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    *FLUSHED* Dictator Trump / US politics thread 🚽

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    Trump is over. Why do they still feel the need to blindly suck up to him at every turn? :wacko:

    Wyoming GOP censures Liz Cheney over Trump impeachment vote

    Cheney in a statement after the vote said she remained honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the state.

    The Associated Press

    Feb. 6, 2021, 5:35 PM EST

    RAWLINS, Wyo. — The Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Saturday to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

    Only eight of the 74-member state GOP’s central committee stood to oppose censure in a vote that didn’t proceed to a formal count. The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn’t offer Trump “formal hearing or due process.”

    “We need to honor President Trump. All President Trump did was call for a peaceful assembly and protest for a fair and audited election,” said Darin Smith, a Cheyenne attorney who lost to Cheney in the Republican U.S. House primary in 2016. “The Republican Party needs to put her on notice.”

    Added Joey Correnti, GOP chairman in Carbon County where the censure vote was held: “Does the voice of the people matter and if it does, does it only matter at the ballot box?”

    Cheney in a statement after the vote said she remained honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the state.

    “Foremost among these is the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. My vote to impeach was compelled by the oath I swore to the Constitution,” Cheney said.

    Republican officials said they invited Cheney but she didn’t attend. An empty chair labeled “Representative Cheney” sat at the front of the meeting room.

    The censure vote was the latest blowback for Cheney for joining nine Republican representatives and all Democrats in the U.S. House in the Jan. 13 impeachment vote. Just three months after winning a third term with almost 70 percent, Cheney already faces at least two Republican primary opponents in 2022.

    They include Republican state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a gun-rights activist from Cheyenne, who was at the meeting but not among those who spoke. Smith also has said he is deliberating whether to run for Congress again.

    On Jan. 28, Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida, led a rally against Cheney in front of the Wyoming Capitol. About 1,000 people took part, many of them carrying signs calling for Cheney’s impeachment though several were supportive.

    Cheney will remain as the third-ranking member of the House GOP leadership, however, after a 145-61 vote by House Republicans on Wednesday to keep her as conference committee chair.

    Trump faces trial in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday over allegedly inciting insurrection when a mob of supporters stormed into and rampaged through the Capitol after a nearby rally led by Trump and close allies.

    Censure opponents mainly came from Casper, Wyoming’s second-largest city, and the Jackson Hole area near Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.

    “Let’s resist this infusion of left-wing cancel culture to try to censure and get rid of anybody we disagree with,” said Alexander Muromcew with the Teton County GOP.

    Momentum for censure had been growing for weeks as local Republicans in around a dozen of Wyoming’s 23 counties passed their own resolutions criticizing her impeachment vote.

    The vaccine is here 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😄😄😄

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    https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/pandemic-could-continue-for-seven-years-under-current-vaccination-rate/

    The pandemic could continue for seven years under current vaccination rate

    By Gabrielle Fonrouge

    February 5, 2021 | 6:57pm | Updated 

    It’ll be a long, seven years before the COVID-19 pandemic is over worldwide, if vaccine distribution continues at its current rate, a calculation from Bloomberg shows. 

    The media outlet, which said it built the “biggest database” of COVID-19 inoculations given across the globe, crunched the numbers and found it could take most of a decade to reach herd immunity if distribution doesn’t ramp up for two-dose vaccines. 

    Dr. Anthony Fauci has said 70-85 percent of the population will need the vaccine in order to achieve herd immunity and while the US is on track to reach that goal by the New Year in 2022, it could take countries like Canada ten years at their current pace. 

    More than 119 million doses have been doled out worldwide but Bloomberg’s tracker shows some countries, mostly rich, Western locales, are reaching 75% coverage much faster than others. 

    For example, Israel is on track to see 75% coverage by the spring but it could take Portugal four years, China seven years and Latvia almost nine years to reach herd immunity if vaccine distributions don’t change. 

    The calculations are, of course, “volatile,” Bloomberg explained, especially with rollout that’s just a few months old and still marred with supply disruptions. 

    Canada’s vaccination rate was cut in half recently after the country faced delays in shipments but as long as their contracts to buy more doses per person than any other country moves forward, they won’t be stuck in pandemic hell for a decade. 

    The outlet noted the pace is expected to accelerate worldwide as more and more jabs become available — they pointed to major vaccine-manufacturing hubs in India and Mexico and said production is just getting started and only a third of countries have started vaccine campaigns. 

    Bloomberg’s calculator is based on two doses for full vaccination and will be tweaked once the vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson, which only requires one dose, is made available. While the inoculations haven’t been approved for children, Bloomberg included kids in their calculation because they too can be infected, and transmit, the virus. 

