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5:15 PM ET, March 29, 2021

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century  —  On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters.
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
A Leaked Call Catches Mitch McConnell And The Kochs Freaking Out Over Election Reform  —  A leaked phone call featuring Mitch McConnell's policy adviser and the Kochs revealed that they are freaking out over the popularity of election reform.  —  Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker:
Vianney Gomez / Pew Research Center:
A partisan chasm in views of Trump's legacy  —  Two months after President Donald Trump left office, 38% of Americans say he made progress toward solving major problems facing the country during his administration - while a nearly identical share (37%) say he made these problems worse.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump is losing the war over his legacy  —  On Sunday evening, CNN aired a special featuring interviews with the senior officials involved in the early coronavirus pandemic response under President Donald Trump.  No longer operating under the Trump political umbrella, they offered assessments …
Cdcmmwr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
What is already known about this topic?  —  What is added by this report?  —  Prospective cohorts of 3,950 health care personnel, first responders, and other essential and frontline workers completed weekly SARS-CoV-2 testing for 13 consecutive weeks.  Under real-world conditions …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective after two doses in study of real-life conditions, CDC confirms  —  Report on essential workers is one of the first to estimate protection against any infection, regardless of symptoms  —  The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines being deployed …
Discussion: HotAir
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:   How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials say coronavirus response was worse than known  —  'That's what bothers me every day': Birx and others admit failures that hampered the White House response  —  Several top doctors in the Trump administration offered their most pointed …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend.  In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church …
Bloomberg:
CDC Chief Warns of ‘Impending Doom’ as Covid Cases, Deaths Rise  — Walensky says she's scared by uptick that hints at fourth wave  — U.S. doesn't have ‘luxury of inaction’ amid spike, she says  —  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pleaded with Americans …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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STAT:   'Right now I'm scared': CDC director warns of a coming spike in Covid-19 case counts
CNN:
Biden says 90% of adults will be vaccine eligible in three weeks
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan  —  Biden aides see next major legislative effort as comparable to LBJ's Great Society but face divisions among key allies  —  When President Biden's team began putting together …
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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
How Larry Summers went from Obama's top economic adviser to one of Biden's loudest critics
Discussion: New York Post and Political Wire
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
White House seeks to right ‘confusion’ surrounding Kamala Harris's migrant crisis role  —  The White House reiterated on Monday that when it comes to the migrant surge at the United States-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris is handling the “root causes in the region and engaging …
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
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New York Times:   The Biden administration makes a swath of ocean between New York and New Jersey an offshore wind zone.
Washington Post:   Biden administration launches major push to expand offshore wind power
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Florida Republicans considering new election bill that would effectively ban giving voters water  —  Florida Republicans are considering a bill that would effectively make it a crime to give voters food or drink, including water, within 150 feet of polling places.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Biden task force to probe science manipulation under Trump  —  WASHINGTON — A new White House task force will examine instances where the Trump administration may have distorted or suppressed science in critical government decisions, with an eye toward creating fail-safes to prevent it from happening again, the White House said Monday.
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Capitol riot suspect wore ‘I Was There’ shirt when arrested  —  Garret Miller didn't speak to the law enforcement officers who arrested him on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol in January, but the T-shirt he was wearing at his Dallas home that day sent a clear and possibly incriminating message.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer's 51-vote gambit  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — EVER GONE? ...  “Aided by Moon and Tide, Giant Ship Is Partially Refloated,” NYT  —  SPOTTED: MIKE and KAREN PENCE car shopping at Ourisman Honda in Tysons Corner.
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Remote Work Is Here to Stay.  Manhattan May Never Be the Same.  —  New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.  —  Spotify's headquarters in the United States fills 16 floors of 4 World Trade Center …
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Balloon Juice
James David Dickson / Detroit News:
Judge tosses terrorism threat charge against 3 accused in alleged Whitmer plot  —  Three men accused in an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will not face false report or threat of terrorism charges, a Jackson County judge ruled Monday.  —  Judge Michael Klaeren of 12th District Court …
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Massive container ship freed from Suez Canal  —  Rescuers fully dislodged the “Ever Given” from the banks of the Suez Canal on Monday, sending the skyscraper-sized container ship on its way after six days of drama that paralyzed the vital shipping route, according to canal authorities.
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Dear Joe Scarborough: Nice Smear.  Now Invite Me To Debate Your Network's Russiagate Coverage  —  “Morning Joe” says those who reported on Russia errors are a “joke” and might be “on Russia's payroll.”  MSNBC should break its four-year freeze-out and invite a skeptic to respond  —  2 hr ago
Discussion: National Review and Mediaite
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Dumbest Tweet I Have Ever Seen  —  Not Really, but C'mon  —  I usually defend a high degree of license verging on irresponsibility when it comes to Tweets—I think its fine for them to be half-baked, ironical, whimsical, the first drafts of ideas, or one's most cranky and maybe not most-well-informed opinions.
The Frontier:
In pro-Trump Oklahoma, a challenge to an incumbent senator taps into election anger  —  The 2022 Senate race is shaping up as a test of fidelity to the former president and highlights shifts in the Republican party.  —  Reading Time Posted In  —  By most accounts, Sen. James Lankford …
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
AP sources: SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials  —  Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats …
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: WHO report says animals likely source of COVID  —  BEIJING (AP) — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” …
Bryan Bender / Politico:
SCOOP: Biden to renew National Space Council  —  Editor's Note: Morning Defense is a free version of POLITICO Pro Defense's morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court rebuffs bid for Hillary Clinton deposition about emails  —  The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid by a right-wing government watchdog group to require former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her use of personal email while she served as secretary of State.
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Document: Amazon Security Staff Reported Its Own Hostile Tweets as “Suspicious,” Fearing They'd Been Hacked … After Amazon's public relations account sent a number of tweets taunting public officials, staffers were so concerned about the “unnecessarily antagonistic” tone that a security engineer filed …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Why Democrats Might Need to Play Dirty to Win  —  To hear Democratic leaders decry gerrymandering as part of their current bid to enact landmark voting-rights legislation, you'd think the centuries-old practice was a mortal threat to the republic.  But political necessity could soon demand that Democrats drop their purity act.
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Police officer who ran for mayor is charged by state prosecutor with election crimes
Carly Roman / Washington Examiner:
Cuomo accuser says governor asked aide to sing ‘Danny Boy’ as part of ‘hazing’: Attorney
Discussion: Politico and The Journal News
Issues & Insights:
Study: Media Reported Only Bad COVID News (Until Trump Lost)
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood running for SC GOP chairman against Trump-backed incumbent
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Media Statement from CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, on Extending the Eviction Moratorium
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
64 percent view ‘cancel culture’ as threat to freedom: poll
Discussion: RedState and IJR
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
Democrats are seeking to turn the nation into one massive blue state
 Earlier Items: 
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. tries to break Iran nuclear deadlock with a new proposal for Tehran
Discussion: Jacobin
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump pollster: Greitens leads big in Missouri GOP Senate primary
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Supreme Court agrees to hear first abortion case with 6-3 conservative majority
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and Political Wire
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Did Something Happen In Boulder?
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Economists bullish on Biden's $3 trillion infrastructure plan
Discussion: Washington Post
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Millennials, forged by recession and ridicule, are ascendant in Washington
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden admin remakes vaccine strategy after mass vaccination sites fizzle