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The House gave President Joe Biden another reason to celebrate on Friday with the passage of a bill aimed at boosting competitiveness with China and soothing supply chain woes, capping a string of accomplishments for the administration to sell as victories this week. These include a robust jobs report that the administration and its allies are sure to tout and a strike on an ISIS leader—though the White House has denied blame for the additional deaths of several civilians, including children.

Kyrsten Sinema’s only friends, it seems, are Republican donors and executives from petrochemical firms. Her persistent opposition to the Democratic agenda, particularly her efforts to sink its twin centers, the Build Back Better Act and voting rights legislation, has dried up her grassroots donor support. According to Politico, just over 2 percent—a meager $33,983—of the Arizona senator’s donations in the last quarter of 2021 came from small donors, while a PAC intent on primarying her when she’s... Читать дальше...

Here’s what happened this week

The Washington Post published a bombshell story about a December 2020 memo laying out how Donald Trump could try to use the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense to search communications records in an attempt to prove that foreign powers had tried to help President Biden win the 2020 election. Copies of the memo were circulated among Trump allies and some Republican senators. Trump, in the end, didn’t follow the memo’s recommendations. The... Читать дальше...

It’s safe to say that in living memory, public trust in American elections has never been lower. A year into Joe Biden’s presidency, the statistics have become familiar: Roughly two-thirds of Republicans, and more than 40 percent of the general electorate, do not believe Biden’s 2020 victory was legitimate.

David Weil’s nomination to be administrator of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division has drawn opposition from the business lobby because the last time he had this job, during the Obama administration, he had the temerity to try to enforce the nation’s wage and hour laws. Earlier this week, I described how Weil attempted to revive enforcement of the overtime provisions in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA. Today I’m going to talk about how Weil sought to crack down on the illegal... Читать дальше...