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If everything is infrastructure, does that make today’s summit an infrastructure summit…?: |
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© Giphy President Biden is hosting a two-day virtual summit on climate change. Who is participating in today’s summit: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel https://wapo.st/3v9GPXx Latest updates from the summit: https://nyti.ms/2RWLSMI White House schedule of events: https://bit.ly/3emomQS |
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| SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS: |
| Biden’s theme — ‘we’re all in this together!’: Biden demanded collective action from the world’s largest economies to combat climate change. https://bit.ly/3tHjjkd Biden’s goal: Via The Hill’s Rachel Frazin, “President Biden is aiming to reduce the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent when compared to 2005 levels by the year 2030, an interim goal in his quest to reach net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050.” https://bit.ly/3tJk0cO How Biden’s goal will work: “The target, called a Nationally Determined Contribution, is being made as part of the Paris Agreement and will be formally submitted to the United Nations.” For context: “The target follows an Obama-era goal of reducing emissions by 26 to 28 percent by the year 2025 compared to 2005 levels. In 2019, U.S. emissions were 13 percent lower than 2005 levels, according to data recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency.” U.K. applauded Biden: “British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday commended President Biden’s commitment to halve emissions by 2030, calling the announcement ‘game-changing.’" https://bit.ly/3dHlYVv |
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| It’s a chilly, 40-degree Thursday in Washington. REALLY I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send comments, story ideas and events for our radar to cmartel@thehill.com — and follow along on Twitter @CateMartel and Facebook. Did someone forward this to you? Want your own copy? Sign up here to receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox daily: http://bit.ly/2kjMNnn The White House got all dressed up today: 
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Meanwhile — it’s never uneventful outside the White House: |
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© Twitter Watch: https://bit.ly/3nf8vHF ^ If you’re curious, they did follow through: Here’s video of protesters finishing the job: https://bit.ly/3dCwcXf |
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It's time to update internet regulations |
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The internet has changed a lot in the 25 years since lawmakers last passed comprehensive internet regulations. It's time for an update. See how we're making progress on key issues and why we support updated regulations to set clear rules for addressing today's toughest challenges. |
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To quote Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, ‘get low, get low, get low, get low’: |
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© Giphy Via The Hill’s Niv Elis, “Initial jobless claims for the week ending April 17 fell to a seasonally adjusted 547,000, a 39,000 drop from the previous week and the lowest level since pandemic lockdowns began last March.” https://bit.ly/2PcTYjb For context on where we stand: “The continued drop in weekly claims is a sign of an improving labor market but also indicates how tough conditions remain. The weekly figure is over double the pre-pandemic level.” |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
Interesting read — ‘Bidenworld fears many vaccine skeptics may be unreachable. They're trying anyway.’: |
| Via Politico’s Eugene Daniels, “The Biden administration is launching a renewed, more nuanced push to tackle a resistance problem of its own — it has more Covid vaccines than people willing or able to take them.” https://politi.co/3gzLii6 How so: “In recent days, officials have leveraged community groups, attempted to lower financial hurdles and utilized top health care officials all in the service of one objective: convincing reluctant folks to get the jab.” |
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| VACCINATIONS DROP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE FEBRUARY: |
| https://bit.ly/3tJz7TN |
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New promising study on the vaccine and pregnancy: |
| Via The New York Times’s Emily Anthes, “In an early analysis of coronavirus vaccine safety data, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines pose serious risks during pregnancy.” https://nyti.ms/3dG9HRt Keep in mind about pregnant women getting COVID: “Covid-19 poses serious risks during pregnancy. Pregnant women who develop symptoms of the disease are more likely to become seriously ill, and more likely to die, than nonpregnant women with symptoms.” Read the study in The New England Journal of Medicine: https://bit.ly/32AdYPS |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 31,865,342 U.S. death toll: 569,438 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 216 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 3.02 million doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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The name of the game is T-R-U-M-P: |
| Via The Hill’s Julia Manchester, “Former President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is looming over the Republican Senate primary in North Carolina as the field grows with some of the state’s biggest GOP names.” https://bit.ly/3xgNssY Is she running?: “The younger Trump, a North Carolina native married to the former president’s son Eric Trump, has yet to announce whether she’ll jump into the race to fill retiring Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-N.C.) seat, but she stands to have a major impact on it.” What to expect if she does run: https://bit.ly/3xgNssY |
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Oh my gosh!: |
| OK, but we don’t ~know~ that it was her. The evidence is purely circumstantial. 
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Meanwhile in the Pentagon: |
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| The House and Senate are in. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in Washington, D.C. 10 a.m. EDT: President Biden received the President’s Daily Brief. 10:30 a.m. EDT: President Biden participated in another session of the virtual leaders’ summit on climate. 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT: First and last votes in the House. The House’s full agenda today: https://bit.ly/3sAmEQZ Noon: President Biden and Vice President Harris have lunch together. 3:45 p.m. EDT: President Biden and Vice President Harris receive a COVID briefing. |
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| 8 a.m. EDT: President Biden and Vice President Harris delivered remarks. Biden then participated in the virtual leaders’ summit on the climate. Livestream: https://bit.ly/2PcxUFv 10 a.m. EDT: Climate activist Greta Thunberg testified on Capitol Hill. Livestream: https://bit.ly/32CdhWf 11:30 a.m. EDT: Four roll call votes in the Senate. The Senate’s full agenda today: https://bit.ly/3tGYx4n 1:30 p.m. EDT: White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy hold a press briefing. Livestream: https://bit.ly/32CkwgX |
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| NOW FOR THE FUN STUFF...: | |
| Today is National Jelly Bean Day! |
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Go, Persy! Go!: |
| Via CNN’s Ashley Strickland, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance just made oxygen on Mars. https://cnn.it/3eo9Rfd Details — for the scientific readers in the bunch: “The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.” |
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| And to make you laugh, here’s a mama panda who literally trades her baby for an apple: https://bit.ly/3awavpL |
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