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The White House faced questioned Monday on the battle over President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan and also the president’s view on Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All Star game out of Atlanta after the state push through new voting laws.
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Biden’s ambitious “Rebuild America” agenda has a price tag of $2.3 trillion, and plans to help roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell declared plainly on Monday that Biden’s plan is “something we’re not going to do.”
A Republican congresswoman has called out Major League Baseball for moving an All-Star game out of Georgia over its controversial new voter-ID law - while still requiring fans to show photo identification cards to pick up tickets.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace suggested the league s ticket policy was hypocritical given its opposition to the law, which will require voters to provide a state ID number on their absentee ballot. Hey @MLB, this you? Rep. Mace wrote, along with a screenshot of the Will Call policy at mlb.com.
The official policy states: Group and hospitality tickets left at Will Call will be held under one person s name, and that person will need a picture ID to pick up their tickets.
MLB moving All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia voting laws
by Ronald Blum, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 2, 2021 3:15 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 2, 2021 at 9:08 pm EDT
Atlanta Braves field manager Tyler Lenz walks across the covered home plate at Truist Park in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics – including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola – have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
April 2, 2021
nuttiwut rodbangpong/iStockBy Mark Osborne and Quinn Scanlan, ABC News
(ATLANTA) MLB has moved this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta following controversy generated by Georgia’s restrictive new voting law.
“Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.”
Manfred said the new host city and details about events will be announced “shortly.”
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