    The calculator does not account for any level of natural immunity experienced by those who’ve previously had the virus — the CDC has said some immunity is offered after an infection but they’re not clear on how long it lasts. 

    A study by Mount Sinai published last weekin the preprint server MedRxiv found reinfection is “common” among young people, especially those who had very mild cases or no symptoms at all when they had the bug. The researchers involved urged governments to include young, previously infected people in vaccine distribution.

    Another study published this week suggested those who’ve had the virus may only need one dose of the vaccine.

    COVID-19 hoaxer banned from hospitals after posting photos of ‘empty wards’

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    COVID-19 hoaxer banned from hospitals after posting photos of ‘empty wards’

    By Yaron Steinbuch

    February 3, 2021 | 11:03am | Updated

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    Hannah Dean faces much heftier fines of up to ÂŁ2,500, about $3,400, if she ignores the anti-social behavior order.

    A COVID-19 conspiracy theorist has been banned from visiting UK hospitals — unless for emergencies and appointments — after filming empty hospital corridors to falsely claim the government was lying about the scope of the pandemic, according to reports.

    Hannah Dean, a 30-year-old mother-of-two, was slapped with a so-called anti-social behavior order — or ASBO — and fined the equivalent of about $270 for insisting hospitals are not full of coronavirus patients, The Sun reported.

    If she ignores the order, she faces much heftier fines of up to ÂŁ2,500, about $3,400, as well as arrest and possible criminal prosecution for spreading the lies about the pandemic, which has killed more than 108,000 Britons, according to the news outlet.

    In addition to emergencies and appointments, she may only go to a hospital if she is a dependent of a patient.

    Dean also is banned from encouraging people to ignore national coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

    The action stems from her travel to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, where she posted on Facebook that it was “the quietest I have ever seen it.”

    She also shot similar footage at Southampton General Hospital, Royal Bournemouth Hospital and St. Richard’s Hospital in West Sussex.

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    Hannah Dean filmed empty hallways of hospitals while trying to prove that the COVID-19 pandemic was overblown.

    In one video she posted from outside the ER at Queen Alexandra Hospital, a security guard shouts: “What are you doing here, Hannah?”

    She is heard answering: “I’m Hannah’s twin. I’m not Hannah” before claiming she is a journalist, prompting the guard to call the cops and order her to leave.

    In an earlier post, Dean wrote: “I know this is hard to get our heads around, but the government are lying to us! And the reason why they’re lying to us….. is very disturbing!”

    At Queen Alexandra Hospital, 744 people have died of the deadly bug. On Jan. 26, 426 patients were being treated there for the illness, including 47 who were on ventilators, according to The Sun.

    Royal Bournemouth Hospital called the baseless claims “upsetting” in a statement released Tuesday.

    “This is part of a sustained social media campaign across the country to attempt to prove that our hospitals are not treating large numbers of COVID patients,” the hospital said.

    “The film of our hospital proved nothing,” it went on, adding that it expects hospital corridors to be “clear and quiet” because “we treat our patients in our wards” and “we need to keep our corridors clear for infection prevention and to enable the transportation of patients if they need to be moved to another area for their care.”

    Portsmouth Council Leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson said that claiming COVID-19 is a hoax is “demeaning” to frontline healthcare workers and to “the loss so many families have felt in this city.”

    “It’s a disgrace and how anybody could do that to other people and show so little for their suffering and their hard work, I don’t know,” he said.

    Sussex police Chief Inspector Jon Carter described it as “unacceptable.”

    “We are working together with Hampshire Constabulary to ensure the best avenues to deter this behavior from continuing are taken.”

    Florida COVID-19 stupidity

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    :manson:

    Florida grocery store bucks mask mandate; owner says Covid death toll is 'hogwash'

    The owner of Oakes Farms Seed to Table Market in Naples said he knows masks do not work.

    Feb. 4, 2021, 10:30 AM EST / Updated Feb. 4, 2021, 10:50 AM EST

    By Minyvonne Burke

    A video that was taken at a South Florida grocery store shows nearly every customer and employee without a mask.

    The footage was filmed this week at Oakes Farms Seed to Table Market in Naples, about 42 miles south of Fort Myers. In it, not a mask is in sight and social distancing is not being followed.

    As of Thursday morning, the video on NBC News correspondent Sam Brock's Twitter page has generated 7,600 comments, nearly 16,000 retweets and more than 20,000 likes. Reactions run the gamut, with some defending the customers and employees and others expressing outrage.

