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• Biden awards Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including Pelosi, Clyburn

  03-05-2024 23:56 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including top longtime Democratic congressional leaders, calling them “an incredible group of people.”“Nineteen incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity, and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow,” the president said, with the group of recipients sitting beside him at the podium.Biden spoke about each recipient individually before giving them their medals. He called
  
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• Surgeon general will keep his kids off social media until high school

  18-06-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Monday that he will wait until his kids reach high school to let them use social media.“I am planning to wait until at least after middle school, for my kids to use social media,” Murthy said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” “And when they’re in high school, my wife and I will reassess then, based on their maturity, what the data says about safety and whether there are safety standards in place.”Murthy also advoca
  
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• Biden's immigration relief: What to know about parole in place expansion

  18-06-2024 21:51 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden issued sweeping immigration relief on Tuesday that would allow certain undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens to stay in the country and work legally. Biden’s latest action expands the regularization program known as parole in place, which largely affects military families and spouses. He also announced new measures that will make it easier for immigrants living in the country illegally to apply for a visa application.  The latest immigration rel
  
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• Republicans unveil measure eliminating taxes on tips after Trump proposal

  18-06-2024 21:15 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Thomas Massie (Ky.) introduced a bill aimed at eliminating taxes on tips after former President Trump said that it would be the “first thing” he does if reelected.The legislation, titled “Tax Free Tips Act of 2024,” aims to eliminate federal income and employment taxes on service workers’ tips.“As the cost of living continues to rise, the hardworking men and women of the service industry, many of whom may be working a sec
  
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• Jim Jordan demands YouTube answer if firearms policy change influenced by Bragg

  18-06-2024 20:52 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is seeking answers on whether YouTube changed some of its content moderation policies surrounding firearms due to the influence of government officials, particularly New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).Jordan, acting in his capacity as chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee of Weaponization of the Federal Government, sent a letter to the legal counsel for YouTube parent company Alphabet on Tuesday asking for communications and records r
  
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• Watch live: Biden, first lady host event marking 12th anniversary of DACA 

  18-06-2024 20:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hosting a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented migrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.The Biden campaign recently released an ad highlighting individuals who have benefited from the program. The campaign seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of former President Trump, which it characterizes as broadly hostile toward those who
  
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• Watch: Biden, first lady host event marking 12th anniversary of DACA 

  18-06-2024 20:18 via thehill.com
  
  Recorded earlierPresident Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hosting a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects migrants lacking certain documentation who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.The Biden campaign recently released an ad highlighting individuals who have benefited from the program. The campaign seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of former President Trump, which it characterizes as
  
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• Watch: White House holds briefing after Biden unveils new immigration plan

  18-06-2024 18:45 via thehill.com
  
  Recorded earlierPresident Biden has announced a major change to immigration policy that has the potential to affect many families.The move will enable certain undocumented migrants with a spouse who is a U.S. citizen to stay in the country and become eligible for employment. The regularization program, known as parole in place, is now used for military families.Paperwork for some other work visa applicants, such as beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, is also to
  
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• Watch live: White House holds briefing after Biden unveils new immigration plan

  18-06-2024 18:45 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing Tuesday afternoon.It comes as President Biden has announced a major change to immigration policy that has the potential to affect many families.The move will enable certain undocumented migrants with a spouse who is a U.S. citizen to stay in the country and become eligible for employment. The regularization program, known as parole in place, is now used for military families.Paperwork for some other work visa applicant
  
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• Jim Jordan threatens NY AG with subpoena over hush money prosecutor

  18-06-2024 18:19 via thehill.com
  
  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is threatening to subpoena New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) in his quest to gain information about a top prosecutor on the Manhattan hush money trial of former President Trump. In a letter to James last month, Jordan demanded information about Matthew Colangelo, a former employee of hers who, in his current role with the Manhattan District Attorney's office, gave the opening arguments in Trump’s New York trial. Jordan has sent
  
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• Jim Jordan threatens New York AG with subpoena over hush money prosecutor

  18-06-2024 18:19 via thehill.com
  
  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is threatening to subpoena New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) in his quest to gain information about a top prosecutor on the Manhattan hush money trial of former President Trump. In a letter to James last month, Jordan demanded information about Matthew Colangelo, a former employee of hers who, in his current role with the Manhattan district attorney's office, gave the opening statements in Trump’s New York trial. Jordan has sen
  
