WTF Just Happened Today?

Day 1230: "Everything to divide us."


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  • 😷 Dept. of We Have It Totally Under Control.
  • Global: Total confirmed cases: ~6,326,000; Total deaths: ~378,000; Total recoveries: ~2,728,000. (Johns Hopkins University)

  • U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~1,821,000; Total deaths: ~106,000; Total recoveries: ~458,000

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci has not spoken or met with Trump in two weeks. The last time the two interacted was on May 18, when Trump asked Fauci to provide medical context during a call with U.S. governors. As of Monday, more than 1.7 million Americans have contracted COVID-19 and at least 104,300 have died from it, according to Johns Hopkins University. (CNN)

  • The Trump administration’s coronavirus testing czar will be “demobilizedâ€� from his role at FEMA. Adm. Brett Giroir will stand down from his role in a few weeks. There are no plans to appoint a new “head of effortsâ€� for coronavirus testing. (NPR)

  • Almost one-third of unemployment benefits owed to Americans who lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic haven’t been paid yet. The Treasury disbursed $146 billion in unemployment benefits in the three months through May – short of a total bill that should have reached about $214 billion for the period. (Bloomberg)

    1/ Trump threatened to deploy “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers� to end “riots and lawlessness� if states and cities failed to quell the demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd. In a brief Rose Garden speech, Trump declared himself “your president of law and order� and said he would mobilize every available federal force, both “civilian and military,� to “quickly solve the problem� and end the nationwide protests. Trump denounced the violence as “domestic acts of terror� as he ordered governors and mayors to establish “an overwhelming law enforcement presence.� Trump, however, stopped short of invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy active duty U.S. troops to respond to protests in cities across the country. After Trump made the announcement, he left without taking questions from reporters. (New York Times / Politico / Bloomberg / CNBC / CNN / Axios / NBC News / NPR / Wall Street Journal / New York Times

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