{"id":143596,"date":"2020-05-10T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/10\/coronavirus-us-live-death-toll-nears-80000-as-trump-rages-over-russia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:50:30","slug":"coronavirus-us-live-death-toll-nears-80000-as-trump-rages-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143596","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus US live: death toll nears 80,000 as Trump rages over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fauci and two other task force members to self-quarantineCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updatesGet a fresh perspective on America \u2013 sign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.50pm BST Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has been talking to Fox News Sunday about the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to reopen and restart the stalled US economy, and whether there will be another huge stimulus bill. Democrats who control the House want one of those but the White House doesn\u2019t \u2013 that\u2019s the short version.The White House is \u201cabsolutely pushing for a payroll tax cut\u201d, Mnuchin says. Most observers think that is a non-starter, because Democrats won\u2019t let it. Payroll taxes, meaning deductions from regular paychecks, include funds for Social Security and Medicare, vital social benefits. Related: US job losses have reached Great Depression levels. Did it have to be that way? 2.33pm BST After Elon Musk sued local authorities in California and threatened to move Tesla\u2019s HQ to Texas or Nevada, over attempts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, one Democratic state politician had a blunt message for the electronic car magnate: \u201cF*ck Elon Musk.\u201dLorena S Gonzalez from San Diego, who describes herself on Twitter as a \u201cMama, Labor Leader turned CA Assemblywoman [and] Progressive Latina Democrat\u201d, tweeted the pithy rebuke on Saturday night, earning predictable press attention. She did not immediately comment further.Musk has been pushing to reopen Tesla\u2019s Fremont, California, factory after Alameda county\u2019s health department said the carmaker must not reopen because local lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in effect.Tesla filed a lawsuit against the county on Saturday, calling the continued restrictions a \u2018power grab\u2019 by the county since California\u2019s governor had said on Thursday that manufacturers in the state would be allowed to reopen. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/may\/10\/coronavirus-us-latest-news-updates-death-toll-donald-trump-russia-anthony-fauci-quarantine\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus US live: death toll nears 80,000 as Trump rages over Russia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fauci and two other task force members to self-quarantineCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updatesGet a fresh perspective on America \u2013 sign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.50pm BST Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has been talking to Fox News Sunday about the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to reopen and restart the stalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}