- White House reportedly against billions for pandemic efforts
- More than 3.7 million cases in US and 140,000 dead
- Trump’s strategy: paint Biden as puppet of ‘radical left’
- Robert Reich: Donald Trump has unified America – against him
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…and welcome to another day of coverage of politics in the US, which means coverage of the presidential campaign, the coronavirus pandemic, tributes to the late John Lewis and more.
Fox News Sunday will this morning broadcast an interview with Donald Trump, his first with a Sunday show in more than a year, which sees the president questioned by Chris Wallace, one of the more incisive interviewers in American television. A clip released on Friday showed Wallace putting Trump right on his claim Joe Biden wants to defund the police – which Biden doesn’t – and Trump not liking it.
But in talks over the weekend, administration officials instead pushed to zero out the funding for testing and for the nation’s top health agencies, and to cut the Pentagon funding to $5bn.
The suggestions infuriated several Republicans on Capitol Hill, who saw them as tone deaf.
Related: ‘The virus doesn’t care about excuses’: US faces terrifying autumn as Covid-19 surges
Continue reading…White House reportedly against billions for pandemic effortsMore than 3.7 million cases in US and 140,000 deadTrump’s strategy: paint Biden as puppet of ‘radical left’Robert Reich: Donald Trump has unified America – against him 1.18pm BST…and welcome to another day of coverage of politics in the US, which means coverage of the presidential campaign, the coronavirus pandemic, tributes to the late John Lewis and more.Fox News Sunday will this morning broadcast an interview with Donald Trump, his first with a Sunday show in more than a year, which sees the president questioned by Chris Wallace, one of the more incisive interviewers in American television. A clip released on Friday showed Wallace putting Trump right on his claim Joe Biden wants to defund the police – which Biden doesn’t – and Trump not liking it.But in talks over the weekend, administration officials instead pushed to zero out the funding for testing and for the nation’s top health agencies, and to cut the Pentagon funding to $5bn.The suggestions infuriated several Republicans on Capitol Hill, who saw them as tone deaf. Related: ‘The virus doesn’t care about excuses’: US faces terrifying autumn as Covid-19 surges Continue reading…