
Joe Biden (still) doesn't want to get rid of the filibuster
CNN
President Joe Biden called the ongoing efforts in Republican state legislatures to pass restrictive voting legislation "Jim Crow on steroids" during a CNN town hall in Cincinnati on Wednesday night.
Moments later, pressed by CNN's Don Lemon on whether the filibuster should be abolished in order to pass a broad voting rights bill currently stuck in the Senate, Biden demurred. "There's no reason to protect [the filibuster] other than you're going to throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done," the President told Lemon. "Nothing at all will get done. And there's a lot at stake."
Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











