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11:20 PM ET, March 26, 2022

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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget … The White House will unveil a new minimum tax targeting billionaires as part of its 2023 budget Monday, proposing a direct tax on the richest 700 Americans for the first time, according to five people with knowledge …
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Biden budget to trim $1T from deficits over next decade  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to propose a fiscal 2023 budget Monday that would cut projected deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden to Include Minimum Tax on Billionaires in Budget Proposal  —  The tax would require that American households worth more than $100 million pay at least 20 percent on their full income, as well as unrealized gains in the value of liquid assets like stocks.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:   Biden to Sidestep ‘Build Back Better’ Proposals in His Budget
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’  —  WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring “for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power” and casting the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy.
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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’; White House walks back remark  —  The president also reassured Warsaw of Washington's commitment to NATO and the security of its allies bordering Russia during the last day of his trip to Europe.
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
White House Rushes to Clarify Joe Biden Call to Remove Vladimir Putin from Power
Associated Press:
Biden on Russia's Putin: ‘This man cannot remain in power’
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ as he assures Ukraine: ‘We stand with you’
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ginni Thomas' West Wing contacts raise new questions for another Trump ally: John Eastman  —  Ginni Thomas' unfettered access to Donald Trump's chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump's gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman.
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David French / The Atlantic:
The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas  —  Mark Meadows and the dangerous religious zeal of “Stop the Steal” … Yesterday evening, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a rather extraordinary and disturbing story.  Ginni Thomas, the wife …
Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
QAnon's Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Legal scholars and lawyers who know Justice Thomas say he can no longer ignore his wife's activism
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
Ben Tobias / BBC:
Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine  —  Ukraine's defence ministry says another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson.  —  Rezantsev was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army.
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Washington Post:
Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate  —  The war in Ukraine is proving extraordinarily lethal for Russian generals, the gray men bedecked in service medals, who are being aggressively targeted by Ukrainian forces and killed at a rate not seen since World War II.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Fortenberry resigns from Congress after felony convictions  —  Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) announced Saturday he is resigning from Congress after being convicted of three felonies related to a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions.  —  His decision, which he announced …
Discussion: New York Times, UPI and Roll Call
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Making of Vladimir Putin  —  Tracing Putin's 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  PARIS — Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden …
Maya King / New York Times:
In Georgia, Trump Tries to Revive a Sputtering Campaign  —  The former president held a rally in rural Georgia on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start David Perdue's campaign to unseat Gov. Brian Kemp.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  COMMERCE, Ga., — When Donald Trump recruited David Perdue …
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John L. Dorman / Insider:
Trump's mood ‘soured’ after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp revealed he had already decided to appoint Kelly Loeffler to the Senate before consulting with the president: book
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic … Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looked briefly into the future and saw a calamitous confirmation process for Supreme Court justices and other federal judge nominees: a near total blockade.  —  With Republicans needing …
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
This isn't the U.S. Senate. It's more like day care.
Washington Post:
Russia's failures in Ukraine imbue Pentagon with newfound confidence  —  For more than a decade, the Pentagon, pinned down in Afghanistan, followed China's rise as a global power and Russia's ambitious military modernization program with growing alarm.  The consensus in Beijing …
Discussion: nationalinterest.org and Telegraph
 
 
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Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate
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