Cabbage News Network Week #171

Monday 5/4

• White House blocks Fauci from talking to House of Representatives about Covid-19 response, okays talking to the Senate (source).
  
• U.S. to stop tracking Taliban attacks (source).

Tuesday 5/5

• DJT ok with more deaths in order to re-open (source).
  
• White House planning to disband coronavirus task force this month (source).
  
• Fired vaccination official files whistleblower complaint alleging that the administration ignored his warnings (source).
  
• DJT busy raging against group of anti-DJT Republicans (source).
  
• Senate holding hearings on John Radcliffe's nomination for Director of National Intelligence (source).
  
• Fact check on NYT article claiming administration internal memo projects 3,000 deaths a day, TL;DR, NYT guilty of fake news here (source).
  
• U.S. continues to decline to participate in world-wide anti-coronavirus efforts (source).

Wednesday 5/6

• National Parks are starting to re-open (source).
  
• White House not planning on disbanding coronavirus task force this month (source).
  
• Mnuchin threatens legal action against big companies that took advantage of the emergency small business loan program, most are returning the money (source).
  
• DJT vetoes bill that was passed months ago restricting his use of military force without Congressional approval (source).
  
• Supreme Court upholds state's lockdown orders (source).
  
• DeVos issues new guidelines for school sexual misconduct investigations (source).

Thursday 5/7

• Charges against Michael Flynn are dropped (source).
  
• DJT appoints GOP fundraiser as Postmaster General (source).
  
• Over 33 million have filed for unemployment, about 20% of the workforce (source).
  
• U.S. prepped some temporary field hospitals, which mostly aren't being needed (source).
  
• CDC prepped detailed guidelines for re-opening which the White House has chosen to ignore (source).
  
• States are all doing their own thing regarding re-opening guidelines anyways - many are re-opening despite not meeting the loose White House guidelines (source).

Friday 5/8

Legislative update

• Legislation vetoed
  
  • Resolution forbidding military action against Iran that had not been approved by Congress https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/sjres68
    
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 1 pending bill sitting on DJT's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - still in recess
  
  • 415 total pending bills sitting on McConnell's desk
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 1 minor bill
    
  • 124 total pending bills sitting on Pelosi's desk