Florida and Texas Join the March as Republicans Press Voting Limits
The efforts in two critical battleground states with booming populations and 70 Electoral College votes between them represent the apex of the Republican effort to roll back access to voting.
The Texas House of Representatives debated the voting bill in Austin on Thursday.Credit.Eric Gay/Associated Press
May 6, 2021
Hours after Florida installed a rash of new voting restrictions, the Republican-led Legislature in Texas pressed ahead on Thursday with its own far-reaching bill that would make it one of the most difficult states in the nation in which to cast a ballot.
Jobs Report Tests Bidenâs Economic Strategy
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Business groups and Republicans argue that a $300 weekly supplement to unemployment benefits is hurting the economy, but administration officials disagree. Four former Minneapolis police officers are accused of depriving George Floyd of his civil rights. Texas lawmakers advanced a bill restricting voting rights.
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Disappointing Jobs Report Tests Bidenâs Economic Strategy
President Biden delivered an optimistic speech Friday, following the release of Aprilâs jobs report, which found that the economy only added 266,000 jobs last month.
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<figcaption> Ten percent of Harris County's in-person early voters during the 2020 general election cast their ballots at the county’s drive-thru polling sites. Texas Republicans are now looking to prohibit those sites. <cite>Credit: Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune</cite>
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