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]]>The financially strained U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Tuesday it would cancel the planned furlough of 13,000 workers scheduled for Sunday after sustained bipartisan pressure from Congress.
“Averting this furlough comes at a severe operational cost that will increase backlogs and wait times across the board, with no guarantee we can avoid future furloughs,” USCIS Deputy Director for Policy Joseph Edlow said.
“A return to normal operating procedures requires congressional intervention to sustain the agency through fiscal year 2021,” he added.
The Homeland Security agency, which processes applications for visas, asylum and citizenship, had announced potential furloughs in May after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States.
The agency, which gets a considerable portion of its funding from fees, was projected to have a $571 million deficit as the country went into lockdown, and announced furloughs for late July.
But a combination of cost-cutting measures and an increase in fee revenue have improved its financial situation, leading to a delay and ultimately the cancelation of the furloughs.
A recent estimate found that USCIS would finish the year with a surplus of $230 million and remain solvent at least through November, by which point new funding should be in place.
The spending cuts, however, mean the agency will operate less efficiently, and it anticipates longer wait times for processing cases and inquiries.
Bipartisan members of Congress, including the top Democrats and Republicans on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security in both chambers, had called on USCIS to refrain from furloughing workers.
“The USCIS financial situation has improved considerably since the agency first made Congress aware of a potential need for emergency appropriated funds,” they wrote in a joint letter earlier this week.
“USCIS’s improved financial position and the continued efforts by Congress to ensure the agency’s operational continuity warrant a further delay in furloughs and contract reductions,” they added.
Sen. Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph LeahySenate Democrats demand answers on migrant child trafficking during pandemic Yates spars with GOP at testy hearing Vermont has a chance to show how bipartisanship can tackle systemic racism MORE (Vt.), the top Democratic appropriator in the Senate, had been pushing on the issue for months.
“It is welcome news that these women and men will be able to continue to assist the thousands of United States Citizens, employers, and students in Vermont and around the country who rely on the work of USCIS and would have been impacted by the loss of services,” he said.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn
John CornynPandemic takes starring role in campaign ads Enough legal games — we need to unleash American energy Three pros and three cons to Biden picking Harris MORE (R), who is up for reelection in November, said the cuts would have crippled the immigration system and left many in limbo.
“The coronavirus pandemic already leaves us with so much uncertainty for the future, and I’m glad USCIS will continue to help families achieve the American Dream,” he said.
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]]>U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the White House residence after exiting Marine One on the South Lawn on June 25, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump tweeted that he abruptly canceled a planned trip to New Jersey on Friday to “make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced” in Washington, D.C.
Trump’s late afternoon Twitter post was the first time he or the White House explained the sudden cancellation on Friday morning of his scheduled visit this weekend to his golf course in Bedminster, NJ.
The White House earlier had said that the cancellation was unrelated to a new order by Gov. Phil Murphy requiring visitors to the Garden State to quarantine after being in states with increasing numbers of coronavirus cases.
“I was going to go to Bedminster, New Jersey, this weekend, but wanted to stay in Washington, D.C. to make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced,” Trump wrote in his Twitter post.
“The arsonists, anarchists, looters, and agitators have been largely stopped. .. I am doing what is necessary to keep our communities safe — and these people will be brought to Justice!”
The president soon afterward tweeted that he had just signed “a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combating recent Criminal Violence.”
Trump’s tweets came a day after sources told NBC News that Trump personally called Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt and asked that the Park Service put back up a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general, which was pulled down and set on fire last week by protesters in a Washington park.
On Monday, protesters tied ropes around the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, just across from the White House, but were scattered by police using pepper spray before they could topple the statue.
On Thursday, law enforcement authorities put up barriers around the Emancipation Memorial in the Capitol Hill area to prevent it from potential damage from protesters. Some protesters have called for removal of the memorial, which depicts President Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation, as a Black man kneels at Lincoln’s feet.
The U.S. has seen protests nationwide calling for reform of police and the removal of Confederate statues and other memorials seen as objectionable on the heels of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, on Memorial Day by Minneapolis police.
Four now-fired cops have been arrested and charge in Floyd’s death, which occurred after one of them, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his neck for nearly eight minutes during an arrest.
Murphy, the New Jersey governor, told CNBC earlier Friday that his coronavirus quarantine order would not have applied to Trump, because “by any definition the president of the United States is an essential worker.”
Two days ago, a White House spokesman that Trump still planned to go to New Jersey despite Murphy’s order, which mirrors identical directives issued this week by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont to visitors who had been in a number of states with rising coronavirus cases.
Trump traveled to Arizona on Tuesday for an event at a church. Arizona has an increasing number of Covid-19 cases.
“The president of the United States is not a civilian,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said Wednesday when asked about Trump’s planned trip there on the heels of Murphy’s order.
“Anyone who is in close proximity to him, including staff, guests, and press are tested for COVID-19 and confirmed to be negative,” Deere said then.
“With regard to Arizona, the White House followed it’s COVID mitigation plan to ensure the President did not come into contact with anyone who was symptomatic or had not been tested.”
“Anyone traveling in support of the president this weekend will be closely monitored for symptoms and tested for COVID.”
