Don’t mask with Texas

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Texas lifts its coronavirus measures requiring masks and allows businesses to reopen. President Biden’s first failed Cabinet nomination. And the building that reminds people of … the poop emoji.

Politics reporter Philip Bump breaks down Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott’s decision to reopen the state’s businesses and lift its mask mandate — and why it’s not an opportune time to do it.

White House reporter Seung Min Kim explains why Neera Tanden, President Biden’s controversial pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, withdrew her nomination after facing opposition from both Democrats and Republicans.

The strangely shaped Helix is a distraction, art and architecture critic Phillip Kennicott writes. There’s a lot more to Amazon’s new D.C.-area headquarters than meets the eye.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:06.0	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hey, it's Philip Rucker at the Washington Post. Do you have a minute?
0:12.0	Hi, this is Dan Zag.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, March 3rd.
0:22.0	Today, the Texas decision to reopen.
0:27.0	The denomination of near-attendent.
0:30.0	And how Amazon is using architecture to distract us.
0:36.0	Too many Texans have been sideline from employment opportunities.
0:43.0	Too many small business owners have struggled to pay their bills.
0:48.0	This must end.
0:58.0	Last night, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas will be fully scaling back its efforts to contain the coronavirus.
1:04.0	Also, I am ending the statewide mask mandate.
1:12.0	Both rescinding the mask mandate, which he put in a place in early July of last year, and also opening up businesses like restaurants and bars to full capacity.
1:20.0	All businesses of any time are allowed to open 100%.
1:29.0	No longer having any restriction on the number of people that could be there.
1:33.0	That is Philip Bump. He's a National Politics Correspondent for the Post.
1:37.0	And he's spoke with producer Jordan Murray Smith about what this big decision signals for the rest of the country.
1:45.0	Okay. That seems just to be honest, like a bad idea.
1:50.0	So I'm kind of curious as to why this is happening now.
1:54.0	I think a lot of people are curious why this is happening now.
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