Voices, The Peoples News
May 4, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
California condors vs. avian flu: Can the endangered birds survive? An outbreak of avian flu has killed 20 condors in the Southwest, putting wildlife conservationists on high alert.
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Joe Biden Sending Troops to the Southern Border Won’t Make Anyone Happy: This move almost certainly won’t silence Republicans’ attacks on Biden over immigration. Meanwhile, some Democrats and immigration advocates are angry the president is militarizing the border in anticipation of the termination of Title 42. Sending troops to deter migrants is unlikely to be effective this time, either.
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Mexico, U.S. announce joint action to expand ‘legal pathways’ of entry to U.S: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.S. National Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall met Tuesday in Mexico City and announced a joint commitment to expand “legal pathways” of entry into the U.S.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed Increases Rates a Quarter Point and Signals a Potential End to Hikes: Federal Reserve officials signaled they might be done raising interest rates for now after approving another increase at their meeting that concluded Wednesday. The unanimous decision marked the Fed’s 10th consecutive rate increase aimed at battling inflation and brings its benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 5% and 5.25%, a 16-year high.
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White House Details ‘Severe Damage’ to the Economy if Debt Ceiling Crisis Occurs: As the game of chicken continues, with each side trying to ramp up pressure on the other, the Post’s Jacob Bogage details five possible outcomes for the debt limit standoff. Here’s a brief overview…
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How to Solve the Debt Ceiling Standoff? Sue Janet Yellen: A bondholder could simply allege that America failing to pay off its debts is unconstitutional. There’s a good argument for that. The New York Times reports that the Biden administration, faced with the Republican Party intention to hold the global economy hostage over the debt ceiling, is considering whether the whole thing is unconstitutional. The words of the 14th Amendment make the strongest argument: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” One wonders how the framers of the amendment could have made their intentions clearer without being clairvoyant
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Biden administration’s controversial rule raising fees for those with good credit goes into effect: The latest in a series of new Biden administration rule changes that charge higher fees to certain home buyers with good credit and lower fees for buyers with worse credit went into effect this week despite pushback from Republicans and many financial experts https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-administrations-controversial-rule-raising-fees-for-those-with-good-credit-goes-into-effect*:*:text=(The*20Center*20Square)*20**B,Republicans*20and*20many*20financial*20experts__;I34lJSXigJMlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUfwYIfMu$
# Education / Schools
7th Grader Calls out Massachusetts School Board After He Was Sent Home for Wearing a T Shirt with The Words “There Are only Two Genders”: “I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt. That my shirt was making some students feel unsafe, yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe,” Liam said at the meeting. “I have been told that my shirt was ‘targeting a protected class.’ Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights?” the seventh-grader said at the meeting. “I don’t complain when I see pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right to their beliefs, just as I do.”
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Conservative Christians want more religion in public life. Texas lawmakers are listening: Opponents of church-state separation have been emboldened by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the growing acceptance of Christian nationalism on the right. Senate has approved bills requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments and allowed unlicensed religious chaplains to replace school counselors. And uplifted by school voucher program advocates, efforts are underway to cut down state constitutional amendments that bar direct state support of religious schools and organizations. It’s part of an effort to create a national model for infusing Christianity into public life, some Christian leaders say.
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Texas School Cancels Theater Trip After Parents Complain About “Cross-Gender” Roles: Actors have played roles that don’t align with their gender “since the creation of theater,” one theater employee said. A school district in Texas has canceled a field trip to a play because some of the actors perform multiple roles, including characters who don’t align with their gender.
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# Employment / Labor
10-Year-Olds Found Working at Kentucky McDonald’s Until 2AM: The two 10-year-olds prepared and distributed food orders, cleaned the store, worked at the drive-thru window, and operated a register, investigators found. The big picture: Child labor is on the rise in the U.S., and the federal government announced a crackdown earlier this year after tracking a 69% increase in illegally employed kids since 2018. In the last fiscal year, 835 companies employed more than 3,800 children illegally, Labor Department investigations revealed.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Industry Hundreds of gas plants could escape EPA climate rules: About 1,000 natural gas-fired power plants that provide energy at periods of peak demand could be excluded from the toughest standards under EPA. The Biden administration’s upcoming attack on one of the nation’s largest contributors to climate change is expected to rest on a novel technology for capturing power plants’ greenhouse gas pollution, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Biden’s climate tax breaks are popular, driving up law’s cost: A law to boost clean energy appears to be more potent than predicted, with big implications for both budget talks and efforts to fight climate change.
