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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 …
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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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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.”
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Meadows learns to navigate Kushner's sprawling White House influence — When the White House's top domestic policy job came open in recent weeks, newly installed chief of staff Mark Meadows was quick to suggest a surprising name: Stephen Miller. — The proposal, described by three people familiar …
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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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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 …
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
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Mnuchin: White House will decide on more coronavirus relief in “a few weeks”
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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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Maya Parthasarathy / Politico:
White House adviser Hassett: 'It's scary to go to work'
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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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Greg Clary / CNN:
FDA commissioner and CDC director will testify remotely in Senate hearing
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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%.
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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?
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 …
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 …
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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.
John Harwood / CNN:
The strong economy didn't make Trump, but coronavirus collapse could break him — (CNN)The last time an incumbent president lost re-election — George H.W. Bush, in 1992 — an “it's the economy, stupid” campaign theme took him down. Unemployment then was hovering around 7.5%.
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Kudlow: ‘Very difficult’ unemployment numbers possible in May too — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that the unemployment statistics in May could “also be very difficult” after a record 20 million people lost their jobs in April amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Matthew Strong / Taiwan News:
China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak: German intelligence service — Delay cost world 4 to 6 weeks: BND — TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping (.近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
GOP Sen. Alexander says increased testing is the ‘only solution’ for economic recovery — “The only solution is test, trace, isolate, treatments and vaccines,” the Tennessee senator told “Meet the Press.” — WASHINGTON — Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said Sunday that Congress …
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