Yeah and every other country in the world “controlled” it so well. Once those things get started there is NO real control - only mitigation. You Dems just LOVE that you have this plague to beat our President with instead of placing the blame where it belongs. Not a peep outta ya when the swine flu hit under Obama. Dems the definition of hypocrites.
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Yeah and every other country in the world “controlled” it so well. Once those things get started there is NO real control - only mitigation. You Dems just LOVE that you have this plague to beat our President with instead of placing the blame where it belongs. Not a peep outta ya when the swine flu hit under Obama. Dems the definition of hypocrites.
Former NYT Reporter: History Will Look At COVID-19 Lockdowns As A ‘Colossal Mistake’
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killer caught in another lie
McConnell says Obama administration 'did leave behind' pandemic plan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday walked back comments made earlier this week, where he said the Obama administration didn't leave behind a "game plan" for a pandemic.
McConnell, asked about his comments during a Fox News interview, said that "I was wrong."
"They did leave behind a plan. I clearly made a mistake in that regard," he said.
"As to whether or not the plan was followed and who is the critic and all the rest, I don't have any observation about that because I don't know enough about the details of that ... to comment on it in any detail," he added.
McConnell's comments come after he appeared to blame the Obama administration for not leaving guidelines behind for the Trump White House during the transition in 2017. President Trump and his allies have made similar remarks.
"They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that's no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this," McConnell said during a Trump campaign event with Lara Trump.
His comments sparked backlash from former Obama administration officials.
Ronald Klain, who was the Ebola coordinator for the Obama administration, tweeted that "we literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored."
"And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished. And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%" he added.
Jeremy Konyndyk, who previously served as the director of USAID's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, told CNN that the Trump administration was "extensively briefed" on the plan during the transition.
The White House has garnered criticism in the midst of the coronavirus for a 2018 decision to disband the National Security Council's global health unit, a decision former national security adviser John Bolton characterized as a "streamlining
McConnell says Obama administration 'did leave behind' pandemic plan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday walked back comments made earlier this week, where he said the Obama administration didn't leave behind a "game plan" for a pandemic.
McConnell, asked about his comments during a Fox News interview, said that "I was wrong."
"They did leave behind a plan. I clearly made a mistake in that regard," he said.
"As to whether or not the plan was followed and who is the critic and all the rest, I don't have any observation about that because I don't know enough about the details of that ... to comment on it in any detail," he added.
McConnell's comments come after he appeared to blame the Obama administration for not leaving guidelines behind for the Trump White House during the transition in 2017. President Trump and his allies have made similar remarks.
"They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that's no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this," McConnell said during a Trump campaign event with Lara Trump.
His comments sparked backlash from former Obama administration officials.
Ronald Klain, who was the Ebola coordinator for the Obama administration, tweeted that "we literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored."
"And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished. And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%" he added.
Jeremy Konyndyk, who previously served as the director of USAID's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, told CNN that the Trump administration was "extensively briefed" on the plan during the transition.
The White House has garnered criticism in the midst of the coronavirus for a 2018 decision to disband the National Security Council's global health unit, a decision former national security adviser John Bolton characterized as a "streamlining
works only providing he doesn't ******* more people
Trump bets on GOP-led revolts in swing states for election support
Democratic swing-state governors are struggling to contain GOP revolts over lockdown measures, a development President Trump is betting will work in his favor on Election Day.
Touring a medical supply manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania Thursday, Trump told Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito that Tom Wolf, the Democratic governor facing GOP-led protests over the state’s restrictions, “is playing politics.”
I see your capital. They have a lot of people up there protesting today. They have the Trump signs all over the place too, nothing to do with us,” Trump said. “Just like these crowds. That's your poll, I mean, that's your poll. You had to see this coming in, I wish you could have.”
Business owners in Pennsylvania, encouraged by legislators in GOP-led counties, have threatened to defy Wolf’s order to reopen the state only gradually. Trump has used the unrest to his advantage, tweeting during his visit to a medical supply plant in Allentown that “Pennsylvanians want their freedom now.”
