President Trump announced Mr. Barr’s resignation earlier this month, praising him for an “outstanding job.”
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen will take over as acting attorney general until President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s nominee can be confirmed by the senate.
Despite the kind departing words, Mr. Barr and the president openly clashed in his final weeks.
Mr. Barr rankled the president by saying the Justice Department had not found any evidence of large-scale voter fraud that would overturn Mr. Biden’s election victory.
The president had also grown frustrated with the slow pace of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the early stages of the FBI’s Russia-collusion probe.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The approaching Biden-Harris administration is finding itself saturated by an avalanche of unsolicited advice from the media about what it should do once in office.
Until the recent news about hacking of U.S. government agencies, which was supposedly done by Russia, practically all the establishment kibitzers demanded the return to America’s world leadership, a role they believe has been lost during President Trump’s term, and warned against resets or summits with Russia, at least while the awful Vladimir Putin is still in charge. In the meantime, Washington should be patient and, while waiting for Mr. Putin’s eventual exit, maintain a limited dialogue in the nuclear arms arena and try to foil the Russia-China entente by playing a modern version of the Nixon-Kissinger game that helped instigate Soviet-Chinese rivalry. Of course, reaching out to the anti-Putin Russian opposition is also a must.
Further focusing on small businesses, publicly traded companies will be ineligible to apply this time around.
The law also provides $15 billion to support a broad category of entertainment-related businesses, including small theaters and live music venues, that have been shuttered for most of the year.
Funding for vaccines and nursing homes
Amid concerns about the pace of vaccine distribution in the United States, the legislation sets aside nearly $70 billion for a range of public health measures, including $20 billion for the purchase of vaccines, $8 billion for vaccine distribution, and an additional $20 billion to help states continue their test-and-trace programs.
The bill also provides money for federal Covid-19 research and will allow a federal program that insures mortgages for nursing homes to dole out emergency loans aimed at helping hard-hit elder care centers cover their costs.
Mr. Trump ran behind a number of down-ticket Republicans in the 2020 election.
Mr. Trump has been aggressively targeting Republicans that have been willing to follow tradition in recognizing President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s victory.
Mr. Trump says the election was rigged and stolen. The charge puts him at odds with court rulings, fact-checkers and an increasing number of Republican elected officials.
Mr. Thune, a member of Republican Senate leadership who voted with Mr. Trump 93% of the time, said this week that his colleagues in the House of Representatives would be better off not going along with a longshot challenge to the 2020 election results.
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