Liz Goodwin
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Using his campaign manager’s testimony, Jan. 6 Committee to suggest Trump didn’t believe his own election lies
The committee will use the testimony of Trump’s former campaign manager Bill Stepien on Monday to make the case that the president intentionally lied about winning the election in order to hang onto power, as part of a larger illegal plan to conspire to overturn the 2020 election. → Read More
Elizabeth Warren’s income jumped to $1.36 million last year after book advance
Senator Elizabeth Warren and her husband reported about $1.36 million in total income in 2021, a higher amount than in recent years due to a six-figure advance the senator received for her books “Pinkie Promises” and “Persist.” → Read More
A new conservative majority poised to overturn Roe could spell the end of the Roberts court
As the draft opinion on abortion rights show, an emboldened group of justices to the right of Roberts no longer needs the deeply conservative, but more cautious and institutionalist, chief to join them to hand down rulings. → Read More
Massachusetts lawmaker joins Pelosi’s surprise trip to Ukraine
The discussion with Volodymyr Zelensky was described as “intense,” with the Ukrainian president detailing the aid he needed for the war effort. → Read More
Seth Moulton defends surprise Afghan trip: ‘The scoldings mean nothing when we’re saving a few lives’
“I don’t care one bit about anonymous quotes from Washington when I’m saving the lives of our allies,” Moulton said. → Read More
Democrats push racial justice measures as some Republicans briefly seek an ‘Anglo Saxon’ caucus
The push on civil rights has so far attracted zero Republican votes, while GOP party leaders spent last week tamping down a move by a handful of their more extreme members to form a caucus dedicated to celebrating “Anglo Saxon” heritage. → Read More
For her first major task as VP, Kamala Harris is handed a thorny diplomatic mission
President Biden has deputized her to solve the “root causes” of the migrant crisis at the southern border, a politically unsavory assignment that has only gotten more difficult since Biden took it on himself as vice president in 2014. → Read More
Josh Hawley became a pariah in Washington after the insurrection. Does it matter?
A total freeze out from nearly half the Senate might raise the danger of being seen unable to deliver for the voters back home. But in a world in which hundreds of Trump supporters mobilized to ransack the US Capitol, becoming a pariah inside its marble walls isn’t necessarily a political liability with the GOP grassroots. → Read More
Walsh sworn in as labor secretary by Vice President Harris
His longtime partner, Lorrie Higgins, was at his side in the ceremony presided over by Vice President Kamala Harris. → Read More
Zero Republicans voted for the COVID relief bill. Will that haunt them in the midterms?
Polls show the massive $1.9 trillion bill is broadly popular. But GOP lawmakers stood united against the bill anyway—a move that Democrats are hoping will spell doom for them in the 2022 elections. → Read More
In three Republican districts, a view of Trump’s continued dominance in the party
Former president Donald Trump is still the most popular potential presidential candidate in his party, and even his biggest Republican detractor in Congress, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, says Trump probably would win the 2024 nomination if he runs. → Read More
Jake Auchincloss swings left in Congress amid lingering progressive skepticism
Jake Auchincloss swings left in Congress amid lingering progressive skepticism → Read More
What riot? Amnesia sets in among Republicans in Washington
Republicans — some of whom initially showed willingness to push for consequences for Trump — have swiftly closed ranks around a new message: Let it go. → Read More
Biden delivers sober call to action: ‘America has to be better than this’
The new president laid out the challenges facing the country in stark terms — from white supremacy and political disinformation, to a once-in-a-century pandemic, to devastating job losses. → Read More
Biden’s challenge: Preaching unity at the scene of Trump’s insurrection
One hand on the Bible, the other in the air, Joe Biden will stand in front of the US Capitol just two weeks after angry supporters of President Trump ransacked the building. → Read More
What happens the next time a president tries to steal an election?
As the broken glass is still being swept from the Capitol, fear lingers in the air about what could happen in the future, given how far Trump, his congressional allies, and his supporters were willing to go to attempt to stay in power this year. → Read More
‘Surprise’ medical billing banned after Richard Neal gets on board
Congress banned the surprise, sky-high medical bills patients get when they use an out-of-network service on Monday, after Mass. Representative Richard Neal dropped his objections to earlier proposals and prevailed with his version of a fix. → Read More
Boston native Annie Tomasini, with a ‘Let Biden be Biden’ approach, to be a top staffer in his White House
The former Boston Latin and Boston University basketball star will be director of Oval Office operations in the White House. → Read More
The deliberate, staged normalcy of Joe Biden’s Wilmington transition
As President Trump actively blocks Joe Biden’s transition team from preparing to take over the reins of government, Biden is publicly acting out the process of the transition about 100 miles northeast of Washington, DC. → Read More
Biden team locked out of key vaccine information as COVID rages
The delay caused by Trump’s continued false insistence he won the election is putting lives at risk, President-elect Joe Biden declared this week. → Read More