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The ceremony is over, but it will get another turn in prime time
By Rachel Treisman
Posted 44 minutes ago
The Eiffel Tower puts on a light show for the finale of the Olympics opening ceremony.
It's nighttime in Paris and nearly prime time on the East Coast.
The opening ceremony ended with a flourish, but will air again on NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The stream will also be available on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC/NBC Sports apps.
Scroll back to the beginning of this blog to get all the context and color as you watch, and make sure to check back on NPR.org as we cover all the action to come.
Here's how to follow along over the next two weeks.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050642/2024-olympics-paris-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-schedule
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/olympics-2024-paris-opening-ceremony
The ceremony is over, but it will get another turn in prime time
By Rachel Treisman
Posted 44 minutes ago
The Eiffel Tower puts on a light show for the finale of the Olympics opening ceremony.
It's nighttime in Paris and nearly prime time on the East Coast.
The opening ceremony ended with a flourish, but will air again on NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The stream will also be available on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC/NBC Sports apps.
Scroll back to the beginning of this blog to get all the context and color as you watch, and make sure to check back on NPR.org as we cover all the action to come.
Here's how to follow along over the next two weeks.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050642/2024-olympics-paris-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-schedule
https://www.npr.org/live-updates/olympics-2024-paris-opening-ceremony
How to watch the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-e2836f814931a0cdfe9745edfce860f3
1 of 4 | A bomb squad boat navigates the Seine River as officials prepare for Friday’s opening ceremony, ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 2:06 AM CDT, July 25, 2024
The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is set for Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/paris-olympics-seine-dance-jolly-0b0e0986508b807100691d7741eb5da6
https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 10,500 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). This will start the ceremony, not mark the end of it, another break from tradition.
What time does the opening ceremony start?
The ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. EDT/7:30 p.m. CEST and is expected to last more than three hours.
Where is the opening ceremony being held?
The parade starts at the Austerlitz Bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes and follows the course of the Seine from east to west. It makes its way around two islands in the center of the city before passing under several bridges and gateways. Athletes aboard the boats will get glimpses of several Olympic venues including La Concorde Urban Park (3X3 basketball, breaking, BMX freestyle cycling, skateboarding), Invalides (archery, athletics — marathon finish, road cycling — time trial start) and the Grand Palais (fencing, taekwondo). The parade ends at the Iena Bridge, which links the Eiffel Tower on the left bank of the Seine to the Trocadéro district on the right bank. The ceremony’s finale is at the Trocadéro. There, among other ceremonial procedures, French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver opening remarks.
How can I watch the opening ceremony?
The ceremony will air on NBC and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympic platforms — NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Olympics app.
A preview will air on NBC at noon EDT, with live coverage beginning at 1:30 p.m. and an enhanced prime-time encore at 7:30 p.m.
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Paris Olympics
- The Olympics are more than fun and games. They’re a billion-dollar business with political overtones.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-explainer-086d71dfa93128a2c5a302cb47ec3524
- Breakdance will make it’s debut as an Olympic sport in Paris. Here’s what else will be different at this year’s games.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-paris-innovations-opening-ceremony-cad9eda58cc0c4c86e4a7a61519062c7
- Follow all of AP’s coverage of the Summer Games.
https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
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About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators .. https://apnews.com/article/olympics-paris-2024-tourists-opening-ceremony-af069128438666406adeddd12fabea8f . are expected to fill the upper tiers of the Seine’s banks, and an additional 104,000 paying spectators will watch from the lower riverside and around the Trocadéro plaza.
Those in Paris who could not get tickets will be able to watch the ceremony on 80 giant screens set up throughout the city.
Who is performing at the opening ceremony?
In addition to the athletes who will participate in the parade, 3,000 dancers, artists and other athletes will be featured in the opening and closing ceremonies. .. https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-thomas-jolly-165c4ed071be5e65fd854dedef693a0f . Most of the entertainment acts remain under wraps. NBC News reported that Celine Dion and Lady Gaga have arrived in Paris amid speculation that one or both of the pop singers will perform at the opening ceremony.
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AP Summer Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-e2836f814931a0cdfe9745edfce860f3
How to watch the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-e2836f814931a0cdfe9745edfce860f3
1 of 4 | A bomb squad boat navigates the Seine River as officials prepare for Friday’s opening ceremony, ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 2:06 AM CDT, July 25, 2024
The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is set for Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/paris-olympics-seine-dance-jolly-0b0e0986508b807100691d7741eb5da6
https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 10,500 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). This will start the ceremony, not mark the end of it, another break from tradition.
What time does the opening ceremony start?
The ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. EDT/7:30 p.m. CEST and is expected to last more than three hours.
Where is the opening ceremony being held?
The parade starts at the Austerlitz Bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes and follows the course of the Seine from east to west. It makes its way around two islands in the center of the city before passing under several bridges and gateways. Athletes aboard the boats will get glimpses of several Olympic venues including La Concorde Urban Park (3X3 basketball, breaking, BMX freestyle cycling, skateboarding), Invalides (archery, athletics — marathon finish, road cycling — time trial start) and the Grand Palais (fencing, taekwondo). The parade ends at the Iena Bridge, which links the Eiffel Tower on the left bank of the Seine to the Trocadéro district on the right bank. The ceremony’s finale is at the Trocadéro. There, among other ceremonial procedures, French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver opening remarks.