    The store's owner, Alfie Oakes, could not be reached for comment on Thursday. He told NBC's "TODAY" show he knows masks do not work and doesn't believe the coronavirus has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

    "That's total hogwash," Oakes said, later adding, "Why don't we shut the world down because of the heart attacks? Why don't we lock down cities because of heart attacks?"

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly stated that masks and social distancing can help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

    According to NBC News' latest data, the total number of deaths in the country climbed to more than 452,000, with Florida having the fourth-highest number of fatalities.

    Collier County, where Naples is located, has seen more than 27,000 cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and 413 deaths, according to the state's Department of Health website.

    Even though the county has a mask mandate in place, Oakes' store has a sign out front that states customers do not have to wear one if they have a medical condition.  

    "Those in our lovely government have ordered all persons entering indoor facilities to wear a mask. If you have a medical condition that prevents you from wearing a mask, you are exempt from this order. Due to HIPAA and the 4th Amendment we cannot legally ask you about your medical condition," it reads.  

    "Therefore, if we see you without a mask, we will assume you have a medical condition and we will welcome you inside to support our business."  

    County Commissioner Andy Solis said his biggest fear is that Covid-19 cases will increase and the hospitals will become overwhelmed.  

    "It's very disappointing and very concerning," he said.

     

    U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

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    QAnon Nutjob!

    House panel votes to kick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off committees for ‘truly sick’ promotion of violence

    Chris Sommerfeldt

    New York Daily News

    Feb 03, 2021 at 2:43 PM 

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    A key House panel voted Wednesday to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of all her committee assignments in a blistering rebuke of her calls for violence against fellow members of Congress and embrace of a cacophony of far-right conspiracy theories.

    The vote in the House Rules Committee advanced a resolution to remove the controversial Georgia Republican from her posts on the chamber’s education and budget committees and also ban her from getting any other appointments. The vote — which fell entirely along party lines — sends the resolution to the full House, where it is expected to get final approval Thursday.

    Ahead of the vote, House Rules Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said he had never before held a similar hearing because “we have never had a member like this.”

    “She has encouraged violence against members of this institution, going so far as agreeing with a comment that advocated for putting a bullet in the head of the speaker of the House,” McGovern said. “This is truly sick stuff. Congresswoman Greene has also promoted truly appalling things from implying that 9/11 is a hoax to saying school shootings were false flag operations and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including one about a Jewish space laser being the cause of wildfires in California. I mean, this is unbelievable.”

    Though they opposed the resolution, all four Republicans on the committee sought to distance themselves from Greene.

    Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, the panel’s top Republican, called Greene’s promotion of various crackpot conspiracy theories “deeply offensive,” “vile” and “repugnant,” but argued against the resolution on process grounds.

    “This hearing is premature,” Cole said, reasoning that the matter should first have been adjudicated by the House Ethics Committee to avoid setting a new precedent for reprimanding members.

    But the committee’s Democrats countered they were forced to take this route because House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) rebuffed calls to rescind Greene’s committee assignments through an intra-party process.

    If the resolution sets a new precedent for removing members, McGovern added that’s okay with him.

    “If the precedent’s going to be that if somebody advocates for putting a bullet in the head of a member ... if that is going to be the new determination as to what it takes to throw people off of committees, I’m fine with that,” he said. “If this is not the bottom, I don’t know what the hell is.”

    The push to punish Greene comes in response to a flurry of the congresswoman’s past statements on social media resurfacing in recent days.

    Before being elected in November, Greene used her Facebook and Twitter accounts to call for the executions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats she claimed were part of the “deep state.”

    It has also been discovered that the first-term congresswoman harassed survivors of a 2018 school shooting in Florida and falsely claimed they faked the massacre as part of a Democratic plot to implement stricter gun laws. Adding to the deranged web, Greene has pushed baseless claims about 9/11 being an “inside job” and peddled anti-Semitic theories about wealthy Jews using “space lasers” to set forest fires in California.

    Many of Greene’s unsettling claims are inspired by the QAnon conspiracy theory, which she has a history of promoting.

    Elected on a hard-right political platform and endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Greene has refused to apologize for her wild conspiracy mongering.

    “Today’s the day I could be removed from committees,” she wrote in an email to supporters Wednesday asking for “emergency” campaign donations. “Why? Because I stood up for President Trump, I stand for America First ... and I speak the truth.”

    Greene’s lack of contrition has some Democrats saying that the committee resolution is not enough.

