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    Biden World Bank nominee: massive private sector investment needed to alleviate poverty, fight climate change

    President Biden’s nominee to lead the World Bank said massive investment from the private sector is needed to alleviate poverty and fight the effects of climate change.

    Ajay Banga, who is a former CEO of Mastercard, told Axios in an interview that the bank should work to address both situations, and that it will cost trillions of dollars per year to handle them.

    “I think it’s a fallacious argument that says, either-or,” Banga said. “I have every intention of focusing the bank and its people on the idea that this is an intertwined challenge.”

    Biden nominated Banga for the position last month to succeed David Malpass, who has served as World Bank president since 2019. Malpass announced that he would step down from his position by June amid admonishment from Democrats over comments he made that critics said implied denying climate change.

    Malpass was asked at a United Nations event in New York last year if he believed that “manmade burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet.” He responded that he did not know as he is “not a scientist.”

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reportedly said on Wednesday that she expects Banga to be elected as the next leader of the World Bank. She said during a budget hearing before the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs that the World Bank should significantly step up its lending to fight climate change and other global crises, Reuters reported.

    The U.S. has traditionally chosen the World Bank president, but shareholders from around the world need to approve the candidate. Europe has traditionally chosen the leader for the World Bank’s sister agency, the International Monetary Fund.

    Axios reported that Treasury Department officials believe at least 50 percent of the vote is standing behind Banga. Banga has visited four continents and met with 37 different governments in the past three weeks.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    Biden: Feds 'not leaving' Mississippi town hit by tornado

    ROLLING STONE, Miss. (AP) President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week’s deadly tornado in Mississippi and pledged Friday that the federal government is not leaving until the area is back on its feet.

    In the close-knit community of Rolling Fork, Biden read aloud the names of each of the 13 residents of the small town killed in the storm after touring the wreckage. He acknowledged to residents that the road to recovery will be long and hard, but said he was committed to helping them through it.

    “We’re not just here for today,” said Biden, standing near an animal shelter and a hardware store reduced to rubble by the powerful storm as he addressed members of the devastated community. “We’re going to get it done for you. We’re going to make sure you can stay right here.”

    Biden lost Mississippi by more than 16 percentage points in 2020, but people were grateful that he came — and hopeful they won’t be forgotten. Resident Paul Rice said he welcomed the continued attention Friday’s visit brought to the town’s plight.

    “Right now, everybody’s here, but I imagine it’ll start drying up,” said Rice, who was driving around town on an ATV to survey the damage and check on friends whose homes had been destroyed. “We’re Americans first and foremost. And that means we all have to work together.”

    The president heaped praise on Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and the area’s longtime Democratic congressman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, for moving quickly to help Rolling Fork and surrounding communities following last week’s storm.

    Under a canopy set up blocks away from Rolling Fork’s obliterated city hall building, church volunteers doled out packages of breakfast sausages and pancakes with syrup Friday morning. Joseph Thomas, a 77-year-old Vietnam veteran and lifelong Rolling Fork resident, arrived to claim his meal wearing a bandana emblazoned with an American flag.

    Thomas said he never imagined any president would come to his rural Delta hometown.

    “I’m proud that he is coming to this little small town. That means a lot to me,” Thomas said. “Because we need a lot of help to come through here, federal help, boots on the ground to put all this back together.”

    Last week’s twister destroyed roughly 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork, and the nearby town of Silver City, leaving mounds of lumber, bricks and twisted metal. Hundreds of additional structures were badly damaged. Overall, the death toll in Mississippi stands at 21, based on those confirmed by coroners. One person died in Alabama, as well.

    From Marine One, as they flew from Jackson to the area hardest hit by last week’s storm, the president and first lady Jill Biden got a view of the devastation across acres of farmland — destroyed homes, toppled trees and piles of debris.

    “This is tough stuff,” Biden said as he was greeted by state, local and federal officials after arriving in Rolling Fork. “The most important thing is we got to let people know the reason for them to have hope, especially those who have lost somebody.”