Trump bets on GOP-led revolts in swing states for election support
Democratic swing-state governors are struggling to contain GOP revolts over lockdown measures, a development President Trump is betting will work in his favor on Election Day.
Touring a medical supply manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania Thursday, Trump told Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito that Tom Wolf, the Democratic governor facing GOP-led protests over the state’s restrictions, “is playing politics.”
I see your capital. They have a lot of people up there protesting today. They have the Trump signs all over the place too, nothing to do with us,” Trump said. “Just like these crowds. That's your poll, I mean, that's your poll. You had to see this coming in, I wish you could have.”
Business owners in Pennsylvania, encouraged by legislators in GOP-led counties, have threatened to defy Wolf’s order to reopen the state only gradually. Trump has used the unrest to his advantage, tweeting during his visit to a medical supply plant in Allentown that “Pennsylvanians want their freedom now.”
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another killer diversion....and one of his favorites
Changing Subject Amid a Pandemic, Trump Turns to an Old Ploy: Blame Obama
WASHINGTON — President Trump has embarked on an aggressive new drive to rewrite the narrative of the Russia investigation by making dark and unsubstantiated accusations that former President Barack Obama masterminded a sinister plot to bring him down.
On Twitter, on television, in the Rose Garden and even on an official White House social media page, Mr. Trump in recent days has taken aim at his most recent predecessor in a way that no sitting president has in modern times, accusing Mr. Obama of undefined and unspecified crimes under the vague but politically charged catchphrase “Obamagate.”
The president went even further on Thursday by demanding that Mr. Obama be hauled before the Senate “to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA,” a scenario that itself has no precise precedent in American history. Within hours, Mr. Trump’s most faithful Republican ally in the Senate promptly announced that he would indeed investigate, although he would probably not summon Mr. Obama.
In flinging incendiary charges at his predecessor, Mr. Trump has offered no evidence and has not even specified what “crime” he was accusing the former president of committing. Instead, Mr. Trump seemed to be tying the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, which has enraged him for years, back to Mr. Obama while hinting ominously at forthcoming revelations that will bolster his claims.
The new focus on the former president comes as Mr. Trump appeared eager to change the subject amid the deadliest public health crisis to confront the United States in a half-century. On a day when the death toll in the United States topped 85,000 and the government reported nearly three million more people filing for unemployment, Mr. Trump spent part of his morning attacking Mr. Obama
In addition to diverting attention from the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Trump’s focus on Mr. Obama allows him to try to turn the tables on his accusers by making them out to be the ones who are corrupt while simultaneously putting his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., on the defensive.
“This was all Obama, this was all Biden,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network that aired on Thursday. “These people were corrupt, the whole thing was corrupt, and we caught them. We caught them.”
When the host Maria Bartiromo asked if he believed that Mr. Obama directed American intelligence agencies to spy on him, Mr. Trump agreed, without evidence.
“Yes, he probably directed them,” Mr. Trump said. “But if he didn’t direct them, he knew everything — and you’ll see that,” he went on, adding that documents would be released soon to bolster his charges
No evidence has emerged that before the November 2016 election Mr. Obama was involved in the F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Trump’s advisers and any ties to Russian campaign interference, much less that he directed it, although its existence had been reported in the news media. Mr. Obama was told in January 2017 about telephone calls between Mr. Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, and Russia’s ambassador discussing sanctions that the outgoing president had just imposed on Moscow in response to its attempted election sabotage.
Documents released by Mr. Trump’s allies this week show that several Obama administration officials, including Mr. Biden, requested the identity of the American who was originally unnamed in intelligence reports about contacts with Russia, an American who turned out to be Mr. Flynn. Such “unmasking” requests are made thousands of times a year and, according to the documents, these were approved under normal procedures and the recipients were authorized to receive the information.
But Mr. Trump’s allies suggest the requests indicated that Mr. Obama’s aides must have been involved in trying to “set up” Mr. Flynn, who was interviewed by F.B.I. agents after Mr. Obama left office and eventually pleaded guilty to lying to them. Attorney General William P. Barr last week moved to throw the case out, concluding that the F.B.I. had no basis to interview Mr. Flynn, a decision that Mr. Obama later said undermined the rule of law.