Other experts and investment banks have estimated that the law’s energy provisions could end up costing as much as $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
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The oceans are missing their rivers: For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along. In many places, the great culprit is the dam: a wall of concrete and stone bisecting a river, diverting its energy and water to human use. There are 58,000 ‘big dams,’ 50 feet high or taller around the globe, with another 3,700 more planned, mostly in lower-income countries in Asia and South America. Rising seas deservedly get headlines, but sinking land is an equally grave problem.
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Parts of Mississippi River seeing worst flooding in decades: While flooding along the Mississippi River happens every year, water levels are surging this year thanks to record snow across the Midwest that that’s been followed by a sudden thaw.
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The Supreme Court may gut the Clean Water Act: Can factories dump waste into seasonal streams without the Environmental Protection Agency’s oversight? Wetlands? Ponds? Before a bipartisan Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, cities pumped raw sewage into lakes, mining companies discharged acid waste into streams, and factories poured chemicals into rivers, which occasionally caught on fire. The Clean Water Act made such pollution illegal and expanded the federal government’s authority to regulate waterways across the country.
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When The Lake Dried Up, This Oregon Town Was Shocked To See They Weren’t The First Settlers There: After a long and intense drought in 2015, Detroit Lake in Marion County, Oregon made history as it hit an all-time low. As the reservoir dried up, something remarkable was revealed – an old railroad town that had been submerged under the lake for over 60 years! Unseen by human eyes since the 1950s, this ghostly village was now exposed to the world after many decades of being hidden beneath the water.
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The floor of the ocean off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has sprung a leak: The spring, known as Pythia’s Oasis, is likely venting water from beneath local tectonic plates through a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This liquid is likely acting as a lubricant between the two plates colliding at the fault, and losing too much of it could increase the likelihood of a damaging earthquake. Often times, bubbles coming up from the bottom of the ocean herald hydrothermal vents, which can be hot beds of exciting biological activity. But a spring is a different story, and might be a little bit more worrying.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Tuesday that targets the growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in the state. The anti-ESG legislation prevents state officials from investing public money in the promotion of ESG goals, prioritizes financial returns for state funds and pensions, eliminates ESG considerations in state contracts and prohibits the issuance of green bonds.
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Viewpoint fact check: Honeybees aren’t disappearing and GMOs do not cause colony collapse disorder: Fact: In 2020 the EU had approximately 19 million honeybee hives, managed by 615,000 beekeepers. These hives altogether produced 275,000 tonnes of honey. Beekeeping is practiced in all EU Member States where, together, they are the world’s second largest honey producer, after China with 500,000 tonnes. Despite millions of hives, people are worried about honeybees.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global In a horrifying discovery, geologists have found rocks made from plastic debris on Brazil’s remote Trindade Island. The island, which serves as an important refuge for green turtles, is more than 700 miles from land. The plastic rocks are evidence of how human pollution has now influenced Earth’s geological cycles https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/trindade-island-plastic-rocks-plastiglomerates/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUdkG2eQe$
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Peanut butter is a liquid – the physics of this and other unexpected
fluids: Imagine you’re stirring a jar of peanut butter. If you stir really fast, with more shearing force, the PB gets runnier, while if you stir slowly the PB remains stiff. These types of fluids are called non-Newtonian fluids. Peanut butter may stick more than flow – maybe you could consider this movement more chunky-style. Peanut butter is actually a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid because it doesn’t flow as easily as air or water but will flow if sufficient force is applied, such as when a knife spreads it on bread. How easily it flows will also depend on temperature, you may have experienced peanut butter drips after slathering it on warm toast.
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CRISPR sausages? FDA approves the first gene-edited ‘experimental pigs’ for food: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized meat from gene-edited pigs, produced by researchers at Washington State University (WSU), for human consumption. The gene-editing tool CRISPR is being used to modify genetic traits of the line of pigs
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# Gov / Politics
Emails Reveal Herschel Walker Money Scandal: In all, the emails indicate that Walker solicited a combined $700,000 in political contributions from the Washingtons, instructing that more than $600,000 of that amount be wired directly to one of his companies, HR Talent.
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Republicans Subpoena FBI for Document Alleging Unspecified ‘Criminal Scheme’ Involving Biden: Comer on Wednesday subpoenaed the FBI for the document, marking an escalation in Republicans’ investigation of Biden himself after largely focusing on the foreign business activities of his son Hunter Biden and other family members and associates.
