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As infrastructure talks advance, a key flaw in GOP plan emerges As things stand, to see the Republican position on infrastructure as serious and credible is to make a mistake. Work crews continue to work on the construction of a freeway overpass in San Diego, March 30, 2021.Mike Blake / Reuters April 28, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC BySteve Benen After a handful of bipartisan infrastructure meetings with lawmakers, President Joe Biden recently wrapped up a White House discussion by asking Republicans to craft a counterproposal to the American Jobs Plan by mid-May. GOP lawmakers easily beat that deadli...

McCarthy contradicts McCarthy on Trump, Jan. 6 attack The House GOP leader is still looking for ways to make Trump happy, even if that means contradicting himself in painfully obvious, easy-to-check ways. Kevin McCarthy on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 4, 2021.Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images file April 26, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC BySteve Benen In the immediate aftermath of the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, many Republicans were reluctant to defend Donald Trump's role in inciting the deadly riot. Most GOP officials balked at the idea that the then-president deserved to be impeac...

In 2020, Donald Trump's last year in the White House, the number of far-right domestic terrorism incidents in the United States hit a 26-year high.

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Maddow Blog | The glaring flaw in the GOP's new talking point on Georgia voting MSNBC 2 hrs ago Steve Benen Major League Baseball recently pulled its All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia's new voter-suppression law. The exhibition will instead be played this year in Denver. And that, evidently, gave some Republicans an idea for a new talking point. At a briefing today, for example, Fox News' White House correspondent asked: "Is the White House concerned that Major League Baseball is moving its All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar ...