Outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took outright. The left wing coalition, The New Popular Front, took the outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took the most with President Macron s Centrist Alliance coming second. The two blocks which had agreed on a tactical Voting Pact pushed to the far right National Rally into third place. National rally had been expected to win the most seats after doing so in the first round of the voting in the european elections. Live now to my colleague Christian Fraser in paris. Good morning, welcome to paris. A beautiful day in the french capital. We are on the left bank overlooking the Eiffel Tower in the background, where the preparations continue for the paris olympics, which begins here in three weeks time. But france waking up this morning to an Election Result it could hardly have predicted a week ago and that is very much reflected in the Morning Papers. No question who came out on top. It is The New national
Welcome to the lead, everyone, im jake tapper. We begin with our World Lead. President biden bracing for the possibility of another Terrorist Attack after 13 u. S. Service members and more than 170 afghans were killed by a Suicide Bomber outside Kabuls Airport yesterday. 11 marines, one sailor, and one soldier were among the Service Members killed. The military is beginning to pack up whats called the Retrograde Process where not just Service Members but their equipment are shipping out. Still, the Evacuation Mission is continuing. In the past 24 hours, nearly 13,000 people were evacuated by the u. S. And allies. More than 300 of them, American Citizens. In the past 13 days, the u. S. Has evacuated a total of 105,000 people. Today, the pentagon said nearly 7,000 afghan refugees have arrived in the u. S. , and are undergoing processing. This afternoon, the White House reiterated its commitment to evacuating every american by President Bidens deadline of August 31st. But sources involved
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To try to defeat that part of the bill. In washington, it is always so much easier to increase Spending And Cut taxes. One of the things the democrats are doing in this package is cutting taxes for a lot of people. They want to permanently expend extend the boosted Tax Credit. There are millions of families who will be getting checks, direct deposits this week for the child Tax Credit that they increase this year. That is a big deal. People will be reminded every month when they look in their account and they got hundreds of dollars bigger that this happened. It is hard to take something like that away. The democrats will say this Package Overall will be a Tax Cut for these families. It will provide all of these benefits on childcare, free community college, universal prek. There are somebody things they could say this will help your family and the people paying the bill are the corporations and the wealthy. They think that will be more politically sellable then what they were trying i
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