Washington Grapples With High Number of Coronavirus Cases
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The nation’s capital, still reeling from the assault on the Capitol last week, is part of a broader surge in the Mid-Atlantic region. Two lawmakers have tested positive after being in lockdown in the Capitol.
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Washington Grapples With Coronavirus Surge
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington urged residents to be vigilant against the coronavirus on Monday, and announced that any resident 65 or older could make an appointment to receive the vaccine.
Even in these tumultuous days, our experience with Covid, we remain concerned, as the rest of the country remains concerned, about increase in cases. I am requesting that the Secretary of the Department of the Interior cancel any and all public gathering permits in the District of Columbia and deny any applications for public gathering during the period Jan. 11 through Jan. 24. In addition to hee
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By CNSNews.com Staff | January 8, 2021 | 3:24pm EST
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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) released a letter on Friday revealing that that morning she had talked to Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, “to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.
Pelosi revealed her action in a “Dear Colleague” letter to other Democratic members of the House of Representatives.
The letter had five bullet points in it. The fourth was: “Preventing an Unhinged President From Using the Nuclear Codes.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday announced in a letter that she had spoken with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to discuss options for preventing “an unstable president” from accessing nuclear codes.
“The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues.
Pelosi added that among her discussions with the nation’s top military officer was preventing Trump from “initiating military hostilities,” as well as keeping him from accessing launch codes and potentially ordering a nuclear strike.