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Basket of deplorables. " Basket of deplorables " is a pejorative phrase from a 2016 US presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising event. She used the phrase to describe "half" of the supporters of her opponent, Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying they ...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, [b][1] also known as the CARES Act, [2] is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [3][4] The spending ...
In response, Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) on March 27, 2020 which helped maintain family incomes and savings during the crisis, but contributed to a $3.1 trillion budget deficit (14.9% GDP) for fiscal year 2020, the largest since 1945 relative to the size of the economy.
The head-shaking comment drew immediate comparisons to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remark in 2016 that half of Trump’s supporters should be “put into the basket of deplorables.”
Republicans quickly drew parallels to Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” in 2016 — but said Biden’s direct slight was even worse. “Obama called us ...
It’s similar to right before the 2016 election when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters "deplorables." Just like eight years ago, Republicans have once again circled the wagons and are using ...
On March 2, 2020, Trump told the media that he had heard that a COVID-19 vaccine would be available in "a matter of months", with "a year [being] an outside number", after Trump attended a discussion where Fauci told him this process would take "a year to a year and a half" (at a minimum, Fauci later said). During that discussion, Trump ...
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment during Trump's presidency peaked in April 2020 at 14.8%, heavily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rate was the highest of any month since the ...