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10:30 AM ET, March 21, 2024

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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump is broke.  That's bad news for the GOP.  —  President Biden, meanwhile, is loaded. … Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump owes the state of New York $454 million for being a fraudulent businessman who lied about the value of his assets for years.
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NBC News:
Trump is having trouble getting cash for his bond.  And he's growing frustrated.  —  The former president is in the unprecedented position of attempting to raise cash for both his campaign and his legal battles.  —  The prospect that Donald Trump may fail to post a bond by Monday's deadline …
Politico:
Trump has an early lead on Biden.  But problems are piling up around him.  —  Missteps and unresolved policy problems are mounting for the former president.  —  Donald Trump is walking back recent comments about cutting Social Security.  He's searching for an elusive abortion message …
Ray Brescia / The Daily Beast:
These Under-the-Radar Rulings in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Are Really Bad for Trump  —  The brief delay in the New York trial is just a small victory for Trump.  The really consequential stuff hasn't gone his way lately. … Revelations that the Department of Justice recently disclosed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Kinzinger:
Trump Stumps With Fascist Cosplay  —  His campaign is following the dictatorship blueprint  —  Weak, tiny, and scared, Trump is doing the only think he know...look tough to cover the weakness.  —  About our democracy — “If we don't win this election, I don't think you're going to have another election in this country,”
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Rachel Dobkin / Newsweek:
Barron Trump ‘Fair Game’ Comment Enrages Republicans  —  Republicans voiced their outrage after former NBC senior executive Mike Sington said that former President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, was now “fair game” on his 18th birthday.  —  Barron, the former president's and former …
Washington Post:
Bankruptcy is one way out of Trump's financial jam.  He doesn't want to take it.  —  People close to the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee say he is not considering bankruptcy, even though it could ease his immediate cash crunch  —  As Donald Trump faces dwindling options to pay off …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's PAC Burned $230,000 a Day on Legal Bills in February
Discussion: CNN, Forbes and Political Wire
NBC News:
Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Biden impeachment hearing descends into chaos as lawmaker caught on hot mic branding it ‘Jurassic Park’  —  'You can't make this stuff up,' someone can be heard saying  —  A hot mic captured a lawmaker labelling the heated House Oversight Committee's impeachment inquiry hearing …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez demands GOP specify actual crimes in Biden impeachment inquiry
Bonchie / RedState:
MUST-SEE: AOC Has a Mental Breakdown After Bobulinski Runs Circles Around Her
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security  —  A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.  —  WASHINGTON — A new budget …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's stutter surges into the presidential campaign  —  Trump mocks and exaggerates the speech impediment.  Biden embraces it as reflecting compassion.  —  President Biden recently sent out a video of a meeting with a 9-year-old with a stutter, telling the young boy, “Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do anything.”
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John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With Disabilities
Discussion: Raw Story, The Dispatch and Off Message
Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Christiane Baissary of Al Hadath  —  RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA  —  QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us.  —  SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you for having me.  —  QUESTION: This is your sixth tour in the region since the war started in October.
Associated Press:
Mississippi ex-deputy gets 40-year sentence as judge decries brutal attack on 2 Black men  —  Two former Mississippi deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and torturing two Black men.
Discussion: Associated Press, WJTV and RedState
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CNN:
A fourth former Mississippi officer is sentenced to 40 years in racially charged torture cases
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans Are Counting on Millionaires to Flip the Senate  —  With Democrats at a fund-raising advantage, the G.O.P. has backed candidates who can self-fund.  But their wealth is likely to factor in the fight for Senate control.  —  Since his rise to the presidency …
Discussion: The Hill
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates — again?
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Nearly $6 Billion in Student Debt Cancellation for 78,000 Public Service Workers  —  Today, my Administration is cancelling student loans for an additional 78,000 public service workers - teachers, nurses, firefighters, and more - through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
Georgia's Medicaid system is a disaster.  Other states want to copy it.  —  In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule allowing states to tie Medicaid eligibility to employment, a first in the program's 50-year history.  The policy shift was the result of decades of work by Republicans who believe …
Politico:
House Democrats are lending the GOP speaker a hand — and they don't mind  —  They see Mike Johnson's dependence on them to pass major legislation as a point of leverage that they can use to their advantage.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson got Democratic help to pass a $78 billion tax bill.
Liam Kerr / Slow Boring:
Democrats should try harder to win tough races  —  What we can learn from political outliers and the legislative story of their electoral success … When you hear “Blue Dog,” the progressive left wants you to think of a bloated old white guy stuffing his face with lobbyist appetizers.
Politico:
Endorsements for Good's primary challenger  —  A primary challenger to leading conservative Rep. Bob Good is touting some congressional endorsements for an upcoming fundraiser, a further sign of possible trouble for the House Freedom Caucus chair.  John McGuire will have a slew of House Republicans …
/home:
Murray, Top Appropriators Release Second Funding Package  —  Funding legislation strengthens America's national security and invests in the American people—lowering families' child care costs, protecting workers' pocketbooks, investing in people's health, supporting students, and much more
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden's EV Mandate Blows Its Cover
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct
Robert Draper / New York Times:
America First Legal, a Trump-Aligned Group, Is Spoiling for a Fight
Axios:
Biden's campaign tries to avoid a trap in Nevada
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Nikki Haley's campaign had cash left over as her primary run ended
Discussion: Morning Call, Political Wire, UPI and CNBC
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Los Angeles Times:
Shohei Ohtani's attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Mitch McConnell urges GOP against term limits
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Airman Accused of Sharing Classified Info With Boogaloo Buddies
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Mass Shooter Father's Chilling Prison Calls to Prosecutor Revealed
Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:
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