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• Biden stumbles with ‘Black jobs’ gaffe

  13-09-2024 20:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday appeared to stumble over reference to “Black jobs,” a phrase Democrats have bashed former President Trump for using, and pivoted to jab the Republican over the line. “With your help, in just three and a half years we created over 2 million new Black jobs for Black- Black Americans,” Biden told a crowd at a Black Excellence brunch hosted at the White House. He held a hand up as the crowd audibly reacted with laughter to the line. “
  
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• House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson’s funding bill

  19-09-2024 00:48 via thehill.com
  
  A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal to fund the government on Wednesday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown at the end of the month.Fourteen Republicans joined virtually every Democrat in voting against the spending plan — which paired a six-month stopgap bill with a measure that would require proof of citizenship to vote — bringing the final tally to 202-220, with
  
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• Iran attempted to pass hacked Trump campaign info to Biden campaign

  19-09-2024 00:08 via thehill.com
  
  The FBI and other intelligence agencies revealed Wednesday that Iran sent information stolen during its hack on the Trump campaign to the Biden campaign and continues to send material to various media outlets.“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,
  
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• Biden hits Trump over rhetoric on migrants at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration

  19-09-2024 00:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday hit former President Trump for his rhetoric on migrants during a celebration at the White House to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.“We don’t demonize immigrants, we don’t single them out for attacks, we don’t believe they’re ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country. We’re a nation of immigrants and that’s why we’re so damn strong,” Biden said to room full of Latinos at the reception.“Hispanic history is
  
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• Biden hits Trump for rhetoric on migrants at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration

  19-09-2024 00:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday hit former President Trump for his rhetoric on migrants during a celebration at the White House to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.“We don’t demonize immigrants, we don’t single them out for attacks, we don’t believe they’re ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country. We’re a nation of immigrants and that’s why we’re so damn strong,” Biden said to a room full of Latinos at the reception.“Hispanic history
  
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• Watch live: House votes on stopgap funding bill

  18-09-2024 23:34 via thehill.com
  
  The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a partisan spending plan that is seemingly doomed to fail.Republicans who forced Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to scrap a vote last week due to their intense opposition have said they have still not changed their positions on the bill.Lawmakers are scrambling to pass a funding package before an end-of-the-month deadline for a government shutdown.The vote is scheduled to take place at 5:40 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Watch live: Biden celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with White House reception

  18-09-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is hosting a reception in the East Room Wednesday in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 to honor the lives and achievements of Americans who share ancestry from a diverse group of countries on the Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and the Caribbean.Independence days are marked in several of the countries, including Mexico, five Central American nations and Chile during mid-September.Events are slated to begin at 5 p.m. EDT.Watch
  
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• Watch: Biden celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with White House reception

  18-09-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden hosted a reception in the East Room Wednesday in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 to honor the lives and achievements of Americans who share ancestry from a diverse group of countries on the Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and the Caribbean.Independence days are marked in several of the countries, including Mexico, five Central American nations and Chile during mid-September.Watch the video replay above.
  
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• White House briefing delivered partially en español

  18-09-2024 21:54 via thehill.com
  
  Wednesday’s White House briefing featured a Spanish-language segment to commemorate the start of Hispanic Heritage Month.White House director of coalitions media Luisana Pérez Fernández delivered the remarks, outlining President Biden’s schedule to commemorate the month-long celebration.Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a White House reception for Hispanic leaders later Wednesday, and Biden will address the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI
  
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• House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback

  18-09-2024 21:19 via thehill.com
  
  A House panel advanced the Kids Online Safety Act bill, also known as KOSA, on Wednesday, pushing forward legislation intended to boost online privacy and safety for children.The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s advancement of KOSA hands advocacy groups a temporary win following weeks of uncertainty about the bill’s future amid GOP pushback. Some lawmakers could be heard opposing in the voice vote, though the roll was not called.Wednesday’s markup suggested the uncertainty
  
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• House awards Billie Jean King Congressional Gold Medal in history-making vote

  18-09-2024 20:34 via thehill.com
  
  The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honor on a female individual athlete for the first time.Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) introduced the bill to recognize King last September on the 50th anniversary of the tennis Hall of Famer’s 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs in the “Battl
  
