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| Happy hump day, OnPolitics readers. |
| ICYMI yesterday: The House approved a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint Tuesday in a straight party-line vote, setting up a fall clash over the details of President Joe Biden's proposed expansion of social programs that Republicans blasted for higher taxes and "wasteful" spending. |
| That's not all the House got done on Tuesday: House Democrats voted to revive federal oversight of state voting-rights laws that had been weakened by recent Supreme Court decisions. The House voted 219-212 along straight party lines to approve the legislation named for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil-rights icon. |
| It's Mabinty, with the day's top news. Let's do this! |
Some eye-raising news 👀 |
| Two members of Congress flew unannounced into Kabul airport in the middle of the ongoing chaotic evacuation Tuesday, stunning State Department and U.S. military personnel who had to divert resources to provide security and information to the lawmakers, U.S. officials said. |
| Officials said Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., flew in on a charter aircraft and were on the ground at the Kabul airport for several hours. That led officials to complain that they could be taking seats that would have otherwise gone to other Americans or Afghans fleeing the country. The congressmen said in a joint statement that they made sure to leave on a flight with empty seats. |
| You know who else wasn't happy about this? A certain House Speaker. |
| Pelosi rebuked the two congressmen, who said they had gone to Kabul on a secret trip to examine the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| "There's a real concern about members being in the region ... The resources necessary to facilitate their visit, and to protect them, was an opportunity cost of what we needed to do to be evacuating as many people as possible. So it's not just about them going to Afghanistan, going to the region because there's a call on our resources diplomatically, politically, militarily in the rest of the region as well. So this is deadly serious," she said at a Wednesday morning press conference. |
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SCOTUS allows reinstatement of a Trump-era immigration policy |
| A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday required President Joe Biden's administration to reinstate a controversial immigration policy that forces migrants to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials process their asylum claims. |
| Biden asked the Supreme Court to intervene after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit based in New Orleans ruled his administration improperly halted the Trump-era immigration policy shortly after his inauguration. Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri sued in April to reinstate the program. |
| A conservative majority of the high court said in a brief order Tuesday night that the Biden administration failed to demonstrate the decision to end the program was not "arbitrary and capricious." The court's three liberal associate justices, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, would have allowed the administration to continue its suspension of the program. |
| Life is short. Spend more time with those you love. — Mabinty |
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