still, the question of whether California is a nation-state doesn’t have a clear answer, said Henry Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
The New York Times revealed that Joe Biden’s campaign influenced the newspaper’s decision to edit out allegations of sexual misconduct from a story published over the weekend.
On Sunday, the New York Times was criticized for editing a sentence and deleting a tweet noting that Biden has been accused of sexual misconduct by women who said that his hugging and hair sniffing crossed the line. The sentence and the tweet were part of a larger story on a sexual assault allegation from Tara Reade, a former Biden staffer who accused him of placing his hand under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers.
The newsroom claimed at the time that it made the edits because the original language was confusing, tweeting, “We’ve deleted a tweet in this thread that had some imprecise language that has been changed in the story.”
On Monday, however, Executive Editor Dean Baquet admitted that the Biden campaign’s reaction to the piece played a role in making the changes. He explained the situation as part of a longer story that detailed why the New York Times waited 14 days to cover Reade’s allegations.
“Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct,” he explained. “And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.”
He added, “We didn’t think it was a factual mistake. I thought it was an awkward phrasing issue that could be read different ways and that it wasn’t something factual we were correcting. So I didn’t think that was necessary [to explain].”
The original sentence from the story read, “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” It was later changed to: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.”
Baquet did not elaborate on what the campaign found “awkward” about the phrasing used in the original piece.
In explaining the editorial decisions that were put into the New York Times’s coverage of Reade’s allegations, the outlet also addressed comparisons to the newspaper’s treatment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers. Baquet said the paper published allegations against Kavanaugh the day they were made because the larger story of sexual assault was already present with previous accusations from Christine Blasey Ford.
“Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh’s status as a Supreme Court justice was in question because of a very serious allegation. And when I say in a public way, I don’t mean in the public way of Tara Reade’s. If you ask the average person in America, they didn’t know about the Tara Reade case,” Baquet explained.
He continued, “So I thought in that case, if the New York Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment.”
Biden has denied all of the allegations made by Reade. His spokeswoman, Kate Bedingfield, responded to the allegations, saying, “Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so because these accusations are false.”
Naval health officials are fighting an outbreak of the novel coronavirus among the crew of the hospital ship Mercy, where four more sailors tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, bringing the total cases among the crew to seven, a Navy official said Monday.
The affected sailors, as well as those with whom they had close contact, have left the ship and are either isolated or quarantined off the ship, according to Cmdr. John Fage, a 3rd Fleet spokesman.
“The ship is following protocols and taking every precaution to ensure the health and safety of all crewmembers and patients on board,” Fage said in an email.
The outbreak has not affected Mercy’s ability to receive patients, he said.
The Mercy left San Diego on March 23 and arrived in Los Angeles four days later. Its mission is to relieve Los Angeles hospitals by treating patients who do not have COVID-19. All incoming patients are tested before coming aboard.
The sailors came aboard after serving at various Navy medical installations, including Naval Medical Center San Diego. The hospital is one of two military medical facilities in San Diego County seeing service members who seek treatment and testing for COVID-19. The other is Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton.
Because some medical staff rotated through the COVID-19 screening area at Naval Medical Center San Diego before deploying on the Mercy, one sailor said, there is concern on board that the crew brought the virus with them when they left San Diego.
The Mercy has a medical crew of more than 1,000 personnel and a smaller civilian crew that maintains the vessel’s shipboard systems.
The Navy has struggled to contain an outbreak of the virus on board another San Diego-based ship, the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. That ship has been sidelined in Guam since late March when several sailors tested positive for COVID-19. As of Monday, 585 sailors on the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive.
One died Monday of complications from the virus, the Navy said. He has not been identified.
For weeks, the republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has hewed closely to the message coming from President Trump. This week, that message was all about planning to get the economy moving and returning to some semblance of normalcy.
Dr. Rivkees had no sooner told reporters that Floridians would have to get used to wearing face masks and practicing social distancing measures than he was pulled away from the news conference by the governor’s spokeswoman.
“As long as we’re going to have Covid in the environment, and this is a tough virus, we’re going to have to practice these measures so that we are all protected,” Dr. Rivkees said. “Until we get a vaccine, which is a while off, this is going to be our new normal and we need to adapt and protect ourselves.”