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• Ethics panel probing alleged Gaetz obstruction, has issued 25 subpoenas

  18-06-2024 16:40 via thehill.com
  
  The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday said it is probing whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sought to obstruct investigations into his conduct, is dropping other lines of investigation into him, and has issued 25 subpoenas in matters surrounding the congressman.In a rare public update about the investigation, the committee said that the high-profile probe into the firebrand Florida congressman has been the subject of “a significant and unusual amount of public reporting,” and that &ld
  
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• Gaetz says Ethics Committee opening ‘new frivolous investigations’

  18-06-2024 15:59 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said the House Ethics Committee is opening “new frivolous investigations” against him and that it had closed other probes that were based on “lies.”“The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me. Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that ever
  
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• Most support medical debt forgiveness: Survey

  18-06-2024 15:07 via thehill.com
  
  Most respondents in a new survey said they support the U.S. government forgiving medical debt.According to the poll, conducted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press/NORC Research Center, 81 percent of respondents said medical debt forgiveness is important.Just over 50 percent of respondents said relieving medical debt is extremely or very important — notably a higher percentage than those who said the same for student loan debt, small busines
  
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• Knives out for Bob Good: 5 things to watch in Tuesday's primaries

  18-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Voters in Georgia, Oklahoma and Virginia are headed to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on a spate of key congressional primaries and runoffs.In Virginia, a Trump-backed primary challenge threatens House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R), while in Oklahoma, Trump-endorsed Rep. Tom Cole (R) faces a primary challenge from the right. In Georgia, a candidate convicted of a misdemeanor for illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, made it through to the runoff. Races across the t
  
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• House budget leaders look ahead to 2025 

  18-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  As the critical elections in November quickly approach, some in Congress are already sizing up a jam-packed schedule for 2025, with potentially nasty showdowns over taxes and the national debt on the horizon. While Congress still has a little more than three months until its next government shutdown deadline, members on both sides have already acknowledged a stopgap of some sort will likely be needed to buy time for spending talks.Conservatives are pushing to delay a deal on the full-year s
  
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• Georgia race is latest test for GOP over Jan. 6 candidates

  18-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  A primary runoff in Georgia this week will be the latest test of voters’ willingness to back a candidate involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the Peach State’s 2nd Congressional District, Chuck Hand — who was convicted of a misdemeanor for illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol that day — is up against Wayne Johnson in the Republican primary for Democrat Rep. Sanford Bishop’s seat. Hand is one of several names linked to Jan. 6 w
  
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• Biden issues massive immigration relief, seeking balance after border crackdown

  18-06-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration will allow certain undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to stay in the country and work legally, expanding a program that’s currently used to provide papers to immediate family of military servicemembers.The Tuesday morning announcement comes amid the 12-year anniversary celebration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Biden will celebrate at the White House later in the day with immigrant advocacy and Latino lea
  
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• Trump gives GOP moderates 'very helpful' breathing room on abortion

  18-06-2024 10:50 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump is giving moderate GOP lawmakers some breathing room on the explosive issue of abortion, treading unusually carefully on a topic Democrats are trying to make a political liability for swing-district Republicans.During a closed-door meeting with House GOP lawmakers last week, Trump urged Republicans to talk about abortion in a way that makes sense for their districts, saying they should discuss it “correctly,” according to a source in the room. The for
  
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• Trump rolls out endorsements in Alaska, Utah House primaries

  18-06-2024 01:50 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump weighed in on two tight GOP House primaries in Alaska and Utah on Monday, making endorsements as primary season gets into full swing.In Alaska, Trump backed Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom over Nick Begich III. The contested primary has carried echoes of the 2022 race between Begich and former Gov. Sarah Palin, which led to Rep. Mary Peltola (D) being elected in a general election upset when both Begich and Palin ran in the general election.“Nancy Dahlstrom will be a tremen
  
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• Secret Service member robbed at gunpoint during Biden's weekend California trip 

  18-06-2024 01:16 via thehill.com
  
  A U.S. Secret Service member was robbed at gunpoint in Tustin, Calif. last Saturday while President Biden was in the state for a Los Angeles fundraiser, according to authorities.
  The Secret Service member was returning from a work assignment late Saturday when an armed robbery occurred, prompting them to fire their service weapon, according to Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi.
  Guglielmi noted the Secret Service employee was not injured and it is still unknown if the suspect was stru
  
