Congresswoman Barbara Lee announces FEMA funeral assistance funding sfbayview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfbayview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the past few weeks, a new and large form of COVID-19 relief has opened in the U.S., with the federal government offering to pay for all or most of every funeral of those lost to the disease. Lisa Desjardins reports on the unprecedented scale of help, how the rollout has fared so far, and the questions it raises about the cost of grief in America.
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A new and large form of COVID economic relief has opened in the U.S. just in the past few weeks. The federal government is now offering to pay for all or most of every funeral caused by the disease.
AOC snarks on photo of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump’s dining at Mar-a-Lago
She’s not A-OK.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made known she still isn’t cool with the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, which occurred 4-months ago Thursday.
“Nothing like reminiscing about attempted coups over a bouquet of flowers,” she captioned a photo of Texas senator Cruz and former President Donald Trump sharing a Cinco de Mayo lunch.
Nothing like reminiscing about attempted coups over a bouquet of flowers https://t.co/klW3pSRxp8 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 5, 2021
The photo she referenced had been posted to Twitter by Cruz, who wrote “Had a great dinner tonight with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He’s in great spirits! We spent the evening talking about working together to re-take the House & Senate in 2022.”
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