    Biden announced that the federal government will cover the total cost of the state’s emergency measures for the next 30 days, including overtime for first responders and debris cleanup. In addition, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will open disaster recovery centers in storm-ravaged counties to help residents access resources.

    The Bidens also met with residents impacted by the storms and first responders, and received an operational briefing from federal and state officials.

    The devastation from the storm is immense.

    Residents watched as Biden walked through a leveled section of Rolling Fork, just blocks from the town’s downtown. A father held his toddler sleeping on his shoulder. Kids who aren’t in school because of the tornado crouched and watched. Just before the president arrived, a man picked through the wreckage, bent over to comb through the debris.

    “I know there’s a lot of pain and it’s hard to believe in a moment like this: This community is going to be rebuilt, and rebuilt and built back better than it was before,” Biden assured residents.

    Last week’s severe weather makes life even more difficult in an area already struggling economically. Mississippi is one of the poorest states, and the majority-Black Delta has long been one of the poorest parts of the state — a place where many people live paycheck to paycheck, often in jobs connected to agriculture.

    Two of the counties walloped by the tornado, Sharkey and Humphreys, are among the most sparsely populated in the state, with only a few thousand residents in communities scattered across wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields. Sharkey’s poverty rate is 35%, and Humphreys’ is 33%, compared with about 19% for Mississippi overall and less than 12% for the entire United States.

    FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said some of the damage to the area’s infrastructure will take much time to repair and that the administration will help in rebuilding key facilities to be “more resilient” to withstand future natural disasters.

    “We know that these communities could be cash strapped and we want to get that funding flowing,” Criswell added.

    Biden approved a disaster declaration for the state, which frees up federal funds for temporary housing, home repairs and loans to cover uninsured property losses. But there’s concern that inflation and economic troubles may blunt the impact of federal assistance.

    The president arrived in the Delta community as a new series of severe storms threatens to rip across the Midwest and the South.

    According to a new study, the U.S. will see more of these massive storms as the world warms. The storms are likely to strike more frequently in more populous Southern states including Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

    The study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society predicts a nationwide 6.6% increase in tornado- and hail-spawning supercell storms and a 25.8% jump in the area and time the strongest storms will strike, under a scenario of moderate levels of future warming by the end of the century.

    But in certain areas in the South the increase is much higher. That includes Rolling Fork, where study authors project an increase of one supercell a year by 2100.

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    Biden speaks in Minnesota as Cummins announces $1 billion investment

    President Joe Biden touted efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing after touring a Cummins facility in Minnesota on Monday, as the company announced it will invest $1 billion in making cleaner engines.

    Cummins intends to invest the money in Indiana, North Carolina and New York, focusing on creating low-to-zero-carbon engines. More than half of medium and heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. use Cummins engines, and the upgraded facilities aim to decarbonize shipping vehicles across the country.

    “Instead of relying on equipment made overseas in places like China, our supply chains will be again made in American,” Biden said in Fridley, Minn. “Companies and utilities across the country will use those products to make clean hydrogen and trucks made in America with zero emission engines will be powered by clean hydrogen.”

    Biden tied the announcement in with his Investing in America plan, a set of policies that aim to boost manufacturing in the U.S. with a focus on clean energy.

    Cummins announced its initial investment in electrolyzer manufacturing at the Fridley facility in October 2022, two months after Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Electrolyzers are needed to create clean hydrogen, used to power certain vehicles and in steel production.

    “When Cummins first manufactured hydrogen electrolyzers they had to make them overseas, these are the machines that make clean hydrogen renewable energy used to power our economy from clean cars to trucks to steel to cement manufacturing,” Biden said. “Now thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act with tax credits for renewable energy, Cummins is going to manufacture these electrolyzers here in America for the first time.”

    Companies have committed to invest more than $2 billion in Minnesota since Biden’s inauguration, according to the White House.

    “All these investments mean that now if you grow up in Minnesota, if you go to school in Minnesota, you can stay in Minnesota,” Biden said. “The Midwest is coming back screaming. There’s good jobs you can raise a family on.”