How can I watch the opening ceremony?
The ceremony will air on NBC and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympic platforms — NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC app, NBC Olympics app.
A preview will air on NBC at noon EDT, with live coverage beginning at 1:30 p.m. and an enhanced prime-time encore at 7:30 p.m.
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Paris Olympics
- The Olympics are more than fun and games. They’re a billion-dollar business with political overtones.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-explainer-086d71dfa93128a2c5a302cb47ec3524
- Breakdance will make it’s debut as an Olympic sport in Paris. Here’s what else will be different at this year’s games.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-paris-innovations-opening-ceremony-cad9eda58cc0c4c86e4a7a61519062c7
- Follow all of AP’s coverage of the Summer Games.
https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
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About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators .. https://apnews.com/article/olympics-paris-2024-tourists-opening-ceremony-af069128438666406adeddd12fabea8f . are expected to fill the upper tiers of the Seine’s banks, and an additional 104,000 paying spectators will watch from the lower riverside and around the Trocadéro plaza.
Those in Paris who could not get tickets will be able to watch the ceremony on 80 giant screens set up throughout the city.
Who is performing at the opening ceremony?
In addition to the athletes who will participate in the parade, 3,000 dancers, artists and other athletes will be featured in the opening and closing ceremonies. .. https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-opening-ceremony-thomas-jolly-165c4ed071be5e65fd854dedef693a0f . Most of the entertainment acts remain under wraps. NBC News reported that Celine Dion and Lady Gaga have arrived in Paris amid speculation that one or both of the pop singers will perform at the opening ceremony.
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AP Summer Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-how-to-watch-opening-ceremony-e2836f814931a0cdfe9745edfce860f3
CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage
A technician works on an information display near United Airlines gates at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, July 19, 2024, after a faulty CrowdStrike update caused a major internet outage for computers running Microsoft Windows. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Updated 3:13 PM CDT, July 24, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
CrowdStrike also outlined measures it will take to prevent the problem from recurring, including staggering the rollout of updates, giving customers more control over when and where they occur, and providing more details about the updates that it plans.
The company on Wednesday posted details online from its “preliminary post incident review ” of the outage, which caused chaos for the many businesses that pay for the cybersecurity firm’s software services.
The problem involved an “undetected error” in the content-configuration update for its Falcon platform affecting Windows machines, the Texas-based company said.
A bug in the content-validation system allowed “problematic content data” to be deployed to CrowdStrike’s customers. That triggered an “unexpected exception” that caused a Windows operating system crash, the company said.
As part of the new prevention measures, CrowdStrike said it’s also beefing up internal testing as well as putting in place “a new check” to stop “this type of problematic content” from being deployed again.
CrowdStrike has said a “significant number” of the approximately 8.5 million computers that crashed on Friday are back in operation as customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong.
Once its investigation is complete, CrowdStrike said it will publicly release its full analysis of the meltdown.
The outage caused days of widespread technological havoc, highlighted how much of the world depends on a few key providers of computing services and drawn the attention of regulators who want more details on what went wrong
Also on Wednesday, CrowdStrike gained attention online for sending out $10 Uber Eats gift cards in an apparent effort to apologize for the outage’s disruptions.
A CrowdStrike spokesperson said the company sent gift cards “to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation” — but not customers or clients. The spokesperson added that Uber later flagged the offering as fraud “because of high usage rates,” without immediately providing more details on how many cards were distributed and when.
https://apnews.com/article/crowdstrike-tech-outage-microsoft-windows-falcon-4bc4b6817614c274daeabf0e2c52477a
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Potential Kamala Harris V.P. Wipes Floor With Trump, Pissing Him Off
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz mocked Republicans for being “stuck” with Donald Trump as their candidate.
Edith Olmsted
July 23, 2024 / 11:47 a.m. ET
Donald Trump is fuming after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz slammed Republicans for being “stuck” with the former president as their presidential candidate, while the Democrats have begun mounting a new campaign around Vice President Kamala Harris.
During an interview on Fox News Tuesday morning, Walz couldn’t wipe a smile off his face as he combated Bill Hemmer’s wild suggestion that the Democrats had “leapfrogged the entire democratic system” by moving to get behind Harris in the days since Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
“Look, the process has always been there, I welcome—if … anybody wants to become a DNC delegate, you’re welcome to. But what I know is, Democrats are ready to move when the situation warrants it,” Walz said.
“Look, it doesn’t matter convictions, it doesn’t matter failed policies. Republican Party is stuck with Donald Trump. He’s yours, you got him. Welcome to it,” said Walz. “Democratic Party can make our decisions, we pick our nominee. Look, if you don’t like it, don’t vote for her in November!”
The Minnesota governor said that he knew voters would appreciate the Biden administration’s strong economic policies and its disinterest in courting foreign dictators such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“So, J.D. Vance, ‘Mind your own business,’ is what I would tell them,” Walz said. “We can manage it.”
Apparently, Trump didn’t appreciate Walz’s booking on the conservative news network.
