Trump News Live: Latest Twitter update as the President attacks officials in Georgia

Without much intervention from the White House or Congress, millions of Americans with student loan debt could be returned to student loan payments, with wages and booked collections resuming after the moratorium expires during the rampant pandemic.

In March, an order was issued by the Department of Education to suspend student loan debt payments, to temporarily stop accrued interest, and to stop collecting troubled federal loans. Writes Alex Woodward.

The Donald Trump administration extended the suspension until the end of January, days after President-elect Joe Biden took office, while relief proposals from the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives reached a dead end with the Republican Senate.

Beijing pledged to respond to the United States after the Donald Trump administration imposed new sanctions on 14 Chinese Communist Party officials.

The restrictions, which include travel bans, are linked to China’s ongoing crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong, where elected opposition politicians have been excluded.

Washington’s sanctions have targeted the vice-chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), the highest decision-making body in the Chinese legislature.

In a press briefing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Beijing will take “strict measures to confront the malicious actions of the United States to protect our sovereignty, our security and our development rights.”

It also urged Mr. Trump to withdraw the decision.

CNN and Politico reported that the Biden administration had appointed Lloyd Austin, a retired Army general, to choose Defense Secretary. Writes Josh Marcus.

If confirmed, Austin, who led US military operations in the Middle East under the Obama administration as head of US Central Command, would be the first black man to hold the position.

Mr. Austin also served as a senior commander in Iraq and was the Army’s first black deputy chief of staff, and the second highest-ranking officer in the service.

Donald Trump’s attorney, Sydney Powell, suffered two defeats in court in Michigan and Detroit as she tried to overturn the president’s election defeat.

A federal judge in Michigan ruled that the lawsuit filed by the conservative attorney was filled with “theories, speculation, and speculation” and dismissed it.

US District Judge Linda Parker ruled against the lawsuit, which asked the state to award its electoral votes to Trump despite his loss there by about 155,000 votes.

The emergency room doctor who criticized Donald Trump for greeting supporters in a motorcade from the car while still ill with Covid-19 reportedly lost his shifts at Walter Reed Hospital.

CBS News You mentioned that James Phillips, a specialist in disaster medicine, is no longer on the hospital’s schedule, starting in January.

After Mr. Trump revealed his Secret Service bodyguards about the virus by asking them to drive, Dr. Phillips tweeted: “Everyone … in the car during that totally unnecessary presidential trip should now be in quarantine for 14 years. Days. They might get sick. They might die … for the political stage. At Trump’s order to endanger their lives on stage. This is crazy. “

The tweet has since been deleted.

Donald Trump continued his attacks on Georgian officials late at night as he was angry that they refused to take seriously his unfounded allegations of vote fraud.

“Georgia is watching,” warned Brian Kemp, the governor, Jeff Duncan, the deputy governor, and Brad Ravensberger, the foreign secretary, that “Georgia is watching.”

Trump also mocked Duncan as “stupid or corrupt” for his lack of support for electoral intrigues.

Georgia yesterday reasserted Joe Biden’s victory in the state after a recount confirmed the result.

The President tweeted a number of clips of TV programs whose hosts have supported him. He is also still claiming publicly that he won the election, which he did not.