Presented by Facebook Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Friday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 513,091; Tuesday, 514,657; Wednesday, 516,608; Thursday, 518,453; Friday, 520,356. Senate Democrats voted by the narrowest margin on Thursday to take up a sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill, teeing off what's expected to be a sprint through the weekend to help millions of struggling Americans. President Biden Joe Biden Trump State Department appointee arrested in connection with Capitol riot FireEye finds evidence Chinese hackers exploited Microsoft email app flaw since January Biden officials to travel to border amid influx of young migrants MORE could sign a measure into law by early next week. The Senate voted 50-50 to proceed to the relief legislation, with Vice President Harris breaking a tie to advance the bill ( The Hill ). Momentum slowed on Thursday as senators awaited a required assessment from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to ensure rules are being followed to permit the majority to bypass a 60-vote filibuster. The Senate's version of the coronavirus bill strips out House-passed language that would have increased the minimum wage to $15 per hour. It also provides less generous income allowances for those who would receive $1,400 direct payments from the government. A Senate Democratic aide said on Thursday that the bill also includes $510 million for Federal Emergency Management Agency homeless shelter providers, increases the total amount of Amtrak relief funding by $200 million and ...
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Cuomo accuser Charlotte Bennett calls governor ‘textbook abuser’ in interview
close Video Cuomo accuser says she thought governor was propositioning her Charlotte Bennett reported harassment to administration officials; FOX News' Bryan Llenas has more on 'Special Report' A 25-year-old former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo , who has accused him of sexual harassment, called the Democrat a "textbook abuser" in a new interview that aired Friday. "He is a textbook abuser," former aide Charlotte Bennett told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell. "He lets his temper and his anger rule the office, but he was very sweet to me for a year in the hopes that maybe one day, when he came onto me, I would think we were friends or that it was appropriate or that it was okay." CUOMO ACCUSER LINDSEY BOYLAN CALLS ON 'BYSTANDERS' TO ACTIVATE AND 'SAY SOMETHING' Cuomo has apologized after claims from multiple women in recent days that he acted sexually inappropriately towards them, but has denied he was trying to proposition them. It also comes as he faces another brewing scandal over his handling of nursing home deaths during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic . Cuomo has said he won't resign. The focus on the Democratic governor comes as CNN has given the sexual harassment accusations against Cuomo more attention over the past two weeks, but initially, the liberal network and the governor's brother, anchor Chris Cuomo, gave the controversies little to no airtime. Previously, the network gave Chris Cuomo free rein to conduct friendly, comical interviews with the governor, who wrote a book about successfully handling the pandemic in the middle of the pandemic. CUOMO ADVISERS ALTERED REPORT ON CORONAVIRUS NURSING-HOME DEATHS: WSJ Bennett also told O’Donnell -- in an interview that first aired Thursday night -- that she believed the 63-year-old governor propositioned her for sex during a workplace meeting. "Without explicitly saying it, he implied to me that I was old enough for him ...
US COVID-19 vaccination program is our ‘can do’ World War II moment
What do a Formula 1 race track in Texas, an unused air strip in Connecticut and a Six Flags America amusement park in Maryland have in common? Answer: They all have been converted into mass COVID-19 vaccination sites. The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program has hardly been smooth. Multiple problems still need to be solved, especially vaccinating elderly minorities who have limited ability or resources to make appointments online and get to vaccination sites. ADVERTISEMENT But American ingenuity and resourcefulness is starting to produce results, just as it did in World War II after a string of demoralizing defeats in early 1942. American industry mobilized , and soon automobile manufacturers were turning out tanks and bombers, and toy train companies were making compasses for naval ships. That kind of improvisation is taking place in the battle against COVID. In just six days in January, the Community Health Center, a nonprofit health care provider in East Hartford, Connecticut, set up a mass vaccination site on an empty, snow-covered Pratt & Whitney runway, which lacked electricity. The center, which didn’t know how it would get paid, brought in trailers, generators, lights and portable toilets, set up a wireless network and hired dozens of nurses. The site operates at a fast, efficient pace. People line up on the runway in their cars in 10 parallel rows. (Someone came up with thousands of orange traffic cones.) The National Guard directs the cars down the runway, where nurses give vaccinations, and then directs those cars to a waiting area for monitoring for adverse reactions. The site uses Pfizer vaccines, which have to be kept in an ultra-cold freezer set up at a nearby college football stadium. A golf cart takes batches, which are good for only two hours, from the stadium to the runway. The New York Times ran photographs of the activity at the vaccination site, and they make you proud to be an American. Around the ...
