Congress expires sunday.

Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans of President Donald Trump.

In the few days remaining, GOP senators are ignoring Trump’s demand to increase COVID-19 aid checks to $2,000 and are poised to override his veto of a major defense bill, asserting traditional Republican spending and security priorities in defiance of a president who has marched the party in a different direction.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a top Trump ally, tried to bridge the divide Thursday, saying Congress could try again to approve Trump’s push for bigger COVID aid checks in the new session, which opens Sunday.

Source. https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/31/shutdown-impeachment-virus-chaotic-congress-winds-down/.

It's a busy schedual as new congress opens next week. A complete cluster Fuck of a roll out in vaccine operation warp speed seems to behaving like a 1970s Volkswagen beetle that can't get out of first and traffic is backed up to Denver .

Production ramps up for.moderna

"Two-thousand people of this facility are working tirelessly to deliver on that promise, volunteering for a production shift over Thanksgiving, over Christmas," 

" Catalent president and COO Alessandro Maselli told Pence during a discussion after the tour. "Because everybody understands the mission we are on at this facility."

Catalent is processing 500,000 doses per day, but the factory is hoping to ramp up to a million doses a day to fulfill its contractual obligations and deliver 100 million doses by the end of March.

This needs tempeorary refridgerator freezer space before it's a shot in arm.

This was left to waste. 

Clinicians had to discard about 500 doses of the Moderna vaccine after vials were intentionally removed from refrigeration at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin.

“Earlier this week, we learned that 57 vials of Moderna vaccine were removed from a pharmacy refrigerator at Aurora Medical Center – Grafton overnight, resulting in more than 500 doses of vaccine being discarded,” the clinic said in a statement to NewsNation.

An internal review initially found it was an inadvertent human error until the individual said they intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration.

Source.https://www.cbs17.com/news/500-vaccine-doses-intentionally-removed-from-refrigeration-at-wisconsin-clinic/

The New congress is being sworn into office.

With the exception of the Georgia runoff in the senatr and the special election for the representative in Louisiana. 

 Lindsey Graham Shummer and Sanders will continue to argue for a clean 2000 stimulus bill.

McConnell will continue to object until the election is decided in Georgia.