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Media top headlines January 13 In media news today, Associated Press tells staff to ‘avoid emphasizing COVID case counts, the Economic Council director urges the media to focus on wage increases instead of inflation, and the mainstream media drags Rand Paul for clashing with Dr. Fauci. Yahoo is rejecting a digital ad from Republican Senate candidate Jim Lamon for touting the widely-used anti-Biden expression.  Lamon, a businessman and Army veteran running in the GOP primary in Arizona,… Source link

A key Democratic selling point of the new Build Back Better framework announced Thursday is that it’s fiscally responsible. “It’s fully paid for,” President Biden declared in a press briefing about the plan. “Over the next 10 years, it will not add to the deficit at all.” The White House summary of the bill goes even further and suggests the bill will actually reduce the deficit. On the spending side of the ledger, the president is pushing for $1.75 trillion in new spending offset… Source link

Sen. Mike Braun (R., Ind.) told Yahoo Finance that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is “condoning a broken system” by suggesting eliminating the debt ceiling. Dimon told President Biden on Wednesday that he thinks the U.S. should “get rid” of the debt ceiling, arguing “we don’t need to have this kind of brinksmanship every couple of years.” “Jamie wouldn’t say that for his own business,” said Braun. “His board of directors would get rid of him.”  Senate leaders came to an agreement on Thursday… Source link

Davis acknowledged in a statement to POLITICO that Google’s outside attorneys were among the “many law firms, lobby shops, corporations and other entities” he spoke to after leaving the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he had been chief counsel for nominations to Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) until 2019. But Davis added: “It didn’t go anywhere. And that was back before we knew how bad Google really was.” “Thank God I didn’t work with Google,” he said. “I dodged a… Source link

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says it would be “highly unlikely” that he’d allow President Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if Republicans were to take control of the chamber. Appearing Monday on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show, McConnell was presented with a hypothetical of a Supreme Court vacancy after a GOP victory in the 2022 midterm elections. The scenario was based on what occurred in 2016, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin… Source link

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Rep. Jim Jordan appeared to criticize Biden on Monday for attending diplomatic summits in Europe. “While Biden pals around with his buddies in Europe, the border crisis rages at home,” he tweeted. Conservatives have sought to make immigration at the US-Mexico border a rallying cry against Biden. Sign up for the 10 Things in Politics daily newsletter. GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on Monday appeared to criticize President Joe Biden for… Source link

The Republican Party finds itself in befuddling circumstances as former President Donald Trump prepares to hold political rallies again, beginning this weekend with an appearance in North Carolina. Trump was one of the only Republican candidates to lose a high-profile competitive race in 2020. GOP candidates won the majority of close races across the country, in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House and in state legislatures and gubernatorial races. Yet the party remains stuck with Trump as its… Source link

Republican leaders in Congress sought to distance themselves Tuesday from comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate in the House of Representatives to the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.  The controversy was just the latest in a series of incendiary comments from Greene that stretch back to before she was elected last year. “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of… Source link

The New York Times Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government WASHINGTON — A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Donald Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations. The campaign included a planned sting operation against Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R…. Source link

A new proposal by Republican lawmakers to overhaul a critical law that protects online platforms already looks dead in the water, according to one legal expert, though another prominent legal scholar believes it could fuel bipartisan reform for tech regulation. The proposal, laid out by Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday, is meant to serve as a foundation to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that provides liability protection… Source link