EXCLUSIVE: Feds About To Bail On Supporting COVID Testing Sites In Texas And Other States | Talking Points Memo

The Trump administration is ending funding and support for local COVID-19 testing sites around the country this month, as cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing in many states.


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He really wasn’t kidding, was he? Mass-murdering motherfucker.

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“I don’t take responsibility at all.”

The debates are now rendered moot.

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With testing support off the table the administration can go back to depriving poor children of food benefits sans COVID distractions.

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He really is trying to lose in November, isn’t he?

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Wish there was a way to lock my state down. No one in or out without a quarantine :grin:

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Well, why should he fund something that’s in direct opposition to the hoax this virus has always been?

This will be the topic of the next Lincoln project ad, but I’d really like to see the air time for these excellent ads. I had one last night on Cooking Channel for Trump where he accuses Biden of being soft on China. No counter ad. Haven’t seen anything anywhere except on here and FB. The LP ads are direct and to the point. Why no air time?

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Trump new campaign slogan
“Defund Covid 19”

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INTiFa : It’s Never Trump’s Fault.

Seriously, if you still support and intend to vote for him, just catch the fucking virus and DIE already.

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Any comment from the Senators from Texas? They had an opportunity in January that they passed on. Now their constituents will die because of that decision.

Senator Cruz? Senator Cornyn?

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Every family has one. It’s just so odd his middle name isn’t Wayne.

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When you test, you find more cases. Texas has a lot of cases.

Sometimes I wonder if he secretly wants to lose, or his staff wants him to lose. Nothing like making the horrible Texas spike worse, and cause the texas economy to shut down to Push Biden over 420 Electoral votes, and probably cost John “I see nothing, I hear nothing” Cornyn his seat…

P.s. Cases have more than doubled week over week in Texas:

So yeh, lets not test, not try to figure out who has Covid-19, until they land in the hospital…

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I suggest either their constituents will die or, if they confront the Pres, their careers will die.

I can guess, particularly with Cruz, which option he will take.

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It’s literally incredible. They’re just walking away, washing their hands of it. Madness. God only knows what sacrifices the states will have to make to step up, given that they have to have balanced budgets. The worst pandemic in a century and the federal government simply says “It’s not our problem. You alone can fix it.”

WHEN WILL MCCONNELL DO HIS DUTY?

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Any other administration would have collapsed by now.

Where’s MoscowMitch in all of this? He’s the one person who could actually change the status quo.

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He could care less if a good number of his dwindling base gets infected. Then he can blame the “others”. To him this is winning.

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As if Texas would make him pay a price for hurting them. He could knock on any door in Dallas and announce he was there to kill their dog and rape their daughter and he’d be welcomed in for a cold drink and handed a knife and little Suzy.

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He’s telling Texas, among others, literally to fuck off and die. How the wingers will explain that to themselves will be interesting to hear.

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Someone I know in Florida said there are COVID-19 checkpoints coming into the state on Route 95. What about Florida, Arizona and other hot spots?

Horrible to say, and I hope I’m wrong, but shit’s gonna continue until January 2021.

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Trump wants to present the illusion that the virus is in the rearview mirror. If his gov’t is involved in supporting states, it indicates that it is a present concern. If he just lets the states burn, he can fiddle on the stump and get claps for drinking water. It isn’t going to work, but this is what Trump has been doing for years.

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