Murphy, during an interview earlier on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” spoke about Trump’s then-scheduled visit, which the governor said would not be in conflict with his quarantine order.
“There is a carve out for essential workers and by any definition the president of the United States is an essential worker so the president is welcome obviously in New Jersey,” Murphy said.
After the cancellation of Trump’s was announced by the White House, Murphy reiterated that exemption for the president, and told the reporters that “there was no either private or public signal from us otherwise.”
On Thursday, Trump visited the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he delivered remarks about a multibillion-dollar contract for the facility to a cheering crowd.
During that appearance Trump repeated a claim that the U.S. is seeing an increase in coronavirus cases because it is testing more extensively than other countries.
“We have the greatest testing program in the world. We’ve developed it over a period of time. And we’re up to almost 30 million tests,” Trump said.
“That means we’re going to have more cases. If we didn’t want to test, or if we didn’t test, we wouldn’t have cases. But we have cases because we test. Deaths are down. We have one of the lowest mortality rates.”
The United States has had more than 2.4 million Covid-19 reported cases and 124,468 related deaths. The number of cases and deaths in the U.S. account for 25% of the total number of cases and deaths worldwide.
— Additional reporting by CNBC’s Tucker Higgins.
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]]>EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable. A week after Live P.D. was pulled in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the reality series’ hiatus has been made permanent.
The decision was made jointly by A&E and MGM’s Big Fish Entertainment, which produces the show.
“This is a critical time in our nation’s history and we have made the decision to cease production on Live PD,” the network said in a statement to Deadline. “Going forward, we will determine if there is a clear pathway to tell the stories of both the community and the police officers whose role it is to serve them. And with that, we will be meeting with community and civil rights leaders as well as police departments.”
The cancelation of Live P.D. comes a day after Paramount Network pulled the plug on another docuseries featuring the police, the long-running Cops. At the time, A&E was still evaluating whether the show could come back at the right time. Last night, Live P.D. host Dan Abrams addressed the show’s viewers on Twitter.
“To all of you asking whether #LivePD coming back. . .The answer is yes,” he wrote. “All of us associated with the show are as committed to it as ever. We are still discussing some specifics but I want to assure the #LivePDNation that we are not abandoning you.”
Ultimately, both the network and the production company on Wednesday came to the conclusion that there was currently no path forward for the show in its current form as protesters and politicians are calling for a police reform following the death of Floyd while restrained by a cop during arrest.
This week, Austin outlets reported on the March 2019 death of Javier Ambler during a police stop, which was allegedly captured by the Live P.D. crew but the video has been destroyed.
The cancelation comes a month after A&E renewed Live PD for an additional 160 episodes.
Airing Friday and Saturday nights from 9 PM-12 AM, Live P.D. was ad-supported cable’s #1 show on Fridays and Saturdays in 2019 and has helped A&E become a leading cable network. The series had risen to the top spots in all cable during the pandemic when live sports were suspended, drawing a total of about 3 million viewers per weekend.
Here is Abrams’ reaction to the news of Live P.D.’s cancelation:
Shocked & beyond disappointed about this. To the loyal #LivePDNation please know I, we, did everything we could to fight for you, and for our continuing effort at transparency in policing. I was convinced the show would go on. . More to come. . .https://t.co/WWh7fDrig2
— Dan Abrams (@danabrams) June 11, 2020
Live P.D. was hosted by Abrams with analysis from Tom Morris Jr. and Sgt. Sean ‘Sticks’ Larkin. It followed police departments from across the country in real time as they patrol their towns. Executive producers for Big Fish Entertainment were Dan Cesareo, Lucilla D’Agostino and John Zito.
When it launched in 2016, Live P.D. marked a logistical breakthrough by being able to pull off a complex live broadcast from multiple locations at a reasonable cost. It launched a whole genre of live docuseries and was followed by such shows as M.D. Live on TNT and First Responders Live on Fox, but remained the most successful in the field.
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]]>2020 Cumberland Fair canceled due to coronavirus outbreak
Organizers have canceled the 2020 Cumberland Fair due to the coronavirus outbreak.In a letter posted on the fair’s Facebook page, Lyle Merrifieild, President of the Cumberland Farmers Club, said it would not be possible to put on the event and adhere to the adjustments recommended by the CDC, such as physical distancing.Merrifield said many events and attractions would have been eliminated, and the overall look and feel would be significantly changed if the fair had happened.The Cumberland County Fair has happened every year since 1868 with the exception of 1919 and 1920 during the Spanish Flu pandemic.Organizers have started to plan next year’s fair, which is scheduled for September 26 – October 2, 2021.
CUMBERLAND, Maine —
Organizers have canceled the 2020 Cumberland Fair due to the coronavirus outbreak.
In a letter posted on the fair’s Facebook page, Lyle Merrifieild, President of the Cumberland Farmers Club, said it would not be possible to put on the event and adhere to the adjustments recommended by the CDC, such as physical distancing.
Merrifield said many events and attractions would have been eliminated, and the overall look and feel would be significantly changed if the fair had happened.
The Cumberland County Fair has happened every year since 1868 with the exception of 1919 and 1920 during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Organizers have started to plan next year’s fair, which is scheduled for September 26 – October 2, 2021.
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