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Today, President Biden is heading to New York to formally denote a astir $300 cardinal assistance to assistance implicit an aboriginal signifier of the Hudson Tunnel project, portion of the long-delayed Gateway Program, which aims to revitalize the obstruction corridor betwixt New York and New Jersey. It volition beryllium Biden’s 2nd lawsuit successful arsenic galore days focused connected large infrastructure projects. On Monday, helium was successful Baltimore to tout the replacement of a 150-year-old obstruction tunnel with the assistance of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.
On Capitol Hill, embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans that helium volition measurement down temporarily from his committee assignments amid aggregate investigations into his run finances aft helium lied astir cardinal aspects of his biography.
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- 11 a.m. Eastern: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan successful the Capitol.
- 12:30 p.m. Eastern: Biden speaks successful New York. Watch unrecorded here.
- 3:30 p.m. Eastern: Biden participates successful a Democratic National Committee fundraiser successful New York.
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Analysis: Manhattan prosecutors people Trump with an iffy slope shot
By now, it seems beauteous wide that Donald Trump could person been prosecuted for having violated national run concern instrumentality — that is, were it not for the extortion of the bureau of the presidency, the effect of the run that benefited from those evident violations.
The Post’s Philip Bump writes that determination would person been much than 1 way to charging Trump, but the astir evident progressive a outgo to big movie histrion Stormy Daniels successful 2016, soon earlier that year’s election. Per Philip:
The latest: Democrats renew telephone for Santos resignation aft helium removes himself from committees
House Democrats connected Tuesday renewed their telephone for Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign and portrayed his determination to temporarily measurement disconnected his committees arsenic much grounds of chaos successful the Republican-led House.
“I’m conscionable struck by the chaos, confusion, dysfunction of the Republican conference,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), the Democratic caucus chairman, said astatine a quality conference. “They defended putting him connected committees, and present they’re announcing that he’s not going to service connected a committee. So I conscionable don’t recognize what the play of the time is.”
The latest: EPA whitethorn person dealt last ‘nail successful the coffin’ to Alaska’s Pebble Mine
A contentious golden and copper excavation task successful Alaska whitethorn present beryllium disconnected the array aft the Biden medication formally restricted mining successful the country to support one of the world’s biggest salmon spawning grounds.
The Post’s Timothy Puko reports that the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it has utilized a proviso of the Clean Water Act to artifact the Pebble Mine task and akin operations from the Bristol Bay watershed successful Alaska’s southwest. Per our colleague:
The decision, signed Monday, completes a connection the medication issued successful May. Since then, the bureau determined that mining discharge would origin unacceptable harm to the region’s fisheries, it said.
It’s the latest successful a bid of moves from the national authorities and Alaska Native groups that could doom a task to pat ore erstwhile valued astatine $300 cardinal to $500 billion. The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — nether archetypal the Trump and past the Biden administrations — person some present rejected the development, creating aggregate barriers to reviving it that experts accidental volition beryllium hard to overcome.
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Analysis: What the TikTok CEO volition look erstwhile helium testifies earlier Congress
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is slated to testify earlier Congress for the archetypal clip successful March, a long-sought league announced Monday that comes arsenic the institution faces mounting unit implicit its links to China.
Writing successful The Technology 202, Cristiano Lima says the CEO is apt to look a barrage of questions implicit the company’s efforts to safeguard idiosyncratic information and support children online, arsenic good arsenic the imaginable risks posed by its Beijing-based genitor company, ByteDance. Per Cristiano:
While TikTok officials person antecedently testified, the league marks the company’s archetypal quality since it began to much openly sermon its negotiations to settee information concerns with the U.S. government. The proceeding volition besides correspond the biggest trial of whether TikTok has offered up capable concessions to assuage its critics, including greater privateness safeguards.
The past clip a TikTok enforcement testified to Congress, successful September, lawmakers dug heavy into the company’s firm operation to effort to place vulnerabilities that could permission U.S. idiosyncratic information accessible to Chinese authorities officials.
That included a bid of tense exchanges implicit whether TikTok could beryllium compelled by China to crook implicit U.S. information nether section laws, thing its main operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, said they would ne'er do.
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This conscionable in: Republican Rep. George Santos to measurement down from House committees
Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans connected Tuesday that helium volition measurement down from his committee assignments, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the discussion.
The Post’s Meryl Kornfield reports that Santos, who has admitted to fabricating cardinal parts of his background since his predetermination successful November, said helium would region himself from his assignments connected the House Small Business Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee, successful a closed-door gathering of House Republicans connected Tuesday. Per Meryl:
Analysis: Florida Republicans enactment drilling — conscionable not disconnected their ain coast
Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) took to the House level with an antithetic request: He asked his colleagues to artifact lipid drilling disconnected the seashore of his location state.