Mr. Trump’s attacks have been amplified by Fox News, other conservative media and his re-election apparatus. He has even used his government platform to advance the charges, posting a campaign-style “Obamagate” video on the official White House Facebook page, an overtly partisan message that would have been seen as crossing a line in past administrations.
Mr. Trump has often aired grievances against political opponents with sensational but unspecific accusations, leaving advisers to follow and try to fill in the lines. In this case, Mr. Trump hopes enough information will be released by his intelligence appointees to muddy the waters and lend a patina of confusion about what Mr. Obama may have done, according to people familiar with his thinking.
Other presidents have feuded with predecessors over policy or politics, even publicly quarreling at times. But putting aside Richard M. Nixon and Watergate, no sitting president in modern times has explicitly and aggressively accused a former president of criminality.
“What makes Trump’s attacks so egregious in contrast to his predecessors is how he simply concocts scandals out of thin air, cooking up conspiracies that have no relation to historical fact,” said Matthew Dallek, a presidential historian at George Washington University.
Mr. Trump has long harbored a personal animus toward Mr. Obama. Mr. Trump spent much of Mr. Obama’s presidency championing the racist and false “birther” conspiracy theory that Mr. Obama was born in Africa. Mr. Obama reciprocated by mocking Mr. Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2011 as the reality show host sat nearby seething.
Mr. Trump turned back to Mr. Obama in March 2017, two days after Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, recused himself from the investigation into Russian election interference, a move that infuriated the president and led to the appointment of Mr. Mueller.
As Mr. Trump stewed at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club, an aide showed him a story from the conservative website Breitbart quoting the radio host Mark Levin accusing Mr. Obama of “police state” tactics. The president took to Twitter to assert that Mr. Obama “had my ‘wires tapped,’” a claim that Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department later debunked.
The president lashed out again last weekend after news reports about Mr. Obama’s criticism of Mr. Barr’s decision to negate Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea.
Mr. Trump began using the term “Obamagate” on Sunday but refused to explain what specific crime he was alleging when asked the next day by a Washington Post reporter. “You know what the crime is,” the president said testily. “The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.”
He still has not explained, but on Thursday morning, he prodded Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into opening an investigation.
“If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!”
Less than two hours later, Mr. Graham announced hearings into the Flynn case and other matters, including whether Mr. Mueller should have been appointed in the first place. Mr. Mueller’s investigation concluded that Russia mounted a major operation to tilt the 2016 election to Mr. Trump and that there were multiple contacts with Mr. Trump’s associates, but it did not find enough evidence to charge a criminal conspiracy.
“To say we are living in unusual times is an understatement,” Mr. Graham said in a statement. “We have the sitting president (Trump) accusing the former president (Obama) of being part of a treasonous conspiracy to undermine his presidency. We have the former president suggesting the current president is destroying the rule of law by dismissing the General Flynn case.”
Still, Mr. Graham threw cold water on the idea of calling Mr. Obama. “Both presidents,” he added, “are welcome to come before the committee and share their concerns about each other. If nothing else it would make for great television. However, I have great doubts about whether it would be wise for the country.”
The F.B.I. opened its investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign in July 2016 not long after WikiLeaks released thousands of internal Democratic Party emails that intelligence officials believed had been hacked by Russian intelligence operatives. The investigation, code named Crossfire Hurricane, was handled by a small group of law enforcement and intelligence officials, who did not brief White House officials about the inquiry, according to accounts that have emerged since.
When Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump met in person two days after the November election, Mr. Obama warned him about Mr. Flynn, who had served as the Defense Intelligence Agency director during the Obama administration. Former officials said that the warning concerned Mr. Flynn’s job performance and penchant for conspiracy theories, not any government investigation.
Mr. Obama learned about the phone calls between Mr. Flynn and the Russian ambassador at the time, Sergey I. Kislyak, in January 2017 after pressing intelligence and law enforcement officials for information about why Russia had not retaliated for the sanctions imposed for its election interference.