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Florida Republican’s homophobic comment prompts ‘audible gasps’ on state House floor: A Florida Republican representative accidentally admitted that his party hates LGBTQ people, while expressing support for a bill that would take away LGBTQ rights. The resolution would ban policies in the military such as diversity recruitment, unconscious bias training, and the use of gender-neutral language, effectively questioning the presence of LGBTQ people in the military.
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Texas Senate Approves Bill To Allow Gov. Greg Abbott To Overturn
Elections: The GOP-controlled Texas Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal allowing the state to overturn elections in Harris County, home to the state’s most populous city Houston. The legislation penalizes county officials for running out of ballot paper at some voting sites in the
2022 election, the Houston Chronicle reported. Still, more importantly, it gives Republican Gov. Greg Abbott “precedent-setting” power to undo election results.
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GOP does it again: No legal weed, paid family leave, school lunches & more budget proposals, WI Gov is furious: Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee removed more than 500 provisions in Gov. Evers’
budget proposal. ‘These aren’t fringe ideas, controversial concepts, or Republican or Democratic priorities, they’re about doing the right thing,’ Evers said.
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# Law Enforcment
Police groups blame broken system as cities see crime rise: A rise in violence, looting and unhindered theft around the U.S. has helped fuel Americans’ rising concerns about crime. Some of the nation’s largest cities are experiencing crime waves in recent years, and new polling shows Americans concerns.
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I Answered the Call to Help Stop Cop City. I Spent 31 Days in Jail for It. In those 31 days, I witnessed mental health crises, a lack of running water and sadistic treatment by guards.
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# Legal / DOJ
Oklahoma AG Appeals to SCOTUS to Stay Execution of Richard Glossip: Drummond, as well as Glossip’s attorneys, have attempted to cast doubt on Glossip’s trial and retrial, saying the state withheld some evidence from his defense team, and that a key witness was unreliable due to his drug addiction and struggles with mental health. Indeed, Glossip has maintained his innocence. Glossip claims Sneed incriminated him to avoid getting the death penalty, and that Sneed, a meth addict, made admissions in jail and later in prison about framing Glossip, and also has talked of recanting his testimony. By live video during his clemency hearing, Glossip pleaded with the board to recommend clemency.
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Donald Trump’s Rape Trial Goes From One Disaster to Another: Trump’s lawyers would also almost certainly argue that any criminal trials should be delayed until after the 2024 election, leaving Trump free to pursue the presidency. Should these delays tactics succeed, and were Trump to regain the White House, he could then pardon himself and his allies for any federal crimes they may have committed. The answer to one further question is clear. Were Trump to be convicted of any felony charge and regain the White House, could he serve as president? The answer to that is yes.
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E. Jean Carroll’s Quest for Justice and the Carnage of Donald Trump’s
Misogyny: The 79-year-old writer’s rape case shows what happens to a country that elects a president who so openly embraces degrading women. Stop and consider for a moment that the Justice Department is arguing—in the words of Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney—that “when [Trump] lied about sexually assaulting our client, explaining that she ‘wasn’t his type,’ he was acting in his official capacity as President of the United States.” Beyond the mere act of, once again, conscripting the Department of Justice into acting as his personal Roy Cohn, Trump now has his attorney general claiming that when Trump insults, demeans, and belittles women, he is “acting within his scope of office as President.”
