#CBO releases estimates for .75T Biden social spending bill

#CBO releases estimates for $1.75T Biden social spending bill

“#CBO releases estimates for $1.75T Biden social spending bill” The Congressional Budget Office released four initial reports Wednesday on parts of President Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion social spending bill ahead of a planned vote in the House of Representatives next week. The non-partisan office looked at parts of the bill contributed by the House Homeland…

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#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers

#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers

“#Letter confirms Wuhan lab leak was funded by US taxpayers” The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A letter from Lawrence Tabak, the National Institutes of Health’s principal deputy director, to…

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#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin

#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin

“#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin” The Wall Street Journal wrote Tuesday that President Biden was making another attempt to salvage his stalled legislative agenda by meeting separately with progressive and moderate Democrats.   The next sentence was more telling: The moderates were Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The progressives were too numerous…

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#M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later

#$86M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later

“#$86M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later” Brooklyn, we have a problem. The MTA spent $86 million on a state-of-the-art, NASA-like “bus command center” that has gone unused for more than two years because it’s already falling apart, The Post has learned. Transit officials have said the eastern Brooklyn command center, which replaces a…

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#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema

“#Nancy’s attack on the media, the NYT’s hit on Kyrsten Sinema” This headline: We say: That Washington Post headline Thursday paints Republicans as the bad guys in the supply-chain crisis, which has scores of ships — carrying 250,000 containers of merchandise — lined up waiting to be unloaded outside US ports, slowing deliveries and fueling inflation….

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#Bernie Sanders won’t condemn Kyrsten Sinema harassment amid spending bill spat

#Bernie Sanders won’t condemn Kyrsten Sinema harassment amid spending bill spat

“#Bernie Sanders won’t condemn Kyrsten Sinema harassment amid spending bill spat” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) refused to sign on to a statement condemning last weekend’s harassment of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) unless it included language pressuring her to change her stance on the proposed $3.5 trillion social spending bill, Axios reported late Wednesday. An initial…

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