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The Hill:
Pelosi signals she won't move $3.5T bill without Senate-House deal — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled to colleagues in both chambers that she will not put the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package on the House floor for a vote until it's clear that it can also pass the 50-50 Senate.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer announces Senate-House deal on tax ‘framework’ for $3.5T package — Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday morning announced that the Senate, House and White House have reached a deal on a “framework” to pay for the massive human infrastructure spending package …
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Washington Post:
White House to tell U.S. agencies to prepare for first government shutdown of pandemic — Officials stress the preparations are part of standard practice but come amid multiple vexing fiscal fights in Washington — The White House budget office will tell federal agencies on Thursday …
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Sarah Ewall-Wice / CBS News:
America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of just 8.2%, Biden administration says
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Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside the room of Biden's talks with Dems
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
The new big lie Republicans want you to believe? That there's a puppeteer at the White House.
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The Western Journal
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Democrats Are in Disarray, or Maybe Just Negotiating
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Plans for a Coup Are Now Public — Last year, John Eastman, whom CNN describes as an attorney working with Donald Trump's legal team, wrote a preposterous memo outlining how then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election by fiat or, failing that …
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Washington Post:
Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown — The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite …
Andre J. Ellington / Newsweek:
Steve Bannon Confirms His Involvement in January 6 Insurrection on ‘War Room’ Podcast
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New York Times:
F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans — Regulators said that people over 65 or at high risk of severe Covid-19 were eligible for an extra shot, setting up a staggered national booster campaign. — WASHINGTON — After weeks of internal strife at the Food …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Some experts see signs of hope as COVID cases fall — New coronavirus cases are continuing to decline, and some experts are cautiously optimistic that the virus will continue to wane even into the fall and winter. — The big picture: The next few months are highly uncertain, and some localized outbreaks are all but guaranteed.
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Nearly half of the unvaccinated say they're willing to get a coronavirus shot. The challenge is trying to get it to them.
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Kelly McLaughlin / Yahoo News:
Florida's new surgeon general says COVID-19 vaccines are ‘nothing special’ and opposes mask mandates
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Ricardo Cano / San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland school board 1st in Northern California to require vaccination for students
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Eoin Higgins / The Atlantic:
Not Getting Vaccinated to Own Your Fellow Libs
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Approval of U.S. Supreme Court Down to 40%, a New Low — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court have worsened, with 40%, down from 49% in July, saying they approve of the job the high court is doing. This represents, by two percentage points, a new low in Gallup's trend, which dates back to 2000.
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Associated Press:
Pence Says He Hopes U.S. Supreme Court Will Restrict Abortions
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Sen. Susan Collins won't support abortion rights bill
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Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: New emails reveal Hunter Biden asked for $2 million plus ‘success fees’ to help unfreeze Libyan assets … Two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate that the president's son requested an annual retainer of $2 million to help recover billions …
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The 'We're Just as Bad as Russia' Crowd
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CNN:
Anxious Democrats float Plan B: Raise debt ceiling on party-line vote — Moody's chief economist: US default would be ‘cataclysmic’ — (CNN)A number of key Democrats say that their party should take matters into its own hands and raise the national debt limit by itself once Republicans block …
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
The U.S. Debt-Ceiling Drama Is Back, But Democrats Can Finally Break the Cycle
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kill the debt limit now, Democrats. If you don't, here's what will happen.
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Washington Post:
U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians — The U.S. special envoy for Haiti has quit his job in a blistering resignation letter saying he could not be associated with the Biden administration's decision …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson Blows Up Murdoch's White Supremacy Denial on Air — Last spring, Fox News host Tucker Carlson used one of his inflammatory monologues to accuse the Biden administration of “trying to replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.”
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Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Lauren Boebert paid rent and utilities with campaign funds, FEC filings show — Republican congresswoman later reimbursed her campaign for $6,650 — Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent and utility bills with campaign funds in violation of federal campaign finance laws, new filings with the Federal Election Commision show.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Trump 2024 Would Beat Either Biden or Harris — Voters are divided on whether former President Donald Trump should run again in 2024, but most would vote for him in a race against either President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone …
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Rep. Billy Long / Washington Examiner:
Biden and Harris are unfit for office and should resign
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Fox News
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Sends Out Three Increasingly Furious Late-Night Statements in 77 Mins — U OK? — Donald Trump is doing fine, and don't let three absolutely raging statements sent out within 77 minutes make you think otherwise. The first, posted by his spokeswoman Wednesday night …
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt CIA and FBI to Tar Trump — White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme …
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Real Clear Politics
Donald J. Trump:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America — I spent virtually no time with Senators Mike Lee of Utah, or Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, talking about the 2020 Presidential Election Scam or, as it is viewed by many, the “Crime of the Century.”
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Geoff Dembicki / VICE:
Rupert Murdoch Has Known We've Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show — Murdoch's News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether. — GD
Colin Woodard / Politico:
Maine Braces Itself for Paul LePage — LEWISTON, Maine — Remember Paul LePage? Sure you do. He's the former governor of Maine who has called himself, accurately enough, “Donald Trump before Donald Trump” — a hot-headed, vulgar and sometimes erratic figure who regularly made international headlines …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Has Covid Cost Australia Its Love for Freedom? — Half the country is locked down, and its borders remain closed. But most Australians are willing to make these sacrifices in pursuit of a collective freedom from fear of the virus. — SYDNEY, Australia — In the war against the coronavirus's …
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
A year after Trump said he wanted to “get rid of the ballots,” has the press learned anything? — “That particular question was the precursor to everything that followed - the Big Lie, the Insurrection and what we're living with as far as Trump being in denial about the election results...”
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