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Still, the main event may be a planned solo press conference Thursday, when Biden is slated to take questions from reporters who were not told what to ask in advance by his staff.
. — The first order of business at the House GOP’s annual retreat, which kicked off Wednesday, was a press conference on expanding the majority, though less than half of that majority planned to attend
The event featured Marc Lamont Hill, [ph] who was fired by CNN for calling for the destruction of Israel.
"All the moderates in our conference understand this is not a political decision. This is a legal decision. It’s a constitutional decision," he said.
CQ Roll Call’s Ellyn Ferguson filed a dispatch Tuesday from outside the Senate GOP conference lunch meeting in the Capitol.
Separately, CNN reported that Sinema has sent signals to the business community that she may want to pare back a 15 percent corporate minimum tax on businesses that report $1 billion or more in income
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement that Biden shares Manchin’s goals of ensuring the package is fully paid for and won’t spark faster inflation.
“We don’t need Congress,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the deputy White House press secretary, said Thursday when asked how the administration plans to meet its climate goals.
“On Jan. 6, we offered to send a CDC team to China that could assist with these public health efforts,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said at a Jan. 28 press conference.