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    Biden to visit Northern Ireland and Ireland next week

    President Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the White House announced Wednesday.

    Biden will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland next Tuesday and Wednesday to denote the signing of the accords, which ended the Northern Ireland conflict, known as The Troubles. Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom, while Ireland is its own Republic.

    Biden will then travel to Ireland for the remainder of the week to meet with Irish leaders and to deliver an address to celebrate the deep, historic ties that link our countries and people,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. He will make stops in Dublin, County Louth and County Mayo.

    The president frequently talks about his Irish heritage with great pride and often quotes Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Biden hosted Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar last month at the White House for St. Patrick’s Day, where the two hinted at a possible Biden visit to Ireland.

    “I promise you that we’re going to roll out the red carpet and it’s going to be a visit like no other. Everyone’s excited about it already,” Varadkar said last month at the White House. “We’re going to have great crowds who would love to see you.”

    In addition to the Good Friday Agreement, Biden during his upcoming trip will likely address a new trade agreement, the Windsor Framework, aimed at allowing goods to flow freely to Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.

    The framework, agreed to last month between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, was finalized in Windsor near London and ends a dispute that has loomed since the U.K. voted in 2016 to leave the European Union.

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    In other news…….

    President Biden won't make King Charles' coronation; first lady will attend

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-k...n-will-attend/

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    President Biden - I just vetoed a bill that attempted to block our Administration from protecting our nation's waterways – a resource millions of Americans depend on – from destruction and pollution.

    Let me be clear: Every American has a right to clean water.

    This veto protects that right. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1644060920547627012







    President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a resolution that would have rescinded his administration’s hallmark water rule, with proponents of the rollback arguing that the regulation places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway.

    Biden’s announcement marked both the second veto of his presidency and the second veto he’s issued in recent weeks, illustrating how power dynamics in Washington have shifted since Republicans became the majority party in the House of Representatives at the beginning of this year.

    “I just vetoed a bill that attempted to block our Administration from protecting our nation’s waterways – a resource millions of Americans depend on – from destruction and pollution,” the president wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “Let me be clear: Every American has a right to clean water. This veto protects that right.”

    When the White House issued a veto threat over the Republican-led resolution, the administration argued that the legislation would “leave Americans without a clear ‘waters of the United States’ definition.”

    “The increased uncertainty would threaten economic growth, including for agriculture, local economies, and downstream communities. Farmers would be left wondering whether artificially irrigated areas remain exempt or not. Construction crews would be left wondering whether their waterfilled gravel pits remain exempt or not,” a statement of administration policy said in advance of the veto.

    By comparison, proponents of the resolution argued that Biden’s water rule constituted overreach by the executive branch and say it creates burdensome red tape that would lead to confusion within a variety of industries, including agriculture.

    “By vetoing this Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval, President Biden is ignoring the will of a bipartisan majority in Congress, leaving millions of Americans in limbo, and crippling future energy and infrastructure projects with red tape,” West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who led the joint resolution in the Senate, said in a statement on Thursday. “There’s a reason those who work in agriculture, building, mining, and small businesses of all kinds across America strongly supported our effort to block the Biden waters rule, and I’m disappointed the president chose to stand by his blatant executive overreach.”

    The waterways resolution cleared the House in March and the final Senate vote was 53-43, with Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Jon Tester of Montana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema joining Republicans in support of the legislation.

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    Biden has dementia. Why do you keep posting stuff that is from his team?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Chuchok View Post
    Biden has dementia. Why do you keep posting stuff that is from his team?
    It would be a fucking travesty if he even ran again. He's like Reagan at the end of his second term.

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    ^ he's popping over to the Emerald Isle to take plaudits for Mericas roll in the ceasefire, albeit the republican terrorists are still around murdering which he conveniently forgets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Chuchok View Post
    Why do you keep posting stuff that is from his team?
    enjoy the next 6 years of posts about President Joe Biden



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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    ^ he's popping over to the Emerald Isle to take plaudits for Mericas roll in the ceasefire, albeit the republican terrorists are still around murdering which he conveniently forgets.
    Don't forget he's a member of the kiddie fiddling fraternity...

