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Joe Biden marked the implementation of the American Rescue Plan by noting that in the coming days the US will reach the recovery milestone of 100 million shots in arms and 100 million checks in pockets.
In a note to clients, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted that the post-pandemic period could see China-like economic growth in the US at rates not seen since the Reagan era.
The president also said that while there has been much speculation about his predecessor being asked to help promote the Covid-19 vaccine to his supporters, Mr Biden feels that local doctors and ministers would do a better job.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in Monday’s press briefing: “If former President Trump woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine certainly we’d support that.”
She also noted that every other living former president has done that and “they did not need an engraved invitation to do so.”
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has returned to the spotlight with a controversial op-ed written for The Wall Street Journal in which he refers to the Israel–Palestine conflict as a “real estate dispute” and boldly predicts: “We are witnessing the latest vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
‘She refuses to be silenced’
The former daughter-in-law of Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief is cooperating with investigators in the probe into the business dealing of the former president and “refuses to be silenced,” said her lawyer.
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Adam Withnall16 March 2021 06:43
Texas governor demands ‘emergency’ election reform as state GOP unveils two dozen bills aimed at voting rights
Among the items on Texas governor Greg Abbott’s list of emergency priorities in 2021: “election integrity”.
The phrase has emerged among Republican lawmakers in state legislatures across the US, as states consider dozens of GOP-backed bills to restrict voting access in the wake of the 2020 elections that saw unprecedented voter turnout and expanded vote-by-mail options during the coronavirus pandemic.
Republican lawmakers in Texas have filed more than two dozen bills aimed at restricting voting in a state that already has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country, which voting rights groups say disproportionately threaten and suppress votes from Black voters.
Governor Abbott said on Monday that the bills are aimed at restoring “trust and confidence in the outcome” of the state’s elections, although he also admitted that he is not aware of any elections altered by fraud.
The Independent’s Alex Woodward reports.
Justin Vallejo16 March 2021 04:50
GOP is being ‘eaten alive’ by Trump, election experts warn
The question of whether former president Trump would lose his clout within the Republican Party has been quickly answered by the number of GOP power brokers visiting Mr Trump at his new permanent home in Mar-A-Lago.
Florida Republican strategist Gianno Caldwell told The Palm Beach Post that it was…
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