The series of sit-downs will give leaders a sense if a bipartisan bill is possible by early July, which is Pelosi’s stated goal, or if Democrats will be forced to go it alone and advance a bill via budget reconciliation and a simple majority.
As The Hill’s Jordain Carney notes, the next 100 days will also serve as a crucial test for the majority party. Schumer noted in a recent interview that along with infrastructure, the Senate is likely to vote on a number of partisan measures, including a bill to overhaul federal elections, which Republicans oppose. That legislation, coupled with a progressive push to pass a $15 minimum wage and a Washington, D.C., statehood bill, is amping up the pressure on the Senate to nix the 60-vote legislative filibuster.
New York still storing Covid-19 victims in refrigerated trucks
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New York still storing Covid-19 victims in refrigerated trucks
AP / Updated: May 10, 2021, 19:22 IST
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The Statue of Liberty is visible above refrigerator trucks intended for storing corpses. (AP Photo)
NEW YORK: New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.
The city s medical examiner s office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places.
Covid-19: Over a year into pandemic, New York continues to store hundreds of bodies in refrigerated trucks
Hundreds of bodies of Covid-19 victims in New York are awaiting burial. At the peak of the pandemic last year, the city had started storing bodies in refrigerated trucks. Unfortunately, hundreds of them are still there.
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Refrigerated trucks await corpses in Brooklyn last May (AP Photo)
At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City in the United States last year, the city administration started storing bodies of the Covid-19 victims in refrigerated trucks. Unfortunately, a year later, hundreds of them are still awaiting burial.
Don t show me this message again✕ BESTPIX NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Refrigerated trucks functioning as temporary morgues are seen at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal on May 06, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York City s Medical Examiner are now operating a long-term disaster morgue at Brooklyn s 39th Street Pier, where human remains will be kept inside freezer trucks, in an effort to provide relief to funeral directors overwhelmed from the COVID-19 crisis. (Photo by Justin Heiman/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Bodies of people who died from coronavirus last spring are still being stored in refrigerated trucks in New York City.