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    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $91.9 million to Pennsylvania from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that communities can use to upgrade essential water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure that protects public health and treasured water bodies.

    Nearly half of the funding, which comes through this year’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), will be available as grants or principal forgiveness loans helping underserved communities across America invest in water infrastructure, while creating good-paying jobs.

    “President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is delivering an unprecedented investment in America that will revitalize essential water and wastewater infrastructure across the country,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “Not only will these funds expand access to clean water and safeguard the environment, but more underserved communities that have been left behind for far too long will be able to access them.”

    “Communities across Pennsylvania rely on water and sewage infrastructure to keep their communities clean and safe every day,” said U.S. Senator Bob Casey (Pa.). “Thanks to the infrastructure law, Pennsylvania is receiving nearly $92 million to upgrade this essential infrastructure to protect communities across the Commonwealth from contamination, flooding, and more. Once again, the infrastructure law is working to keep Pennsylvanians safe—and creating jobs.”

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    Statement from President Joe Biden on March Jobs Report


    This is a good jobs report for hard-working Americans. Today’s report shows that we continue to face economic challenges from a position of strength, with the economy adding 236,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate at 3.5%. My economic agenda has powered an historic economic recovery. We’ve created 12.6 million jobs since I took office. The unemployment rate is close to the lowest it has been in more than 50 years and a record low for African Americans. Thanks to the policies we have put in place, the recovery is creating good jobs that you can raise a family on, which is pulling more Americans into the labor force. In fact, the share of working age Americans in the labor force is at a 15 year high.

    But there is more work to do. My Administration is working each day to lower costs for families and to make our economy even stronger, now and for the long term, with investments in infrastructure, innovation, and clean energy. Just this week, because of my agenda, companies announced new manufacturing investments in Georgia, New Mexico, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. My Investing in America agenda is building an economy that benefits hard-working Americans in every community across the country, not just those at the top.

    Extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress, on the other hand, are threatening to wreak havoc on our economy with debt limit brinkmanship. Their extreme agenda would send the unprecedented investments we’ve made here in America – along with the jobs that come with it – overseas. And it’s all to pay for even more giveaways to the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations. Make no mistake, I will stop those efforts to put our economy at risk and take us back to the failed policies of the past.

    Gradually slowing job gains and a growing labor force in March delivered welcome news to President Biden, nearly a year after he declared that the job market needed to cool significantly to tame high prices.

    The details of the report are encouraging for a president whose economic goal is to move from rapid job gains — and high inflation — to what Mr. Biden has called “stable, steady growth.” Job creation slowed to 236,000 for the month, closing in on the level Mr. Biden said last year would be necessary to stabilize the economy and prices. More Americans joined the labor force, and wage gains fell slightly. Those developments should help to further cool inflation.

    But the report also underscored the political and economic tensions for the president as he seeks to sell Americans on his economic stewardship ahead of an expected announcement this spring that he will seek re-election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Don't forget he's a member of the kiddie fiddling fraternity...
    Really?

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    Don't forget he's a member of the kiddie fiddling fraternity...

    In Biden’s more than 40 years of public life — including two prior runs for the Democratic presidential nomination and eight years as vice president — there have been no formal accusations, complaints, arrests or investigations that implicate him in any sort of sex crimes involving kids.


    PolitiFact | Fact-checking the pedophilia attacks against Joe Biden
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Really?




    In Biden’s more than 40 years of public life — including two prior runs for the Democratic presidential nomination and eight years as vice president — there have been no formal accusations, complaints, arrests or investigations that implicate him in any sort of sex crimes involving kids.


    PolitiFact | Fact-checking the pedophilia attacks against Joe Biden
    Whoooooooooooooosh!

    Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia

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    VP Harris meets with 'Tennessee Three' in surprise visit to Nashville after expulsions over gun protests

    Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise visit to Nashville on Friday to push for gun control and meet with two Tennessee Democratic lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting for gun reform on the floor of the statehouse.