During their search, intelligence officials came across records of the phone calls, which had been intercepted by the National Security Agency as part of its regular surveillance of Russian officials. In one of the calls, Mr. Flynn had urged Russia not to retaliate for the sanctions as a new, outwardly friendlier administration prepared to assume office.
Mr. Obama discussed the calls during a Jan. 5 meeting in the Oval Office with James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence; and other officials. After the meeting, Mr. Obama told Sally Yates, the deputy attorney general, that he “did not want any additional information on the matter,” according to a recently disclosed interview Ms. Yates gave to the F.B.I.
Four days after Mr. Obama left office, Mr. Comey sent F.B.I. agents to interview Mr. Flynn about the calls with Mr. Kislyak. Mr. Flynn’s answers led to him being charged with lying to investigators, which he pleaded guilty to. He later tried to change his plea and Mr. Barr concurred. An apparently skeptical judge will decide whether to allow it.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York, and Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman from Washington.
Changing Subject Amid a Pandemic, Trump Turns to an Old Ploy: Blame Obama
WASHINGTON — President Trump has embarked on an aggressive new drive to rewrite the narrative of the Russia investigation by making dark and unsubstantiated accusations that former President Barack Obama masterminded a sinister plot to bring him down.
On Twitter, on television, in the Rose Garden and even on an official White House social media page, Mr. Trump in recent days has taken aim at his most recent predecessor in a way that no sitting president has in modern times, accusing Mr. Obama of undefined and unspecified crimes under the vague but politically charged catchphrase “Obamagate.”
The president went even further on Thursday by demanding that Mr. Obama be hauled before the Senate “to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA,” a scenario that itself has no precise precedent in American history. Within hours, Mr. Trump’s most faithful Republican ally in the Senate promptly announced that he would indeed investigate, although he would probably not summon Mr. Obama.
In flinging incendiary charges at his predecessor, Mr. Trump has offered no evidence and has not even specified what “crime” he was accusing the former president of committing. Instead, Mr. Trump seemed to be tying the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, which has enraged him for years, back to Mr. Obama while hinting ominously at forthcoming revelations that will bolster his claims.
The new focus on the former president comes as Mr. Trump appeared eager to change the subject amid the deadliest public health crisis to confront the United States in a half-century. On a day when the death toll in the United States topped 85,000 and the government reported nearly three million more people filing for unemployment, Mr. Trump spent part of his morning attacking Mr. Obama
In addition to diverting attention from the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Trump’s focus on Mr. Obama allows him to try to turn the tables on his accusers by making them out to be the ones who are corrupt while simultaneously putting his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., on the defensive.
“This was all Obama, this was all Biden,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network that aired on Thursday. “These people were corrupt, the whole thing was corrupt, and we caught them. We caught them.”
When the host Maria Bartiromo asked if he believed that Mr. Obama directed American intelligence agencies to spy on him, Mr. Trump agreed, without evidence.
“Yes, he probably directed them,” Mr. Trump said. “But if he didn’t direct them, he knew everything — and you’ll see that,” he went on, adding that documents would be released soon to bolster his charges
No evidence has emerged that before the November 2016 election Mr. Obama was involved in the F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Trump’s advisers and any ties to Russian campaign interference, much less that he directed it, although its existence had been reported in the news media. Mr. Obama was told in January 2017 about telephone calls between Mr. Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, and Russia’s ambassador discussing sanctions that the outgoing president had just imposed on Moscow in response to its attempted election sabotage.
Documents released by Mr. Trump’s allies this week show that several Obama administration officials, including Mr. Biden, requested the identity of the American who was originally unnamed in intelligence reports about contacts with Russia, an American who turned out to be Mr. Flynn. Such “unmasking” requests are made thousands of times a year and, according to the documents, these were approved under normal procedures and the recipients were authorized to receive the information.
