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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff warned of factual and legal issues in a Trump administration joint vehicle climate rollback issued with a Department of Transportation agency, an internal government watchdog said. A report from the office of the EPA’s inspector general raised the concerns about the interagency collaboration between the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)  in a new report issued on Tuesday. The report said that EPA technical staff told leadership that they hadn’t seen about 650 pages of the 1,000-page rule before it was sent to the White House for review because of a “lack of interagency collaboration at the technical level.” ADVERTISEMENT The rule, which was primarily put together by NHTSA, had “numerous errors and inaccuracies” when it was submitted for interagency review, the inspector general said, citing comments by the EPA. The report said that then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Andrew … [Read more...] about EPA staff warned of factual, legal issues in Trump vehicle climate rollback, watchdog says

Republicans are bracing for a fierce fight over spending as the party tries to figure out its post-Trump identity. GOP senators this week will wade into two major sources of division in the conference: whether to nix an earmark ban, one of the few remaining vestiges of the Tea Party years, and whether to adopt a caucus rule that endorses offsetting any increase in the debt ceiling with spending cuts. The looming standoff comes after Republicans embraced big budgets under former President Trump Donald Trump House votes to condemn Chinese government over Hong Kong Former Vice President Walter Mondale dies at age 93 White House readies for Chauvin verdict MORE , who signaled support for getting rid of the debt ceiling and urged GOP lawmakers to go bigger in the final round of coronavirus relief passed while he was in office. ADVERTISEMENT Sen. John Thune John Randolph Thune The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - All US … [Read more...] about Senate GOP faces post-Trump spending brawl

Law professor, former Trump official, and communications law expert Adam Candeub joined Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily today, arguing that Republican voters need to pressure their state legislators if they want local bills to rein in Big Tech to succeed. Candeub, who worked on President Trump’s efforts to regulate Big Tech (the former President left office before they could be implemented), and who fought free speech cases against Twitter, said that states must categorize social media companies as common carriers or places of public accommodation if they want to stop censorship. Breitbart · Adam Candeub – April 20, 2021 “DeSantis definitely deserves all the kudos in the world — he outlined and planned a really aggressive take on Big Tech that really warms the heart of not just conservatives, but everyone across the country who’s really concerned by the role that these companies are playing in our politics.” “As a general matter, state legislators can’t … [Read more...] about Former Trump Official: Florida Big Tech Bill Needs Common Carriage or Public Accommodation Provision to Succeed

Republicans are sounding the alarm that divisive candidates running across the country could cost them key Senate and gubernatorial races next year. The party is concerned that disruptive contenders could hurt their chances of keeping Senate seats in Missouri, Alabama and Wisconsin and flipping the governor’s mansion in Virginia. Republicans are also nervously watching primaries for open Senate seats in North Carolina and Ohio and Democratic-held seats in Arizona and Georgia. Nearly a dozen GOP strategists and donors almost unanimously said former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who resigned in disgrace in 2018 and is running for Senate, carries the most baggage out of any midterm candidate. ADVERTISEMENT But there are also concerns over Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks Morris (Mo) Jackson Brooks The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Facebook - All US adults can get vaccine; decision Friday on J&J vax Republicans fret over divisive candidates The Hill's 12:30 … [Read more...] about Republicans fret over divisive candidates

The Pentagon is taking money from 19 construction projects, including several in Europe meant to deter Russia, in order to pay for construction projects stateside that had been delayed because funding was reallocated to President Trump Donald Trump House votes to condemn Chinese government over Hong Kong Former Vice President Walter Mondale dies at age 93 White House readies for Chauvin verdict MORE ’s border wall. In a memo dated Monday obtained by The Hill, Defense Secretary Mark Esper Mark Esper The paradox of US-India relations Overnight Defense: Trump-era land mine policy unchanged amid review | Biden spending outline coming Friday | First lady sets priorities for relaunched military families initiative Biden to keep Trump-era land mine policy in place during review MORE directed acting Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker to take $545.5 million from projects largely outside the United States to pay for projects within the country. … [Read more...] about Pentagon shifts money from overseas projects to fill hole caused by border wall funding