    The hastily scheduled trip came after Tennessee House Republicans voted Thursday to expel Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, on a 72-25 vote, and Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, 69-26, in moves that drew condemnation from President Joe Biden and became a national flashpoint on gun control and race.

    The two Black lawmakers – and a third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville – were punished by Republicans for leading protests with bullhorns from the House floor after a mass shooting at a Nashville private Christian school killed six people. Johnson, who is white, dodged an expulsion by one vote.

    "Six people, including three children, were killed last week in a school shooting in Nashville," Harris said in a tweet. "How did Republican lawmakers in Tennessee respond? By expelling their colleagues who stood with Tennesseans and said enough is enough. This is undemocratic and dangerous."

    In Nashville, Harris met privately with the three Democrats at Fisk University, which is hosting a gathering of community leaders to support the expelled lawmakers. Afterward, she met with other Tennessee Democratic lawmakers and Nashville Mayor John Cooper. The meeting was closed to the press.

    Pearson was met with raucous applause and cheers as he arrived for the event.

    “They thought they could expel democracy,” he said, addressing the crowd from a stone platform. “But we’re still here!”

    Meet the "Tennessee Three" at the center of a statehouse drama over gun reform

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    Oh dear.

    New polling casts serious doubts on the prospects of President Joe Biden’s re-election.
    Only a third of Americans say the Democrat deserves a second term in the White House — with some of Biden’s core constituencies having soured on his job performance.
    A whopping 67% of poll respondents say Biden, who is 80 years old, doesn’t deserve re-election in 2024, answering the question in a CNN poll released Thursday.

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    Only 26% of Americans under the age of 35 say Biden deserves a second term — dismal numbers among a demographic that Democrats have relied on for election turnout.

    A majority of Democrats or Democrat-leaning independents, 54%, want someone other than
    Biden, according to the poll.

    CNN Gives Devastating News About Joe Biden on Live TV

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    Oh dear. If he runs, he wins.



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    President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned as “shocking” and “undemocratic” moves by Republicans in Tennessee to expel Democrats from the state Legislature for their roles in gun control protests.

    Less than two weeks after three 9-year-old children and three adults were fatally shot at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee’s House of Representatives voted Thursday on the removal of the Democratic representatives who led a protest on the chamber floor following the mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27.

    Republicans ultimately expelled two Black freshman lawmakers, while declining to remove the third Democrat, who is white and participated in the same demonstration that led to Thursday’s votes.

    Today’s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protest is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. Rather than debating the merits of the issue, these Republican lawmakers have chosen to punish, silence, and expel duly-elected representatives of the people of Tennessee,” Biden said in a statement Thursday night.

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    President Joe Biden spoke Friday afternoon with the Tennessee Three – St. Reps. Justin Pearson of Memphis, Justin Jones of Nashville, and Gloria Johnson of Knoxville.

    The White House said the President thanked the three “for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons and standing up for our democratic values.”

    “Our country needs to take action on gun violence — to do that we need more voices like theirs speaking out,” Biden said in a tweet about the virtual meeting.

    The White House said the Tennessee trio “thanked the President for his leadership on gun safety and for spotlighting the undemocratic and unprecedented attacks on them this week in the Tennessee statehouse.”

    Officials said the President invited all three to visit the White House in the near future.

    Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with the three lawmakers Friday evening during a surprise visit to Nashville.

    Republicans voted Thursday to expel Pearson and Jones, who with Johnson, approached the front of the House chamber last week as part of a protest calling for passage of gun-control measures. That came just days after the March 27 shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville. Six people were killed, including three 9-year-old children.

    GOP leaders argued that the move against Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who are Black, was necessary to draw a line against lawmakers using protest to disrupt House proceedings. Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is white, survived the move to expel her by one vote.

    • President Biden - Earlier, I spoke to Reps Jones, Pearson, and Johnson to thank them for their leadership and courage in the face of a blatant disregard of our nation’s democratic values.


