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According to a report from Politico on the ongoing issues former Donald Trump administration officials are having in finding gainful employment, add former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the list of those with limited prospects.
Meadows, who resigned his seat in the House to work for Trump, was the last of the president's White House chiefs of staff and now finds himself on the outs in Washington, D.C., where former lawmakers often slide into lobbyist jobs.
On Monday, the New York Post reported that the top ten richest people in the world made enough money last year to vaccinate every single person on the planet for COVID-19.
"The 10 richest billionaires saw their collective wealth increase by $540 billion from March 18 — around the time the coronavirus caused a historic crash in global stock markets — through Dec. 31, according to Oxfam's analysis of Forbes wealth data," reported Noah Manskar. "That's more than enough to cover the estimated $141.2 billion cost of producing, distributing and delivering COVID-19 vaccines for the entire global population, the nonprofit said in its Monday report."
Days into the new government, it's clear that Joe Biden is running an energetic, activist White House while new Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still stuck in the same stalled Senate that he served in the ever-victimized minority.
Whatever else you want to say about Schumer, he's no Lyndon Baines Johnson, who dominated as a Senate majority leader, or even Harry Reid.
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