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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Thursday, April 1, 2021

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'Every step of the way': McConnell pledges battle over Biden infrastructure plan
A day after the Democratic president unveiled his “American Jobs Plan” in Pittsburgh, the Senate’s top Republican said Biden has no public mandate for the proposal and predicted that Republicans would not support it. Biden’s plan combines spending on roads and bridges with climate change initiatives and human services like elder care.

Updated today at 4:34 PM CDT

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Elections officials fear Georgia law could politicize voting operations
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Pelosi: Remove Rep. Gaetz from committee if claims are true
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House Republicans reveal game plan to fight Biden's massive spending bill
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Matt Gaetz' relentless self-promotion in Washington leaves him with few defenders
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Georgia governor's view on voting bill 'not based in fact' - White House
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Ocasio-Cortez to Cruz: Your resignation is 84 days past due
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Biden holds first Cabinet meeting amid infrastructure push
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Biden taps five Cabinet members to lead infrastructure messaging
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DHS watchdog finds widespread mistreatment of immigrants at ICE facility
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Derek Chauvin trial exposes trauma and survivor's guilt of witnesses to Floyd's death
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Joe Biden wants to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure and jobs. These 4 charts show where the money would go
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Unions demand Biden cancel student debt for public service workers
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Colorado GOP Rep. Boebert, Dem challenger, both raising eye-popping campaign cash
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Fact focus: Trump blames other countries for high U.S. drug prices. Experts say it's not their fault

  • News source: Melissa Goldin | The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump incorrectly placed the blame for high prescription drug prices in the U.S. on foreign nations, making the comments Monday when signing an executive order intended to lower their cost.

The order sets a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower prices in the U.S. or face new limits in the future over what the government will pay. If favorable deals are not reached, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties prices the U.S. pays for medications to lower...
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Red state treasurer reveals why state financial officers have 'obligation' to combat ESG, DEI

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: As Republican state financial officers across the country move to rid the government of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG), Fox News Digital spoke to Utah’s state treasurer about the importance of bringing meritocracy and fiduciary responsibility back to markets and investments.

"ESG introduces another motive or another motivation to address societal issues through the capital markets or through investment, and when you do that, you violate the fiduciary standards that all of us as...
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Gabbard moves presidential daily intelligence brief staff from CIA to ODNI

  • News source: FOX News
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard moved the Presidential Daily Brief staff from the CIA to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Fox News Digital confirmed.

A senior intelligence source told Fox News Digital that the director of National Intelligence "has always controlled" the presidential daily brief (PDB) and that Gabbard "is just moving it physically to ODNI from CIA in a streamlining effort and a continuity of workforce."

The President’s Daily Brief (PDB), according to the intelligence community, is a daily...
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Parade of camels welcome Trump motorcade to Qatar

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump and his motorcade were greeted by dozens of mounted camels after his plane landed in Qatar Wednesday morning as he continues his four-day trip to the Middle East.

"We appreciate those camels," Trump said Wednesday while meeting with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. "I haven't seen camels like that in a long time. And really, we appreciate it very much."

The motorcade traveling from the Doha airport to the Amiri Diwan, which serves as the central hub of the Qatari government, also included red Tesa Cybertrucks in...
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Budget office with 'fundamentally progressive roots' used by Dems as latest tool in anti-Trump resistance

  • News source: FOX News
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The White House is shutting down accusations from Democrats and anti-Trump "resistance" that nearly 14 million people will lose insurance coverage under Republican Medicaid reform proposals as part of President
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House Democrat backs off rogue attempt to force Trump impeachment vote

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan backed down from his attempt to force a vote on impeaching President Trump after it lacked support from his own party.

The House was expected to vote Wednesday evening to table Thanedar's motion to impeach Mr. Trump for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, which would have effectively killed it.

Thanedar filed his seven articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump in April, but moved Tuesday to bring it up as "privileged," requiring the House to act on the motion within two legislative days...
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Trump wants drug price caps tied to foreign nations. Here's why Biden never did it.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Senate Democrats and the Biden administration dropped plans to set drug price caps based on the amount paid in other high-income countries, during talks years ago to push through the law that empowered Medicare to negotiate down the cost of prescription medications.