“Why did Fox News put up Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, where I am leading?” the Republican nominee wrote on Truth Social shortly after Walz’s appearance. “They make me fight battles that I shouldn’t have to fight!”
Walz was among those reported as having received vetting materials to join Harris on the Democratic ticket in November.
While Walz wouldn’t confirm he was in contention on Fox News, he did say that he’d spoken to Harris. “We have the same values, we believe we can win in the Midwest,” he said, pledging to do “whatever’s necessary” to keep “personal freedoms” front and center in Harris’s campaign.
https://newrepublic.com/post/184152/potential-kamala-harris-vp-trump-pissing-off
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This, my friends, is what they call a mic drop.#PresidentHarris2024 pic.twitter.com/XIe32ckW25
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 21, 2024
A look back at Biden’s five decades of public service as his political career comes to a close
After five decades in politics, President Joe Biden’s political career is coming to a close as he exits the 2024 presidential race.
Published 1:34 PM CDT, July 21, 2024
04:31
https://apnews.com/video/district-of-columbia-delaware-2024-united-states-presidential-election-united-states-government-donald-trump-b4ed555ed60a413da87a7828eddb81af
Here is the AP’s fact check of Trump’s RNC speech
By TATION VEREAR and DETERRUISSET
REPREHENDUNT, Associated Press
updated on July 19, 2024 | 1:59 PM
As former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday he laid out his vision for running the country. He painted a dire picture of the state of the U.S. and outlined a range of actions he planned to take.
But his comments were marked with a myriad of false and misleading information that distorted the facts around immigration, the U.S. economy and his previous accomplishments.
Here are the facts.
TRUMP: “The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country — they are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just from South America, but from Africa, Asia and the Middle East — they’re coming from everywhere, and this administration does nothing to stop them. They are coming from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and terrorists at levels never seen before.”
THE FACTS: Trump spent much of his address discussing immigration and the mass influx of migrants into the U.S., repeating several false and misleading claims, including that it has caused a crime surge. He cited recent high-profile and heinous crimes allegedly committed by people in the country illegally as proof.
But the suggestion there has been a spike in violent crime nationally as a result of the influx is not supported by facts. FBI statistics do not separate out crimes by the immigration status of the assailant, nor is there any evidence of a spike in crime perpetrated by migrants, either along the U.S.-Mexico border or in cities seeing the greatest influx of migrants, like New York. In fact, national statistics show violent crime is on the way down.
Studies have found that people living in the country illegally are less likely than native-born Americans to have been arrested for violent, drug and property crimes. A 2020 study published by the National Academy of Sciences found “considerably lower felony arrest rates” among people in the United States illegally than legal immigrants or native-born citizens.
There is also no evidence to support that other countries are sending their murderers, drug dealers and other criminals to the U.S.
THE FACTS: That’s far from accurate. The pandemic triggered a massive recession during his presidency. The government borrowed $3.1 trillion in 2020 to stabilize the economy and Trump left the White House with fewer jobs than when he entered.
But even if you take out issues caused by the pandemic, economic growth averaged 2.67% during Trump’s first three years, which is pretty solid. But it’s nowhere near the 4% averaged during Bill Clinton’s two terms from 1993 to 2001, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In fact, growth has been stronger so far under Biden than under Trump.
Trump did have the unemployment rate get as low as 3.5% before the pandemic, but the labor force participation rate for people 25 to 54 — the core of the U.S. working population — was higher under Clinton. The participation rate has also been higher under Biden than Trump.
TRUMP, on the U.S. troops from Afghanistan: “We also left behind $85 billion worth of military equipment.”
THE FACTS: Those numbers are significantly inflated, according to reports from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, which oversees American taxpayer money spent on the conflict.
The $85 billion figure resembles a number from a July 30 quarterly report from SIGAR, which outlined that the U.S. has invested about $83 billion to build, train and equip Afghan security forces since 2001.
Yet that funding included troop pay, training, operations and infrastructure along with equipment and transportation over two decades, according to SIGAR reports and Dan Grazier, a defense policy analyst at the Project on Government Oversight.
“We did spend well over $80 billion in assistance to the Afghan security forces,” Grazier told the AP in August 2021. “But that’s not all equipment costs.”
In fact, only about $18 billion of that sum went toward equipping Afghan forces between 2002 and 2018, a June 2019 SIGAR report showed.
Another estimate from a 2017 Government Accountability Office report found that about 29% of dollars spent on Afghan security forces between 2005 and 2016 funded equipment and transportation. The transportation funding included gear as well as contracted pilots and airplanes for transporting officials to meetings.
If that percentage held for the entire two-decade period, it would mean the U.S. has spent about $24 billion on equipment and transportation for Afghan forces since 2001.
But even if that were true, much of the military equipment would be obsolete after years of use, according to Grazier. Plus, American troops have previously scrapped unwanted gear and, prior to the withdrawal, disabled dozens of Humvees and aircraft so they couldn’t be used again, according to Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command.
Though no one knows the exact value of the U.S.-supplied Afghan equipment the Taliban have secured, defense officials have confirmed it is significant.
MIKE POMPEO, secretary of state under Trump, on Americans held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas: “President Biden won’t even talk about the fact that Americans are still being held there by the Iranian regime.”
