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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The slightly watered-down lawsuit ban would still trump labor laws and stifle OSHA enforcement huffpost.com/entry/coronavi… w @jamieson
Dem leaders haven’t signaled they’ll take the bipartisan COVID deal without state aid. Dunno what’s gonna happen.

McConnell has suggested he would, but not actually said so, because in his public remarks he pretends the bipartisan group isn’t happening & refers to his own bills
He also still says there’s gonna be an epidemic of lawsuits like he’s been promising since spring and there still isn’t one
epidemic of lawsuits

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16 Dec
The emerging COVID deal negotiated by party leaders includes the extra $300 in unemployment agreed to by the "908 coalition" huffpost.com/entry/coronavi… w/ @taragolshan
That figure is far less than the extra $600 that had been added in the springtime, but still more than the federal government has ever added to benefits before 2020.
Not clear if other aspects of the previously negotiated deal will be included. It called for reauthorizing federal programs for another four months and providing an extra 16 weeks of eligibility.
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8 Dec
McConnell now says set aside the liability shield and also extra money for state and local governments until next year
this would be a grand non-bargain!

unemployment insurance and payroll protection would remain
on the one hand, states have lost much tax revenue because coronavirus is hurting economic activity.

on the other, there is no "tidal wave" of coronavirus lawsuits 🤔
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8 Dec
McConnell’s liability proposal would require plaintiffs to prove the defendant willfully exposed them to illness and list all their contacts the 14 days before symptom onset before a trial could start m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Companies could sue people for sending letters interpreted as legal threats over coronavirus exposure and US attorneys could prosecute them
Public Citizen's @ragregg says it would squelch suits like the one against Tyson Foods.

“The procedural hurdles would make it nearly impossible to bring a lawsuit and the substantive changes to the law would create an almost insurmountable difficulties in proving their case."
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7 Dec
Democrats have embraced the big compromise framework but Mitch McConnell hasn't
As far as we know McConnell remains fully insistent on blocking lawsuits and has not accepted a weaker version of what he previously proposed
Even after he said there would be a "tidal wave of lawsuits" and there simply hasn't been
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7 Dec
The White House is reviewing a possible major change to the way Social Security evaluates whether someone is disabled reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge…
I got an outline of this proposal earlier this year. Even if your disabilities made it impossible to work 40 hours per week, you could be denied benefits if you could sit at a desk part time huffpost.com/entry/trump-di…
The proposed regulation is still early in the process and there is no way they could finalize it before Biden takes office
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9 Aug
Trump didn’t extend unemployment benefits yesterday.

He told states to set up a “lost wages assistance program” in coordination with FEMA, DHS and DOL and it’s gonna be a dang mess

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
It also seems, like, illegal. But a real shame if people think this is going to pay them next week
The memorandum is in plain English and you can see that this is insanely complicated.

Obvious, key context: states have already failed utterly to implement simpler policies in timely fashion. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
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