    “Removing her from her committees is the first step, but by no means should it be the last. As long as she serves in this legislative body, her hateful rhetoric and misconduct will only continue to grow and put others in danger. MTG must be expelled,” tweeted California Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who has introduced a resolution to remove Greene from Congress that has gained support among dozens of Democrats.

    Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Congress, has not said if she’d consider the resolution to expel Greene.

    But the speaker harshly condemned McCarthy on Wednesday for his “cowardly refusal” to punish Greene on his own and noted that plenty of Republicans have broken with him.

    “As No. 2 Senate Republican John Thune warned Tuesday, McCarthy has chosen to make House Republicans ‘the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon’ and Rep. Greene is in the driver’s seat,” Pelosi said.

    Florida lawyer disbarred for making pornographic film with inmate

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    https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/florida-lawyer-disbarred-for-filming-sexual-encounter-with-inmate/

    Florida lawyer disbarred for making pornographic film with inmate

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    Andrew Spark had already been suspended following his convictions for solicitation of prostitution.

    A Florida attorney has been disbarred for filming his own sexual encounter with at least one female inmate for the production of a pornographic video.

    Before his Jan. 21 disbarment, Andrew Spark had already been suspended following his convictions for solicitation of prostitution and bringing contraband into county detention facilities, The Miami Herald reported.

    Spark solicited sex inside attorney-client visitation rooms at two separate jail facilities in Florida, according to the summary of Florida Supreme Court’s ruling to disbar him that was provided in a press release by The Florida Bar.

    The lawyer “abused his privilege to practice law,” the summary said. 

    Spark even drew up a modeling contract for inmates, where women would have to agree not to reveal his identity, according to a referee’s report obtained by Law&Crime.

    In one instance, Spark paid a woman $10 after recording her give oral sex to him at the Falkenburg Road Jail in Hillsborough County, the reports said.

    QAnon in crisis after Biden’s inauguration failed to bring ‘storm’

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    thoughts and prayers :chuckle:

    QAnon in crisis after Biden’s inauguration failed to bring ‘storm’

    By Lee Brown

    January 21, 2021 

    They’re rebels without a Qause.

    The QAnon movement was thrown into crisis this week when President Biden peacefully entered the White House — rather than be crushed by a long-promised “storm” and “great awakening.”

    “It’s obvious now we’ve been had. No plan, no Q, nothing,” one now-deflated follower wrote after the inauguration in a QAnon channel on Telegram with 18,400 members.

    The crackpot QAnon conspiracy theory has long assumed that President Donald Trump — who many believe is the enigmatic “Q” himself — would emerge triumphant after overthrowing a “deep state” network of government leaders, including a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.

    And right up until Biden took officeWednesday, many conspiracy theorists still were confident that Trump would take over the Emergency Broadcast System to declare martial law, stay in office and arrest prominent Democrats.

    One pro-Trump crusader who fervidly promotes QAnon online proudly declared Monday that the inauguration would “be the biggest thing we’ve ever seen in the history of the United States,” Reuters noted.

    But rather than the much-promised “storm,” Biden’s inauguration went off without a hitch — and Trump quietly flew off to Florida, leaving behind an apparently kind note for his successor.

    Believers long told to “trust the plan” suddenly faced a crisis of confidence.

    “I think we have been fooled like no other,” another follower person wrote on Telegram, according to the Guardian. 

    “It’s done and we were played,” another wrote, according to the BBC.

    Even Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of 8kuna where Q’s posts emerge — leading to theories that Watkins could be behind the drops — appeared ready to throw in the towel.

    “We gave it our all,” Watkins wrote in a Telegram post, minutes after Biden was sworn into office. “Now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able.

    “We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution regardless of whether or not we agree with the specifics,” he wrote, revealing he was starting a new venture.

    Jared Holt, a disinformation researcher at the Atlantic Council, told Reuters that “the whole movement is called into question now.”

    “It’s the whole ‘trust the plan’ thing. Q believers have just allowed themselves to be strung from failed promise to failed promise,” he said.

    QAnon believers expressed their faith in the movement in the months leading up to the inauguration 

    Zealous Trump fans also failed to hide their devastation — with one woman going viral for a video in which she sobbed for Trump to “please save us” from “this devil” Biden.

    “Please, President Trump — please, please, I hope you have a plan,” she sobbed, saying she was about to have a panic attack.

    Still, not everyone was willing to give up faith in the movement, which previously overcame promises that Hillary Clinton was going to be arrested and that John F. Kennedy Jr. would emerge alive to be Trump’s running mate. :wacko:

    A poll of more than 36,000 people in a QAnon Telegram channel showed that 34 percent believe “the military & Trump have a plan coming in the near future,” even while acknowledging the transfer of presidential power.

