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President Donald Trump added nearly $8 trillion to the U.S. national debt throughout his presidency, according to the Washington Examiner.
Before Trump took office in 2016, the federal debt stood at roughly $20 trillion, but it has ballooned over the past four years to nearly $28 trillion as of Monday, the Examiner reported, citing data from the Treasury Department. Former President Barack Obama, who served two terms in office, increased the nation’s debt by roughly $9 trillion over the course of eight years, according to the Examiner.
“[Trump’s] tenure has been marked by a total disregard for any concern about mounting debt,” fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, Jim Capretta told the Examiner. “Trump saw that it would be to his political advantage to be very liberal in terms of spending and tax reductions happening simultaneously.”
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Remember when Twitter and the rest of social media completely shut down the Hunter Biden laptop revelations, not only refusing to allow the sharing of the story (or in Facebook’s case, throttling it), but banning The New York Post for even daring to threaten Joe Biden’s campaign? I remember because I’m more than three months old.
We’ve also seen labels placed on all manner of other claims that are seen as pro-Republican politically, including those by Donald Trump. The President can literally say anything related to the election and Twitter will slap a “this is disputed” warning on it that can’t be removed.
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Massive crowds in Wuhan, where the coronavirus originated, rang in the New Year in the streets at midnight Friday, Reuters reported.
Hundreds followed tradition by celebrating before the old Hankow Customs House Building, a popular New Year’s Eve site in Wuhan, Reuters reported.
“I’m so so so incredibly happy,” Yang Wenxuan, a 20-year-old student and tourist said, according to Reuters. “This is my first time in Wuhan. But it (the countdown) was so spectacular.”
“I hope that I can successfully obtain my bachelor degree and I hope I can find a boyfriend,” Yang said, according to Reuters.
The federal government tasked the states and U.S. territories to establish a distribution plan and issued an interim playbook containing possible plans and information requests, according to the CDC. The playbook assumed distribution would develop over three phases, the first aimed at prioritizing certain groups like health care workers and high-risk individuals.
The state of California developed an exhaustive tier system to administer its first doses of the vaccine, assuming they wouldn’t receive enough to vaccinate all health care workers and long-term care residents, according to the AARP. California has received nearly 1.5 million doses of the vaccines and had administered 294,281 as of Wednesday, according to the CDC data.
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