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[ [link removed] ]45's Falsehoods and Failures: Weekly Coverage of Trump During COVID-19.

PFAW Member,

Eleven months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United
States, coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths [ [link removed] ]continue to
skyrocket. This week, the U.S. reached devastating pandemic milestones for
the single deadliest day and the most hospitalizations in a day since the
first case of coronavirus in the U.S. in January.

Yet despite the danger, Donald Trump continues to abdicate his duty to
contain the pandemic and ameliorate the many hardships that millions of
Americans are facing.

* Wednesday, December 2, was the U.S.’s deadliest day of the pandemic
yet, with at least 2,885 new deaths and 199,988 cases [ [link removed] ]reported In
addition, 100,226 patients are currently [ [link removed] ]hospitalized – more than
double the number from the beginning of November. The national death
toll now exceeds 274,000 – the most of any country [ [link removed] ]around the world
– and the total number of reported [ [link removed] ]cases in the U.S. has soared
[ [link removed] ]past 14 million.
* As cases and deaths have continued to climb, Trump administration
officials have repeatedly attempted to brief him on the damage
Americans will face in the coming months, particularly without any
additional federal aid. But one senior administration official
[ [link removed] ]reported that he “has not changed his approach.” Trump also did not
attend the single White House coronavirus task force [ [link removed] ]meeting in
November.
* Instead, Trump remains [ [link removed] ]hyper-focused on the impending arrival of a
vaccine, claiming that it will be a [ [link removed] ]“miracle” fix and ignoring
that vaccine approval is merely [ [link removed] ]one step to getting it from the
production labs to the American public. On November 30, Dr. Rick
Bright, who has been appointed to President-elect Joe Biden’s
coronavirus task force, expressed his dismay over the lack of a plan
to distribute the vaccine, saying, “I keep seeing and hearing that
Operation Warp Speed is ... prepping airplanes and trucks … to drop
the vaccine off at a warehouse full of deep freezers somewhere. But I
don't hear much more detail about the plan after that.” Bright also
emphasized the Trump administration’s failure to “[make] sure adequate
financial resources have been made available to support immunization
programs and to administer the vaccine.”
* This week, the [ [link removed] ]White House and Trump’s Secretary of State [ [link removed] ]Mike
Pompeo both announced plans to host large, indoor holiday parties on
federal property throughout December, irrespective of COVID-19 safety
guidance. At the White House’s first holiday event on November 30, few
people wore masks, and coughing [ [link removed] ]could be heard in the background.
* Evidence continues to roll in about the Trump administration’s
terrible execution of the Paycheck Protection Program. Although the
emergency funds were supposed to support small businesses, [ [link removed] ]more
than half of the $522 billion in federal relief went to corporate
businesses.
* Beyond the gruesome public health impact of the pandemic, many
Americans continue to suffer from its devastating economic
consequences, which officials forecast will only get worse as the
pandemic continues to ravage the U.S.:

* More Americans – about 26 million adults – are facing [ [link removed] ]food
insecurity today than at any other point during the pandemic, or
at any other point between now and 1998.
* Almost 18 million adults are currently behind on mortgage or rent
payments. Among them, 5.8 million [ [link removed] ]expect to lose their homes
when COVID-19 relief expires at the end of the year.

* Dozens of pandemic-related federal aid programs will [ [link removed] ]expire at or
before the end of 2020.

* Programs to provide emergency income to the five million people
who have been out of work for more than six months, as well as
the seven million people who operate as freelancers or contract
workers and are ineligible for traditional unemployment benefits,
will expire by the end of the year. At least one of them will
expire the [ [link removed] ]day after Christmas.
* 125,000 companies have been receiving a tax credit designed to
encourage them not to lay off workers that will expire, as will
the ability for companies to defer payroll taxes and take
deductions on financial losses.
* Critical aid totaling over $150 billion to state and local
governments will expire, leaving residents of these
municipalities vulnerable to budget cuts to education, police,
and health care systems.

Despite public health officials repeatedly [ [link removed] ]pleading with Trump to
start publicly advocating for mask-wearing and social distancing
regulations, many of these same people feel that he is unlikely to do so.
“It would mean admitting that he was wrong and Tony Fauci was right,” said
Dr. William Schaffner, preventive medicine specialist at Vanderbilt
University’s medical school. Director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, [ [link removed] ]warned that the death count in
the U.S. could reach up to 450,000 by February 2021 if Trump fails to
adequately support such precautions.

For five months, Trump’s staunch ally and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell has [ [link removed] ]refused to pass the comprehensive and robust relief
Americans desperately need, including the HEROES Act.

It’s past time for the Senate to act. Americans need and deserve federal
support, and Congress must immediately pass legislation that provides
Americans meaningful relief instead of flimsy half-measures that cater to
special interests.

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The [ [link removed] ]Falsehoods and Failures series will appear every week on our blog.
[ [link removed] ]You can find the previous post here. For ongoing coverage of the Right
Wing's response to the coronavirus, check out PFAW's [ [link removed] ]Right Wing Watch.

Thanks as always for your ongoing support – stay safe and healthy!

– Sarah, PFAW

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