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crickets's JournalCongress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year
Threats to cut WHO funding aren't new, but trump doesn't really have control over that. As usual, he's spouting off part of a wish list as though he can do things he really can't.
Congress has the purse strings.
‘Now is not the time’: WHO responds to Trump’s threat to cut funding APR08
“We are still in the acute phase of a pandemic so now is not the time to cut back on funding,” Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, told a virtual briefing, according to Reuters. [snip]
It’s uncertain how the U.S. would withhold funding. Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year, and while Trump has proposed only $58 million of funding in fiscal year 2021, Congress is unlikely to authorize such a drastic funding cut, especially in the the middle of the pandemic.
This reminds me of how trump keeps refusing to 'open the ACA enrollment.' He doesn't have to. He has nothing to do with it. Special enrollment periods are always there for people who qualify, i.e. people who have experienced a life changing event. Losing your job qualifies as a life changing event. If you have questions there's a phone number on the web site and someone can help walk you through the process.
This is part of his schtick as a control freak: he threatens to withhold the thing someone needs in order to bully people into giving him what he wants. He got away with bullying Ukraine for a while until he got caught. He's getting away with stealing supplies from the citizenry for now, outrageously, but he can't punish the WHO by withholding funds he does not control. He's pretending. It's pathetic.
Fascinating article.
I felt a pang at the mention of Helen Thomas. She is missed.
Froomkin's points are well made overall, but I will firmly disagree with this one:
The chyrons were an "emperor has no clothes" moment that the country desperately needed. I hope whoever was responsible still has a job because that *snap* to finally calling trump out for his lies was a public service.
What a wonderful endorsement.
Barack opens immediately with compassion for those who are sick or who have lost loved ones, a compassion that has been starkly absent from the current WH. His strong message about what we need to work for going forward was eloquent and inspiring, as is his faith in Joe's ability to get the job done with our support at the ballot box and beyond. I am so glad he is back in the public discourse now, helping to change the country's tone and direction to a more positive one.
Oh, no one will forget, no matter how much he may wish it as days and years go by.
Moscow Mitch took too much smug credit when things were going his way for anyone to need reminding that he is a ruble-fueled partisan hack, all too eager to sell out the country for his own sick pleasure.
Yes! I have given to Feeding America for years now. They do good work.
The money really goes to feeding people, not filling administrative pockets. As Beatlelvr suggests, you can check with Charity Navigator to gauge a charity's accountability, etc:
Charity Navigator: Feeding America
"Because no one had told them before."
This is what happens when you make a point of firing all of the people who could have told you. Funny how that works.
Now everyone can see the results when experts volunteer the vital information unasked and still are ignored.
There is no way to claim that the response is bumbling and bungled. The 'no real response' response is the plan, and along with a side of 'skim or steal all the profit you can!' it's quite deliberate.
Same - I figured the headline used a metaphor.
Literal hungry rats make me worry about people living on the streets.
Over the last few years Albany has been hit hard by tornados, a hurricane, and now this.
Neither article is behind a paywall.
Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb’
Whether the initial carrier — the whodunit of infectious disease — matters at all depends on whom you ask. But the timing does matter. For 10 days the virus spread, invisibly, and no one knew it was there. By the time stringent social distancing was introduced, on March 22, it was everywhere.
How a small Georgia city far from New York became one of the worst coronavirus hotspots in the country
He called for a stronger federal response.
"I think that this crisis needs to be managed more decisively from a federal and state level," Mayor Bo Dorough told WABE, Atlanta's public radio affiliate. "I think we have, at a minimum, the whole country should be in a shelter-in-place position."
I live less than an hour away by car. I could not be more grateful for an information resource like DU. I think I had just enough time to stock up and settle in at home before it really got circulating. The town I live in and the surrounding area are taking this very seriously. All of the neighbors and friends I know are locked down. My town is very quiet and still, and has been so for at least a couple/three weeks. We are still bracing for the worst.
I am glad to hear that cases are starting to level off in Albany.
If I may gently make a request, next time you find a thread where folks start to pop off about how stupid people in red states are, when they crank up a somewhat gleeful conversation about how red states were asking for it and all the blue states should just secede and leave 'em behind like parking lot trash after a concert, could you maybe please wander back out of that thread instead of joining in? Adopt a tumbleweed today. Thanks.
We're all in this together, and we pull for the people in California, New York, Detroit, Chicago, everywhere we hear about people losing family and friends and having a hard time. It will eventually get better, but *sigh* there's a fair amount of worse coming along before the better gets here. We'll get through it together.
The first person who starts singing Kumbaya get a serious timeout though. That's just too much.
This could get ugly, and it was likely avoidable.
There's no excuse for the lack of leadership at the state and federal level that could have slowed or lowered case rates. I am upset on behalf of the workers who are falling ill.
That said, nobody is doing what they should to try to stop the break in food supply. Tons of milk are being wasted, crops are rotting in the fields, while meat supplies are growing chancy. There's no plan. There is no plan at all.
Hungry people can get really angry really quickly.
It couldn't possibly be on purpose...
Rebuffed for a MONTH.
Social distancing could and should have started in February or earlier. I don't understand why they gave him the power to muzzle the message when it was clearly their job to speak up and save lives. Thousands are dead and dying who didn't have to be because they didn't say anything when they should have.
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