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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Thursday, September 30, 2021
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With only hours to spare, President Joe Biden on Thursday evening signed legislation to avoid a partial federal shutdown and keep the government funded through Dec. 3. Congress had passed the bill earlier Thursday.
Vote delayed, Democrats struggle to save Biden $3.5T bill
Despite a long night of frantic negotiations, Democrats remain unable to reach an immediate deal to salvage President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion government overhaul, forcing leaders to call off promised votes on a related public works bill.
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Court allows U.S. border officials to continue expelling migrant families
The Biden administration has maintained a pandemic-era policy enacted under former President Donald Trump to rapidly expel some migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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No deal: House delays infrastructure vote
House Democratic leaders late Thursday postponed a vote yet again on the bipartisan infrastructure bill amid threats from progressives to tank it as leverage for a separate, larger package to expan…
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'We are not there yet': Vote on infrastructure bill delayed as Biden budget negotiations drag
White House officials and top Democrats negotiated into the evening to try to strike a compromise on Biden's budget bill but put off a vote for later.
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A 'dangerous cabal'? Alito says high court is no such thing
Justice Samuel Alito is pushing back against criticism that recent Supreme Court actions in major cases have been done hastily and in the shadows.
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Senate approves Biden land-agency pick over GOP opposition
A bitterly divided Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s choice to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, despite Republican objections that she is an "eco-terrorist.''
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Appeals court allows Title 42 expulsions to resume
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can resume use of Title 42, a Trump-era public health provision that allows federal officials to rapidly expel migrants who illegally cross the border due to concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congressional members share own abortion stories at hearing
Three Democratic members of Congress have offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a congressional committee looks at how to respond to conservative states that are passing laws limiting abortion access.
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Democrats pour cold water on Manchin’s $1.5T price tag
His fellow Democrats quickly poured cold water Thursday on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (W.Va.) suggested maximum of a $1.5 trillion social spending bill, underscoring the rocky path facing leadership and Pr…
thehill.comHouse delays vote on infrastructure bill amid fractious negotiations
Speaker Nancy Pelosi cancels planned vote on President Biden's infrastructure plan as Democratic negotiations continue.
Democratic Party headquarters in Texas county attacked by man with Molotov cocktail
A man tried to use a Molotov cocktail to damage the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday morning, officials said.Katie Naranjo, chair of the county’s Democrati…
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Identity of ‘Tech Executive’ in Durham indictment over Alfa Bank claims revealed - Washington Examiner
The unnamed technology executive from special counsel John Durham’s most recent indictment, who allegedly hired now-indicted lawyer Michael Sussmann and helped push claims of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank, has been revealed. Rodney Joffe, senior vice...
www.washingtonexaminer.comIn congressional talks, Vice President Harris stays largely out of the fray
In choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden was implicitly making her the face of the Democratic Party’s future. But the present requires intense negotiations over the president’s ambitious domestic agenda — the kinds of negotiations with which Harris has little experience.
Progressives AOC, Bush unload on moderate Manchin over infrastructure bills
Progressives Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush AOC unloaded on moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Thursday.
Shutdown: Congress votes to keep US government open
But a vote on President Biden's massive $1tn (£750bn) infrastructure bill was postponed.
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Democratic civil war hits new heights
Democrats engaged in a verbal war on Thursday, with progressives and centrists accusing one another of essentially sabotaging President Biden’s agenda and putting the party’s majorities in jeopardy…
thehill.comCritics point to Kyrsten Sinema post calling for corporations to 'pay their fair share' of taxes
The Democratic senator from Arizona has angered liberals by opposing President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion spending package for unclear reasons.
Democrats, White House scramble to cut deal to unlock infrastructure stalemate
Democrats and the White House are scrambling to reach a deal that would allow them to move forward with an infrastructure bill that has been stuck in limbo for much of Thursday. …
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Biden and House Democrats unite behind his agenda, but they say more time is needed
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to colleagues that "more time is needed to complete the task" of forging an agreement among Democrats on their larger spending measure.
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Manchin says $1.5 trillion is his limit on Biden economic agenda amid battle with progressives | CNN Politics
Moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia made clear Thursday that $1.5 trillion was the price tag he was willing to settle on for his party’s plan to expand the social safety net, putting him $2 trillion away from the lowest number progressive Democrats have said they would accept.
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Yellen calls for ‘very destructive’ debt limit to be abolished
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday she supports abolishing the federal debt limit, calling it a “very destructive” threat to the full faith and credit of the U.S.In congressional te…
thehill.comTrump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict
WASHINGTON — The charge was narrow: John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to scour the Russia investigation, indicted a cybersecurity lawyer this month on a single count of lying to the FBI. But Durham used a 27-page indictment to lay out a far more expansive...
‘We did it together’: Blinken rejects Pentagon blame for Afghanistan chaos - Washington Examiner
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected the Pentagon's suggestion that the State Department was solely responsible for delaying the Afghanistan withdrawal as the simmering blame game for the Kabul chaos bursts into the public eye.“I don't think anyone can say that we took any of the decisions...
www.washingtonexaminer.comActivists Take Vaccine Demands to Home of Biden's Chief of Staff
A small band of longtime AIDS activists, fed up with what they regard as President Joe Biden’s failure to scale up coronavirus vaccine manufacturing for global use, deposited a fake mountain of bones outside the home of Ron Klain, his chief of staff, Wednesday to represent the lives they say...
U.S. trade chief: Biden will build from Trump-era tariffs to confront China
In an interview, the U.S. trade representative says her office is nearly done with a review of the administration’s approach to China as it prepares to chart a new course on the trade relationship.
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Pelosi delays vote on trillion-dollar infrastructure bill | CNN Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled against putting a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on the floor Thursday night, according to a leadership aide, after progressives rebelled, potentially delaying consideration until Democrats strike an agreement on separate, much larger social safety net and...
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