• The IRS will have to send Trump’s tax returns to the Ways and Means Committee.
• Notes show Trump suggested Justice Department officials call the election corrupt
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The U. S. Department of Justice U. S. He sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott today over his order to prevent migrants from entering or being transported into the state, through law enforcement officials.
According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in El Paso, the federal government has jurisdiction over immigration, Reuters reports.
From Reuters:
The order, which Abbott signed Wednesday, allows “law enforcement officials” to provide transportation on the floor to migrants apposted for illegally crossing the southern border, and gives the State Department of Public Safety the strength necessary to prevent any vehicles suspected of carrying migrants and leaving. return it to its point of origin.
The order would interfere with the U. S. government’s ability to send migrants between facilities, adding unaccompanied children, according to the lawsuit. The government employs subcontractors and other non-police forces to move migrants.
The trial came after U. S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Abbott to quash the order a day after it was signed.
“The ordinance violates federal law in many ways, and Texas cannot legally make an executive order that opposes any federal official or personal party running with the United States,” Garland reportedly wrote in a letter to Abbott.
Abbott, who responded to the lawsuit by accusing Biden’s management of creating a “constitutional crisis” between his state and the federal government, argued that his order was mandatory to prevent migrants from introducing more Covid risks. and Texas, where cases have risen to 200% in the past two weeks alone, has a rate of just 44% of vaccinated among residents.
The House adjourned its sessions for the August holidays, allowing the moratorium on evictions, which would leave tenants affected by the Covid crisis, to expire.
After getting the votes Friday night, Democratic lawmakers failed to pass the extension.
According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, approximately 11. 4 million tenants are in arrears lately.
On Thursday, the Biden administration pushed Congress to act, but left a while before the bill expired on July 31.
“This moratorium has prevented thousands of Americans from experiencing the pain, homelessness and fitness dangers that also occasionally come from deportations, especially during a pandemic,” Psaki said yesterday, adding that President Biden allegedly supported an extension of the CDC. however, “the Supreme Court has made it clear that this option is no longer available. “
As an extension of Congress has become more unlikely, Biden suggested state and local governments join the cause and disburse contracted relief funds. “State and local governments also deserve to be aware that there are no legal obstacles to the moratorium at the state and local levels,” he said in a statement.
Georgia Republicans are looking to take over election operations in a Democratic stronghold, which may change the balance in the battlefield state, CNN reports.
Georgia’s Republican lawmakers in March approved a sweeping election bill with new voting restrictions that allowed them to conduct a review of the functionality of local election officials. After that, the law allows the state election council to update a local council on and assign to the officials elected through them the duty to count the votes.
Republicans took the first step by calling for functionality in Fulton County, a region with a Democratic majority.
Earlier this week, after Republicans released the first letter calling for the audit, Fulton Borough President Robb Pitts told reporters that the resolution “really is a wake-up call. “
“I can’t let them get away with it in broad daylight,” he said at the news conference.
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger retaliated and wrote in a tweet that the request had been made to voters.
“I have asked the state election council to use its authority under SB202 to update the Fulton County election leadership,” he said. “The Fulton electorate deserves more than decades of mismanagement and long queues. “
Walmart, america’s largest store, and Disney announced they will require workers to get vaccinated against Covid, CNN reports.
Beginning Oct. 4, all Walmart workers will want to be vaccinated, according to a memo issued by President and CEO Doug McMillon. An earlier note posted through the store also stated that all workers would have to wear masks indoors from now on.
From CNN:
While Walmart does not require staff at its retail outlets to get vaccinated, it will soon put in place a new procedure to determine the prestige of its vaccination and strongly encourages staff to get vaccinated. As a component of its vaccination campaign, the company provides staff with the opportunity to get vaccinated on time and up to 3 days of paid leave for any reaction to the vaccine.
In addition, Walmart is doubling its existing vaccine incentive to $150. Originally, the company presented workers with $75 to get vaccinated. Current workers who get vaccinated and new workers who were vaccinated before starting at Walmart are all eligible to get the bonus.
For Disney, the new regulations require salaried and non-unionized staff to be vaccinated and have given 60 days on-site to comply.
As the U. S. U. S. Facing a further surge in Covid cases, nurses across the country are on strike, protesting against deteriorating career situations and the lack of that has added more tension and tension to an already complicated year.
Journalist Michael Sainato detailed the problems in his article published in The Guardian.
“Most of us felt like we were temporarily going from hero to zero,” Dominique Muldoon, a nurse who spent 20 years at St. Hospital, told Sainato. Vincent in Worcester, Massachusetts.
“The nurses would go around the house crying at night in their cars,” she added. “You’ll end up falling behind or running during your break looking to integrate the workload, but you end up frustrated because you end up looking to over-compensate and possibly couldn’t stay awake. “
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For more than 4 months, more than 700 nurses at St. Vincent, owned by Tenet Healthcare, has been on strike, the second longest nurse strike in Massachusetts history. The hospital recruited replacement staff and spent more than $30,000 a day on police policy during the strike.
Muldoon, co-chair of the local bargaining unit, said the understaffing had made the pandemic worse, with more discounts and leave for staff as nurses worked on scheduled breaks and shifts to answer the patient’s wake-up call.
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The United States imposed new sanctions against Cuban police and two of their leaders after harsh responses to protesters, Reuters reports, before Biden met with Cuban today.
The sanctions are a reaction to “actions to suppress nonviolent, pro-democracy protests in Cuba that began on July 11,” according to the U. S. Treasury Department, after protests erupted this month due to the country’s worsening economic crisis.
“We will do everything we can to keep Cuba in the spotlight, so that we can verbally exchange about the rights of Cubans and their right to nonviolent protest,” a senior management official told reporters.
