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The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is set to reopen its doors to tours and guests on March 1 for a full season after its routine winter break.

Snagging a bit from the next chapter (aren't y'all proud that it's not like... 3-4 chapters away this time?) of Truth <3. Hopefully @ladynox and I can get it edited up and posted soon.

--- Guerin was lounging on a bench with a coffee in his hand, legs extended out into the hallway. He looked long and lean and so utterly fuckable. Alex had to let out a slow breath, fighting an utterly absurd flash of anger at how damn good he looked.

Guerin looked up, so that the brim of his hat was no longer in his eyes. Just staring at Alex, flatly.

“Guerin,” Alex started. Fucking hell. He probably should apologize for being an asshole, right? That’s what people did. “I’m..”

“Relieved aliens don’t look like a knickknack you buy at a Roswell gas station? Yeah me too,” Guerin cut him off, his voice tight, getting up and tossing his empty cup. “Find anything?” He nodded toward the room Alex had been working in.

Alex wasn’t sure if he was grateful for the out or not. “Not really. But I-” He stopped, the words freezing in his throat as a new figure stepped into the hallway, from the observation room directly next to the interrogation room he’d been in.

A refusal to support the assistance this time likely would doom any new legislation. Aid to state and local governments, whose tax revenues have plummeted due to the pandemic-induced economic downturn, has been a non-negotiable demand of House and Senate Democrats.

New Jersey lost $1.4 billion in tax revenue in the 2020 fiscal year due to the coronavirus and is projecting a $4.3 billion shortfall in the current fiscal year, according to the state Treasury Department.

The loss wasn’t limited to Democratic-run states. Texas saw a $4.4 billion shortfall in the 2020 fiscal year and a projected $8.8 billion shortfall in 2021, while Florida had a $1.9 billion shortfall in the 2020 fiscal year and a projected $3.4 billion shortfall in 2021, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive research group.

“It’s a joke to claim this is some sort of blue state giveaway,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist. “The whole country is facing a crisis right now.”

Gottheimer met Tuesday with members of both houses and both parties to discuss a way forward on stimulus, and said congressional leaders needed to make the compromises needed to make a deal.

“People are really hurting,” he told NJ Advance Media. “The idea that we’re going to play games, that either side is going to posture while people are in dire need of help, is to me just pathetic. People have a right to be pissed off.”

“Both sides have to go in there with good faith and understand they’re not going to get everything they want,” he said.

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McConnell has tried twice to no avail to pass a $500 billion stimulus package with funds for small businesses and extra unemployment insurance, which Democrats support, but also additional taxpayer subsidies for religious and other private schools and protections against lawsuits for businesses if their customers or employees became infected with COVID-19.

These hearings will bring in all to hear the corruption that this false WH has done.  From him to his family to his associates.