But Mr. Trump’s allies suggest the requests indicated that Mr. Obama’s aides must have been involved in trying to “set up” Mr. Flynn, who was interviewed by F.B.I. agents after Mr. Obama left office and eventually pleaded guilty to lying to them. Attorney General William P. Barr last week moved to throw the case out, concluding that the F.B.I. had no basis to interview Mr. Flynn, a decision that Mr. Obama later said undermined the rule of law.
Mr. Trump’s attacks have been amplified by Fox News, other conservative media and his re-election apparatus. He has even used his government platform to advance the charges, posting a campaign-style “Obamagate” video on the official White House Facebook page, an overtly partisan message that would have been seen as crossing a line in past administrations.
Mr. Trump has often aired grievances against political opponents with sensational but unspecific accusations, leaving advisers to follow and try to fill in the lines. In this case, Mr. Trump hopes enough information will be released by his intelligence appointees to muddy the waters and lend a patina of confusion about what Mr. Obama may have done, according to people familiar with his thinking.
Other presidents have feuded with predecessors over policy or politics, even publicly quarreling at times. But putting aside Richard M. Nixon and Watergate, no sitting president in modern times has explicitly and aggressively accused a former president of criminality.
“What makes Trump’s attacks so egregious in contrast to his predecessors is how he simply concocts scandals out of thin air, cooking up conspiracies that have no relation to historical fact,” said Matthew Dallek, a presidential historian at George Washington University.
Mr. Trump has long harbored a personal animus toward Mr. Obama. Mr. Trump spent much of Mr. Obama’s presidency championing the racist and false “birther” conspiracy theory that Mr. Obama was born in Africa. Mr. Obama reciprocated by mocking Mr. Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2011 as the reality show host sat nearby seething.
Mr. Trump turned back to Mr. Obama in March 2017, two days after Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, recused himself from the investigation into Russian election interference, a move that infuriated the president and led to the appointment of Mr. Mueller.
As Mr. Trump stewed at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club, an aide showed him a story from the conservative website Breitbart quoting the radio host Mark Levin accusing Mr. Obama of “police state” tactics. The president took to Twitter to assert that Mr. Obama “had my ‘wires tapped,’” a claim that Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department later debunked.
The president lashed out again last weekend after news reports about Mr. Obama’s criticism of Mr. Barr’s decision to negate Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea.
Mr. Trump began using the term “Obamagate” on Sunday but refused to explain what specific crime he was alleging when asked the next day by a Washington Post reporter. “You know what the crime is,” the president said testily. “The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.”
He still has not explained, but on Thursday morning, he prodded Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into opening an investigation.
“If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!”
Less than two hours later, Mr. Graham announced hearings into the Flynn case and other matters, including whether Mr. Mueller should have been appointed in the first place. Mr. Mueller’s investigation concluded that Russia mounted a major operation to tilt the 2016 election to Mr. Trump and that there were multiple contacts with Mr. Trump’s associates, but it did not find enough evidence to charge a criminal conspiracy.
“To say we are living in unusual times is an understatement,” Mr. Graham said in a statement. “We have the sitting president (Trump) accusing the former president (Obama) of being part of a treasonous conspiracy to undermine his presidency. We have the former president suggesting the current president is destroying the rule of law by dismissing the General Flynn case.”
Still, Mr. Graham threw cold water on the idea of calling Mr. Obama. “Both presidents,” he added, “are welcome to come before the committee and share their concerns about each other. If nothing else it would make for great television. However, I have great doubts about whether it would be wise for the country.”
The F.B.I. opened its investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign in July 2016 not long after WikiLeaks released thousands of internal Democratic Party emails that intelligence officials believed had been hacked by Russian intelligence operatives. The investigation, code named Crossfire Hurricane, was handled by a small group of law enforcement and intelligence officials, who did not brief White House officials about the inquiry, according to accounts that have emerged since.
When Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump met in person two days after the November election, Mr. Obama warned him about Mr. Flynn, who had served as the Defense Intelligence Agency director during the Obama administration. Former officials said that the warning concerned Mr. Flynn’s job performance and penchant for conspiracy theories, not any government investigation.
