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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 …
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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 …
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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,”
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.
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Politico:
Trump leadership PAC racks up millions in legal bills amid courtroom fights
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NBC News:
Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick
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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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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Impeachment inquiry appears on ice as House GOP tries to wrangle support
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Parnas calls out GOP rep at hearing for ‘doing the bidding’ of Russia
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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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Jack Fitzpatrick / Bloomberg Government:
Republicans Call for Retirement Age Hike in Clash With Biden
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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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The Atlantic
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.
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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.
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Nikki Haley's campaign had cash left over as her primary run ended — The former U.N. ambassador reported more than $11 million on hand at the end of February. — Nikki Haley's presidential campaign had $11.5 million in the bank at the end of February, just days before the former U.N. ambassador dropped …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Do ‘Zombie Votes’ for Nikki Haley Expose Trump's Weakness?
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Democrats Prepare Aggressive Counter to Third-Party Threats
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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 …
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The Hill
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates — again?
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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.
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden's EV Mandate Blows Its Cover — The EPA's new tailpipe emissions rule is a plan to eliminate gas-powered cars. — Biden officials are stressing that the new auto greenhouse gas emissions standards they rolled out on Wednesday aren't an electric-vehicle mandate.
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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.
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 — LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times — The chief diversity officer …
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