The move follows sanctions imposed on Cuban officials this month, according to Axios, who reported that the first circular was Biden’s “first significant political reaction to the authorities’ crackdown on unrest in Cuba over widespread shortages of food and medicine. “
“This is just the beginning,” Biden said at the time, rebuking “mass arrests and false trials. “
“The United States will continue to punish those guilty of the oppression of the Cuban people,” he added.
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House Democrats appear to be failing in their efforts to extend the pandemic-related moratorium on deportations, which is expected to expire the day after tomorrow.
“We don’t have the votes,” said a Democratic aide in Hill.
However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she was not yet withdrawing the bill that would allow an extension, according to ABC News, but declined to say whether she believes the bill had enough to pass.
Again, if Congress passes an extension, millions of Americans threaten to be deported.
It turns out that Barack Obama is getting ready to premiere the summer party (outdoors).
The 44th president will do his best to celebrate his 60th birthday on Wednesday and invite dozens of friends to his Martha’s Vineyard estate this weekend, in addition to Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney, according to Hill.
Obama and his circle of family members bought the home, which spans nearly 30 acres, on the island off the coast of Massachusetts in 2019 for $11. 75 million, according to vineyard gazette.
On the other side of the Capitol, the Senate got rid of some other procedural hurdle in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
In a 66-28 bipartisan vote, the Senate approved a move to move into the bill’s legislative vehicle, which would provide $550 billion in new federal investment for physical infrastructure projects.
However, senators have not yet seen the final text of the bill and key negotiators have stated that notable bills should not be considered as the final version.
The debate on the main points of the bill will likely extend into next week, however, ultimately, senate passage of the bill is more likely, given the bipartisanship it has won so far.
House Democrats are expected to soon abandon their bill for the pandemic-related moratorium on evictions, which is expected to expire the day after tomorrow.
According to Politico, the space leadership will soon withdraw the bill, after spending the day getting enough votes to pass the extension.
If House Democrats backtrack on their efforts, millions of Americans will face deportation next week.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said a few moments ago that management fully supports the White House bill and will do everything imaginable to get it all the way to the end.
Joe Biden has indicated that he believes his administration unilaterally extends the moratorium because the Supreme Court ruled last month that any extension beyond July 31 would require congressional approval.
Karine Jean-Pierre gained many questions about knowledge recently through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about revolutionary infections of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The CDC report showed that many other people suffered from the coronavirus in Massachusetts before this month, even though 74% of other people were vaccinated there.
Jean-Pierre said vaccines remain incredibly effective in preventing serious illness and deaths due to the coronavirus, even with the delta variant, which is more highly transmissible, and described it as a national imperative to vaccinate more Americans as temporarily as possible.
A reporter asked the deputy press secretary if the White House was contemplating a national vaccine requirement, after Joe Biden said he had asked the Justice Department to find out if such an order would be legal.
“Attention is currently being paid to a national vaccine requirement,” Jean-Pierre said.
Asked if the White House expected more closures to be needed if the Delta variant continued to expand, Jean-Pierre said no.
“The way we look at things is that we have the equipment on our tool belt to fight as opposed to this variant,” Jean-Pierre said. “We’re going to move toward blocking. “
In a new letter to House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she is running to pass a bill that would extend the moratorium on deportations until Oct. 18, when the federal declaration of public fitness emergency expires.
“We hope to pass without delay a bill extending the moratorium to deportations until that date,” Pelosi said.
“In doing so, we urge states and localities to temporarily distribute the congressional cash allocation to tenants in need. Of the $46. 5 billion provided through Congress on the December Bus and the U. S. Rescue Plan, the U. S. Only $3 billion was distributed to tenants through state and local governments. Families don’t have to pay the price.
However, it’s unclear whether Pelosi has enough votes to approve the bill extension and, again, it’s unlikely that such a bill could pass through the similarly divided Senate.
Lately, the moratorium expires tomorrow, and millions of Americans threaten to be forced from their homes if the policy is extended.
A reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts for the pandemic-related moratorium on evictions, which will expire tomorrow.
The deputy press secretary said the White House fully supports those efforts and will do everything imaginable to help advance a bill authorizing an extension.
“This has been a lifeline for many Americans,” Jean-Pierre said. “Hence the speaker’s efforts and we will do everything we can to move things forward. “
Reiterating yesterday to press secretary Jen Psaki, Jean-Pierre said the president did not believe his administration could simply unilaterally enlarge the moratorium because the Supreme Court ruled last month that such action would require congressional approval.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is now holding the briefing with reporters.
Jean-Pierre noted that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held a virtual assembly with governors to discuss forest chimney prevention and response efforts.
At the meeting, the president “highlighted the heroism of our firefighters” as the country faces a historic fire season, Jean-Pierre said.
The deputy press secretary noted that the 2021 wildfire season continues to outperforming the 2020 season in terms of giant fires to date, and FEMA has distributed grants to states that pay the charge of fighting the fires.
Based on the accumulated evidence on past strains of the virus, the CDC had said that other vaccinated people can simply leave the mask altogether. But the Massachusetts study’s advice advised to go further.
“The effects of this survey recommend that even jurisdictions without truly extensive or maximum transmission of Covid-19 can simply expand prevention strategies, adding masking in indoor public places, regardless of vaccination status, given the potential threat of infection by attending giant public gatherings that come with travelers from many spaces with other degrees of transmission. “
Vaccines remain the most Americans can do to protect themselves from serious illness and death from Covid-19, and remain highly effective against the delta variant, despite rare cases of innovative infections. being able to seamlessly transmit the delta variant, the vast majority of spread in the United States will occur among unauthorized Americans.