memeorandum: Mnuchin: White House will decide on more coronavirus relief in “a few weeks” (Jacob Knutson/Axios)

12:20 PM ET, May 10, 2020

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Top White House advisers, unlike their boss, increasingly worry stimulus spending is costing too much — Conservatives are eyeing potential policies to reduce long-term budget impact, but they say Trump probably won't go along — Senior Trump administration officials are growing increasingly wary …

Jake Tapper / CNN:

Fauci to begin ‘modified quarantine’ — (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House's coronavirus task force, tells CNN he will begin a “modified quarantine” after making a “low risk” contact with the White House staffer …

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Axios:

Illinois governor: White House has “not delivered” on coronavirus promises — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that he is not relying on the Trump administration to help his state ramp up coronavirus testing, claiming that there have been …

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Jacob Knutson / Axios:

Mnuchin: White House will decide on more coronavirus relief in “a few weeks” — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on “Fox News Sunday” that the White House may wait “a few weeks” before considering another relief bill to stem the economic devastation of the coronavirus.

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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:

Atlanta mayor on Ahmaud Arbery shooting: White House rhetoric gives ‘permission’ to those ‘prone to being racist’ — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said Sunday that rhetoric from the White House gives “permission” to people who are “prone to being racist.”

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Adam Cancryn / Politico:

Fauci and Birx's public withdrawal worries health experts — President Donald Trump's oscillations over the fate of his coronavirus task force have tapped into a growing fear within the nation's public health community: That at a critical juncture in the pandemic fight …

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Washington Post:
As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it's safe to inch back to normal

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Sophia Ankel / Business Insider Nederland:
11 Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19 and fears of it spreading through the White House are mounting

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NBC News:
Fauci joins CDC chief on growing White House quarantine list

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Washington Post:
White House aides rattled after positive coronavirus tests and officials send mixed messages on how to respond

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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press: As Trump pulls back from virus, Congress races to fill void

USA Today: Sanders, Harris, Markey want to give Americans $2,000 a month during coronavirus pandemic, but likely face GOP pushback

Greg Clary / CNN:
FDA commissioner and CDC director will testify remotely in Senate hearing

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CNN:
CDC director self-quarantining after exposure to person at the White House who tested positive for Covid-19

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Axios:

Trump tweets more than 50 times about Russia probe amid new revelations — Between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times about the investigations by the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee into his campaign's alleged ties to Russia.

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Mike Allen / Axios:

Exclusive: Pence says he'd be “happy” to see Michael Flynn back in government — Vice President Mike Pence told “Axios on HBO” that he welcomes the idea of bringing Michael Flynn back into government, after the Justice Department moved last week to drop its criminal case against President Trump's former national security adviser.

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New York Times:
William Barr's Perversion of Justice

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JONATHAN TURLEY:
President Obama Declares “There Is No Precedent That Anybody Can Find” …

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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Filing error adds to twists of Flynn case reversal

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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Obama lashes out at Trump in call with supporters

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The Daily Beast:

Biden Campaign Is Secretly Building a Republican Group — “You don't want something like this out on the street before it needs to be,” one GOP said. “It just makes it much harder to do.” — Appearing in an Instagram live chat with soccer star Megan Rapinoe on April 30 …

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths. It's the media's job not to play along. — Comparing the number of deaths from covid-19 to those caused by car crashes never made any sense. But the gimmick caught on anyway. — “We don't shut down our economy because tens …

Discussion: Twitchy

Washington Post:

Republicans grow nervous about losing the Senate amid worries over Trump's handling of the pandemic — Republicans are increasingly nervous they could lose control of the Senate this fall as a potent combination of a cratering economy, President Trump's controversial handling of the pandemic …

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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:

‘How long can a heart last like this?’ … I've hardly moved from this couch in weeks, but right now my heart rate monitor says I'm at 132. That's double my normal. That's like if I'm climbing a mountain. How come? Nobody knows. Nobody ever knows. And why has my fever been spiking again?

Harry Enten / CNN:

Biden's lead is the steadiest on record — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 50% to 41%. When Rep. Justin Amash is included as the Libertarian Party candidate, it's Biden 47%, Trump 40% and Amash 5%.

Discussion: Washington Post

New York Times:

Pork Chops vs. People: Battling Coronavirus in an Iowa Meat Plant — After President Trump's executive order, meat plants are reopening. Can they do so without endangering their low-wage workers and their communities? — On April 10, Tony Thompson, the sheriff for Black Hawk County in Iowa …

Madeleine Carlisle / TIME:

South Dakota Governor Demands Tribe Leaders Remove Checkpoints Set Up to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe leaders have rejected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's demand that they remove checkpoints meant to regulate traffic through their reservation …

Discussion: South Dakota State News, Fox News, COVID-19 in Indian Country and Axios

Morgan Matzen / Rapid City Journal:
Tribes respond to Noem's demands to remove highway checkpoints

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New York Times:

Why the Path to Reopening New York City Will Be So Difficult — The factors that made the city one of the hardest hit on the planet — its density, mass transit and tourism — complicate a return to normalcy. — Nearly 190,000 people were tested for the coronavirus in New York City over the past two weeks, a record number.

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:

How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm” — Before the coronavirus pandemic reshaped media priorities, along with just about everything else, the MSNBC host Chris Hayes was spending most of his time covering the Democratic Presidential nomination and the transformation …