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The fight over the COVID relief bill emphasizes the close divide in the Senate.
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White House warns states rushing to lift COVID-19 protocols
President Joe Biden called out states like Texas and Mississippi for dropping mask mandates and lifting most restrictions as more citizens get vaccinated.Samuel Corum/Getty Images
The day the Senate moved toward approving the first and biggest priority of the Biden presidency was a day Washington spent debating the relative merits of Neanderthals.
That marked a distraction from another sideshow: GOP stalling tactics that left the Senate clerks reading every word of the massive $1.9 trillion bill that Democrats are seeking to pass in the days to come.
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United Republican opposition to COVID-19 aid doesn t align with public polling.
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160 CEOs write to lawmakers urging them to pass Biden’s COVID relief plan
Plus, former President Donald Trump is expected to push false claims during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend.J. Scott Applewhite/AP
The Republican Party is both less divided and more divided than it seems at the moment and not in ways that glide along the easiest political paths.
On the question of former President Donald Trump, the GOP is less divided than a colorful House leadership news conference might make it seem. The party still belongs primarily to Trump, as the CPAC gathering that begins Thursday in Florida will demonstrate.
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