Tipsheet: New York, New Jersey, California face long odds in scrapping SALT

View in your browser     New York, New Jersey, California face long odds in scrapping SALT By Alexander Bolton   Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) face an uphill battle on one of their top tax priorities, repealing the cap President Trump put on deducting state and local taxes. Capping the SALT deduction, as it’s known, at $10,000 was Trump’s way of getting blue states with high state and local tax rates — principally New York and California — to pay for a big chunk of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Read the full story here     The Memo: Lawmakers on edge after Greene's spat with Ocasio-Cortez By Niall Stanage   The furor over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) treatment of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has sparked new worries that lawmakers could be in danger from their own colleagues. Read the full story here     Romney: Capitol riot was 'an insurrection against the Constitution' By Jordan Williams   Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection against the Constitution” as some GOP lawmakers sought to minimize the violence this week. Read the full story here     Building housing AP, Al Jazeera flattened in Israeli strike By Jordan Williams   Israeli forces bombed a building that housed The Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza City on Saturday, the news outlets reported, amid the latest round of air strikes in the area. Read the full story here       Press advocates condemn Israeli missile strike on media building By Jordan Williams   The Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other press advocates condemned the Israeli airstrike on Saturday that blew up the building housing them and other media outlets. Read the full story here     White House says safety of journalists is 'paramount' after Gaza building bombed By Tal Axelrod   The White House said Saturday that it communicated its concerns to Israel over an airstrike launched in Gaza that destroyed a building that housed several news organizations, including The Associated Press. Read the full story here     Biden speaks with Israel's Netanyahu again amid ramped-up strikes in Gaza By Tal Axelrod   President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke again Saturday as violence between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip continues to escalate. Read the full story here     Nation's largest nurses union condemns new CDC guidance on masks By Tal Axelrod   The nation’s largest nurses union condemned the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that stipulates fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks in most settings. Read the full story here     New mask guidance puts onus on businesses By Alex Gangitano and Sylvan Lane   New federal guidance on mask-wearing is putting businesses and local officials in a tough spot. Read the full story here     Increasingly active younger voters liberalize US electorate By Reid Wilson   President Biden, the oldest man ever elected to the White House, won on the strength of an emerging cohort of younger voters who are increasingly finding their political voice — and growing their influence in an electorate in which older voters are losing sway. Read the full story here     Nearly half of Americans don't trust CDC and FDA — that's a problem By Robert Blendon and Mary Findling   OPINION | As we (hopefully) see the light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel, America appears to have a major problem. In a new survey released this week by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we found that America has a trust gap when it comes to public health. Read the full story here     Journalism dies in newsroom cultures where 'fairness is overrated' By Jeffrey M. McCall   OPINION | Establishment news outlets seem determined to wreck their own profession. Self-inflicted journalistic disasters surface these days with an unnecessary regularity. Just in recent weeks, blunders have included a “60 Minutes” hatchet job on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the revelation that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick did not die of a beating with a fire extinguisher, as had been widely reported in January. Major news outlets falsely reported recently that Trump ally Rudy Giuliani was told he was being targeted during the campaign as a tool for Russian disinformation. Then there is the un-nuanced reporting of any state election reform law as a de facto return to the Jim Crow era. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: In GOP, survival means allowing Trump’s election lie to live on By Michael Kranish, Marianna Sotomayor and Jacqueline Alemany   While many Republican lawmakers have acknowledged the reality of President Joe Biden’s win, a number still twist themselves into political knots to avoid saying he won fairly. Party leaders say they don't want to re-litigate the election, but their allegiance to Donald Trump means they can’t escape his focus on the past. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: GOP infrastructure deal hopes Are driven by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito By Kristina Peterson   West Virginian leads Republicans in talks with White House on roads, bridges and broadband. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Tensions among Democrats grow over Israel as the left defends Palestinians By Lisa Lerer and Jennifer Medina   Divisions within the party have burst into public view, with the party’s ascendant left viewing the Mideast conflict as a searing racial justice issue that carries echoes of U.S. politics. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Protesters in major US cities decry airstrikes over Gaza By AP staff   Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and other U.S. cities on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip. Read the full story here     Reuters: Myanmar anti-coup fighters retreat from town as US makes appeal By Reuters staff   Fighters of a local militia opposed to Myanmar's junta have pulled back from the northwestern town of Mindat after days of assault by combat troops backed by artillery, a member of the group said on Sunday. 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