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11:05 AM ET, March 21, 2024

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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.
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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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone, Raw Story and CNN
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 …
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
Rachel Dobkin / Newsweek:
Barron Trump ‘Fair Game’ Comment Enrages Republicans
The Daily Beast:
Trump's PAC Burned $230,000 a Day on Legal Bills in February
Discussion: CNN, Forbes and Political Wire
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Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Biden impeachment hearing descends into chaos as lawmaker caught on hot mic branding it ‘Jurassic Park’
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Parnas calls out GOP rep at hearing for ‘doing the bidding’ of Russia
Bonchie / RedState:
MUST-SEE: AOC Has a Mental Breakdown After Bobulinski Runs Circles Around Her
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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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.
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.”
Discussion: The Atlantic
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.
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.
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: Associated Press, WJTV and RedState
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CNN:
A fourth former Mississippi officer is sentenced to 40 years in racially charged torture cases
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?
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 …
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct  —  LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times  —  The chief diversity officer …
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Launch of Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft cancelled at last minute  —  The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which was meant to carry Russian and Belarusian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), was cancelled at the last minute on Thursday.
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.
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.
 
 
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NBC News:
Chuck Schumer rejects Netanyahu's request to talk to Democrats as Israeli leader addresses GOP
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Murray, Top Appropriators Release Second Funding Package
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Robert Draper / New York Times:
America First Legal, a Trump-Aligned Group, Is Spoiling for a Fight
Axios:
Biden's campaign tries to avoid a trap in Nevada
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Nikki Haley's campaign had cash left over as her primary run ended
Discussion: Morning Call, Political Wire and UPI
 Earlier Items: 
Los Angeles Times:
Shohei Ohtani's attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Mitch McConnell urges GOP against term limits
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Airman Accused of Sharing Classified Info With Boogaloo Buddies
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Mass Shooter Father's Chilling Prison Calls to Prosecutor Revealed
Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:
Leo Varadkar steps down as Irish prime minister in shock move
 

 
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