GOP senator: ‘We should explore’ not paying US debt to punish China
Marsha Blackburn is following the GOP’s playbook in blaming China for the coronavirus.
By Josh Israel - April 30, 2020Marsha Blackburn is following the GOP’s playbook in blaming China for the coronavirus.
By Josh Israel - April 30, 2020Trump’s daily briefing book warned of the coronavirus’ threat more than a dozen times. But White House officials say Trump rarely, if ever, reads them.
By Emily Singer - April 28, 2020Experts have warned against using regionally specific terminology to refer to the coronavirus as Gaetz did over the weekend, as it often incites racism and xenophobia.
By Oliver Willis - April 27, 2020The memo also repeatedly urges senators to attack China and provides advice for defending against accusations that their comments are racist.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 27, 2020Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has been a leader in his party’s ‘blame China’ pandemic strategy.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2020Trump is once again back to blaming others, including governors and China, for ongoing problems with the coronavirus response.
By Associated Press - April 20, 2020Americans give Donald Trump poor marks for his handling of the viral outbreak while he blames China.
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2020Republicans are deflecting criticism from Trump’s failure to respond to the coronavirus and focusing blame on China.
By Oliver Willis - April 10, 2020The ad claims Joe Biden ‘stands up for China’ and features former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, who is Chinese American.
By Emily Singer - April 10, 2020In a span of three years, Trump dismantled a top pandemic response team and ignored multiple warnings about the potential fallout from future outbreaks like the one currently ravaging the country.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 02, 2020Governors have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to provide scarce and vital medical equipment.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2020Republicans are trying to rewrite history, blaming impeachment for Donald Trump’s delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 31, 2020Experts have warned against naming viruses based on geographic locations as Trump did recently, saying that doing so can stigmatize certain communities or groups.
By Josh Israel - March 17, 2020Trump’s trade policies have decimated farmers and contributed to rising suicide rates. But Rep. Jason Smith is mad Democrats aren’t praising Trump’s policies more.
By Emily Singer - March 10, 2020More than 150 farmers in the Midwest committed suicide in 2017 and 2018.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 09, 2020A new whistleblower complaint alleges that Health and Human Services employees tended to potentially infected patients without protection and then dispersed into the general population.
By Melanie Schmitz - February 27, 2020The bailout has so far cost U.S. taxpayers at least $28 billion.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 21, 2020Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a widely debunked conspiracy about the virus’ origins.
By Josh Israel - February 17, 2020The World Health Organization says it’s ‘too early to try to predict the beginning of the end,’ but that the stabilizing number of cases is promising.
By Associated Press - February 12, 2020U.S. State Department workers and their families are included in the group.
By Associated Press - February 11, 2020Nearly 60 million people remain under virtual quarantine.
By Associated Press - February 11, 2020Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for cutting funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 11, 2020‘Creating and exploiting fear of minorities is part of the Trump playbook,’ said Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 07, 2020‘It’s not a cruise ship, you know, but we’re trying to make it as an overall team.’
By Associated Press - February 06, 2020Debunking myths about the deadly outbreak that has killed hundreds so far.
By Associated Press - February 01, 2020China has reported more than 7,800 cases, including 170 deaths, as a result of the outbreak.
By Associated Press - January 30, 2020Thousands of cases of the deadly virus have been confirmed, and 170 people have already died, but Wilbur Ross is pleased that a fast-spreading virus could help the U.S. economically.
By Josh Israel - January 30, 2020‘There is no way on Earth many of us, including myself, are going to leave our loved ones.’
By Associated Press - January 28, 2020Gov. Tony Evers signed executive orders aimed at helping farmers and rural communities throughout the state who have suffered as a result of Trump’s long-running trade war with China.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 27, 2020At least 800 people have been infected with the Wuhan Coronavirus so far.
By Associated Press - January 25, 2020