Summary
- Joe Biden is expected to begin speaking shortly from Fort Worth, Texas along with Denis McDonough, the secretary of veteran affairs, on expanding access to health care for veterans affected by military environmental exposures such as burn pits.
- This comes after Biden announced the ban of Russian oil imports.
- Poland is ready to deploy all its MIG-29 jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the US, a move that came as a surprise to Biden administration officials who have been noncommittal about the situation, stating that it was an issue of logistics.
- A bill that critics have described as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has passed the Florida state legislature.
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Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, is meeting today with Ketanji Brown Jackson, the nominee chosen by Joe Biden for supreme court.
Susan Collins’ meeting with Ketanji Brown Jackson has lasted about 90 minutes so far.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 8, 2022
