A threat over Hong Kong, and controversy in the education world: This is your morning tip sheet.
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The White House steps up pressure on China, Betsy DeVos redistributes the wealth (to the wealthy, her education opponents argue) and the mask wars intensify. It’s Thursday, and this is your politics tip sheet.
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, toured Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.
President Trump has made a spectacle out of his unwillingness to be seen wearing a mask.
He stood before reporters this month without one, even as he acknowledged that the coronavirus had been detected at the White House and that a new office policy would require most of his staff to wear masks at work.
This week, when Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, appeared in public wearing matching black masks, Trump joined conservative pundits in ridiculing them. The president retweeted a post in which Brit Hume, a Fox News host, shared a picture of Biden wearing a mask along with the comment, “This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public.”
Polling shows that a wide majority of Americans say they usually wear a mask in public.