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Judge Tosses Trump’s NY Times Suit, Orders Him to Pay Fees: In the 2021 suit, the embattled 45th president alleged that Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner schemed with Trump’s niece, Mary, to disclose his 20-year-old documents. But the paper’s newsgathering, which ultimately exposed Trump’s tax woes in a Pulitzer-winning 2018 article, was “at the very core of protected First Amendment activity,” the judge ruled. Reed dismissed the case in part because the Times’ reporting was “a matter of high public interest,” he wrote.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/judge-tosses-trumps-lawsuit-against-ny-times-orders-him-to-pay-legal-fees/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUewoezL1$
That sound you hear Is Donald Trump popping a blood vessel over Mike Pence’s Jan. 6 grand jury testimony: The special counsel criminally investigating Trump apparently took a particularly keen interest in Pence’s testimony.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-grand-jury-jack-smith__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUTdCpUr_$
After a 3rd woman testifies Trump sexually assaulted her, his lawyers announce they won’t call any witnesses: There were only two listed witnesses the Trump team could call in the case, according to court filings, and the list included Trump himself. The other listed possible witness was psychiatrist Edgar Nace.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3986432-trump-lawyers-wont-call-any-witnesses-in-rape-trial/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUfK1jQOw$
Trump Team Will Not Offer Defense in E. Jean Carroll Rape and Defamation Case: Although President Donald Trump has given sworn testimony and denied most allegations, his attorneys announced they would offer no defense in the rape and defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-rape-allegations-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-defamation-trial-defense/*:*:text=Although*20President*20Donald*20Trump*20has,by*20writer*20E.*20Jean*20Carroll__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUYxYiXIK$
# Medical / Health
What Is Medical Gaslighting? 9 Doctors’ Statements That Are Major Red Flags: Phrases that may indicate you are being medically gaslit. “It’s all in your head.” “You’re overreacting.” “Why are you getting so emotional about this?” “It’s not as big of a deal as you are making it.” If your provider doesn’t collaborate with you on treatment options, it could also be a red flag. Medical gaslighting often happens when providers let racial or gender biases get in the way of care.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/medical-gaslighting__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUTkYuKfh$
FDA Committee to Vote on New RSV Vaccine Targeting Pregnant Women & Babies: RSV is a common respiratory infection and symptoms (fever, runny nose, cough) are similar to a cold. The majority of individuals recover within a few days from an uncomplicated RSV infection, although occasionally the virus can cause lower respiratory infections requiring medical attention.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nvic.org/newsletter/may-2023/rsv-vaccine-adults-infants__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUaP4HtMB$
Kansas and Arizona Governors Veto Bills Prohibiting Infanticide: The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that a baby who survives an abortion deserves the same life-saving care and protection as any other baby born prematurely at the same age. Two Democratic governors, Laura Kelly from Kansas and Katie Hobbs from Arizona, however, evidently don’t agree. Recently, both governors vetoed bills in their states that would have protected these children from the horrors of infanticide.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/04/kansas_and_arizona_governors_veto_bills_prohibiting_infanticide___149183.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXsWr2Rp$
# Military / Global
Russia Issues New Military Threat to NATO: Russia said on Wednesday that it could retaliate with military measures if NATO uses Finland’s territory. The warning came from Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who was commenting on a report that the U.S. military may place troops on Finnish bases. Antell told the paper that the agreement would not only augment Finland’s recent NATO membership but could also result in American soldiers being deployed to bases near Russia’s border with Finland.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-issues-new-military-threat-to-nato/ar-AA1aHfdN__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUeMplFkr$
Ukraine war latest: US ‘definitely’ behind Putin ‘assassination attempt’, Russia claims: The Kremlin has accused the US of being behind an “assassination attempt” on Vladimir Putin yesterday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting the International Criminal Court in The Hague – where he demanded the Russian leader be brought to justice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russian-jets-intercepted-by-germany-eu-becoming-militarised-at-record-rate-russia-claims-12541713__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUegFNjvr$
Putin War Hawks Demand ‘Shoot-Down’ of Jet Carrying Zelensky: Putin’s alleged “assassination scare” has sent his cronies into a blind rage. It’s no longer enough to bomb women and children as they sleep. It’s time to “shoot down [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky’s plane” and “launch missiles at [his] residence in Kyiv,” two Kremlin allies said Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putins-war-hawks-demand-russian-shoot-down-of-plane-carrying-zelensky__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUXTGL28w$
NATO says Russia is ‘most significant and direct threat’ to members, security: NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security, as the military alliance met Wednesday to confront what NATO’s chief called the biggest security crisis since World War II.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/nato-says-russia-is-most-significant-and-direct-threat-to-members-security__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUU_Pz3uv$
# Technology
The U.S. Senate voted 56 to 41 yesterday to rescind President Biden’s moratorium on tariffs on solar cells from Asia; but even though Biden is expected to veto the bill, the issue is far from settled. The vote sends the resolution to President Joe Biden’s desk, where it faces a certain veto. But its passage underscores the tricky politics that vulnerable Democratic lawmakers must navigate between reaching U.S. clean energy targets and taking a hard line on Chinese influence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/senate-solar-vote-biden-00095133__;!!On18fmf1aQ!ylBf-jL0vWkv0pLMD-YxPGcVmYoLAHT1CT-cWEAX6LOJ0-tg912NqAuAsjbuvrqN6Ailr1RTIKsIyPx63xl9WckpUa_340ye$
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