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Moderna Inc: COVID19 Vaccine 94.5% effective

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Moderna Inc announced Monday that its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19. They noted that the information was based on “interim data from a late-stage clinical trial.”

Moderna follows Pfizer in producing a vaccine against the deadly COVID19 virus. President Donald Trump and his administration hailed the new vaccine as a success and its push to get a vaccine to the public through its initiative Operation Warp Speed.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany “Big News!”

“Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s highly successful Operation Warp Speed, a second vaccine (Moderna) has shown high efficacy in Phase 3 clinical trial,” McEnany said on Twitter. “This news comes just after Pfizer likewise proved successful. Big wins for all!!”

Pfizer Inc’s vaccine is said to be 90% effective in its phase three trial. Currently its waiting for more reviews before it will be made available for the public.

Reuters reported that the U.S. could have two authorized vaccines for emergency use as early as December and as many as 60 million doses of vaccine available before the end fo the year.

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House passes debt-ceiling deal with support from two thirds of GOP caucus

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After hours of debate, the House voted Wednesday night to approve a bipartisan debt-ceiling deal, taking a step toward averting a default on U.S. debt. The measure passed with 314 members voting in favor and 117 members voting in opposition.  149 Republicans and 165 Democrats voted to approve the bill, while 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats voted against it.

National Review writes the measure’s passage secures “a victory for House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who managed to keep his caucus together despite a challenge from House Freedom Caucus members intent on securing greater spending concessions from the Biden White House.”

The bill will now head to the Senate. McCarthy said the measure is the “largest spending cut that Congress has ever voted for,” but faced opposition from members of his caucus who believe the deal “didn’t go far enough in restoring pre-Covid spending levels.”

In his speech on the House floor Wednesday before the vote, McCarthy pleaded with his colleagues to support what he had bargained for with Biden:

“They demanded a clean debt limit, which really means they spend more and you pay more in taxes. House Republicans said ‘no’,” McCarthy said.“Over the past four months, we fought hard to change how Washington works. We stopped the Democrats from writing a blank check after the largest spending binge in American history… The Fiscal Responsibility Act is the biggest spending cut in American history.”

National Review reports:

The agreement suspends the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt limit through January 1, 2025, and caps spending in the 2024 and 2025 budgets.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the deal will reduce budget deficits by about $1.5 trillion between 2023 and 2033. Director of the CBO Phillip Swagel projected that there would be reductions in discretionary outlays of $1.3 trillion over the 2024–2033 period. Mandatory spending would decrease by $10 billion, revenues would decrease by $2 billion over the same period, and the interest on the public debt would decline by $188 billion.

Biden warned of the consequences of default, saying what would follow would include an economic recession, devastated retirement accounts, and millions of jobs lost.

“I made clear from the start of negotiations that the only path forward was a bipartisan budget agreement,” explained Biden on Twitter. “No one got everything they wanted. But that’s the responsibility of governing.”

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