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The Republicans were concerned that failing to do so could allow the programs to become a slush fund in the near future, while Democrats were concerned that the deal ultimately would tie President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s hands when he takes office.
“Senate Republicans achieved all four of our objectives regarding the CARES Act 13(3) Federal Reserve lending programs,” Toomey spokesman Steve Kelly said in a statement. “This agreement rescinds more than $429 billion in unused CARES Act funds; definitively ends the CARES Act lending facilities by December 31, 2020; stops these facilities from being restarted; and forbids them from being duplicated without congressional approval.”
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, received a coronavirus vaccine on Friday.
I didn’t feel a thing. Well done, and we appreciate your service to the country. Today, Karen and I wanted to step forward and take this vaccine to assure the American people that while we cut red tape, we cut no corners.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, received a coronavirus vaccine on Friday.CreditCredit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Biden Cabinet Leans Centrist, Leaving Some Liberals Frustrated
Still a work in progress, the president-elect’s personnel choices are more pragmatic and familiar than ideological. It’s what he campaigned on, but the left had hoped for more.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s initial personnel choices suggest a pragmatic approach to governing and a reliance on familiar faces.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Published Dec. 19, 2020Updated Jan. 20, 2021
WASHINGTON His economic and environment teams are a little left of center. His foreign policy picks fall squarely in the Democratic Party’s mainstream. His top White House aides are Washington veterans.
People handing out hand sanitizer on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.