THE FACTS: President Joe Biden has spoken multiple times about the Americans who were among the 240 people taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Eight Americans are reportedly still in captivity, including three who were killed.
For example, three days after the attack that started the Israel-Hamas war, Biden said, “we now know that American citizens are among those being held by Hamas.”
Soon after, on Oct. 20, 2023, he said, “as I told the families of Americans being held captive by Hamas, we’re pursuing every avenue to bring their loved ones home.”
Biden released a statement on Jan. 14, 2024, that described the day as “a devastating and tragic milestone — 100 days of captivity for the more than 100 innocent people, including as many as 6 Americans, who are still held being hostage by Hamas in Gaza.”
More recently, on April 27, he wrote in a post on his official Facebook page: “I will not rest until every hostage, like Abigail, ripped from their families and held by Hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones. They have my word. Their families have my word.”
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2024/07/19/here-is-the-aps-fact-check-of-trumps-rnc-speech/
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The Olympics are more than fun and games. They’re a billion-dollar business with political overtones
1 of 5 | FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sept. 14, 2017. The Paris Olympics involve about 10,500 athletes from 200 countries or regions. But the Olympics are more than just fun and games. They are a giant business that generates billions of dollars in income for the International Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
By STEPHEN WADE
Updated 5:00 AM CDT, June 18, 2024
The Paris Olympics involve about 10,500 athletes from 200 countries or regions. But the Olympics are more than just fun and games.
They are a giant business that generates billions of dollars in income for the International Olympic Committee. They’re also a proxy for geopolitical influence seen through the standings in the medal tables, the presence of world leaders at the opening ceremony and the national anthems serenading gold-medal winners.
Here’s a look at how the IOC and the Olympics operate.
It’s a business, not a charity
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https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-explainer-086d71dfa93128a2c5a302cb47ec3524
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Unity and diversity: Tokyo bids farewell to the Paralympic Games in a spectacular ceremony
5 Sep 2021
The Paralympic flame is extinguished, and the curtain has come down on a memorable and historic Tokyo 2020 Games; more than 4,400 elite athletes participated, and many celebrate their achievements at a spectacular closing ceremony before the baton was handed over to Paris 2024.
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In an Olympic tuneup, Ukraine’s top high jumper breaks the 37-year-old world record
1 of 4 | -- Silver medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine wears eye makeup in her country’s colors while competing in the women’s high jump during the World Athletics Indoor Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Updated 11:55 AM CDT, July 7, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine’s best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has a good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics.
The previous record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria’s Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987.
“Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump 2.07 meters and maybe 2.10 meters,” Mahuchikh said. “Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics.”
The 22-year-old Mahuchikh and world indoor champion Nicola Olyaslagers both cleared 2.01 meters on their second attempt. After Olyslagers failed three times at 2.03, Mahuchikh cleared that height to secure victory.
She then cleared 2.07 meters to set a Ukrainian record and had the bar raised to 2.10, which she cleared on her first try.
Mahuchikh left her hometown of Dnipro shortly after the war with Russia began. Like virtually all elite athletes in her country, she has been training in foreign countries while keeping tabs on the war back home. She has been outspoken about the role Ukrainian sports can play to give signs of hope to those fighting for Ukraine’s survival.
“We all are fighting for our people, for our soldiers,” she said last month after defending her European title. “We want to show every person in the world that we will continue fighting, that war in Ukraine it’s not finished, unfortunately. We should fight in every field to show that Ukraine is strongest.”
World Athletics, which runs track on a global basis, has banned all Russian athletes from next month’s Olympic track meet, a decision Mahuchikh agrees with.
Just last weekend, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe visited Kyiv and reiterated his support for the Ukrainian effort in the war.
“Nothing I witnessed tells me that the decision we’ve taken is anything other than the right decision, but the right decision on behalf of our sport,” Coe said.
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AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
https://apnews.com/article/womens-high-jump-mahuchikh-world-record-0195091009764c0ce03c851f750d0481
In an Olympic tuneup, Ukraine’s top high jumper breaks the 37-year-old world record
1 of 4 | -- Silver medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine wears eye makeup in her country’s colors while competing in the women’s high jump during the World Athletics Indoor Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Updated 11:55 AM CDT, July 7, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine’s best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has a good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics.
The previous record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria’s Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987.
“Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump 2.07 meters and maybe 2.10 meters,” Mahuchikh said. “Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics.”
The 22-year-old Mahuchikh and world indoor champion Nicola Olyaslagers both cleared 2.01 meters on their second attempt. After Olyslagers failed three times at 2.03, Mahuchikh cleared that height to secure victory.
She then cleared 2.07 meters to set a Ukrainian record and had the bar raised to 2.10, which she cleared on her first try.
Mahuchikh left her hometown of Dnipro shortly after the war with Russia began. Like virtually all elite athletes in her country, she has been training in foreign countries while keeping tabs on the war back home. She has been outspoken about the role Ukrainian sports can play to give signs of hope to those fighting for Ukraine’s survival.
“We all are fighting for our people, for our soldiers,” she said last month after defending her European title. “We want to show every person in the world that we will continue fighting, that war in Ukraine it’s not finished, unfortunately. We should fight in every field to show that Ukraine is strongest.”
