Summary
- A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh just hours before Joe Biden was set to travel to the city to tout the $1tn bipartisan infrastructure law. Biden took a detour to visit the collapse site and made a point to speak about the 45,000 bridges in the US rated in poor condition. “That is simply just unacceptable,” he said.
- The New York mayor’s office is asking New Yorkers who came in contact with Sarah Palin to test for Covid-19 after she went out to eat at several Upper East Side restaurants despite her positive status. The former Alaska governor’s positive test delayed her defamation trial against the New York Times earlier this week.
- The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on Friday issued subpoenas to lead participants in an audacious scheme to send fake Trump slates of electors to Congress. The development comes as the panel seeks to learn whether the plan was coordinated by the Trump White House. The committee has also subpoenaed former White House spokesperson Judd Deere, per CNN.
– Vivian Ho and Hugo Lowell
Speaking with reporters as he deplaned this evening, Joe Biden said the US will move troops to Eastern Europe in the “near term”.
Per the White House press pool, Biden said: “I’ll be moving US troops to Eastern Europe in the Nato countries in the near term. Not a lot.”
A few days ago, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said it was possible that the US would deploy more than the 8,500 troops in Europe who were already on alert.
“I’m not going to rule out the possibility that there will be more such direction given to additional units at home or even abroad in terms of their readiness posture,” Kirby said.
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