All News Articles for 2020-08-08

Saturday, August 8, 2020
US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November
One progressive critic called the president's promise "a full-on declaration of war against current and future Social Security beneficiaries."
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A woman walks into a Brooklyn Post Office on August 05, 2020 in New York City. President Trump in recent weeks has called the Postal Service "a joke" as the agency is experiences delays in mail delivery due to the coronavirus pandemic and financial pressures. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) 'This Is a Five-Alarm Fire': With 2020 Election at Stake, Call Goes Up for Mass Mobilization to Save Postal Service
"Can't stress this enough— if the USPS is sabotaged, this will amount to the greatest voter suppression campaign in history."
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 7, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) 'Executive Order Stunt No Substitute for Real Relief,' Say Progressives of Legally Dubious Trump Proposal
Coalition accuses Republican Party of "abandoning their constituents and the country as a whole, and causing chaos and turmoil by refusing to negotiate on COVID-19 relief."
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