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Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax Would Hurt More Than Just the 'Tippy Top'

Wealth tax proponents claim only super rich people would be affected. But to raise the revenue Warren, Sanders, and Biden want, they'd have to tax the "working rich"—doctors, lawyers, and other hardworking high earners.

Reason

Mexico, US meet amid electrical power dispute

Mexican and American officials met amid disagreements about an electrical power reform

The Independent UK

House passes bill to lower insulin costs, but prospects unclear in Senate

WASHINGTON — The House moved Thursday to revive one of the more popular provisions of last year’s failed social safety net package, passing a narrow healthcare bill that would dramatically lower out-of-pocket costs for insulin users.

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Researchers Accuse Russia's Yandex Of Breach Of User Privacy

Researchers alleged that Russian internet company Yandex NV (NASDAQ:YNDX) had embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that help to transmit user information to Russian servers, the Financial Times reports. Yandex's software helped developers create apps for devices running Apple Inc's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's Android, systems that ran the vast majority…

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Senators ask GAO to examine Medicaid’s low COVID vaccination rates

Two prominent Democratic senators have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why COVID-19 vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population and what barriers are impeding state efforts to increase immunizations among program beneficiaries, low-income people who have been disproportionately affected by the virus.

Tribune News Service

Justices decide for themselves when to step aside from cases

Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case

The Independent UK

Ginni Thomas’ pro-Trump texts put husband’s Supreme Court role in focus

WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas is facing calls to recuse himself from U.S. Supreme Court cases involving the 2020 presidential election after revelations that his wife repeatedly pushed former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff to do more to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.

Tribune News Service

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Democratic senator and Ilhan Omar turn up the pressure on Clarence Thomas over wife Ginni’s ‘Big Lie’ texts

Comes after reports of text messages of her exchange with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The Independent UK

Biden in Poland for meetings on Ukraine refugee crisis – US politics as it happened

President travels to Rzeszow, 60 miles from Ukraine border, to meet US troops and Polish counterpart – follow the day’s politics news

The Guardian - US

Congress’ protections for whistleblowers only go so far

WASHINGTON — Congress wants to ensure that former President Donald Trump’s attempted coercion of Ukraine in 2019 — and his effort to thwart and intimidate the official who disclosed it — never recur. But a new law aimed at doing that is insufficient, several whistleblower advocates contended.

Tribune News Service

Congress' protections for whistleblowers only go so far - Roll Call

New whistleblower protections, a response to Donald Trump's first impeachment, don't go far enough, advocates for whistleblowers say.

Roll Call

Encryption Protects Ukrainians, Dissident Russians, and You

No class of governments can be trusted with access to people’s private communications.

Reason

California Preschools Faced 'Raid' Over Mask Policies

Plus: Russian tactics in Ukraine getting uglier, DHS does bulk surveillance of money transfers, Biden's overhyped cryptocurrency order, and more...

Reason

Omnibus talks appear on track; House vote expected Wednesday

WASHINGTON — Top appropriators and congressional leaders are aiming to wrap up omnibus negotiations in time to file the massive spending package in the House as soon as Tuesday, vote on it in that chamber Wednesday and get it through the Senate before Friday at midnight when stopgap funding expires.

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Omnibus talks appear on track; House vote expected Wednesday - Roll Call

Top appropriators and congressional leaders are aiming to wrap up omnibus negotiations so lawmakers can vote this week.

Tribune News Service

Uphill climb seen for employment tax credit in omnibus talks

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to restore a pandemic-era tax break for small businesses and nonprofits as part of a massive spending bill taking shape, after Congress stripped the benefit away for the final months of 2021.

The Guardian - US

Democrats and Republicans agree on plan to suspend trade relations with Russia and Belarus – as it happened

Lawmakers draft legislation aiming to ‘stop Russia’s unconscionable and unjust war on Ukraine and hold Belarus accountable for its involvement’

Roll Call

Uphill climb seen for employment tax credit in omnibus talks - Roll Call

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to restore a pandemic-era employee retention tax break for small businesses and nonprofits.

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Senators argue against private facial recognition for unemployment insurance proof of identity

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) published a letter to the U.S. labor secretary on Feb. 15 arguing against the outsourcing of facial recognition and identity verification for unemployment insurance benefits to the private sector.

Roll Call

Cannabis advocates push senators to ease draft bill's tax burden - Roll Call

As top Senate Democrats finalize their plan for making marijuana legal nationwide, industry and advocacy groups are urging a lower tax rate.

The Guardian - US

Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversight

Reason

New Report Highlights an Old Problem—the CIA Is Still Snooping on Americans

In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.

The Independent UK

Senators say CIA is collecting Americans’ private data in secret bulk surveillance program

‘The secret nature of the CIA’s activities in PCLOB report raise these very concerns,’ Sens Martin Heinrich and Ron Wyden wrote.

The Independent UK

Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans

Tribune News Service

La criptoindustria está lista para desempeñar un papel más importante en las campañas de mitad de periodo

WASHINGTON— Las elecciones de 2022 pondrán a prueba si el sector de las criptomonedas, cuyo valor se quintuplicó a finales de 2020 y que aumentó gracias a una disposición fiscal promulgada en noviembre, impulsará el gasto para las campañas políticas.

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