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Summary List PlacementHello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of stories from Insider from Business co-Editor in Chief Matt Turner. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday. Read on for more on Trump administration staffers getting snubbed while hunting for jobs, Cathie Wood's predictions for 2021, and tension at The New York Times. Read time: 5 minutes.  Hello! The US developed coronavirus...

Summary List PlacementA majority of Americans believe that President Donald Trump should be removed from office before January 20, according to a new poll conducted by ABC News/Ipsos.  The poll was conducted between January 8 and 9, just days after the attack on the US Capitol building led by Trump supporters.  About 56% of people who responded to the poll said they think Trump...

Summary List PlacementThe riot on the US Capitol was preceded by a rally in support of President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.  That rally was attended by Republican lawmakers at the state and federal levels.  Emboldened by Trump's urges and pleas to protest the results with him, rioters who attended the rally organized an attempted coup. They stormed...

Summary List PlacementThe day before pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol building, people received an encouraging phone call from a group of Republican attorneys general telling them to "march," NBC News reported.  The group — the Republican Attorney General Association — is made up of some of the nation's highest-ranking law enforcement and legal officers.  Its fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund,...

Summary List PlacementIn the course of 12 months, President Donald Trump went from brushing off the pandemic to demanding that Congress pass $2,000 stimulus checks to help people contend with financial burdens.  In January, Trump said the pandemic was "totally under control" — even as the coronavirus spread rapidly.  His rhetoric shocked Americans, who were catching the disease and dying from it. For months,...

Summary List PlacementCongressional leaders on Sunday struck a long-awaited deal on a $900 billion federal rescue package, clearing final policy hurdles and paving the way for passage in the House and Senate amid an especially dark stretch of the pandemic. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the announcement from the Senate floor on Sunday afternoon. "The four leaders of the Senate and House finalized...

Summary List PlacementJose Bello came to the United States when he was three years old — and fewer than two days after speaking out against the Trump administration's immigration policies, the college student was arrested at his home in Southern California and slated for deportation. On Tuesday, Bello's lawyers will argue before a US federal court that he was targeted for his activism and...

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Summary List PlacementThe Trump administration on Friday made a $1.8 trillion stimulus offer to Democrats on Friday, the largest one yet in fluid negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But she rebuffed it by saying it didn't provide a fuller strategy for COVID-19 testing and tracing. The White House is renewing an aggressive push to pass a government rescue package before the election, only...

Summary List Placement Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas — the ranking Republican on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee — was critical of elements within the White House's stimulus proposal on Thursday, including a $400 weekly federal unemployment benefit. During an interview with Fox Business, Brady said many Republicans are reluctant to back a stimulus plan with a big price tag. "The worry...

Summary List Placement Trump administration officials have sought to water down reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Politico reported Friday night, with one political appointee accusing career scientists of trying to undermine the president's campaign to reopen schools. "CDC to me appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration," Dr. Paul Alexander, a scientific advisor to agency spokesperson Michael...

Summary List Placement The White House and congressional Democrats are likely to reach a deal this week to fund the federal government through December, US Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Sunday. "We're going to move forward with a clean [continuing resolution," Mnuchin told reporters at the White House, "hopefully through the beginning of December." "I hope by the end of the week we'll have something...

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton blasted President Donald Trump for his response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it "a tragedy for Americans." "It's just been one mistake after another," Bolton said in an interview with CNN Wednesday.  Bolton joins a growing group of critics who are speaking out against the White House's approach to the coronavirus pandemic. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said the White House was prepared to take additional executive action to keep airlines from furloughing thousands of workers in early October. "So hopefully we can help out the airlines and keep some of those employees from being furloughed," Meadows said in a Politico Live interview on Wednesday. It remained unclear what authority the administration could draw...

President Donald Trump wants to temporarily bar US citizens and permanent residents from entering the country if they are suspected of having the coronavirus, The New York Times reported on Monday.  A draft proposal said that if a border official "reasonably believes that the individual either may have been exposed to or is infected with the communicable disease," they could be barred from entering. ...

President Donald Trump moved on Saturday to enact a payroll-tax cut on his own, circumventing Congress. The idea gained traction in the White House after two conservative economists called on the president to use executive authority to suspend that tax collection and add money to workers' paychecks. But experts say employers are likely to hoard the cash, since the president only has the authority...

Trump held a last-minute press conference on Friday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and claimed to be ready to move forward with executive action on coronavirus relief. He said he was prepared to press on with enhanced unemployment benefits, an eviction moratorium, a payroll tax cut, and student loan relief. But his executive authority remained unclear with Congress holding the power...

Activists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are rallying outside the federal courthouse to protest the Trump administration's deployment of 35 federal agents to the city. The deployment, announced July 22, is ostensibly intended to combat violent crime, but President Donald Trump has sold it in partisan terms, falsely accusing Democratic-led cities of wishing to "abolish" police. The Trump campaign is currently flooding New Mexico with...