McConnell: Obama 'should have kept his mouth shut' about Trump

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a scathing rebuke of former President Barack Obama for criticizing President Trump's response to the coronavirus. On Monday, McConnell appeared on Team Trump Online, a YouTube program hosted by the president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, and slammed Obama for criticizing the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic. "Generally, former presidents just don't do that. I remember that President George W. Bush and his father went right through eight years of Democratic administrations after they left office and kept their mouths shut because they didn't feel it was appropriate for former presidents to even critique a president of another party," the Kentucky Republican began. "So, I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut. Now, we know he doesn't like much what this administration is doing, that's understandable. But I think it's a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you. You had your shot, you were there for eight years. I think the tradition that the Bushes setup of not critiquing the president comes after you, is a good tradition," he added.

Last week, Obama referred to Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as a "chaotic disaster" while discussing a variety of issues with ex-advisers. "It would have been bad even with the best of governments. It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of 'what's in it for me?' and 'to heck with everybody else' — when that mindset is operationalized in our government," Obama said in a private call with his advisers.

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>>9134074

He has a job to do for now..timing is everything.

Mark Cuban calls for government jobs program employing millions to track and test for coronavirus

Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire businessman Mark Cuban said the United States should consider government programs that would create millions of temporary jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuban spoke with Washington Examiner contributor Elisha Krauss on Monday and said the country needs to “take different steps” to confront the loss of jobs given the health crisis’s unprecedented toll on employment. “This is not like the recessions of the past, even the Great Recession, where we had time to allow entrepreneurs just to create enough businesses or create enough jobs,” Cuban said. “We’re down 30 million-plus jobs in two months.”

The entrepreneur and host on ABC’s Shark Tank said he would support federal or state government work programs on an “intermediate basis,” noting that the creation of these temporary jobs “buys us time” while the country attempts to regain normalcy in the job market. He argued that consumer spending will be what revitalizes the economy but that people need to have income in order to spend. “We may have to go to jobs programs like we did in the ‘30s, which would make perfect sense for like tracking, and tracing, and testing where we train healthcare workers to do that and create 2 or 3 million jobs,” Cuban said. “Create jobs where people who can’t get out of the house for whatever reason … hiring people from AmeriCorps or Peace Corps and paying them and training them to work with those people, particularly the elderly,” he continued. “We need to create jobs that people have confidence in because we need them to spend that money. We need them to be consumers.” Cuban said that now “is the one time that it really truly needs to be bottom-up and not trickle-down." “Because trickle-down is not going to respond fast enough to 50 million people who are out of work or underemployed,” he added.

The investor, who has criticized President Trump in the past, is part of a White House advisory group that looks to offer recommendations about the nation’s economic recovery. Cuban said he has had just one call with the White House so far that was “pretty much ceremonial” but noted that he was assigned a liaison for him, who, up until recently, has spoken with him every single day. “They got an earful from me about everything,” Cuban said, explaining that he worked with the American Industrial Hygiene Association the Centers to create a website called backtoworksafely.org. “Working with the White House, they got it up as part of the CDC.gov website, so little baby steps. It might have been small, but it was significant." When asked if the White House hasn't followed through on any of the recommendations he has provided, Cuban, who has kept the door open on a third-party presidential bid, laughed and said there is “a long list.”

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>>9134261

Think he might be a bit nervous…

House Democrats will preview massive aid package beginning Tuesday

House Democratic leaders will begin outlining the major provisions in a massive economic aid package beginning Tuesday during conference calls scheduled with Democratic lawmakers. Democrats may vote as early as Friday on a sweeping measure that will top $1 trillion as businesses and people suffer financially during the coronavirus pandemic. They’ll also vote on a resolution to change the House rules to allow proxy voting. The bill will include a $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments, rent and mortgage relief, rent and student debt relief, more direct cash payments, and unemployment insurance and money for states to hold mail-in elections, among many other provisions. House Democratic leaders have scheduled four conference calls for Tuesday and one on Wednesday that detail the spending legislation and the resolution that would allow lawmakers to vote for absent colleagues on the House floor.

“As part of our ongoing effort to maximize member engagement and the dissemination of information during the legislative process, the Caucus will host a series of issue-specific conference calls on Tuesday and Wednesday,” Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said in a memo Monday night. “Each call will include an overview by the relevant committee chair or chairs and a presentation by senior staff on the substantive provisions of importance included in CARES 2.0.” The measure is meant to follow the original CARES bill signed into law by President Trump in March that provided $2.2 trillion in federal aid.

Senate Republicans and Trump have said they want to wait several weeks before deciding whether to take up a new coronavirus-related federal spending measure. The list of spending provisions in the House bill, according to the conference call topics, include:

Coronavirus testing, worker safety, aid to hospitals, front-line workers, teachers, and students

Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses

Supporting nonprofit organizations

Rent and mortgage assistance

Aid to states, municipalities, counties, territories, and tribal governments

Direct assistance to families and small businesses, unemployment insurance, pensions

Lawmakers will also hold a call on “Election security, House Rules, and Procedures, governing during the pandemic.”

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>>9134325

Thinking he's a front man for CIA, just like the others, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Dorsey,…