    Our country needs to take action on gun violence — to do that we need more voices like theirs speaking out. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1644459213962326017


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    President Joe Biden: “My Administration will fight this ruling.”




    A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, but delayed the ruling from taking effect for a week to give the Biden administration time to appeal.

    But minutes after the Texas decision was announced, a federal judge in Washington state issued a preliminary injunction that said essentially the opposite.

    The seemingly conflicting federal court rulings out of Texas and Washington state means the Supreme Court may ultimately weigh in on the legality of mifepristone in the U.S., which was approved by the FDA more than two decades ago in 2000.

    Used in combination with another drug called misoprostol, mifepristone is the most common method to terminate a pregnancy in the U.S., accounting for about half of all abortions.

    U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas held a key hearing in the case weeks ago in Amarillo, but news of the decision that could upend access to the key abortion drug only came down late on a Friday when many Americans were off for religious observances.

    Kacsmaryk endorsed nearly all of the plaintiffs’ arguments about their right to sue, which called for the removal of the FDA’s approval of the drug. He argued mifepristone has serious safety issues, sidelining the FDA’s long-standing determination that the drug is safe and effective.

    “The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly,” Kacsmaryk wrote. “But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”

    But in a dramatic turn, Judge Thomas Owen Rice of the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Washington essentially countered the Texas decision, when he barred the FDA from “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of mifepristone” in the 17 states and D.C. that sued to keep pill on the market there.

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Kacsmaryk’s ruling in Texas “overturns the FDA’s expert judgment, rendered over two decades ago, that mifepristone is safe and effective.” Garland said the Justice Department will appeal the Texas ruling and defend the FDA approval.

    Responding to the Texas ruling, President Joe Biden said in a statement: “My Administration will fight this ruling.”

    “If this ruling were to stand, then there will be virtually no prescription, approved by the FDA, that would be safe from these kinds of political, ideological attacks,” the president said.

    The case will go to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. If the Biden administration fails to convince that court to overturn Kacsmaryk’s ruling, access to mifepristone would be in jeopardy across the U.S.

    But the ruling out of Washington state may protect access at least in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington state and D.C.

    Kacsmaryk’s decision will not affect access to misoprostol, which is commonly used as a standalone abortion drug in other parts of the world. Some abortion providers have said they plan to use misoprostol as an alternative to the two-drug regimen if mifepristone is pulled from the market.

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    White House issues reforms to regulatory process

    The White House is forming the country’s regulatory system, announcing a new executive order and guidance that experts say could be used to justify both more and stronger regulations.

    On Thursday, the White House released an executive order reducing the number of regulations that undergo a more rigorous White House review and promoting public participation from previously underrepresented groups at its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

    It also released a new draft guidance document that changes how agencies calculate rules’ costs and benefits, with more emphasis placed on future costs and benefits.

    Billy Pizer, vice president for research and policy engagement at Resources for the Future — an energy and environment focused research organization — described the changes as a “pretty major overhaul.”

    “It’s the most significant update for the U.S. government’s broad regulatory analysis policy since we’ve been doing regulatory analysis policy,” Pizer said.

    In particular, this could lead to both more regulations and regulations that are more protective.

    “It brings an entirely different way of thinking about the regulatory system,” said James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform — adding that it breaks away from a prior philosophy geared toward doing the least amount of regulating possible.

    “It does create more space for agencies to regulate more and…to [make] more protective regulations,” he added.

    However, the Chamber of Commerce, which represents various industries around the country, lamented the changes — saying they could lead to more aggressive rules.

    “They’re huge shifts in how agencies will do regulatory cost-benefit analysis and it appears to be an effort to accelerate an already very aggressive regulatory agenda,” said Chad Whiteman, the Chamber’s vice president of environment and regulatory affairs.

    Broadly, Democrats and the left tend to favor more regulations — arguing that regulations provide safeguards for people who may be subject to negative impacts of industry.

    However, Republicans and the right tend to oppose many regulations, saying they curb economic growth.

