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WASHINGTON — Despite mounting opposition from his own party, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., vowed Tuesday to stay the course and put his government funding package on the House floor on Wednesday. His initial strategy to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month is expected to fail and deal House Republicans an embarrassing blow. Due to their paper-thin majority, Republicans can afford only a handful of GOP defections on the vote, and many more than that have publicly voiced their opposition. “I am in this to win this,” Johnson told reporters at his weekly news conference. Afterward, the speaker added: “We are going to put the SAVE Act and the CR together, and we’re going to move that through the process.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, Johnson, “, ” Johnson, ”, Jim Banks, Cory Mills, Matt Rosendale, Montana —, Mills, Dan Meuser, ” Meuser, “ Shutdowns, Sen, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, “ I’m, ” Cassidy Organizations: SAVE, Democratic, White, GOP, Republicans Locations: WASHINGTON, Jim Banks of Indiana, Florida, Montana, Mexico

☆ Trump returns to campaign trail for first time since hush money trial began
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Alayna Treene | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump will make his foray back onto the campaign trail Wednesday for the first time since his New York criminal hush money trial began in earnest last month. Trump advisers see openings with critical working class voters unhappy with inflation, and with Arab American voters who disprove of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. But they are still in the early stages of building out the teams, according two senior Trump campaign advisers, which they say will be a mix of paid staffers and volunteers. “That’s a colossal disaster for him,” one of the senior Trump advisers said, and it is something they plan to message on aggressively in the months ahead. Recent campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission show Biden’s principal campaign committee entered April with $85.5 million, while Trump’s main campaign account had $45.1 million in its war chest.

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☆ Biden has taken to privately calling Israeli PM Netanyahu an 'asshole,' report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President Joe Biden privately called Benjamin Netanyahu an "asshole" three times, per NBC News. Biden has tried to talk Netanyahu into agreeing to a cease-fire in Gaza, sources told the outlet. But the Israel prime minister is "giving him hell," one source said, per the outlet. AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden has taken to privately calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an “asshole,” NBC News reported , citing three sources. "The president has been clear where he disagrees with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but this is a decadeslong relationship that is respectful in public and in private," the spokesperson said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden, Netanyahu, —, — Biden, Israel, we're Organizations: NBC, Service, NBC News, Israel, ABC, Gaza, Fox News, National Security Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Egypt, Ukraine, Taiwan

☆ 41,000 people are about to get $240 million in medical debt cancelled thanks to an infusion of cash from Biden's pandemic aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In Toledo, Ohio, 41,000 residents will see around $240 million in medical debt relieved. Communities across the country have allocated at least $16 million toward relieving medical debt, according to the White House . Cook County officials connected Grim with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys up medical debt across the country and wipes it out completely. "If you have your medical debt relieved, they can go back to the doctor again, they can put food on the table." Do you have medical debt, or have received medical debt relief?

Persons: Michele Grim, It's, Grim, Joe Biden, Grim — Organizations: Service, Kaiser Family Foundation, Consumer Financial, Bureau, American, ARPA Locations: Toledo , Ohio, Wall, Silicon, Ohio, Lucas County, Toledo, Cook County , Illinois, Cook, Cook County

☆ Feds say Trump not entitled to 'special treatment' in documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Prosecutors told Judge Aileen Cannon that Trump is not entitled — as he has requested — to review or discuss any classified information in the case in a newly constructed sensitive compartmented information facility in one of his homes. Federal prosecutors on Monday said former President Donald Trump is seeking "special treatment that no other defendant would receive" in the criminal case accusing him of retaining classified documents at his Florida club after leaving the White House . "In essence, he is asking to be the only defendant ever in a case involving classified information (at least to the Government's knowledge) who would be able to discuss classified information in a private residence," the filing said. Prosecutors want Cannon to order that Trump and his lawyers only be allowed to discuss classified information within special secured locations, also known as SCIFs. The filing said that the proposed protective order that prosecutors are seeking "reflects standard procedures for handling classified information in criminal cases and is consistent with the law."

Persons: Aileen Cannon, Trump, Donald Trump, Cannon, Trump's Organizations: Court, Prosecutors, White Locations: Southern Florida, Florida, Lago, Palm Beach

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