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NBC News:
Trump is having trouble getting cash for his bond.  And he's growing frustrated.  —  The former president is in the unprecedented position of attempting to raise cash for both his campaign and his legal battles.  —  The prospect that Donald Trump may fail to post a bond by Monday's deadline …
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Politico:
Trump has an early lead on Biden.  But problems are piling up around him.  —  Missteps and unresolved policy problems are mounting for the former president.  —  Donald Trump is walking back recent comments about cutting Social Security.  He's searching for an elusive abortion message …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump is broke.  That's bad news for the GOP.  —  President Biden, meanwhile, is loaded. … Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump owes the state of New York $454 million for being a fraudulent businessman who lied about the value of his assets for years.
Ray Brescia / The Daily Beast:
These Under-the-Radar Rulings in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Are Really Bad for Trump  —  The brief delay in the New York trial is just a small victory for Trump.  The really consequential stuff hasn't gone his way lately. … Revelations that the Department of Justice recently disclosed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Kinzinger:
Trump Stumps With Fascist Cosplay  —  His campaign is following the dictatorship blueprint  —  Weak, tiny, and scared, Trump is doing the only think he know...look tough to cover the weakness.  —  About our democracy — “If we don't win this election, I don't think you're going to have another election in this country,”
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump leadership PAC racks up millions in legal bills amid courtroom fights  —  The PAC paid $5.6 million in legal bills last month.  —  Donald Trump's leadership PAC spent another $5.6 million on legal expenses in February, furthering a trend that has seen the former president put valuable campaign dollars into his courtroom fights.
NBC News:
Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick
The Daily Beast:
Trump's PAC Burned $230,000 a Day on Legal Bills in February
Discussion: Forbes and Political Wire
Rachel Dobkin / Newsweek:
Barron Trump ‘Fair Game’ Comment Enrages Republicans
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Biden impeachment hearing descends into chaos as lawmaker caught on hot mic branding it ‘Jurassic Park’  —  'You can't make this stuff up,' someone can be heard saying  —  A hot mic captured a lawmaker labelling the heated House Oversight Committee's impeachment inquiry hearing …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Impeachment inquiry appears on ice as House GOP tries to wrangle support  —  ‘Ultimately the American people will be voting ... to decide whether or not this president is suitable for office,’ one Republican said  —  Lacking support and evidence, the GOP-led impeachment inquiry …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security  —  A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.  —  WASHINGTON — A new budget …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's stutter surges into the presidential campaign  —  Trump mocks and exaggerates the speech impediment.  Biden embraces it as reflecting compassion.  —  President Biden recently sent out a video of a meeting with a 9-year-old with a stutter, telling the young boy, “Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do anything.”
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John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With Disabilities
Discussion: Raw Story, The Dispatch and Off Message
Associated Press:
Mississippi ex-deputy gets 40-year sentence as judge decries brutal attack on 2 Black men  —  Two former Mississippi deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and torturing two Black men.
Discussion: WJTV, Associated Press and RedState
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CNN:
A fourth former Mississippi officer is sentenced to 40 years in racially charged torture cases
Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Christiane Baissary of Al Hadath  —  RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA  —  QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us.  —  SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you for having me.  —  QUESTION: This is your sixth tour in the region since the war started in October.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans Are Counting on Millionaires to Flip the Senate  —  With Democrats at a fund-raising advantage, the G.O.P. has backed candidates who can self-fund.  But their wealth is likely to factor in the fight for Senate control.  —  Since his rise to the presidency …
Discussion: The Hill
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates — again?
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Nearly $6 Billion in Student Debt Cancellation for 78,000 Public Service Workers  —  Today, my Administration is cancelling student loans for an additional 78,000 public service workers - teachers, nurses, firefighters, and more - through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
Georgia's Medicaid system is a disaster.  Other states want to copy it.  —  In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule allowing states to tie Medicaid eligibility to employment, a first in the program's 50-year history.  The policy shift was the result of decades of work by Republicans who believe …
Politico:
Endorsements for Good's primary challenger  —  A primary challenger to leading conservative Rep. Bob Good is touting some congressional endorsements for an upcoming fundraiser, a further sign of possible trouble for the House Freedom Caucus chair.  John McGuire will have a slew of House Republicans …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's EV Mandate Blows Its Cover  —  The EPA's new tailpipe emissions rule is a plan to eliminate gas-powered cars.  —  Biden officials are stressing that the new auto greenhouse gas emissions standards they rolled out on Wednesday aren't an electric-vehicle mandate.
Liam Kerr / Slow Boring:
Democrats should try harder to win tough races  —  What we can learn from political outliers and the legislative story of their electoral success … When you hear “Blue Dog,” the progressive left wants you to think of a bloated old white guy stuffing his face with lobbyist appetizers.
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Mass Shooter Father's Chilling Prison Calls to Prosecutor Revealed  —  An investigation is now underway after threatening calls from prison by James Crumbley were revealed by the prosecutor handling his case.  —  The alleged jailhouse threats the father of the Oxford High School mass shooter …
Politico:
House Democrats are lending the GOP speaker a hand — and they don't mind  —  They see Mike Johnson's dependence on them to pass major legislation as a point of leverage that they can use to their advantage.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson got Democratic help to pass a $78 billion tax bill.
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Murray, Top Appropriators Release Second Funding Package  —  Funding legislation strengthens America's national security and invests in the American people—lowering families' child care costs, protecting workers' pocketbooks, investing in people's health, supporting students, and much more
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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