Yesterday — for the first time throughout this entire pandemic — the U.S. recorded more than 3,000 deaths due to the coronavirus.

• That’s more than the number of Americans who died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which will forever be known as “a date which will live in infamy” because of how truly shocking the loss of life was.

• That’s more than the number of Americans who died in the 9/11 attacks, a tragedy so profound that it has upended domestic politics, foreign policy, and international relations for two decades and counting.

Yet Donald Trump — the president of the United States — continues to do nothing to control the pandemic. (He’s made it worse, in fact, by contradicting public health messages about wearing masks and social distancing.)

And Mitch McConnell — the most powerful Republican in Congress — continues to do nothing to relieve the economic devastation wrought on working Americans, small businesses, and state and local governments.

Trump and McConnell have been allowing this misery and death to go on for so long that it hardly seems noteworthy anymore.

But it IS noteworthy.

Because we are now past the point where we are seeing a loss of life worse than Pearl Harbor or 9/11 every day.

And the two most powerful Republicans in this country are willfully letting people suffer financial ruin, sickness, and death.

Maybe they won’t listen, but that should not keep us from calling out Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell for their sheer inhumanity and for utterly abandoning the American people in our time of greatest need.

Indeed, Trump and McConnell are expecting us to be too accustomed to bad news and too weary to keep fighting.

So join me in conveying this direct message to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell:

Your inaction, ineptness, and inhumanity are forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin and condemning tens of thousands of Americans to avoidable deaths. History will judge you in its very harshest light. The least — the very least — you could do now is just get out of the damn way and let people who actually want to help their fellow Americans do so.

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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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