COVID-19 US Stimulus & Brazilian Pandemic Tragedy

A week ago, the US House passed for Senate approval a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, reported CNN, which faced an uphill climb for confirmation in the Senate, according to the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Brazil surpassed the US in COVID-19 deaths in the past year this week, according to leftist state-backed South American television news outlet Telesur, at, over the last 24 hour window, some more than 70,000 cases, about 10,000 above the new US total, during the same period.

Spring Cleaning of DC Politics For Dems

When does spring officialy start in EST? March 20 ‘21. With President Biden in control of a party holding majorities in both chambers of Congress, he is set to continue an aggressive push to retract former President Trump’s four-year legacy, to leave his own.

Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his fellow Senators made inroads towards finalizing a third round of COVID-19 stimulus help to US citizens whose livelihood has been effected by the pandemic’s outbreak. Schumer said “while the country faces a series of historic challenges, we must face the moment with an historic response,” to reporters at a press conference from the Capitol earlier this morning. With Senate approval, Biden would introduce his first stimulus checks on this matter, with those prior two sent out under the last Trump administration, according to La Opinion, a Spanish-Language Los Angeles, CA, based online newspaper. With Democratic control of both chambers of Congress, and the presidency, this makes us look at how this topic impacts everyday Americans, from buying food to helping pay for childcare, while more people live and work from their homes full-time.

Biden received pressure from the EU, whose ambassador in Cuba asked for the US to lift the over 50 year old embargo on the communist island nation 90 miles south of the US’s southernmost point in Florida, at the origin of the Florida Straights releasing Gulf of Mexico warmer ocean water through a current running up the continental US east coast, to the North Sea and British Isles near northern Europe, as weather science fact website SciJinks says. Besides improving diplomacy, environmental issues, such as if the Gulf Stream will get even warmer, and human rights, are main policy concerns.

Biden’s potential now with Democratic control over both chambers of Congress means, until next November, he can make policy moves to guarantee he expands how future presidents exercise control of their executive office role. This will further set a precedent by which more Democratic, or liberal, policies can pass into legislation, from legislative to executive branch approval and vice versa, more or less.

President Biden, using an unusual high number of executive orders to undo former President Trump-era legislation, including reducing funding for ICE and limiting further construction of more US-Mexico border wall (a priority for Trump’s 2016 campaign), has focused his foreign policy in large part on relations with America’s southern neighbor and also immigration across their common boundary, stretching almost 2,000 miles from California to Texas.

On a telephone call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, US President, Democrat Joe Biden, spoke with Xi over the state of US-China policy, according to a press release from the White House. While relations worsened under former president Donald Trump’s Republican administration, issues like sovereignty and human rights have come up as areas Biden and Xi, who have met before when Biden was Barack Obama’s Vice President (VP), can be resolved with a cautious approach to improved dialogue, moving on Biden’s first term’s beginning this year.

We have reached a point where Democrats and Republicans at last realize they fight for the same side, and we all loose if their, the people’s, voice of struggle, disappointment, fear, and risk of being forgotten by those elected to represent them is a sideline issue, while we loose track of those values and needs most important to the US.

Black lives do matter, but what the West did to Native Americans was worse, so don’t be like the New York Times, and try to re-write our national history as one based on a corporate idea of forced labor over something more like the Holocaust to Jews, as a journalist wrote for Cuban blog Café Fuerte before the Oath of Office last Wednesday. 

Former Presidents Clinton, Bush II, and Obama looked gray haired, the first two tired, and like all three went through an almost inhuman trial of being president. Yet Obama, the youngest, was all gray haired, a small thinning spot (maybe) on top, yet looked healthy and young, even so. His ears stood out with coronavirus mask on. Anyhow, the Inauguration Day day-after effects. I was moved by the singing and sign language, trumpets and patriotic bunting on the Capitol Building steps, but for all pomp and show on view to everybody watching or there, in person, socially distanced (mostly), I think what mattered is our leaders looked aged.