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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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Biden faces first potential Cabinet defeat as opposition grows to budget-office nominee
Seung Min Kim, Annie Linskey and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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1of3Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, talks with reporters on Feb. 11, 2021.Washington Post photo by Katherine FreyShow MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden was on the cusp of his first Cabinet defeat Monday as two closely watched GOP senators announced their opposition to Neera Tanden, his pick to be the nation s chief budget official, potentially dealing a major blow to an administration that has struggled to fill top posts across the government.
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The Senate Gang of Eight has completed its member-level negotiations and plans to spend the next few days reviewing the legislation ahead of an announcement early next week, according to senators and aides.
The end of the intensive months-long talks all but guarantees that immigration reform will move forward in the Senate, defying predictions that the issue was too divisive to earn the support of a group that includes Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on the right and New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez on the left.
[N.S.: Wow. The group includes a Republican Reconquista and a Democratic Reconquista. How politically diverse!]