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Biden and Harris head to Georgia to meet community leaders after Atlanta shooting – live updates
President and vice president will also visit the CDC while in Georgia
- Asian American lawmakers say violence has reached ‘crisis point’
- US and China publicly rebuke each other in first major talks of Biden era
- House passes bill that would give Dreamers a path to citizenship
- Podcast: Why Medicare for All is a political headache
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A qukck one from Reuters here, that fresh from his talks with top officials from China – there’s a further meeting in Anchorage, Alaska today – Antony Blinken will be headed to Europe on his next diplomatic mission.
He will visit Brussels next week to meet with Nato foreign ministers and European Union officials, the US Department of State said, as the Biden administration seeks to repair transatlantic ties.
Joan Biskupic, CNN’s legal analyst has an interesting piece this morning arguing that the Supreme Court’s conservatives want to topple abortion rights – but can’t seem to agree on how. She writes:
The aims of individual justices, based on their recent writings, range from reversing Roe v. Wade to forbidding clinics from challenging restrictions on behalf of women to relaxing the standard that states must meet to limit women’s access to the procedure.
New internal tensions in the age-old controversy have emerged, as the six Republican-appointed justices on the right wing diverge on curtailing precedent and more sharply clash with the court’s three remaining Democratic-appointed liberals. The justices could move a step closer to their next chapter as they meet privately on Friday to consider whether to take up Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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GOP blames Obamacare for depressing Americans’ wages
House Republican leaders say President Obama's health care law, with its 30-hour-per-week definition of full-time employment, is driving down wages and hurting the economy.
Obama slams health care critics: “Armageddon has not arrived”
Before open enrollment closed at midnight Monday night, 7.1 million signed up for private insurance coverage via the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, President Obama announced.
Biden makes last-minute push for Obamacare enrollment
Visiting a D.C. public charter school that doubles as a healthcare enrollment center, Vice President Joe Biden encouraged Americans to sign up for Obamacare before time runs out at midnight.
Paid Obamacare enrollees as high as 90 percent, Sebelius says
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a local Oklahoma CBS affiliate that 80 to 90 percent of Obamacare enrollees have paid.
Sebelius speechless after anchor probes on Obamacare “tough sell”
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Harry Reid: Obamacare adjusted because some struggle with the Internet
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., explains a recent change that would give some Obamacare customers extra time to complete their applications.
Harry Reid: Democrats focused on economy, GOP focused on Obamacare
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says Democrats will concentrate on the minimum wage, pay equity for women, expanding health insurance, and other economic concerns.