In a video that was being widely circulated on social media, the governor’s communications director, Helen Aguirre Ferré, rushed over to whisper in Dr. Rivkees’s ear before the two left the room.
In an email to the Miami Herald, a spokesman for Dr. Rivkees did not say how the surgeon general had reached his conclusion on social distancing or whether the governor had agreed with it.
“Social distancing and improved hygiene have proven to be effective in impeding the spread of Covid-19,” the spokesman, Alberto Moscoso, wrote. “Until a vaccine is available, precautions will need to be taken to ensure public health.”
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New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed on Monday that President Trump has repeatedly asked him about the recovery of his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, following his coronavirus diagnosis last month.
Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show,” Cuomo was asked if he thought that Trump was “happy” that the liberal anchor, who is an outspoken critic of the president, was diagnosed with the virus out of spite.
The governor responded with a firm “no” and said that Trump expresses concern over the anchor’s health despite the acknowledgment of a “confrontational relationship” between Trump and his brother.
“The president always makes a point of saying to me, ‘How is Chris? Is he doing OK?’ And that’s not in his usual character,” Cuomo told host Howard Stern. “We’re not chit-chatty when we’re on the phone. But he always makes a point to say that about Chris and always remembers my mother.”
He continued, “So I don’t think that. I think part of it is genuine, personal feeling of anger and part of it is a little theater that goes with politics, especially the way it’s happening now in Washington.”
The “Cuomo Prime Time” anchor has been a longtime critic of the president. Last week, CNN’s Cuomo blasted Trump for expressing to reporters at his White House briefing that he wanted to be a “cheerleader” for the country during the national crisis.
“Anybody could tell people what they want to hear and make it easy. And you know what you get? Exactly where we are right now,” Cuomo said. “That was the most asinine statement of leadership I have ever heard.
Cuomo then angrily mocked the president, “‘I’m a cheerleader so I’m going to lie to you about the realities that your parents, your loved ones, and your kids face. I’m not going to prepare the way I should because it reinforces the bulls— I’m telling you and I’m going to hope that you’re okay with it.'”
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Mr. Biden, who had planned to begin consolidating the party’s big donors behind his campaign just as the virus shut down much of the economy, has not yet released his first quarter fund-raising numbers. But a spokesman said he raised $33 million in the first half of March.
Over the past month, the Trump campaign has had to pull down big-dollar, in-person fund-raising events because of the coronavirus. But it has soldiered forward with its small-donor fund-raising gimmicks, hawking “Keep America Great” hats signed by the president and an Easter sale on merchandise in email solicitations that make little to no mention of the global pandemic.
Some national polls show that trust in Mr. Trump’s leadership through the current health and economic crisis is falling, even among groups that will be critical to his re-election chances, like older voters who supported him in 2016. But Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, credited the crisis with the sustained financial support. “Americans can see President Trump leading this nation through a serious crisis and they are responding with their continued enthusiastic support for his re-election,” he said in a statement.
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the R.N.C., said it was “clear that voters are responding to his bold leadership.”
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New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed on Monday that President Trump has repeatedly asked him about the recovery of his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, following his coronavirus diagnosis last month.
Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show,” Cuomo was asked if he thought that Trump was “happy” that the liberal anchor, who is an outspoken critic of the president, was diagnosed with the virus out of spite.
The governor responded with a firm “no” and said that Trump expresses concern over the anchor’s health despite the acknowledgment of a “confrontational relationship” between Trump and his brother.
“The president always makes a point of saying to me, ‘How is Chris? Is he doing OK?’ And that’s not in his usual character,” Cuomo told host Howard Stern. “We’re not chit-chatty when we’re on the phone. But he always makes a point to say that about Chris and always remembers my mother.”
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The “Cuomo Prime Time” anchor has been a longtime critic of the president. Last week, CNN’s Cuomo blasted Trump for expressing to reporters at his White House briefing that he wanted to be a “cheerleader” for the country during the national crisis.
“Anybody could tell people what they want to hear and make it easy. And you know what you get? Exactly where we are right now,” Cuomo said. “That was the most asinine statement of leadership I have ever heard.
Cuomo then angrily mocked the president, “‘I’m a cheerleader so I’m going to lie to you about the realities that your parents, your loved ones, and your kids face. I’m not going to prepare the way I should because it reinforces the bulls— I’m telling you and I’m going to hope that you’re okay with it.'”
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