Mr. Obama learned about the phone calls between Mr. Flynn and the Russian ambassador at the time, Sergey I. Kislyak, in January 2017 after pressing intelligence and law enforcement officials for information about why Russia had not retaliated for the sanctions imposed for its election interference.
During their search, intelligence officials came across records of the phone calls, which had been intercepted by the National Security Agency as part of its regular surveillance of Russian officials. In one of the calls, Mr. Flynn had urged Russia not to retaliate for the sanctions as a new, outwardly friendlier administration prepared to assume office.
Mr. Obama discussed the calls during a Jan. 5 meeting in the Oval Office with James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence; and other officials. After the meeting, Mr. Obama told Sally Yates, the deputy attorney general, that he “did not want any additional information on the matter,” according to a recently disclosed interview Ms. Yates gave to the F.B.I.
Four days after Mr. Obama left office, Mr. Comey sent F.B.I. agents to interview Mr. Flynn about the calls with Mr. Kislyak. Mr. Flynn’s answers led to him being charged with lying to investigators, which he pleaded guilty to. He later tried to change his plea and Mr. Barr concurred. An apparently skeptical judge will decide whether to allow it.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York, and Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman from Washington.
would not expect anything less from a trump corruptee..
DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is using the $2 trillion coronavirus stabilization law to throw a lifeline to education sectors she has long championed, directing millions of federal dollars intended primarily for public schools and colleges to private and religious schools.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, signed in late March, included $30 billion for education institutions turned upside down by the pandemic shutdowns, about $14 billion for higher education, $13.5 billion to elementary and secondary schools, and the rest for state governments.
Ms. DeVos has used $180 million of those dollars to encourage states to create “microgrants” that parents of elementary and secondary school students can use to pay for educational services, including private school tuition. She has directed school districts to share millions of dollars designated for low-income students with wealthy private schools.
And she has nearly depleted the 2.5 percent of higher education funding, about $350 million, set aside for struggling colleges to bolster small colleges — many of them private, religious or on the margins of higher education — regardless of need. The Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential, a private college in Wisconsin that has a website debunking claims that it is a cult, received about $495,000.
Bergin University of Canine Studies in California said its $472,850 allocation was a “godsend.”
“I think we are one of the most important educational institutions out there right now,” said its founder, Bonnie Bergin, who is credited with inventing the service dog.
House Democrats included language in a stimulus bill set for a vote on Friday that would limit Ms. DeVos’s ability to use about $58 billion in additional education relief for K-12 school districts for private schools. Congress has largely rejected Ms. DeVos’s proposals to create programs that resemble private school vouchers, and public education groups say Ms. DeVos is abusing discretion granted to her under the emergency legislation to achieve a long-held agenda.
DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is using the $2 trillion coronavirus stabilization law to throw a lifeline to education sectors she has long championed, directing millions of federal dollars intended primarily for public schools and colleges to private and religious schools.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, signed in late March, included $30 billion for education institutions turned upside down by the pandemic shutdowns, about $14 billion for higher education, $13.5 billion to elementary and secondary schools, and the rest for state governments.
Ms. DeVos has used $180 million of those dollars to encourage states to create “microgrants” that parents of elementary and secondary school students can use to pay for educational services, including private school tuition. She has directed school districts to share millions of dollars designated for low-income students with wealthy private schools.
And she has nearly depleted the 2.5 percent of higher education funding, about $350 million, set aside for struggling colleges to bolster small colleges — many of them private, religious or on the margins of higher education — regardless of need. The Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential, a private college in Wisconsin that has a website debunking claims that it is a cult, received about $495,000.
Bergin University of Canine Studies in California said its $472,850 allocation was a “godsend.”
“I think we are one of the most important educational institutions out there right now,” said its founder, Bonnie Bergin, who is credited with inventing the service dog.
House Democrats included language in a stimulus bill set for a vote on Friday that would limit Ms. DeVos’s ability to use about $58 billion in additional education relief for K-12 school districts for private schools. Congress has largely rejected Ms. DeVos’s proposals to create programs that resemble private school vouchers, and public education groups say Ms. DeVos is abusing discretion granted to her under the emergency legislation to achieve a long-held agenda.
republicans abandoning the killer?
starting to look like GOP jumping a sinking ship
First Graham says ok he will have investigation....but will not call on Obama!
