Coronavirus: WHO Funding
- Timeline: Trump’s fight with WHO over coronavirus handling (Al Jazeera)
- World reacts to Trump withdrawing WHO funding (Al Jazeera)
- Coronavirus: Trump’s WHO de-funding ‘as dangerous as it sounds’ (BBC)
- Health Experts Condemn Donald Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze: ‘Crime Against Humanity’ by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
- Trump And WHO: How Much Does The U.S. Give? What’s The Impact Of A Halt In Funding? by Pien Huang (NPR)
- Opinion: Trump’s decision to cut WHO funding is an act of international vandalism by Andrew Gawthorpe (Guardian)
- ‘A Crime Against Humanity.’ Why Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze Benefits Nobody by Charlie Campbell (TIME)
- Trump’s WHO cutoff sends officials, allies scrambling by Quint Forgey and Nahal Toosi (Politico)
- Trump Administration Officials Warned Against Halting Funding to WHO, Leaked Memo Shows by Yeganeh Torbati (ProPublica)
Coronavirus: Stimulus Checks / Relief
- Coronavirus: Trump’s name to appear on US relief cheques (BBC)
- IRS launches second web tool to expedite stimulus payments by Toby Echert (Politico)
- Trump’s Signature Printed on Stimulus Checks Even if It Delays Getting Americans Their Money by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump’s Treasury Department gives banks green light to seize individuals’ $1,200 stimulus checks by Jake Johnson (Salon)
- Order to print Trump’s name on every stimulus check expected to delay payments to Americans by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- Millionaires receive $1.7m in coronavirus relief as most taxpayers get $1,200 payments thanks to hidden Republican loophole by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Here’s how to speed up and track your $1,200 stimulus check as IRS races to issue payments by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- House Democrats introduce plan to pay Americans $2,000 a month until economy recovers from COVID-19 by Charles Davis (Business Insider)
Coronavirus: Michigan
- Trump backers protest Michigan stay-at-home orders at state capitol by Seth Herald (Reuters)
- Coronavirus lockdowns turn political with protests in US (Al Jazeera)
- Michigan protesters turn out against Whitmer’s strict stay-at-home order by Myah Ward (Politico)
Coronavirus: Reopening Economy
- CDC director says 19-20 U.S. states may be ready to reopen May 1 by Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey (Reuters)
- How Trump’s reopening plans could collide with reality by Ben White (Politico)
- WHO Sets 6 Conditions For Ending A Coronavirus Lockdown by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- A preliminary Trump administration plan shows how far America is from reopening by German Lopez (Vox)
- Coronavirus: Social distancing may need to last until 2022, Harvard study shows by Rory Sullivan (Independent)
- Elon Musk, Jamie Dimon, and Vince McMahon: Here are 20 of the biggest names on Trump’s list of advisers to reopen the US economy by Theron Mohamed (Business Insider)
- Will Trump try to “reopen the economy” by force — even if thousands more die? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to push through nominees by John Bresnahan (Politico)
Coronavirus: California
- California Just Became the First State to Offer Coronavirus Cash to Undocumented Workers by Fernanda Echavarri (Mother Jones)
- COVID-19: California to give payments to undocumented immigrants (Al Jazeera)
- California To Give Cash Payments To Immigrants Impacted By Coronavirus by Adam Beam / AP (Huffington Post)
Coronavirus
- Senate Democrats seek $30 billion plan for national coronavirus testing program (Reuters)
- As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff by Carol D. Leonnig, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and John Hudson (Washington Post)
- Analysis: The brewing state battles over how to hold elections in a pandemic by Amber Philips (Washington Post)
- There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up by Elahe Izadi (Washington Post)
- Trump’s ‘Opening Our Country Council’ Runs Into Its Own Opening Problems by Annie Karni, Kate Kelly and David Gelles (NY Times)
- How COVID-19 Is Wreaking Havoc On Our Ability To Make Things — Including Vaccines by Maggie Koerth (FiveThirtyEight)
Trump vs. Congress
- Coronavirus US live: Trump threatens to close Congress over ‘obstruction’ by Kari Paul and Joan E Greve (The Guardian)
- Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to push through nominees by John Bresnahan (Politico)
- Trump Threatens To Adjourn Congress For Not Confirming His Judicial Nominees by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump Threatens to Adjourn Congress Unilaterally in What Would Be Unprecedented Power Grab by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
Other News
- There Have Been 13 Arizona Polls in the Last 14 Months and Trump Has Led Only One of Them by Tim Murphy (Mother Jones)
- Pentagon barred from discussing Trump in JEDI contract probe by Jacqueline Feldscher (Politico)
- White House Misses Deadline To explain Firing Intelligence Watchdog by Jenna McLaughlin (Huffington Post)
- Court blocks Trump administration push to make school meals saltier and less healthy by Gino Spocchia (Independent)