“So it’s not sitting in Washington coming up with complicated ideas it’s going out to people and making them aware that the United States government is listening to them,” Mr. Sanders said. “That’s what interests me.”
Mr. Sanders has said Mr. Biden is falling short on tapping liberal voices to be in his Cabinet thus far, though it could be a long shot that the president-elect would pick Mr. Sanders himself to reverse that trend.
Other names in the mix for Mr. Biden’s possible labor secretary pick include Julie Su, secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan, a former AFL-CIO organizer, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
“Heading into 2021, consumers do not foresee the economy nor the labor market gaining strength,” said Lynn Franco, senior director of Economic Indicators for the Conference Board. “In addition, the resurgence of COVID-19 is further increasing uncertainty and exacerbating concerns about the outlook.”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the crisis is hurting “small businesses all over the country that have been basically unable to really function.
“They’re just hanging on, and they’re so critical to our economy,” Mr. Powell said on Wednesday. “Now that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it would be bad to see people losing their business their life’s work in many cases, or even generations worth of work because they couldn’t last another few months, which is what it amounts to.”
Pipes for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline are stored on the premises of the port of Mukran near Sassnitz, Germany, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. The port of Mukran on the island of Ruegen is considered the most . more > By David R. Sands - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 17, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed confidence that a massive natural gas pipeline to Germany will be completed despite the determined opposition of the Trump administration, telling a national audience in his annual holiday press conference that the Nord Stream 2 project is nearly completed.
Russia and Germany have proceeded with the construction of the controversial pipeline despite fears in the U.S. and in many European capitals that the deal will give the Kremlin too much leverage over the continent’s fuel supplies. Russia in the past has used its ability to turn the o
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Georgia officials on Thursday conceded to requests for a statewide check of signatures on mail-in ballots after President Trump repeatedly asked for the study.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the review of absentee ballots in all 159 counties, saying the move is an attempt to rebuild trust in the election process.
Mr. Trump has vilified Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican, for not doing more to overturn the Nov. 3 results in which President-elect Joseph R. Biden became the first Democrat to win Georgia in a presidential election since 1992.
Dec. 17, 2020
Long after the final vote had been cast, long after the verdict of the electorate was clear, a curious thing began happening recently within the space-time perplexity of Trump-era politics: At last, it started to feel as if the election might be over, really and truly.
The 2016 election.
Such closure was never a given. For the balance of President Trump’s term, that first contest has hovered, like a James Comey-size ghost, over every inch of the proceedings the incumbent recounting his triumph at any opportunity, investigators combing through the campaign that got him there, Democrats organizing their resistance (and consistent internal squabbling) around questions of how they managed to lose in the first place.