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• House, Senate Democrats press leadership to quickly extend ObamaCare subsidies

  18-09-2024 19:32 via thehill.com
  
  House and Senate Democrats are pressing leadership to quickly pass legislation extending ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies before they expire at the end of 2025. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) led a letter sent Wednesday to bipartisan leaders in both chambers urging them to act “at the next possible legislative opportunity.” It was signed by 41 Senate Democrats and 154 House Democrats.
  The enhanced subsidies were first put into effect dur
  
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• New partnership unveiled touting White House efforts in Black, Latino communities

  18-09-2024 18:59 via thehill.com
  
  Black and Latino voting organizations have teamed up for a new campaign touting the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to support the two communities over the last three years. The Voto Latino Foundation and Vote To Live Foundation announced a new six-figure digital education campaign in partnership with Building Back Together for Black and Latino communities. The campaign, unveiled Wednesday, will highlight the White House's accomplishments on things like lowering the price o
  
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• Rep. Luna says authorities investigating 'very serious shooting threat' against her

  18-09-2024 18:18 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) said she was the subject of a “very serious shooting threat,” and she blamed "rhetoric" coming from "the left." "Over the last few weeks, I have received an increasing number of threats and doxxing attacks. An online page was encouraging strangers to send threatening packages to my home,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “This weekend, it escalated to a very serious shooting threat, and
  
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• US passport renewal can now be done online

  18-09-2024 16:36 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. is making passport renewal fully available online, the State Department announced on Wednesday, getting rid of the need to print application forms and send a check through the mail. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the online passport renewal system “a significant step forward in ensuring that Americans can more easily access passport services.” “The Department of State is making our new online passport renewal system fully available to the public tod
  
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• Watch live: House Democratic leaders hold briefing

  18-09-2024 16:30 via thehill.com
  
  House Democratic leaders will hold a press briefing Wednesday morning as the chamber prepares for a rescheduled vote on Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) stopgap funding plan later in the day.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) last week vowed to reject Trump-backed policy provisions in a continuing resolution (CR). In particular, Democrats oppose linking a government funding proposal to a measure requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.The press conference is
  
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• Watch: House Democratic leaders hold briefing

  18-09-2024 16:30 via thehill.com
  
  House Democratic leaders held a press briefing Wednesday morning as the chamber prepared for a rescheduled vote on Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) stopgap funding plan later in the day.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) last week vowed to reject Trump-backed policy provisions in a continuing resolution (CR). In particular, Democrats oppose linking a government funding proposal to a measure requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.The press conference was slate
  
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• Biden to travel to Berlin

  18-09-2024 15:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is adding a foreign trip to his schedule during the final stretch of the presidential campaign, a source familiar with the plans tells The Hill. Biden is expected to travel to Germany where he will stop in Berlin, the source said, in what is expected to be a state visit before the president travels to Angola. Reuters reported late week that Biden would travel to the African nation. The source told The Hill that the five-day trip is expected to happen October 10-15,
  
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• Senators, parents ramp up pressure on House to pass Kids Online Safety Act

  18-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Senators and parents are ratcheting up pressure on House lawmakers this week to push forward with legislation aimed at increasing children’s digital safety and privacy as a House committee prepares to mark up the bill Wednesday.Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the co-author of the Kids Safety Online Act (KOSA), kicked off these efforts Monday morning amid the roadblocks and GOP pushback the bill faces in the House.The push from Blackburn and other senators is coupled wi
  
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• Johnson tees up rescheduled funding bill vote as critics dig in

  18-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to reschedule a vote on his partisan spending plan is leaving Congress seemingly no closer to averting a government shutdown at the end of the month, as critics of the proposal on both sides of the aisle dig in their heels.The package, which pairs a six-month stopgap with a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, appears destined for failure in the House on Wednesday, after a number of Republicans who staked opposition to the bill last week
  
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• Democrats target tax avoidance before cuts expire in 2025

