{"id":4455,"date":"2020-05-07T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:17:01","slug":"another-cares-act-lawsuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/05\/07\/another-cares-act-lawsuit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another CARES Act Lawsuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4462\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/caresactactaxlrose.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/caresactactaxlrose.png 1194w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/caresactactaxlrose-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/caresactactaxlrose-1024x690.png 1024w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/caresactactaxlrose-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As tribes continue to battle the Trump administration for the coronavirus relief they were promised by their trustee, is there another CARES Act dispute brewing in America?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly looks like it, judging from the way Twitter lit up on the evening of May 6, 2020. It started when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\">Axl Rose<\/a>, the famed frontman of recently reunited Guns N&#8217; Roses, criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\">Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin<\/a>, whose handling of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund remains the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/2020\/05\/06\/a-slap-in-the-face-for-indian-country-tr.asp\">litigation in federal court and of criticism in Indian Country and on Capitol Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s official!&#8221; singer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE\">occasional pianist<\/a> Rose wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\/status\/1258161648184905728\">in a post<\/a> that has garnered more than 79,000 likes and more than 10,000 retweets as of the time of the screenshot above on the morning of May 7.&nbsp;&#8220;Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he\u2019s officially an asshole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he\u2019s officially an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Axl Rose (@axlrose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\/status\/1258161648184905728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rose, notably, did not mention Mnuchin through Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;@&#8221; function. Nor did he attempt to draw anyone else into what was then a rather vague yet pointed post.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t stop Mnuchin from getting involved even as he&nbsp;faces off against tribal nations at one<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=4450\"> court hearing on May 7<\/a> and more of them in another one on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What have you done for the country lately?&#8221; Mnuchin responded. He followed it with an emoji of a flag that looked like America&#8217;s good ole red, white and blue.<\/p>\n<p>Except it wasn&#8217;t. It was the flag for Liberia. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinoyOlas\/status\/1258219560915746816\">Twitter noticed<\/a>. So did Rose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My bad I didn\u2019t get we\u2019re hoping 2 emulate Liberia\u2019s economic model,&#8221; Rose clapped back.<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin, whose short <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/following\">&#8220;Following&#8221; list<\/a>&nbsp;includes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/U2\">U2<\/a>&nbsp;along with a bunch of Republicans and fellow Trump acolytes, eventually deleted his Liberian patriot post. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/status\/1258190359756226563\">replaced it with one<\/a> showing the flag of the country he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/faqs\/About-Treasury\/Pages\/officials.aspx\">swore to protect<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1tfRJzl87QA\">hand on the Bible<\/a> and all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What have you done for the country lately? \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steven Mnuchin (@stevenmnuchin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/status\/1258190359756226563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He also used Twitter&#8217;s reply function, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/with_replies\">making sure that everyone knows<\/a> what he&#8217;s talking about while the Trump administration promotes its &#8220;whole-of-government&#8221; approach to the coronavirus, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=4326\">White House says includes the first Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the dispute attracted even more attention, Rose had already gotten ahead of the game by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\/status\/1258265406050951169\">explaining to his newly expanded following<\/a> what prompted his original missive, which was only the third on his Twitter account since the &#8220;official&#8221; start &#8212; at least in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak\/\">eyes of the president<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Rose was upset about <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxbusiness.com\/v\/6154047417001\/#sp=show-clips\">Mnuchin encouraging people to travel domestically<\/a>: &#8220;but on the real unlike this admin I\u2019m not responsible for 70k+ deaths n\u2019 unlike u I don\u2019t hold a fed gov position of responsibility 2 the American people n\u2019 go on TV tellin them 2 travel the US during a pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin&#8217;s remarks, incidentally, aired on Fox Business on May 4, the same the Department of the Treasury finally formalized a distribution formula &#8212; sort of &#8212; for the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund that was promised to tribal governments more than a month ago. The announcement about the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=4247\">distribution of a portion of the money<\/a> was made on the morning of May 5.<\/p>\n<p>The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tribes continue to battle the Trump administration for the coronavirus relief they were promised by their trustee, is there another CARES Act dispute brewing in America?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[489,390,205,330,235],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","category-updates","tag-axl-rose","tag-cares-act","tag-h-r-748","tag-steve-mnuchin","tag-treasury"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}