“Offshore drilling is broadly opposed by coastal communities successful these areas, by section governments,” said Gaetz, a blimpish who has clashed with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Writing successful The Climate 202, The Post’s Maxine Joselow says the petition was antithetic due to the fact that Gaetz — and astir different Republicans connected Capitol Hill — person mostly supported drilling connected national lands and waters. Per Maxine:
The latest: Biden to property McCarthy connected indebtedness obligations, spending cuts
President Biden plans to aggressively property House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) during a White House gathering Wednesday to perpetrate to avoiding a default connected the nation’s indebtedness and to spell retired what spending cuts helium advocates, according to a memo distributed by elder aides.
The White House preview of the high-stakes gathering comes arsenic it remains successful a standoff with House Republicans implicit raising the indebtedness limit. Republicans are insisting connected yet-unspecified spending cuts successful speech for their support, a posture the enactment didn’t instrumentality during the presidency of Donald Trump erstwhile the bounds was raised 3 times. The White House is seeking a cleanable measure but has expressed openness to spending discussions later.
Noted: Mitch Daniels won’t tally for a Senate spot from Indiana
Mitch Daniels, the erstwhile Indiana politician who precocious retired arsenic president of Purdue University, has decided not to tally for an unfastened Senate spot from his location state.
“After what I anticipation was capable reflection, I’ve decided not to go a campaigner for the U.S. Senate,” Daniels said successful a statement. “With afloat recognition and respect for the instauration and those serving successful it, I reason that it’s conscionable not the occupation for me, not the municipality for me, and not the beingness I privation to unrecorded astatine this point.”
His determination leaves Rep. Jim Banks (R) arsenic the starring Republican contender to regenerate the retiring Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who is moving for governor, but different GOP candidates could inactive participate the Senate field.
Noted: Voters successful Santos’s territory overwhelmingly accidental helium should resign
The immense bulk of voters successful the territory of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has admitted to fabricating cardinal parts of his background, would beryllium blessed to spot him go, a caller canvass finds.
By a 65-point borderline — 78 percent to 13 percent — of registered voters successful New York’s 3rd Congressional District accidental helium should resign, the Newsday-Siena College poll finds.
Those favoring resignation see 89 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents and 71 percent of Republicans.
Santos has fixed nary denotation that helium plans to voluntarily springiness up the spot helium won successful November.
Analysis: The covid nationalist wellness emergencies volition officially extremity successful 3 months
President Biden will extremity the nationalist emergencies to combat the coronavirus connected May 11, mounting disconnected a monolithic bureaucratic effort to halt captious tools the state has utilized to combat the pandemic for astir 3 years.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein relays that the medication announced its determination arsenic it denounced House Republican efforts to ballot connected bills this week to extremity the exigency declarations immediately. Per Rachel:
The White House argued that doing truthful would “create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty” passim the health-care strategy and disrupt the orderly wind-down the medication had envisioned.
Since Biden entered office, his medication has pledged to springiness governors 60 days’ announcement earlier terminating the nationalist wellness emergency, arsenic wellness groups fretted astir an abrupt termination. An extremity to the nationalist wellness exigency appeared apt to travel this outpouring — unless determination was a large alteration successful the pandemic’s trajectory — but the announcement Monday day successful effect to 2 Republican bills came unexpectedly.
The looming expiration of the orders signifies a caller signifier of the pandemic response, arsenic U.S. officials get escaped of flexibilities utilized during the earliest and darkest days of the coronavirus.
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On our radar: New Pa. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro is connected a GOP charm offensive
Josh Shapiro began his word arsenic Pennsylvania’s caller Democratic governor by nominating 4 Republicans to his Cabinet. His archetypal enforcement order, which eliminates a four-year college-degree request for thousands of authorities authorities jobs, was praised by blimpish media. He appeared connected Fox News successful his archetypal tv interrogation arsenic governor.
Reporting from Harrisburg, The Post’s Colby Itkowitz writes that these aboriginal overtures by the 49-year-old politician awesome an antithetic posture helium is staking retired arsenic helium takes the helm of a authorities roiled successful caller years by predetermination conspiracy theories and crisp partisan fighting. Per Colby:
Analysis: Chances of a woody connected constabulary betterment rapidly dim
After the merchandise of a video connected Friday showing Memphis constabulary officers fatally beating Tyre Nichols, 29, earlier this month, determination were hopes that Congress mightiness erstwhile again statesman negotiating however to betterment policing practices, arsenic choler grew implicit the decease of different Black antheral pursuing a convulsive brushwood with instrumentality enforcement.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer accidental that by Monday, immoderate optimism for a large legislative woody seemed to person been squashed. Per our colleagues:
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