World Athletics, which runs track on a global basis, has banned all Russian athletes from next month’s Olympic track meet, a decision Mahuchikh agrees with.
Just last weekend, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe visited Kyiv and reiterated his support for the Ukrainian effort in the war.
“Nothing I witnessed tells me that the decision we’ve taken is anything other than the right decision, but the right decision on behalf of our sport,” Coe said.
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AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
https://apnews.com/article/womens-high-jump-mahuchikh-world-record-0195091009764c0ce03c851f750d0481
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Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges
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Steve Bannon arrives to speak outside Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, Monday, July 1, 2024, in Danbury, Conn. Bannon was taken into custody after surrendering at the federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SUSAN HAIGH
Updated 11:48 AM CDT, July 1, 2024
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into custody Monday after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack.
Bannon arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, around noon and was formally taken into federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said.
Speaking to reporters, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner,” said former President Donald Trump was “very supportive” of him and slammed Democrats, including Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“I am proud of going to prison,” Bannon said, adding he was “standing up to the Garland corrupt DOJ.”
Shortly before he arrived to surrender, a small group of supporters, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, gathered on the side of the road outside the prison.
They cheered as Greene and Bannon spoke during a news conference, holding up flags and signs supporting Bannon as a small group of protesters shouted, “Lock him up!” and “traitor!”
The crowd was rowdy, often breaking into chants of, “USA!” A Biden supporter taunted Bannon by yelling “traitor” while Trump supporters tried to shout her down. Police had to stop traffic to allow the black SUV that Bannon was riding in to pull out of a church parking lot where Bannon’s supporters had gathered.
A judge had allowed Bannon to stay free for nearly two years while he appealed but ordered him to report to prison Monday after an appeals court panel upheld his contempt of Congress convictions. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected his last-minute appeal to stave off his sentence.
A jury found Bannon guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in the Republican ex-president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Defense attorneys have argued the case raises issues that should be examined by the Supreme Court, including Bannon’s previous lawyer’s belief that the subpoena was invalid because Trump had asserted executive privilege. Prosecutors, though, say Bannon had left the White House years before and Trump had never invoked executive privilege in front of the committee.
Bannon’s appeal will continue to play out, and Republican House leaders have put their support behind stepping in to assert the Jan. 6 committee was improperly created, effectively trying to deem the subpoena Bannon received as illegitimate.
Another Trump aide, trade adviser Peter Navarro, has also been convicted of contempt of Congress. He reported to prison in March to serve his four-month sentence after the Supreme Court refused his bid to delay the sentence.
Bannon is also facing criminal charges in New York state court alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges, and that trial has been postponed until at least the end of September.
https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-sentence-federal-prison-trump-77353a10250c36f77b2c1b7d188c5250
No one beats LYIN' TRUMP at what he does best.
(almost) Every time he opens his mouth he LIES!
The Olympics Opening Ceremony 26 July 2024
Thinking creatively and revolutionising the Games yet remaining accessible to a large audience: this is the challenge met by Paris 2024. Thanks to the concerted efforts of Paris 2024, the City of Paris, the French government, the IOC and the CNOSF, the Opening Ceremony is being remade anew.
ONE CEREMONY, SEVERAL FIRSTS
The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will be bold, original and unique. On 26 July 2024, Paris 2024 will offer an Opening Ceremony that is certain to join the most memorable moments in Olympic history.
A ceremony outside a stadium
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground by bringing sports into the city and the same will be true of the Opening Ceremony, set to be held in the heart of the city along its main artery: the Seine.
A ceremony on the river
Taking on a new guise, the parade of athletes will be held on the Seine with boats for each national delegation. These boats will be equipped with cameras to allow television and online viewers to see the athletes up close. Winding their way from east to west, the 10,500 athletes will cross through the centre of Paris, the overall playing field for the Games on which these competitors will display their sporting prowess over the next 16 days. The parade will come to the end of its 6-kilometre route in front of the Trocadéro, where the remaining elements of Olympic protocol and final shows will take place.
A ceremony with free admission for many spectators
Holding a ceremony open to a large audience, with no admission fee for most of its spectators, is a major first. Fans won’t need tickets to access the upper quays, but those wishing to access the lower quays, from the Austerlitz bridge to the Iéna bridge, will need to buy tickets. Eighty giant screens and strategically placed speakers will allow everyone to enjoy the magical atmosphere of this show reverberating throughout the French capital. The Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be the largest in Games history. It will be open to all: residents from Paris and its region, as well as visitors from all over France and around the world.
A ceremony designed for and by athletes
Athletes will be the heart and soul of the ceremony. By opening with the parade of athletes, Paris 2024 is breaking with tradition. Athletes will be featured on stage during the introduction to and throughout the ceremony as part of Paris 2024’s constant aim to hold Games created for and by athletes.