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• 23 NATO members on track to meet 2 percent GDP spending goal

  17-06-2024 23:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Monday welcomed as good news the announcement that 23 countries in the 32-member NATO alliance are on track to spend two percent of their GDP on military defense this year, an important benchmark established in 2014.“We have a very important announcement to make today: A record number of allies are meeting NATO's commitment to at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense,” Biden said in remarks at the White House, ahead of a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens S
  
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• MAGA civil war reaches climax in Bob Good primary

  17-06-2024 23:22 via thehill.com
  
  The MAGA civil war surrounding Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good’s (R-Va.) primary in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District is coming to a head, pitting usual bedfellows against each other. The intraparty battle has positioned former President Trump against some of his key allies, including his former chief strategist Steve Bannon and Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who are supporting Good. Trump has endorsed John McGuire, a state senator and former Navy SEAL
  
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• White House slams 'bad faith' videos that claim to show Biden confused

  17-06-2024 21:49 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Monday blasted a string of altered videos that purported to show President Biden wandering or standing in a state of confusion, calling the footage “bad faith” and a sign of desperation from Biden’s critics.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the recent spate of videos, which stemmed from Biden’s trip to France earlier this month, his visit to Italy last week and his stop at a fundraiser on Saturday.Jean-Pierre referenced a Washington Po
  
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• Watch: White House news briefing

  17-06-2024 19:30 via thehill.com
  
  Recorded earlierWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing Monday afternoon.The briefing follows President Biden's trip to meet other Group of Seven (G7) leaders in Italy last week, where Biden backed language of a G7 communique on reproductive rights despite a reported spat between the leaders of Italy and France over a reference to abortion.The White House is also planning to put forward new rules to go after companies it characterizes as tax cheats, saying
  
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• State Department freezes new visas for foreign nurses

  17-06-2024 18:36 via thehill.com
  
  The State Department has essentially frozen foreign nurse visas for the rest of the fiscal year amid high demand, and health groups are warning it threatens to further a staffing strain on hospitals, nursing homes and other major health employers. The agency in its July Visa Bulletin announced that nearly all the available green card slots for which nurses are eligible had been filled. Only people who applied prior to Dec. 1, 2021, would be eligible to continue with visa interviews, even if
  
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• Freedom Caucus member endorses primary challenger to group's chair Bob Good

  17-06-2024 15:38 via thehill.com
  
  A member of the House Freedom Caucus endorsed a primary challenger to the group’s chairman, a move that is sure to inflame tensions in the hardline conservative group.Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Sunday endorsed John McGuire, a Virginia state senator and former Navy SEAL, in his challenge to Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the Freedom Caucus chair.“In Virginia's 5th District, John McGuire is conservative and effective. He will work well with others to deliver conservative results,”
  
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• Freedom Caucus member endorses primary challenger to group Chair Bob Good

  17-06-2024 15:38 via thehill.com
  
  A member of the House Freedom Caucus endorsed a primary challenger to the group’s chair, a move that is sure to inflame tensions in the hardline conservative group.Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Sunday endorsed John McGuire, a Virginia state senator and former Navy SEAL, in his challenge to Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the Freedom Caucus chair.“In Virginia's 5th District, John McGuire is conservative and effective. He will work well with others to deliver conservative results,” Dav
  
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• Emhoff to speak at new Tree of Life synagogue's groundbreaking

  17-06-2024 14:51 via thehill.com
  
  Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will attend the groundbreaking ceremony later this week for the new campus of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the White House announced Monday.Emhoff, who is Jewish, will deliver remarks at the event Sunday, nearly six years after a gunman opened fire at the synagogue, killing 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.Crews began demolishing the synagogue earlier this year. The new space is expected to include spaces for worship, a m
  
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• White House accused of scuttling Democratic support for ethics bill

  17-06-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) made sure to line up an equal number of lawmakers from each side of the aisle to serve as co-sponsors when they joined forces on a White House ethics bill last month. That careful balance soon fell apart, however, after three Democrats backed out of their previous commitments to support the bill — vanishing, Porter said, after the White House reached out to her collea
  
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