The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the health crisis and recession.

The Trump administration is threatening to cut federal aid to cities that do not follow its approach to policing and civil unrest.

The Wall Street Journal published a news story suggesting that public schools face ruin without more federal aid.

The Wall Street Journal has published a biased news story regarding state budgets.

In response to the crisis, federal policymakers have passed a series of aid packages providing hundreds of billions of dollars to state and local governments.

Congress is debating legislation meant to address police misconduct along with a further aid package for state and local governments struggling with budget deficits.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden said that he does not favor defunding police but instead “conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness.”

Some protestors are calling for defunding the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death and other incidents of police misconduct.

Amid the outcry over George Floyd’s death and subsequent protests, some people are calling for defunding the police.

A Wall Street Journal news article by David Harrison claims, “State and local government spending and employment levels didn’t fully recover from the 2007-09 recession until last fall, a decade after the downturn ended and only a few months before the coronavirus led to a new round of cuts.”