Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate will push this week for additional funds for a small business loan program to keep workers on the payroll during the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, Congress gave about $349 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program. But McConnell said he hopes the Senate will approve more…… MORE
Stephanie Grisham was the White House press secretary in name only. As in, the title on her business cards — at least until today! — said that she was the chief spokesperson for the White House. But Grisham never actually did that job. Not even close. Grisham began serving as White House press secretary on…… MORE
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly that he must apologize for his remarks slamming the former commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, two US officials tell CNN, prompting Modly’s late-night about-face apology which was issued just hours after he defended his comments to the aircraft carrier’s crew. One official…… MORE
On Monday at the daily coronavirus task force press conference, President Donald Trump took great umbrage at a question asked him by a Fox News reporter. “You should say congratulations, great job, instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question,” Trump scolded Fox’s Kristin Fisher. The “horrid” question that Fisher had…… MORE
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham is leaving the job without ever having briefed the press. CNN has learned she is returning to the East Wing as first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff as President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff Mark Meadows shakes up the communications team in the West Wing. Kayleigh McEnany,…… MORE
Not two weeks after lawmakers approved their massive $2.2 trillion spending package, committee aides, administration officials and industry lobbyists are beginning to encounter unintended — and to some extent unanticipated — consequences. As one industry official put it to CNN yesterday, “we are building the space shuttle as it is rocketing toward Mars.” The glitches,…… MORE
Dr. Deborah Birx said Monday that she personally understands how difficult the strict social distancing guidelines can be amid the coronavirus pandemic, revealing that she could not treat her 10-month-old granddaughter who had a high fever this weekend. “We need to take care of each other now as Americans and do everything that’s in those…… MORE
President Donald Trump has dominated the airwaves during the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, has struggled to break through, which some see as a problem for his campaign. But I disagree. As Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale notes, they don’t want to let “Biden hide in…… MORE
A crewmember of the US Navy hospital ship dispatched to New York harbor to help with the coronavirus pandemic has tested positive for the virus and has been isolated from patients and other crew members, a Navy spokesperson said Tuesday. “There is no impact to Comfort’s mission, and this will not affect the ability for…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro fired off an internal flare at the White House in late January, warning in a memo that the coronavirus could become a “full-blown pandemic,” risking trillions of dollars in economic losses and the health of millions, a source familiar with the memo confirmed to CNN. In the late…… MORE
