PRESENTED BY FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN LATINO |
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Um, this needs to be fixed. Stat.: |
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Via The Hill's Morgan Chalfant, President Biden is holding meetings to address the baby formula shortage. From a White House official: "This afternoon, President Biden will speak with retailers and infant formula manufacturers to receive an update on efforts to make infant formula supply more available." |
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➤ 'THE NATIONWIDE SHORTAGE OF BABY FORMULA IS A MAJOR STRESSOR FOR PARENTS': |
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➤ 'WHAT'S BEHIND AMERICA'S SHOCKING BABY-FORMULA SHORTAGE?': |
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IT'S THURSDAY. I'm Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what's coming up. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here. |
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| Content from our sponsor: Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino |
In December of 2020 Congress authorized the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino. The Smithsonian must now select the best location to construct the new museum. Our nation's history is told on the National Mall, but for far too long there has been a sizable missing piece. Five hundred years of U.S. Latino history must now fill that void through the opening of the National Museum of the American Latino standing shoulder to shoulder with our other iconic museums on our National Mall. Join the movement lifting up U.S. Latino history today. Learn more |
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🏛 The latest with Roe v. Wade |
Democrats swung and they missed.: |
Following the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Democrats forced a vote to codify federal abortion rights Wednesday. The vote unsurprisingly failed: Democrats would have needed at least 60 votes to pass the measure. Senate Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted no. What happens now Watch Manchin announce his 'no' vote to reporters: Via CBS News's Alan He Tidbit from House Democratic women: "House Democratic women walking to Senate ahead of the abortion vote, yelling 'My decision, my body.'" Video from The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic |
DC Republicans may be a bit sheepish, but state Republicans are loud and proud: |
Via The Hill's Reid Wilson, "If Republicans in Congress have any qualms about announcing new abortion restrictions in the event Roe v. Wade is overturned, they are not shared by their state-level counterparts." How so — they are hitting the gas on abortion restrictions: "GOP governors and state legislators are planning to hold special legislative sessions later this spring and summer to consider new measures to remove or restrict abortion rights, after the Supreme Court's conservative majority is expected to reverse the landmark decision half a century ago guaranteeing those rights." How this could play out |
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 In the White House |
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Joe Biden's getting sassy: |
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Yesterday, President Biden sarcastically labeled former President Trump the "great MAGA king." Biden said at an event in Chicago: "Under my predecessor — the great MAGA king — the deficit increased every single year he was president. The first year of my presidency, the first year, I reduced the deficit, literally reduced the deficit by $350 billion, first year." More of Biden's comments toward Republicans |
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The instigator in chief. Responsibilities include poking and prodding: |
Via The Hill's Jordain Carney, "Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is embracing his newfound role as one of President Biden's chief GOP antagonists." How so: "Scott, who has a reputation in the Senate as somewhat of a loner, is widely seen as having White House ambitions if former President Trump doesn't run for office. And he's not shying away from his push for Biden to debate him over inflation — a setup that, if the president accepted it, would likely draw comparisons to presidential election debates." How Scott has embraced his new role as chief instigator |
➤ A GENERATIONAL BATTLE WITHIN THE GOP CAUCUS: |
➤ TIDBIT — MIKE PENCE IS GETTING INVOLVED: |
Via Punchbowl's Jake Sherman, "[Former Vice President Mike Pence] will come to Capitol Hill June 21 to meet with the Republican Study Committee. Pence is a former chair of the RSC. The caucus' chair is [Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)]." https://bit.ly/3M3phVT |
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 In Washington, DC |
The ink was barely dry before the signage came down: |
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| Content from our sponsor: Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino |
In December of 2020 Congress authorized the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino. The Smithsonian must now select the best location to construct the new museum. Our nation's history is told on the National Mall, but for far too long there has been a sizable missing piece. Five hundred years of U.S. Latino history must now fill that void through the opening of the National Museum of the American Latino standing shoulder to shoulder with our other iconic museums on our National Mall. Join the movement lifting up U.S. Latino history today. Learn more |
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One million Americans have died from COVID-19. That's hard to process: |
President Biden called for flags to fly at half-staff to honor the nearly 1 million Americans who have died from COVID-19. Also happening today: Biden is holding his second global COVID-19 summit. Livestream Keep in mind about the numbers: "Various COVID-19 trackers have different totals for the number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus. NBC News has compiled data showing more than 1 million Americans have already been lost to COVID-19, while Johns Hopkins University's tracker has the number at slightly above 998,000." |
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Cases to date: 81.9 million Death toll: 995,747 Current hospitalizations: 14,720 |
| Shots administered: 580 million Fully vaccinated: 66.3 percent CDC data here. |
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 Notable tweets |
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The Department of Labor's chief of staff, Dan Koh, tweeted a photo of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh posing outside of a Dunkin' in South Korea. "Korea has a way of making @SecMartyWalsh feel right at home," Koh tweeted. Photo |
The Smithsonian tweeted, "This is the first-ever image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. At 27,000 light-years away, Sagittarius A* would look from Earth to be the size of a donut on the Moon. A global network of telescopes and 300 researchers, many from @CenterForAstro, captured this image." Actual photo of the black hole |
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The House and Senate are in. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in Washington, D.C. - 10:15 a.m. EDT: Biden and Harris received the Presidents' Daily Brief.
- 2 – 4 p.m. EDT: First and last votes in the House. The House's agenda
- 5:30 p.m. EDT: Biden welcomes leaders of the ASEAN countries to the White House and hosts a dinner.
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Today is National Nutty Fudge Day. |
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In an appearance on "Live with Kelly and Ryan," actress and comedian Ali Wentworth, who is married to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, described what it was like growing up surrounded by Washington, D.C., politics. It's pretty entertaining. |
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