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When the United States Senate was called into recess on January 6 at 2:13 p.m., Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough stood from her seat behind the dais, adjusted her mask, and looked toward the door where plainclothes policemen were rushing Senator Chuck Grassley to safety. Three mahogany boxes containing the ballots certifying the results of the 2020 election were stacked on a nearby table. To the side, a nervous policeman fidgeted, his hands flitting up toward the gun holstered inside his suit jacket. Читать дальше...

Gird your loins, folks, because it’s infrastructure week again. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told the media that this, the first week in June, was “incredibly critical” to getting an infrastructure package together. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, meanwhile, indicated the administration would have a “clear direction” on the presumptive bill’s presumptive passage—either a watered-down version that can get 10 GOP votes, or a big one passed via the budget reconciliation process. Читать дальше...

One day at work, well before being elected to Congress, Cori Bush got a call from her godmother. “She had a dream my house burned down,” Bush recalled to me over the phone. Her godmother urged her to go make sure everything was alright.

President Joe Biden is fond of using a quote from his father to criticize Republicans: “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” Late last month, the Biden administration sent its $6 trillion budget plan to Congress for consideration. It’s a pretty good reflection of what he values; trillions of dollars have been set aside for infrastructure, health care, child care, education, and climate change, so the country can “build back better,” as he often puts it. Читать дальше...