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DXY breaks monthly low to refresh the 32-month trough.
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hesitant stimulus proposal joins virus woes to favor risks amid light calendar.
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US dollar index (DXY) holds lower ground for the second consecutive day while refreshing 32-month low to 89.71, currently down 0.29% to 89.74, during the pre-European trading session on Wednesday.
Although the US Senate Majority Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tried to block the $2,000 coronavirus (COVID-19) aid paycheck earlier, his hesitant proposal that also includes clauses about social media companies’ protections and election fraud studies favored risks. Also on the Risk-positive si
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging his colleagues to override President Donald Trump s veto of a $740 billion defense spending measure in a vote expected this week.
“President Trump has rightly noted this year’s defense bill doesn’t contain every provision that we Republicans would have wanted. I’m confident our Democratic colleagues feel the same way,” McConnell said Tuesday.
“But that is the case every year. And yet, for 59 consecutive years and counting, Washington has put our differences aside, found common ground, and passed the annual defense bill.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that the Senate would not move quickly to consider a bill from the House of Representatives that would raise direct coronavirus relief payments to Americans from $600 to $2,000.
McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor that the stand-alone House bill, which sought to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for bigger relief checks, “has no realistic path to quickly pass the Senate.”
With a new U.S. Congress due to be sworn into office in just a few days, McConnell’s remark suggested the legislation that passed the House on Monday will simply expire.
Trump is willing to take credit for the vaccine, but not willing to take the vaccine | PennLive letters
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
By Oren Spiegler
The president and the nation are pinning our hopes on coronavirus vaccines to rid us of the plague that has virtually paralyzed us. Health care scientists say the vaccination rate must be at least 70% to be effective. As a realist, I must be skeptical that a vaccine will be a panacea to return us to a semblance of normalcy.
Segments of the population are reluctant to be vaccinated. While national leaders of both major political parties are doing the right thing: receiving the vaccine publicly to boost confidence in it, the president is conspicuous in his absence. He heralds the creation of the vaccine as a great achievement of his presidency, but he has said and done nothing to encourage the public to avail themselves of it, and he has not been vaccinated. He is too busy devising schemes to disenfranchise 81 million Joe Biden voters to