Biden foregrounds abortion as he announces bid for second term as US president – live

Joe Biden will veto a Republican proposal to raise the debt ceiling while slashing spending and implementing a number of conservative policies, the White House announced today.

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GOP leaders in the House of Representatives are expected to this week call a vote on the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. Biden has refused to negotiate with Republicans over the debt limit, saying it should be increased without conditions ahead of an estimated June deadline where the US government will run out of money and potentially default on its obligations.

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“The Congress has a solemn obligation to prevent default and ensure that the United States meets its obligations. The Administration strongly opposes the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, which is a reckless attempt to extract extreme concessions as a condition for the United States simply paying the bills it has already incurred,” the White House office of management and budget (OMB) said in a statement.

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The office takes specific issue with the bill’s mandatory spending reductions, which would “force severe cuts to education (including for students with disabilities), food safety inspections, rail safety, healthy meals for seniors, research on cancer and other diseases, border security, public safety and veterans’ medical care”. The OMB also objected to the bill’s provisions blocking Biden from relieving some student loan debt, and repealing tax credits included the Inflation Reduction Act, among other issues.

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“The bill stands in stark contrast to the President’s vision for the economy. The President’s budget invests in America, lowers costs for families, grows the economy, and reduces the deficit by nearly $3tn by asking the wealthy and large corporations to pay their fair share. Therefore, if the president were presented with the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, he would veto it,” the OMB said.

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Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and it’s unclear if they have the votes yet to pass the bill, since some rightwing lawmakers have refused to increase the debt ceiling for any reason. It’s also unlike the measure would attract enough Democratic support to pass the Senate, which they control.

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Washington is digesting Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s running for a second term, with Democrats sounding very much ready for him to stay in office for another four years, and Republicans giving Americans all sorts of reasons not to vote for him. We’re 560 days away from the 2024 election; prepare for lots more of this.

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Here’s what else has happened today:

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• Senator Ed Markey has called on supreme court justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his recently revealed links to a Republican megadonor. The Democrat is the first senator to make such a demand.

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• Neil Gorsuch, a conservative supreme court justice, sold a property to the head of a law firm who argues cases before the tribunal shortly after his confirmation, according to a new report.

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• Donald Trump’s civil trial over a rape allegation is under way in New York City.

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Joe Biden will in a few minutes make his first public appearance since announcing his re-election campaign, with an address to a North America’s Building Trades Unions conference in Washington DC.

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According to excerpts released by the White House, the president will cover familiar ground, such as the 2021 infrastructure measure he succeeded in getting Congress to enact. “Under my predecessor, Infrastructure Week was a punchline. On my watch, we’re making Infrastructure Decade a headline,” Biden will say.

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This blog will be keeping an eye out for any comments the president makes about his campaign for a second term.

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Days after he was confirmed to the supreme court, Neil Gorsuch sold a property he co-owned to the head of a law firm that has argued cases before the justices, Politico reports.

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The story reveals another entanglement between the high court and parties outside it, after ProPublica reported on ties between Clarence Thomas, one of the court’s best-known conservative jurors, and a Republican mega-donor. Gorsuch, a conservative, was appointed by Donald Trump to the court in 2017, filling a vacancy created by the death of fellow conservative Antonin Scalia the year before – which Mitch McConnell, then the Republican Senate majority leader, prevented Barack Obama from filling.

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Here’s more from Politico’s story:

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For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colorado.

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Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.

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On April 16 of 2017, Greenberg’s Brian Duffy put under contract the 3,000-square foot log home on the Colorado River and nestled in the mountains northwest of Denver, according to real estate records.

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He and his wife closed on the house a month later, paying $1.825 million, according to a deed in the county’s record system. Gorsuch, who held a 20 percent stake, reported making between $250,001 and $500,000 from the sale on his federal disclosure forms.

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Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.

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Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court, according to a POLITICO review of the court’s docket.

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They include cases in which Greenberg either filed amicus briefs or represented parties. In the 12 cases where Gorsuch’s opinion is recorded, he sided with Greenberg Traurig clients eight times and against them four times.

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Here it is, folks, Joe Biden’s official word that he wants a second term in the White House:

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Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours.

That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job. https://t.co/V9Mzpw8Sqy pic.twitter.com/Y4NXR6B8ly

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 25, 2023

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