    Pizer said that the provision that gives more weight to events that happen in the future is particularly important for climate change regulations.

    “This is a huge issue for climate change because we have to reduce emissions now but the consequence of those reduced emissions are spread over centuries,” he said.

    But Whiteman said this also risks being more “speculative” about what impacts will or won’t happen in the future.

    The guidance also says that there are cases where policymakers should not only consider benefits for U.S. citizens, but should also weigh international impacts of a regulation.

    Goodwin said that the ultimate effectiveness of this week’s changes will be determined by how the Biden administration decides to use them.

    “They’ve sort of laid the groundwork to make it a big deal,” he said. “Do you ever play with Legos? You sort of dump out the pieces. They’ve sort of dumped out the pieces. The question is: what are they going to build with it, if anything.”

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    EPA details plans for $27 billion in Inflation Reduction Act climate funds

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday detailed how it plans to spend $27 billion in climate funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.

    The Biden administration explained that it will split the fund up into two programs.

    A total of $20 billion in grants will go to nonprofits that collaborate with local financial institutions including green banks, credit unions or housing finance agencies. That money will go toward projects that cut pollution and energy costs, according to the announcement.

    Officials told reporters on Tuesday that the grants could go to as few as two entities or as many as 15.

    EPA Administrator Michael Regan also said that the creation of a national “green bank” to fund climate-friendly projects was not off the table despite the fact that the agency is considering issuing multiple grants.

    “An entity with national scope, it will be a part of this ecosystem that’s being built here,” added Jahi Wise, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Program Acting Director.

    The other $7 billion will go to states, tribes, municipalities and nonprofits to deploy rooftop or community solar energy in disadvantaged communities, the administration said.

    “A giant leap forward for bringing clean energy to communities who are too often left behind, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is one of the concrete actions taken as a direct result of the Inflation Reduction Act to make access to reliable and clean solar power easier for millions of Americans,” Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.

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    Joe Biden visit to Ireland: Everything we know so far about the trip

    US president Joe Biden will visit the Republic and Northern Ireland next week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement, as well as holding a round of political meetings and calling to his ancestral homelands in Co Louth and Co Mayo. While an official schedule has not yet been released, here is a timeline of everything we know so far about the visit:

    Tuesday, April 11th

    Mr Biden is expected to arrive in Northern Ireland on Tuesday evening.

    Wednesday, April 12th

    Mr Biden is due to carry out only one engagement in Northern Ireland at Ulster University (UU) before departing for Dublin on Wednesday afternoon.

    The Irish Times understands the US president will mark the formal opening of UU’s Belfast campus and hold engagements with northern political leaders as well as representatives from the youth, business and civic communities while at the university.

    UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will also travel to Northern Ireland for Mr Biden’s visit.

    Planners of the visit are looking at organising walkabouts by Mr Biden in Dundalk and Carlingford on a stop-off in Co Louth later that day.

    US service service agents have been spotted scoping out King John’s Castle, also known as Carlingford Castle, the 12th-century national monument in the village, ahead of the visit.

    The walkabouts in Carlingford and Dundalk are being planned for Wednesday evening, according to sources.

    The US president will arrive in Dublin later, and there will be a State dinner in Dublin Castle on Wednesday night.

    Thursday, April 13th

    Mr Biden will pay a formal visit to Áras an Uachtaráin and Farmleigh, where he is due to meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, on Thursday.

    The US president is also scheduled to make an address to the Oireachtas that afternoon. The Dáil and Seanad are being recalled from their Easter break for the occasion.

    Mr Biden will become the fourth president of the United States to address the Oireachtas, following John F Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Bill Clinton in 1995.

    Friday, April 14th

    Mr Biden will visit Co Mayo and there will be a public address outside St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina on Friday evening.

    The US embassy in Dublin said the Ballina event would be free and open to the public, adding anyone wishing to attend can register online at: ie.usembassy.gov/

    Mr Biden is expected to fly back to the US following the address in Ballina.

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