SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late Monday that he realized he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and discovering the body.
The state’s top law enforcement officer said he initially thought he hit a deer while driving home from a Republican fundraiser on Saturday night. He is under investigation by the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s economic proposals would yield a faster growing economy, increased wages and would lower the federal debt, a new analysis published Monday from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School suggests.
CBS reports that the findings, which compare Biden’s policy agenda to those of President Donald Trump’s, may offer an edge to Biden who, in spite of leading Trump broadly in the polls, has trailed on economic issues.
The Wharton analysis found that Biden’s proposals on education, infrastructure and health care would mostly pay for themselves by raising taxes, boosting wages and reducing health care costs.
According to the analysis, by 2050 the Biden platform would reduce the federal debt by just over 6 percent while boosting GDP by 0.8 percent relative to existing policy.
“If you got the U.S. on this path, you would lower the debt and raise GDP,” Richard Prisinzano, the director of policy analysis at the nonpartisan group, Penn Wharton Budget Model told CBS. “It is productive spending that Mr. Biden is proposing.”
Wharton school researchers used projections made by the Congressional Budget Office on the status of the economy in ten years according to Trump’s existing plans and 2017 tax cuts to compare against Biden’s proposals to make its assessment.
Biden’s proposal would also increase government spending and raise taxes, largely for higher-income Americans, the analysis found. Almost 80 percent of the increase in taxes under Biden’s tax plan would be shouldered by the top 1 percent of the income distribution.
Wharton’s analysis, which was compiled over several weeks, does not include Biden’s recent proposal to use taxes to penalize companies that move jobs and manufacturing overseas.
Prisinzano told CBS that Penn Wharton could not offer a similar analysis for Trump since the Republican candidate hasn’t offered plans for his second term with enough detail.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning turned the controversy over his indoor rally in Henderson, Nevada on Sunday into an opportunity to baselessly accuse Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) of fixing the state’s ballots to rig the election against him.
President Donald Trump and his campaign are defending decisions to rally indoors, despite the concerns in private by aides who fear that such gatherings could counter efforts to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m on a stage, and it’s very far away,” Trump told The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Monday, after thousands of his supporters — the majority of them not wearing masks — packed inside a manufacturing plant in a Las Vegas suburb on Sunday night, ignoring a state directive that limits indoor gatherings to fewer than 50 people.
The president neither expressed concern for the health of his own supporters nor regard for his own safety, saying of his own risk, “I’m not at all concerned.”
Officials told The New York Times that the Trump campaign’s decision to hold a rally indoors on Sunday night, followed efforts to secure five different outdoor locations and was made as a sort of last resort move even as state officials had pressed them not to host the rally.
Per the Times, Xtreme Manufacturing, which agreed to host the rally was flooded with threats local city officials who said in a letter made public that the city could rightfully charge fines of $500 for every person over the state’s 50-person gathering limit while suspending or revoking the company’s license to do business.
Late Monday, Trump went on the attack in tweets suggesting that Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) had worked “very hard to cancel all of our venues” while accusing the governor of scheming to commit election fraud.
Upcoming Trump rallies in Wisconsin and Minnesota are planned for outdoor airport hangars, the likes of which were seen last week in Freeland, Michigan, where attendees continued to flout masks and even suggested that COVID-19 was a hoax made up to destroy the United States. The upcoming rallies are likely to violate state guidelines limiting attendance to fewer than 50 people.
A top Trump adviser told the Times that the President was playing a game of Russian roulette by holding rallies indoors. The adviser, said that the President’s lax approach could backfire politically.
But a spokesman for the Trump campaign, Tim Murtaugh compared supporters gathering for Trump rallies to “people gambling in casinos” or “protesting shoulder to shoulder,” suggesting that it was a fundamental freedom guaranteed by the Constitution to gather at a rally.
“The fact remains that no one bats an eye at people gambling in casinos or tens of thousands of people protesting shoulder to shoulder. People should be able to gather peacefully under the First Amendment to hear from the president of the United States,” Murtaugh told the Times in an interview.
While defending the decision to gather indoors amid the pandemic, Murtaugh said the campaign’s “first preference” for its venues were airport hangars.
It turns out President Donald Trump made even more private comments acknowledging the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic to reporter Bob Woodward back in April.
Senate health committee ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA) on Monday called for Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar to demand the resignation of Michael Caputo, HHS assistant secretary of public affairs, after he reportedly claimed that a “resistance unit” of “seditious” government scientists at the CDC are working to undermine President Trump. Continue reading “Dem Sen Demands Caputo Resignation After He Reportedly Accused Scientists Of ‘Sedition’”
David Legates has made a career of denying the science behind climate change. And now the University of Delaware professor has a new high-profile gig at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as deputy assistant secretary of Commerce for environmental observation and prediction. Continue reading “Trump’s New NOAA Hire Is A Climate Science Denier Who Rails Against ‘Thug’ Mainstream”
The February fracas around the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone is now being probed by the office of DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, NBC News reported Monday.
Continue reading “NBC: DOJ IG Reviewing Roger Stone Sentencing Memo Debacle”
Once again, the Trump administration is politicizing something it doesn’t understand.
President Trump on Monday continued dismissing climate change as a cause behind the raging wildfires across several West Coast states by making an absurd suggestion in his attempt to bolster his argument that lack of “forest management” is to blame for the ongoing devastation. Continue reading “As POTUS Rants About ‘Explosive Trees,’ Biden Warns Trump Win Means ‘More Of America Ablaze’”