PARADE ROUTE
The river parade will follow the course of the Seine, from east to west over 6 kilometres. The parade will depart from the Austerlitz bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes at 7.30 p.m. CET (10.30 a.m. in Los Angeles, 2.30 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 6.30 p.m. in London and 8.30 p.m. in Athens) and make its way around the two islands at the centre of the city (the Île Saint Louis and the Île de la Cité) before passing under several bridges and gateways. Athletes on board the parade boats will get glimpses of some of the official Games venues, including Parc Urbain La Concorde, the Esplanade des Invalides, the Grand Palais, and lastly the Iéna bridge where the parade will come to a stop before the ceremony’s finale at the Trocadéro.
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https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/the-games/ceremonies/opening-ceremony
The Olympics Opening Ceremony 26 July 2024
ONE CEREMONY, SEVERAL FIRSTS
The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will be bold, original and unique.
On 26 July 2024, Paris 2024 will offer an Opening Ceremony that is certain to join the most memorable moments in Olympic history.
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/the-games/ceremonies/opening-ceremony
Were you trying to MOO?
Did the LOSER utter anything...that wasn't a lie??
FACT FOCUS: Here’s a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump’s first debate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 5:28 AM CDT, June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election.
Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people who were ushered in by police and misstated the strength of the economy during his administration.
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The latest on the Biden-Trump debate
The debate was a critical moment in Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s presidential rematch to make their cases before a national television audience.
https://apnews.com/article/bidentrumppresidentialdebate-0e7577e9a354a69f50675494fea54ca9
Take a look at the facts around false and misleading claims frequently made by the two candidates.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-election-debate-trump-biden-577507522762aa10f6ee5be3a0ced2bb
Both candidates wasted no time sparring over policy during their 90-minute faceoff. These are the takeaways.
https://apnews.com/article/debate-takeaways-biden-trump-742bac87e99cd0db9dd568e2bfe4eed9
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Biden, who tends to lean more on exaggerations and embellishments rather than outright lies, misrepresented the cost of insulin and overstated what Trump said about using disinfectant to address COVID.
Here’s a look at the false and misleading claims on Thursday night by the two candidates.
JAN. 6
TRUMP: “They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police.”
THE FACTS......
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https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-election-debate-trump-biden-577507522762aa10f6ee5be3a0ced2bb
LYIN' TRUMP's debate Fact Check should be interesting
Biden campaign lays out debate week strategy in new memo
The Biden campaign is gearing up for more than 1,000 events in the lead-up to Thursday’s debate, according to a memo shared first with NBC News.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump and NBC News anchor Kristen Welker as moderator, center, participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020.Jim Bourg / AFP-Getty Images
June 23, 2024, 6:00 AM CDT
By Peter Alexander, Megan Lebowitz and Sarah Dean
WASHINGTON — The Biden campaign .. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-campaign-unflattering-trump-videos-rcna158334 . and its allies plan to hold 1,600 events and run a new slate of TV and digital advertisements ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate, which they called “one of the first moments … where a larger slice of the American electorate” will tune in to the campaign, according to a new memo obtained first by NBC News.
The events will include a nationwide mobilization of surrogates, events targeting groups the campaign sees as crucial to its coalition, like members of the LGBTQ community and college students, and 300 debate night watch parties.
Some of those watch parties will be hosted by social media content creators — to whom the campaign says it will grant access to the post-debate spin room, a place usually reserved for credentialed media.
This pre-debate push will kick off Monday, when the campaign and its allies will host 16 events across a dozen states to mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, including events featuring Vice President Kamala Harris in Maryland and Arizona.
The Biden campaign is looking to present the debate as “two distinct visions for the future,” driving a contrast between the presumptive nominees in a razor-thin race less than five months before voters cast ballots.
Voters will see “President Biden, who is fighting for the American people, and Donald Trump, who will walk on stage as a convicted felon fighting for himself no matter how much harm he inflicts on the American people,” said Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler in the memo.
Tyler laid out key issues where Trump “continues to pose the most extreme threat,” pointing to the end of Roe v. Wade, attacks on democracy and economic plans.
An NBC News poll from April found that a plurality of registered voters — 23% — said that inflation and the cost of living was the most important issue facing the country. But the same poll found that Trump pulled ahead by 22 points when voters were asked which of the two men would be better at dealing with the issue.
Biden is spending several days at Camp David preparing for Thursday’s debate, including going toe-to-toe with his personal lawyer Bob Bauer, who is role-playing as Trump. Bauer also played Trump during debate preparation in 2020.
Bauer is joined by a slew of Biden confidants who are working to prepare the president ahead of the debate, including former chief of staff Ron Klain, campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and White House senior adviser Anita Dunn.
Trump has been holding informal policy sessions ahead of the debate. A campaign official also said that Trump’s rallies and interviews demonstrate “elite stamina,” adding that the former president “does not need to be programmed by staff” like Biden.
Polling indicates that the race to the Oval Office is neck and neck, with a Fox News poll from last week showing Biden garnering support from 50% of registered voters, compared to Trump getting 48% support, which is within the poll’s margin of error.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-campaign-lays-debate-week-strategy-new-memo-rcna158444
Special Series - The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change
Climate change is deadly. Why do so many climate-related deaths go uncounted?