    “Trump has said, ‘THE BEST IS YET TO COME.’ I’m not giving up,” Telegram user Qtah wrote in an announcement to his 30,000 subscribers, in which he also said he was taking a social media break.

    Some even believed that Trump left the White House on Wednesday with a message for them — noting that his farewell speech was delivered in front of 17 American flags, the same number as “Q” in the alphabet.

    “I believe the game is still being played this is not over!” one QAnon user wrote to his 26,000 Telegram followers moments after Biden took office.

    Meanwhile, there are still concerns that the conspiracy, whose believers were at the forefront of the Capitol riots, would remain a danger — and that its followers could now also be encouraged to support even more extreme viewpoints.

    “The greatest risk is that people who become disillusioned in QAnon are going to these channels where they might be recruited by white nationalists or other extremists,” Travis View, a co-host of the podcast “QAnon Anonymous,” told the Guardian.

    -With Post wires

    *FLUSHED* Dictator Trump / US politics thread 🚽

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    3 hours ago, mtzlplk said:

    Yes, the world was actually more peaceful when the US was under Trump. Now with war-mongering politicians are back, the world better get ready again to have wars sprouting where the US can sell arms... Trump was an outsider from the very start. Even old school Republican politicians hated him back in 2016, that's why some turned in 2020. These old school politicians are the evil ones. They will connive with corporate America to fatten their bank accounts at the expense of its citizens. Americans just lost a president who actually cared more about their welfare than outsiders. 

    :rotfl:

    2020 U.S. Election: Congratulations Biden and Harris!

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    On first day, Biden enacts face mask mandate, strikes down Trump policies on immigration, climate and more

    By DAVE GOLDINER and CHRIS SOMMERFELDT

    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

    JAN 20, 2021 AT 8:06 PM 

    Wasting no time, President Biden signed 15 executive orders within hours of his inauguration Wednesday to roll back some of his predecessor’s most controversial policies while enacting a string of new ones to fight the coronavirus pandemic, address climate change and reform the U.S. immigration system.

    Topping Biden’s list:

    MASKS: Biden is mandating the use of face masks and social distancing in all federal buildings, on all federal lands and by all federal employees and contractors.

    “There’s no time to start like today,” Biden said before signing the order while seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office for the first time as president.

    In a sharp departure from former President Donald Trump, Biden wore a mask himself while signing.

    Here’s a distillation of the other executive actions Biden inked:

    WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: Also on the coronavirus front, Biden issued an order reversing Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization. Trump cut ties with the international health group in September over unsubstantiated allegations that it was working with China to cover up the origins of COVID-19.

    STUDENT LOANS/HOUSING FORECLOSURES: Biden signed several decrees that extend coronavirus-related moratoriums on federal student loan payments and housing foreclosures — an initial drip of relief as he begins lobbying Congress to enact his more sweeping $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package.

    CLIMATE CHANGE: Moving on from the virus, Biden issued an order to rejoin the Paris climate accord — which Trump dragged the U.S. out of in November — and revoked the ex-president’s permit for construction of the Keystone XL oil and gas pipeline through the Midwest. Also on climate, Biden included actions requiring reviews of a variety of Trump policies aimed at watering down protections for federal lands and loosening regulations for fossil fuel emissions.

    BORDER WALL FINANCING: Effective immediately, the new president squashed a national emergency declaration that allowed Trump to divert billions of dollars in taxpayer cash to bankroll the construction of the southern border wall that he for years claimed Mexico would pay for. The same order froze all new construction of border wall, pending a review of how taxpayer money is being spent on the project.

    MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN: Biden put an immediate end to Trump’s travel ban barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.

    DACA: Biden ordered his cabinet to work to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects hundreds of thousands of people who came to the U.S. as young children from deportation. President Barack Obama first introduced DACA in 2012.

    IMMIGRATION: Biden squashed a Trump order that deemed all of the roughly 11 million people in the U.S. illegally priorities for deportation proceedings. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security will conduct a review of enforcement priorities.

    CENSUS: Trump’s failed attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. census was also rescinded, with Biden ordering a return to the policy that all individuals, regardless of status, be counted.

    CITIZENSHIP: Finally, Biden issued an order that doesn’t have any immediate results, but proposes legislation that would grant green cards and a path to citizenship for all undocumented people in the U.S. before Jan. 1, 2021. Republicans in Congress have already balked at this proposal, though Biden prides himself on being able to achieve bipartisan compromises.

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