A version of the idea was revived by President Trump in the executive order signed Monday, which called on the Department of Health and Human Services next month to draw up regulations to impose price restrictions tied to lower amounts paid in other developed nations, if drugmakers did...
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Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy

  • News source: Michelle R. Smith | The Associated Press
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President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find a romantic partner.

Dr. Casey Means’ recommendation to consider guided psilocybin-assisted therapy is notable because psilocybin is illegal under federal law. It's listed as a Schedule 1 drug, defined as a substance “with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." Oregon and Colorado have legalized psychedelic...
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GOP lawmakers move to roll back Biden-era energy programs

  • News source: FOX News
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Lawmakers on Tuesday approved portions of a bill that would massively roll back Biden-era energy programs.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee met to discuss the Republican-backed legislation that would initiate billions of dollars in spending cuts.

The money would come from unspent funds from the Democrats’ 2022 climate law, Politico reported.

NORTHERN HIGHLIGHTS: ALASKA'S ENERGY, SECURITY POLICIES ARE THE GUIDE FEDS NEEDS AMID TRANSITION, GROUP SAYS

Democrats pushed back on provisions they said would raise energy prices by repealing...
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Four months into Trump's second term, Democrats remain deeply pessimistic about their party

  • News source: FOX News
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Democrats remain pessimistic about the future of their party, six months after they suffered setbacks up and down the ballot at the hands of now-President Donald Trump and Republicans.

That's a key finding in a newly released national poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

According to the survey, only about one-third of Democrats are very or somewhat optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party. That's a steep decline from last July, when around six in 10 Democrats said they were optimistic.

The Democratic...
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Blue state GOP leader reveals who is benefiting after Dems clash with ICE

  • News source: FOX News
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NEWARK, N.J. – A top Republican official in New Jersey told Fox News Digital that Democrats are putting greater focus on illegal immigrants as opposed to American citizens following Friday’s Delaney Hall incident.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested during a protest last week in front of Delaney Hall, a privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, while Democratic Reps. Bonnie Coleman Watson, Robert Menendez Jr. and LaMonica McIver were visiting the detention center. Tensions rose significantly, which ultimately led to Baraka’s...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Bondi Backs the Blue

  • News source: FOX News
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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.

Here's what's happening…

-Pete Buttigieg says Biden running for a second term was 'maybe' a mistake

-Pope Leo XIV makes first social media post, calling for peace

-DHS announces 200% increase in Secret Service applications since President Donald Trump took office

The Justice Department (DOJ) is moving funds formerly granted to groups supporting transgender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion...
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Swing state judge strikes down 24-hour abortion waiting period as unconstitutional

  • News source: FOX News
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A Michigan judge ruled on Tuesday that the state's 24-hour waiting period and informed consent rules restricting abortion were unconstitutional.

The waiting period, which allows abortion-seekers to consider their options before the procedure, was voted into the state constitution by Michigan voters in 2022, before being challenged in a 2024 lawsuit filed by abortion rights groups.

"The mandatory delay exacerbates the burdens that patients experience seeking abortion care, including by increasing costs, prolonging wait times, increasing the risk...
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Donald Trump Jr.'s transformation into Washington power broker

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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When the crypto mining firm American Bitcoin announced plans to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange this week, the company called it a "major milestone" for a key stakeholder, Dominari Holdings — a little-known investment house that recently added a very recognizable name to its advisory board: Donald Trump Jr.

It was the latest maneuver in a series of high-stakes, and potentially lucrative business deals Trump Jr. and his younger brother Eric, also a Dominari adviser, stand to benefit from.

Since his father won the 2024 election, Trump Jr. has...
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Trump's tariffs could face long odds before Supreme Court he reshaped

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Legal challenges to President Trump's tariffs could put the president on a collision course with a Supreme Court that he shaped, as his use of emergency power to unilaterally impose the levies could run into legal doctrines championed by the conservative justices to limit executive authority.

Several things have to happen before the Supreme Court would consider the legality of Mr. Trump's tariffs: the losing party in a lawsuit challenging his tariffs would have to appeal all the way up to the high court, and at least four justices would...
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