Most Recent Story: June 23, 2024
https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-770/the-undercount-the-invisible-death-toll-from-climate-change
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SURGEON GENERAL EVERETT KOOP VOWS SMOKE-FREE SOCIETY BY 2000
"HOW RED-STATE POLITICS ARE SHAVING YEARS OFF AMERICAN LIVES"
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1986/04/10/surgeon-general-vows-smoke-free-society-by-2000/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=smoke+free+society+by+2000#ip=1
Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: April 10, 1986 at 5:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 26, 2021 at 9:12 a.m.
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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop said Wednesday it is essential the United States become smoke free by the year 2000 to save Americans from further suffering and misery.
Koop said considerable progress has been made in reducing Americans’ use of cigarettes, but he said 340,000 people still die each year because of health problems associated with smoking.
Koop said the estimated $39 billion annual medical and health costs of smoking far outweigh the $10 billion in tax benefits paid by the tobacco industry.
“It is essential that we do everything in our power to make sure people turn away from cigarettes,” said Koop, who was in Seattle to help kick off a new anti-smoking campaign.
“We are going to make our country smoke free by the year 2000,” he vowed.
Koop said a 20-year effort to turn Americans away from smoking has succeeded in reducing the percentage of smokers to its lowest level since statistics have been kept.
He said significantly fewer high school students are smoking now than they did just six years ago.
“We have made more progress, more rapidly than any other country in the world,” Koop said.
But Koop said as a staunch opponent of smoking, he is up against one of the nation’s most powerful industries, which far outspends his $3 million anti-smoking budget.
“Every time I spend a dollar, the tobacco industry spends $1,000 to counteract what I say,” Koop said. “These are high stakes.”
Koop was particularly critical of the tobacco industry for characterizing him as being unsympathetic towards tobacco farmers.
“If the cigarette industry cared that much about the tobacco farmers, they wouldn’t purchase 30 percent of their tobacco overseas because it’s cheaper,” he said.
But Koop said anti-smoking efforts are “on a roll” because more and more businesses are seeing the wisdom of banning cigarettes in the workplace.
He said even the General Services Administration plans to impose smoking restrictions in federal buildings this year.
“This is a national effort that has a firm basis in medicine and science,” Koop said.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1986/04/10/surgeon-general-vows-smoke-free-society-by-2000/
SURGEON GENERAL EVERETT KOOP VOWS SMOKE-FREE SOCIETY BY 2000
"HOW RED-STATE POLITICS ARE SHAVING YEARS OFF AMERICAN LIVES"
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1986/04/10/surgeon-general-vows-smoke-free-society-by-2000/
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=smoke+free+society+by+2000#ip=1
Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: April 10, 1986 at 5:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 26, 2021 at 9:12 a.m.
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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop said Wednesday it is essential the United States become smoke free by the year 2000 to save Americans from further suffering and misery.
Koop said considerable progress has been made in reducing Americans’ use of cigarettes, but he said 340,000 people still die each year because of health problems associated with smoking.
Koop said the estimated $39 billion annual medical and health costs of smoking far outweigh the $10 billion in tax benefits paid by the tobacco industry.
“It is essential that we do everything in our power to make sure people turn away from cigarettes,” said Koop, who was in Seattle to help kick off a new anti-smoking campaign.
“We are going to make our country smoke free by the year 2000,” he vowed.
Koop said a 20-year effort to turn Americans away from smoking has succeeded in reducing the percentage of smokers to its lowest level since statistics have been kept.
He said significantly fewer high school students are smoking now than they did just six years ago.
“We have made more progress, more rapidly than any other country in the world,” Koop said.
But Koop said as a staunch opponent of smoking, he is up against one of the nation’s most powerful industries, which far outspends his $3 million anti-smoking budget.
“Every time I spend a dollar, the tobacco industry spends $1,000 to counteract what I say,” Koop said. “These are high stakes.”
Koop was particularly critical of the tobacco industry for characterizing him as being unsympathetic towards tobacco farmers.
“If the cigarette industry cared that much about the tobacco farmers, they wouldn’t purchase 30 percent of their tobacco overseas because it’s cheaper,” he said.
But Koop said anti-smoking efforts are “on a roll” because more and more businesses are seeing the wisdom of banning cigarettes in the workplace.
He said even the General Services Administration plans to impose smoking restrictions in federal buildings this year.
“This is a national effort that has a firm basis in medicine and science,” Koop said.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1986/04/10/surgeon-general-vows-smoke-free-society-by-2000/
Biden ramps up push to end Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy, highlighting the choice in the 2024 election
Biden says that if he is re-elected, he would let the Trump tax cuts expire next year for people who earn over $400,000.
Trump and Republicans say they want to extend them.
June 18, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT
By Sahil Kapur
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is gearing up to raise taxes on wealthy people in the U.S. if he’s re-elected this fall, picking a fight with Republican rival Donald Trump, who is promising even deeper tax cuts if he returns to the White House.
Major parts of the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, splitting the two parties over whether to extend or end them. Keeping them would add $3.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Democrats are unifying behind a push to raise taxes on upper earners, while Republicans want to keep the tax breaks. The outcome will be decided by the winners of the White House and Congress.
Biden is promising to end the Trump tax breaks for incomes above $400,000 while vowing not to raise taxes for those making less.
“If Trump gets elected, he’ll cut taxes for him and his rich friends at the expense of working families. We can’t let that happen,” Biden said last week on social media.
