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Covid relief wasn’t the only pressing issue facing Congress. Here are 6 others

Democrats’ slim majorities in both the House and Senate are testing President Joe Biden’s ability to get his priorities through Congress, as lawmakers turn their attention to legislative work beyond relief from the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, was voted out of the House Wednesday and onto Biden’s desk, after a difficult passage

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Judge temporarily blocks Planned Parenthood’s ouster from Texas Medicaid program

A Texas county judge has temporarily blocked the state’s efforts to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, hours after the group’s affiliates alleged that the state failed to provide adequate notice in a regulatory battle affecting thousands of low-income Texans during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A slew of Texas Planned Parenthood affiliates asserted in a lawsuit

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Wall Street Journal: Trump pressured Georgia investigator to find ‘the right answer’ in baseless fraud push

In a phone call to the Georgia secretary of state’s office in December, then-President Donald Trump urged a top investigator to find fraud in the 2020 presidential election, telling her that she would be “praised” for overturning results that were in favor of Joe Biden, according to newly reported audio of the call obtained by

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Whistleblowers say Trump ally made questionable hire days before resigning from Justice Department

Two federal employees are calling for an investigation into the hiring of a senior Justice Department official who had been interviewed by a manager who resigned shortly after — and just days before President Joe Biden‘s inauguration. The anonymous whistleblowers accuse Jeffrey Bossert Clark of conducting a bogus interview process for the assistant director of

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