McConnell retracts his statement about Obama leaving to cupboard full on the virus
Mmmm two big killer supporters......NOT supporting trump!
trump has tied everything into being able to discredit Biden..... the economy coming back......and the virus being over...
Biden is liked a lot better than Hillary was….and a lot more than trump is!
the economy...yes will improve because people have needs.....but they have already stated right at 40% of small biz will never be back. ( trump only interested in giving to big biz) trump did nothing for them!
virus being over...…..no one knows that
starting to look like GOP jumping a sinking ship
First Graham says ok he will have investigation....but will not call on Obama!
McConnell retracts his statement about Obama leaving to cupboard full on the virus
Mmmm two big killer supporters......NOT supporting trump!
trump has tied everything into being able to discredit Biden..... the economy coming back......and the virus being over...
Biden is liked a lot better than Hillary was….and a lot more than trump is!
the economy...yes will improve because people have needs.....but they have already stated right at 40% of small biz will never be back. ( trump only interested in giving to big biz) trump did nothing for them!
virus being over...…..no one knows that
Was there a flu outbreak that I missed? Was it deemed a national health risk? I thought we had vaccines for that. Flu shot at almost any Walgreens or CVS. COVID19 is not the flu.
Obama offered the flu shots against the flu. Enough for everyone. Where is the line for the COVID19 shot? 2021 you say?
Obama took care of the swine flu within months. You were too busy watching FOX News criticize him for listening to those stupid doctors and researchers, no worries with Trump, he won't do that. Swine Flu- 12,500 dead total. Covid19 - 85,000 dead to date.
What is a lie? It's all true. Right?
President Obama kept it mostly quiet and it WASN’T a flaming pandemic - President Trump had a pandemic thrust upon him by CHINA - and you Dems are just using it to try to beat the daylights out of him - too bad ya really don’t have a viable candidate.
Ya sure - all true - maybe if ya have a demented Dem mentality it is - you people are delusional.
Thanks for the thumbs up. I knew you were a closet Obama fan. I'll send you a photo. I knew subhub's postings would ******* you to think eventually.
Ummm, the Swine Flu was thrust upon us by China too.
For a THIRD TIME ... no one's blaming the Orange Prez FOR the pandemic. They're blaming him for the lack of response, preparedness, and a PLAN for handling the pandemic. Anything the real professional doctors & scientists recommend, Trump disagrees with. AGAIN, your ORANGE PREZ only cares about his poll numbers and the economy ... the lives of the citizens aren't important to him. Of course you really know this but you're brainwashed into thinking Trump cares about you. He keeps lying saying plenty of testing is going on ... false ... only 3% of the population has been tested, and we're into our 1st 6 months of ths virus. Funny, how no testing going on in the White House until someone came down with the virus, NOW they are tested every day. Trump's using this pandemic to his advantage ... most non-Trumptards KNOW THIS by now.
As far as controlling the pandemic, many countries are already controlling it; if fact, the USA is doing the worst job simply because Trump & his temporary "help" he's hired don't know WHAT to do but belittle anyone that disagrees with Trump.
blkdlaur, you keep trying to twist the REAL ISSUES to make it sound like TRUMP is being picked on; he's a bad, fucking President is why the majority want him GONE before he kills ALL OF US with his stupidity.
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You can't change HISTORICAL FACTS, dummy, especially when its only 5-6 months OLD.'A colossal mistake': Former NY Times reporter urges walk back from coronavirus 'lockdown' strategy | Fox News
'A colossal mistake': Former NY Times reporter urges walk back from coronavirus 'lockdown' strategy
Mike Rowe: Labeling ‘35 Million People’ As ‘Un-Essential’ Could Have Serious ‘Consequences’
On Thursday, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” uploaded part two of a recent interview with Mike Rowe, former host of “Dirty Jobs” and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, to his YouTube channel. In part one, which you can check out here, Rubin and Rowe discuss the nature of public safety as...
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