Senate Republicans are having a couple of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weeks
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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the difference between “inside” and the rest of society. With crowding, inadequate funding and inconsistent medical care, prisons have become hotbeds of the outbreak ― with a heavy cost also paid on the outside. POLITICO Magazine's second Justice Reform package looks at movements to improve prisons and how the epidemic has affected them.— The push to rename bases named for Confederate leaders is officially bipartisan.
. The panel ultimately advanced the bill — which will be named after the retiring ex-chairman Mac Thornberry — on a 56-0 vote.President Trump vowed to veto the final Pentagon policy bill over the push to eliminate Confederate-linked names from the bases. The Senate GOP’s reaction? Mostly “meh,” with some Republicans noting that the bill might not actually reach his desk until November.
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