Biden has repeatedly taken aim at Trump’s upper-income tax breaks, saying in April: “That tax cut is going to expire. If I’m re-elected, it’s going to stay expired.”
Biden’s recent budget and a memo Thursday
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/11/fact-sheet-the-presidents-budget-cuts-taxes-for-working-families-and-makes-big-corporations-and-the-wealthy-pay-their-fair-share/ .
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Final-Lael-IP-Tax-Memo-6.12.24.pdf ..
by top Biden economic adviser Lael Brainard laid out the White House’s vision for bringing in new revenue: raise the corporate tax from 21% to 28%, impose a 25% minimum income tax on billionaires, increase the marginal tax rates on the highest incomes from 37% to 39.6% and boost taxes on capital gains for high earners.
On the campaign trail, Trump is celebrating his 2017 tax cuts and hitting Biden on the issue.
“He wants to let our tax cuts expire!” Trump said at a rally last month in Wildwood, New Jersey. “Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle-class, upper-class, lower-class, business-class — big tax cut. You’re going to have the biggest tax cut.”
But his plan isn’t specific, and it doesn't address the rising national debt, an issue Republicans say they worry about. Trump didn’t even mention his 2017 tax cuts in a closed-door meeting Thursday with Republicans, according to three senators in the room. And he is now touting a different idea that he didn't pursue during his presidency: ending taxes on tips.
Democrats: 'End these really damaging Trump tax provisions'
Many liberals are eager for a fight when Trump's tax cuts expire, and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he plans to meet with committee Democrats this Thursday to discuss the way forward.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in a speech Monday: “The 2025 tax fight will create a huge opportunity to break with decades of tax-cutting political orthodoxy and reshape the tax code to reflect our nation’s values by raising taxes on the wealthy. That’s what Americans across the country are demanding, that’s what Joe Biden is running on, and that’s a big reason why Joe Biden will win in November. Next year, we must raise taxes on giant corporations and billionaires.”
Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., who represents a suburban swing district, said that with the “damaging” Trump tax cuts expiring, “2025 is a year where we can finally make the ultra-wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.”
He said it’s essential to bring in more revenue to the Treasury to protect Social Security and Medicare in the long haul, and he accused Republicans of wanting to reduce retirement benefits “to pay for these bailouts and tax breaks” for the rich.
“So it’s a one-two punch to working people and the 99% of the American people,” Ryan said.
Meanwhile, Republicans are lining up behind Trump’s push to continue the tax breaks across the board.
“We’ve got to have these tax cuts extended,” said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who is on the Rules Committee, which decides what bills get votes in the full House. “We will under Trump. We will not under Biden.”
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the ranking member of the tax-writing Finance Committee, who could become chairman if Republicans win control of the Senate, rejected Biden’s call for tax increases on incomes above $400,000.
“No, I’m not willing to go with that,” Crapo said.
He said the tax cuts might require “some fine-tuning” if they're extended, "but I’m not going to put any arbitrary line in place.”
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., said he’d like to see the Trump tax cuts “made permanent” and to build on them. “I’d like to see more and more aggressive supply-side tax cuts, growth-oriented tax cuts,” he said. “I’d also like to see smarter capital gains tax reductions.”
Hurdles to Biden's plan
Biden’s pledge to undo tax cuts for incomes above $400,000 is easier said than done. For instance, the 2017 tax cuts nearly doubled the standard deduction, which many middle-income families use. And many Democrats favor the expiration of the $10,000 federal limit on state and local tax deductions, which would enable many higher earners to pay less. It's unclear how Biden would rewrite the tax code to end those breaks only for upper earners and preserve them for others.
A White House official said that the economic team hasn't yet fleshed out a concrete policy proposal for how to accomplish that goal and that there are “different ways to try to implement our principles.” The official also said it’s “premature” to say whether Congress should move quickly to impose taxes on wealthier people in early 2025 and whether it should use the filibuster-proof reconciliation process, which covers taxes and spending and could allow Democrats to bypass Republican opposition in Congress.
Wyden said that it’ll be a high priority next year and that congressional Democrats share a philosophy with Biden on taxes.
“You bet we will have a significant discussion about the president’s proposal,” he said. “I’ve talked to the Biden administration about this: Success and fairness are not incompatible. We want people to do well, and people are going to do well under our approaches. But if nurses and teachers and firefighters have to pay taxes with every paycheck, we want some fairness from the billionaires.”
In addition to the presidency, the makeup of Congress will determine what happens to the Trump tax cuts. Full control would give either party an open road to pursue its agenda, but divided government might force the two sides to negotiate a bipartisan deal that includes some victories for each party.
Warren urged Democrats on Monday not to “take the coward’s way out and sign our names to a half-baked deal that lets the wealthy off the hook,” warning that such a move would be a “huge failure.”
Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez, who represents a competitive district in Florida, said any push to raise taxes, including on high earners, would be dead on arrival if Republicans keep the House — even if Biden is re-elected.
He said the Trump tax cuts should be extended.
“I like what it did for our economy,” he said. “I’m a lower tax guy.”
Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-trump-tax-cuts-wealthy-2024-election-rcna157099
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