  18-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are going after tax avoidance from big companies and wealthy individuals as the debate on taxes heats up ahead of tax code expirations scheduled for next year.A new set of proposed rules from the Treasury Department is taking aim at corporations with profits more than $1 billion, while Senate Finance Committee Democrats last week called out strategies wealthy people use to get around their tax liability.The Treasury Department said Thursday it was proposing new rule
  
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• Trump told Secret Service more resources needed: adviser

  18-09-2024 04:08 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump told the Secret Service “that he believes that more resources are needed,” a campaign adviser said Tuesday.“Well, first, the president always makes clear that he very much values the work and the risks and the sacrifice of his personal detail,” Tim Murtaugh told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.”“He admires them very much, and he very much appreciates the job that they do, and he thinks they do an excellent job in keepi
  
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• Andy Harris elected as new Freedom Caucus chair

  18-09-2024 02:31 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) was elected the new chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus Tuesday night, three members told The Hill, officially replacing Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) after he lost his primary earlier this year.The group elected Harris to be its chair shortly after Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a former leader of the coalition, took his name out of contention, the members said. Harris and Biggs were the final contenders for the position.The vote took place during the group’s weekl
  
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• Task force on Trump assassination attempts will probe second effort, Johnson says

  18-09-2024 01:54 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson said a task force assembled to review the assassination attempt against former President Trump will be expanded to include a second incident from over the weekend.“We have a responsibility here in Congress to get down to the bottom of this, to figure out why these things are happening and what we can do about it,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday.“One of the things we're going to do is expand the scope of the existing task force to cover the second assa
  
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• Johnson: Task force on Trump assassination attempts will probe second effort

  18-09-2024 01:54 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said a task force assembled to review the assassination attempt against former President Trump will be expanded to include a second incident from over the weekend.“We have a responsibility here in Congress to get down to the bottom of this, to figure out why these things are happening and what we can do about it,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday.“One of the things we're going to do is expand the scope of the existing task force to cover the sec
  
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• House passes bill to plug $3B VA budget shortfall

  18-09-2024 01:10 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Tuesday passed an emergency bill to address a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall facing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as officials warn millions of veterans’ benefits are at risk in the coming weeks.The bill passed with bipartisan support on a voice vote, and now heads to the Senate, where members on both sides are hopeful for swift action this week.“Thankfully, the House came together in a rare moment of bipartisanship to pass my bill that prevents this disa
  
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• House passes bill to plug $3 billion VA budget shortfall

  18-09-2024 01:10 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Tuesday passed an emergency bill to address a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall facing the Department of Veterans Affairs, as officials warn millions of veterans’ benefits are at risk in the coming weeks.The bill passed with bipartisan support on a voice vote, and now heads to the Senate, where members on both sides are hopeful for swift action this week.“Thankfully, the House came together in a rare moment of bipartisanship to pass my bill that prevents this disaster
  
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• Mail voting faces significant challenges ahead of November

  17-09-2024 23:49 via thehill.com
  
  Election officials are warning that mail voting could face delays and disruption if the U.S. mail delivery system fails to fix persistent issues ahead of November’s contests.In a recent letter to the Postal Service, groups representing election officials nationwide said “serious questions” remain about the agency’s ability to deliver election mail in a “timely and accurate manner,” as November’s elections rapidly near. Over the past year, mailed bal
  
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• Johnson outlines economic plan under Trump if GOP controls government in 2025

  17-09-2024 23:46 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday outlined his economic agenda for the first 100 days under a second Trump administration — a plan that assumes Republicans will win unified control of government in 2025.In a speech at the conservative America First Policy Institute that was followed by a discussion with Larry Kudlow, Johnson outlined priorities for tax policy, prioritizing U.S. investment, eliminating green initiatives championed by Democrats, reforming education, and rooting out was
  
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• Republicans question proposal to boost Secret Service funding

  17-09-2024 23:40 via thehill.com
  
  Some Republicans are questioning whether a boost in spending for the Secret Service as part of the upcoming government funding bill would help protect former President Trump in the immediate term.Leaders in both parties have floated a funding boost for the agency after what authorities said was the second assassination attempt against the former president and GOP presidential nominee.But lawmakers, including Republicans, are also sounding a note of caution. They say it is unlikely that anything
  
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