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Vice President Harris, will remind listeners that in a span of 100 days, the U.S. distribution and administration of vaccines saved lives, helped the elderly hug their loved ones again, put millions of students in classrooms along with help from governors and mayors, and made it possible for families to recover some financial equilibrium with direct payments from Uncle Sam.   Next up on the president’s to-do list: enactment of a $2.3 trillion infrastructure and green jobs plan in the next few months, and progress this year on a separate proposal that Biden calls the American Families Plan....

Voting Rights Standoff Stalls Trump-Inspired Ethics Measures After the Trump presidency, democracy activists and many Democrats seized a moment to rebuild constitutional guardrails, but the effort could die in the face of a larger fight over voting rights. Most Democrats and a coalition of watchdog groups say the ethics and voting rights sections in a sprawling Senate bill, sponsored in part by Senator Jeff Merkley, above, should remain intact and entwined.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times April 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET WASHINGTON — After Donald J. Trump lost the election and wa...

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  >> Charlie Savage, The New York Times  Published: 02 Feb 2021 10:09 AM BdST Updated: 02 Feb 2021 10:09 AM BdST Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks with his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, at the Capitol in Washington Jan 3, 2021. The New York Times Even as the Biden administration has moved aggressively to undo Donald Trump’s policies and dislodge his loyalists from positions on boards and civil-service jobs, it has hesitated on a related choice: whether to remove two inspectors general appointed by Trump under a storm of partisan controversy. "); } At issue i...

Biden has to choose whether to replace Trump's inspectors general, especially 1 pushed in by McConnell SYNDICATED 1 months ago Federal inspectors general are supposed to be independent watchdogs of federal agencies, and while former President Donald Trump purged numerous inspectors general last spring on vague pretenses, President Biden has to decide if he will further break norms by firing Trump's picks and replacing them with officials confirmed in the usual way, The New York Times reports. The biggest dilemmas are Eric Soskin, the inspector general for the Transportation Department, and ...