Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans of President Donald Trump.
In the few days remaining, GOP senators are ignoring Trump’s demand to increase COVID-19 aid checks to $2,000 and are poised to override his veto of a major defense bill, asserting traditional Republican spending and security priorities in defiance of a president who has marched the party in a different direction.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a top Trump ally, tried to bridge the divide Thursday, saying Congress could try again to approve Trump’s push for bigger COVID aid checks in the new session, which opens Sunday.
Source. https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/31/shutdown-impeachment-virus-chaotic-congress-winds-down/.
It's a busy schedual as new congress opens next week. A complete cluster Fuck of a roll out in vaccine operation warp speed seems to behaving like a 1970s Volkswagen beetle that can't get out of first and traffic is backed up to Denver .
Some hospitals are holding back vaccines because they want to be sure they’ll have enough to administer second doses, said Jared Moskowitz, director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. Although Moskowitz shares their concern, he said they could face penalties for holding back lifesaving medicine. He did not name the hospitals.
“We have told everybody that is not acceptable,” he said. “It doesn’t help save a life sitting in the freezer. No one has more anxiety about the second doses arriving than myself, but it is not up to the providers to hold back vaccines.”
Florida has administered only a fraction of the doses received so far. As of Wednesday, Florida had received 783,600 doses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. A total of 211,165 first doses have been administered in the state, according to a report issued Thursday by the Florida Department of Health. No second doses have been given yet.
Source. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-covid-19-vaccination-florida-second-dose-20201231-x7k2en5ivrc5hdgl7f4l477t5i-story.html
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