Tipsheet: White House signals eagerness to get past coronavirus crisis

View in your browser     White House signals eagerness to get past coronavirus crisis By Morgan Chalfant and Brett Samuels   President Trump is trying to return to business as usual amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump, who has supplanted his daily coronavirus task force briefings for more controlled and structured appearances, is eager to get past the public health crisis that has dominated the news cycle since the end of February and allow businesses and American life to return to normal. Read the full story here     Five ways the coronavirus could change American politics By Niall Stanage   How will the coronavirus crisis affect American politics? The focus, for now, is naturally on the emergency itself. As of Friday evening, more than 1 million people in the U.S. had been infected by the coronavirus and more than 59,000 had died, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Read the full story here     Pelosi, McConnell decline White House offer of rapid COVID-19 tests By Marty Johnson   In a rare bipartisan joint statement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) turned down the White House's offer of rapid COVID-19 testing kits as the Senate returns to the Capitol this week amid concerns about the continuing coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story here     Trump says there's 'tremendous' testing capacity for returning senators By J. Edward Moreno   President Trump on Saturday insisted that there is "tremendous" coronavirus testing capacity for senators returning to Washington, D.C., after Capitol physician Brian Monahan had said earlier in the week that his office did not have the capacity to screen all 100 senators. Read the full story here       US endures worst one-day death toll yet as states reopen By Marty Johnson   The U.S. saw its largest one-day death toll from the coronavirus pandemic to date on Thursday, as several states began to reopen parts of their economies. Read the full story here     Battle erupts in California over when to open By Julia Manchester and Max Greenwood   Frustration is mounting in a number of localities in California as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) seeks tough enforcement of the state's stay-at-home order. Read the full story here     Alarm bells ring over controversial COVID testing By Nathaniel Weixel   Lawmakers and public health experts are raising alarms about the widespread embrace of blood tests to gauge whether somebody was previously exposed to the coronavirus. Read the full story here     Trump sparks fight over IRS relief payments By Naomi Jagoda   President Trump has sparked concerns about politicizing the IRS by putting his name on the coronavirus relief checks and letters sent to Americans informing them of their payments. Read the full story here     WH official says Trump believes K-12 private schools should give back PPP funds By Marina Pitofsky   President Trump has reportedly said he believes elite K-12 private schools should return federal funds distributed under an emergency small business loan program amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a White House official, Politico reported. Read the full story here     Tara Reade tells AP Biden complaint did not explicitly detail assault, harassment By J. Edward Moreno   Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who has alleged she was sexually assaulted by former Vice President Joe Biden, told The Associated Press that the complaint she filed 27 years ago did not explicitly accuse the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual harassment or assault. Read the full story here     The dangerous liberal ideas for censorship in the United States By Jonathan Turley   OPINION | Almost everywhere you turn today, politicians are telling the public to “get used to the new normal” after the pandemic. For some people, this means public health precautions from social distancing to banning handshakes. Others have quickly added long standing dreams for everything from the guaranteed basic income advocated by Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which was also recently raised by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to mailed voting elections advocated by many Democrats. Read the full story here     The pandemic winner: Will It be Sweden or New Zealand? By Dr. Steven Phillips   OPINION | The world has never conducted a human-centered natural experiment of a biological threat of this scope before. Three billion people in over 80 countries (including UK, France, and most U.S. states, among many others) are in some form of lockdown with over 185 countries having reported three million-plus Covid-19 cases. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen US By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Robert Costa and Lena H. Sun   As deaths of Americans mounted in April, he embraced fantasy cure-alls and tuned out both the reality that the first wave of infection has yet to significantly recede and the possibility of another wave in the fall. And though he was fixated on reopening the economy, his administration fell far short of doing so. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Most states fall short of coronavirus testing thresholds By Christina A. Cassidy, Matthew Perrone, Jason Dearen and Nicky Forster   As more states begin to relax their coronavirus lockdowns, most are falling short of the minimum levels of testing suggested by the federal government and recommended by a variety of public health researchers, an Associated Press analysis has found. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Biden aims to out-tough Trump on China while invoking his Obama experience By Warren P. Strobel and Sabrina Siddiqui   Former VP touts years of meetings with Chinese leadership as his camp says president has failed to hold Xi Jinping accountable over pandemic. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Trump nominee is among judges opposed to banning membership in conservative group By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Ben Protess   Judge Justin Walker joined a bevy of judges, many appointees of the president, in railing against an ethics proposal on the Federalist Society. Read the full story here     Reuters: South Korea says Kim Jong Un did not have surgery, as two Koreas exchange gunfire By Cynthia Kim and Hyonhee Shin   North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery during his almost three week absence from public life, South Korean news outlet Yonhap said citing a senior government official, as the two Koreas exchanged gunfire around the border on Sunday. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet   You Might Like       Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2020 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

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