• Joe Biden: 46th President of the United States, celebrated the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which is investing $1.2 trillion in fixing highways, bridges, and internet access, and creating 20,000 jobs in Maryland.
• Called attention to the effects of the new border enforcement measures providing migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela a legal path to obtain a two-year visa.
• Republicans plan to hold hearings on what they call Biden’s border crisis, but the White House called out “some elected officials” for “trying to block the Administration’s effective measures because they would rather keep immigration an issue to campaign on than one to solve.”
• House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) promised to “hit the ground running” on crime, energy, inflation, life, taxpayer protection, and more, but Republicans have turned to investigations, abortion, threatening the national debt, and trying to defund the Internal Revenue Service instead.
• Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month U.S. tourist visa, likely to avoid the many investigations underway in Brazil for fraud and inciting an attack on the government.
Published January 31, 2023
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