Manchin calls infrastructure bill a ‘golden opportunity’ but warns against eliminating coal

Joe Biden seeks bipartisan support on infrastructure bill Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy has the latest on ‘Special Report’ West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin called President Biden’s “infrastructure” bill a “golden opportunity” Thursday but warned that a green economy cannot be achieved by eliminating the state’s oldest energy product – coal. “We have a golden opportunity now […]

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Republicans Say Election Fraud Theories Made GOP Voters Stay Home In New Mexico Special Election

The Republican Party of New Mexico blamed GOP congressional candidate Mark Moores’ loss in a Tuesday special election on “low voter turnout” sparked by “angry” Republican voters who “questioned election integrity,” in an email sent on Thursday. If that were true, the party would only have themselves to blame. After the 2020 election, the state GOP echoed former President Donald […]

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Prosecutors want Capitol riot defendants to help pay the $1.5 million bill for property damage from the insurrection

Prosecutors are seeking restitution from Capitol riot defendants, the Washington Post reports.  The January 6 insurrection caused an estimated $1.5 million in property damage to the Capitol. Prosecutors are asking for $2,000 for felony defendants and $500 for misdemeanor defendants.  See more stories on Insider’s business page. The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6 caused an estimated $1.5 […]

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AOC says answer to violent crime is to stop building more jails

NYC sees surge in violent crime as liberal politicians ‘tie hands of police’ Paul DiGiacomo, president of the NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association, on rising crime in New York City and a new video showing an officer being brazenly attacked in broad daylight. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued Thursday that authorities should stop building prisons and instead focus on […]

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Biden proposes minimum corporate tax rate to fund $1 trillion infrastructure spending

President Joe Biden proposed an infrastructure package worth $1 trillion in new spending that would be funded without raising the corporate tax rate during a meeting Wednesday with the top Republican negotiator on the package. The new pitch aims to avoid Republican scorn by sidestepping the president’s previously proposed corporate tax rate hike. It would instead implement a minimum corporate […]

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Michigan Gov. Whitmer pitches plan allowing people to work part-time, keep unemployment benefits

Nearly half of US states cutting weekly federal unemployment benefits FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence on states’ efforts to end worker shortages.  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday announced a plan to allow people to work part-time and continue receiving unemployment benefits simultaneously.  The Michigan Economic Jumpstart Plan would be made possible with leftover federal funding from the American Rescue Plan […]

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The White House outlines a plan for how the U.S. would distribute an initial 25 million doses around the world.

transcript U.S. to Distribute an Initial 25 Million Vaccine Doses Worldwide The White House announced on Thursday that it would distribute the coronavirus vaccines as part of the 80 million doses President Biden pledged to send overseas by the end of June. “Today, we’re outlining our framework for sharing with the world the first 25 million doses. To be clear, […]

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