As The Hill’s Brett Samuels points out, the White House’s series of meetings comes as it puts pressure on lawmakers by laying out self-imposed deadlines for actions, specifically on immigration and policing reform. Biden has maintained that he wants a deal in an infrastructure package by Memorial Day. He also told a joint session of Congress two weeks ago that he hopes to sign a policing bill into law by May 25 the anniversary of
George Floyd’s death.
A bipartisan deal is possible, but it s highly unlikely to pass the House and Senate during the next few weeks.
“Look I disagree with Congresswoman Liz Cheney on a lot of things, but I think everybody needs to stand with her regardless of political party when she stands up to talk about the truth,” he said.
House GOP members voted to boot Cheney Wednesday morning in a closed-door meeting after she repeatedly called out former President Trump
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Van Hollen said Cheney’s stance “squares fully” with an intelligence community assessment warning that narratives of fraud in the election are contributing to extremist activity.
“It s not ambiguous here, it says these kinds of false narratives will almost certainly spur domestic violent extremists to try to engage in violence this year,” he said.
The operator of a major U.S. fuel pipeline said Monday it hopes to have services mostly restored by the end of the week as the FBI and administration officials identified the culprits of a ransomware attack as a gang of criminal hackers. The attack stunned the Biden administration and the energy industry.
Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, was forced on Saturday to halt operations after revealing an attack that it said had affected some of its systems. On Monday, U.S. officials sought to soothe concerns about price spikes or damage to the economy by stressing that the fuel supply had so far not been disrupted. Colonial Pipeline said it is working toward “substantially restoring operational service” within days (The Associated Press).
Reuters: 1 million jobs likely added to the U.S. economy last month.
MarketWatch: The Dow climbed to a new record on Thursday ahead of today’s monthly jobs data anticipated at 8:30 a.m. A strengthening economic recovery and effective vaccine rollout in this country have been the main focus for bullish investors.
Weekly filings for unemployment benefits have dropped 33 percent since the start of April, seen as “
further confirmation that a recovery in the labor market is well underway,” wrote economists
Nancy Vanden Houten and
Greg Daco from Oxford Economics, in a report on Thursday. They expect today’s data to show a monthly jump in payroll employment of 775,000.
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as of each morning this week
: Monday, 577,045; Tuesday, 577,523; Wednesday, 578,500; Thursday, 579,276.
Former
President Trump received what he said was unwelcome news from Big Tech on Wednesday as
Facebook’s oversight board upheld his suspension from the social media platform, which the company imposed following his persistent falsehoods about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.