- New Cases: 547,338 (⬆︎ .71%)
- New Deaths: 7,986 (⬆︎ .47%)
USA
- New Cases: 183,223 (⬆︎ 1.01%)
- New Deaths: 1,414 (⬆︎ .44%)
Since 11-24, the 7-Day Rolling Average (World) has been over 10,000 dead per day.
Since 12-4, the 7-Day Rolling Average has been over 2,000 Dead Americans per day.
In another typical display of shitty politics, Washington has managed to take it all the way up to the brink before figuring out that Americans ought to have a little help once in a while.
Senate majority leader announces approximately $900 billion deal on emergency relief package
Senate leadership announced a bipartisan deal on an approximately $900 billion economic relief package late Sunday afternoon that would deliver emergency aid to a faltering economy and a nation besieged by surging coronavirus cases.
After months of contentious negotiations and seemingly intractable partisan gridlock, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the Senate floor to say that a deal had been finalized and could be quickly approved.
The emerging stimulus package was expected to direct hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to jobless Americans, ailing businesses and other critical economic needs that have grown as the pandemic ravages the country and batters the economy.
“More help is on the way. Moments ago, in consultation with our committees, the four leaders of the Senate and House finalized an agreement. It would be another major rescue package for the American people,” McConnell said. “As our citizens continue battling this coronavirus pandemic this holiday season, they will not be fighting alone.”
Schumer then took to the floor, calling the aid package insufficient but heralding it as a critical measure to “give the new president a boost, a head start, as he prepared to right our ailing economy.”
The House and Senate on Sunday night approved a one-day extension of government funding to allow the final bill text on the relief package to be written. President Trump signed the stopgap measure, preventing a government shutdown.
The legislation includes stimulus checks for millions of Americans of up to $600 per person. The size of that benefit would be reduced for people who earned more than $75,000 in 2019 and disappear altogether for those who earned more than $99,000. The stimulus checks would provide $600 per adult and child, meaning a family of four would receive $2,400 up to a certain income.
Congress would also extend federal unemployment benefits of up to $300 per week, which could start as early as Dec. 27.
The income criteria for the stimulus checks is expected to reflect that of the first round of relief payments sent by the Treasury Department earlier this year.
- it goes on, but suffice to say the Republicans are assholes who believe nobody deserves anything they haven't inherited form their daddies, stolen from their employees, or grifted from the public.
But wait, there's more - the long-anticipated return of the 3-martini lunch.
The draft language of the emergency coronavirus relief package includes a tax break for corporate meal expenses pushed by the White House and strongly denounced by some congressional Democrats, according to a summary of the deal circulating among congressional officials and officials who are familiar with the provision.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a proposal that had not yet been publicly released.
President Trump has for months talked about securing the deduction — derisively referred to as the “three-martini lunch” by critics — as a way to revive the restaurant industry badly battered by the pandemic.
But critics said it would do little to help struggling restaurants and would largely benefit business executives who do not urgently need help at this time. Some Democrats recoiled at the proposal, though it has also been denounced as ineffective by conservative tax experts as well.
Color me unsurprised. Make America Shit-Faced Again.
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