James Hohmann

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Politico has just posted a PDF of the 883-page text of the Senate stimulus bill here: https://t.co/2GzMKfUBZ9. Shout if anything really jumps out at you. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our tally of coronavirus cases in the Washington region climbed past 1,000 today as Maryland, Virginia & the District each reported their largest single-day increases. Maryland announced 74 new cases, bringing the total to 424. Virginia reported 101 new cases, for a total of 392. — PolitiTweet.org

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Effective at 10 pm tonight, all nonessential businesses in DC must close. Including barbershops, clothing stores and door to door solicitations. BUT the District’s grocery stores, pharmacies and home goods stores will remain open. So nothing is really changing. — PolitiTweet.org

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All mobile phones in DC just received this alert. The mayor says she’s not issuing a shelter-in-place directive and that residents can leave their homes for essential trips. Cops won’t stop people walking down the street, she says, but may disperse groups playing basketball. 🦠😷 https://t.co/mdD2IuegH5 — PolitiTweet.org

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"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all -- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name. — PolitiTweet.org

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"That's my middle-west -- not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. — PolitiTweet.org

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As a proud Midwesterner, this paragraph from "Gatsby" has always spoken to me. It resonates because it fits with my experience growing up in Apple Valley and then settling on the East Coast. F. Scott Fitzgerald was also a native Minnesotan who went East. Here's the paragraph: — PolitiTweet.org

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Point of personal privilege: Before Trump referred to the Midwest as "the middle west" during tonight's briefing, the last time I remember someone calling it that was Nick Carraway as he described his upbringing in "The Great Gatsby." I just found it in my hard copy of "Gatsby." — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone has a newsletter and a podcast these days... 🤔 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianschatz: Right. So the worst case scenario is literally what the President suggests we do. Got it. Very cool. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Birx accuses some of the scientific models for coronavirus infections/deaths of being overly alarmist and needlessly frightening the American people. She says the worst-case scenarios assume no controls or containment efforts, and she notes that people are distancing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Debbie Birx makes an important point: We don't just need ventilators. We need people who know how to use them, as well. And Dr. Birx notes that the national stoppage on elective surgeries frees up both ventilators and operators. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jdawsey1: "I won't dispute your number," Pence says, when a reporter asks about the Center for Public Integrity report that the nationa… — PolitiTweet.org

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🍦🚘 🕶 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yikes, imagine having to live with fatally infecting a relative with the Spanish flu for 88 years. Powerful moment from Dr. Birx. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dr. Birx says four counties in New York account for 56% of the new cases: NYC, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Pence says the CDC will publish new guidance tomorrow on “the best way to utilize our natural resources at our parks.” He notes that National Parks have waived entrance fees. Folks can enjoy nature, the VP says, and still practice social distancing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Pence says that 432,000 coronavirus tests have been completed in the U.S. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is not exclusive to Pence -- all politicians do it -- but it is funny that the vice president literally describes every single phone call he's ever on as "productive." — PolitiTweet.org

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Politicians jockeying for covid-19 tests find proximity to Trump is the fastest route. Via @eilperin @michaelscherer @seungminkim and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/66v5IFFNNH — PolitiTweet.org

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President Trump is right that he cannot watch "Romeo and Juliet" at the Kennedy Center. But he can read Shakespeare's full play here for free: https://t.co/35S7H5gzLQ — PolitiTweet.org

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President Trump is not exactly signaling that the American people should social distance, etc., as he declares: “It’s time. People want to get back to work.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump just said he personally likes every single leader in the G-20. The G-20 includes China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he personally signed off on the money for the Kennedy Center as a compromise. He says Democrats asked for the money, and "I didn't have a big problem with it." It was in the Republican draft bill too. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is asked about whether he'll relax tariffs. He answers by talking about The Wall. “Before I came here, we weren’t into borders," the president says. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RBReich: "It's hard not to be happy with the job we're doing." — The President of the United States https://t.co/ggoEZKg9vo — PolitiTweet.org

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Our country has 64,764 confirmed cases and 919 reported deaths from the coronavirus. But President Trump is congratulating himself in the White House briefing room. “It’s very lucky you have this group here for this problem – or you wouldn’t even have a country,” he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Steve Holland of Reuters asks Trump how long this stimulus bill will keep the economy afloat. “If we have to go back, we go back,” President Trump says, referring to a possible Phase 4 package. Steven Mnuchin says this bill will keep the economy afloat for three more months. — PolitiTweet.org

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says there will be “a very simple system” by the end of next week for any FDIC-insured bank to give government-backed loans to small businesses “the same day” they ask for them. This seems like it could become ripe for potential abuse. — PolitiTweet.org