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Secretary of State Antony BlinkenAntony BlinkenOvernight Defense: Biden set for first address to Congress | Court declines to dismiss Amazon challenge on Pentagon cloud contract | Pelosi pushes back on top general’s account of Jan. 6 Guard deployment Blinken warns Turkey, US allies against purchasing Russian weapons Top Russia diplomat: At least during the Cold War, there was ‘mutual respect’ with US MORE on Wednesday warned Turkey and other U.S. allies against buying weapons systems from Russia, saying such purchases could be subject to sanctions and strain ties with Washington.
Speaking at a virtual event, Blinken singled out Turkey as it undergoes talks with Russia for a second purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft weapons system, saying it could be penalized under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
“It’s also very important going forward that Turkey, and for that matter all U.S. allies and partners, avoid future purchases of Russian weaponry, including additional S-400s,” Blinken said.
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“Any significant transactions with Russian defense entities, again, could be subject to the law, to CAATSA, and that’s separate from and in addition to the sanctions that have already been imposed,” he added.
The U.S. first slapped sanctions on Turkey in December over its 2019 purchase of the S-400 missile defense system. The penalties targeted Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), SSB’s president, Ismail Demir, and other SSB officers. They banned on all U.S. export licenses and authorizations and imposed visa restrictions and asset freezes for the individuals and agency.
Despite those sanctions, Turkey has said it is in talks with Russia for another purchase of the weapons system.
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Those purchases are only one source of strain in the relationship between Washington and Ankara. The two capitals have clashed over the U.S.’s decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria, while the U.S. has pressed Turkey on its human rights record.
Those tensions were exacerbated further when President BidenJoe BidenTulane adds Hunter Biden as guest speaker on media polarization Trump discussing resumption of MAGA rallies: report Biden’s unavoidable foreign policy crisis MORE recognized the 1915 killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
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Turkey, which has denied the killings amounted to a genocide, said the declaration would hurt bilateral ties.
“This statement of the US, which distorts the historical facts, will never be accepted in the conscience of the Turkish people, and will open a deep wound that undermines our mutual trust and friendship,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
Despite the latest spat, Blinken said Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a “good conversation” last week and that Biden was looking forward to their meeting during the June NATO summit.
President BidenJoe BidenBiden prepping cybersecurity executive order in response to SolarWinds attack Photoshopped deer in Kevlar vests circulate after Biden gun control comment Majority of viewers approved of Biden address to Congress: poll MORE in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday touted his multitrillion-dollar proposal for domestic investment as key to challenging China’s global ambitions and strengthening America’s position on the world stage.
The president has tied middle-class success in America to contributing to U.S. success on the world stage. He says funding for families; expanded access to education; and jobs in technology, research and development form the bedrock of facing off against Beijing.
Biden said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “deadly earnest” about making autocracy the wave of the future and called for a “once-in-a-generation investment in our families and children” to win the “competition of the future.”
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“We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century. We have to do more than just build back. We have to build back better,” the president said.
“There’s no reason the blades for wind turbines can’t be built in Pittsburgh instead of Beijing.”
The president earlier Wednesday introduced his $1.8 trillion America Families Plan, which expands on the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation that passed in March.
This is on top of a $2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Biden has identified a rising China as the greatest geopolitical challenge of the century, with Beijing intent on overtaking the U.S. with technological, economic and military superiority.
The president said in his speech that his domestic investment proposals help the U.S. compete with China on the world stage.
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“The investments I’ve proposed tonight also advance a foreign policy that benefits the middle class. That means making sure every nation plays by the same rules in the global economy, including China,” he said.
“In my discussion with President Xi, I told him that we welcome the competition and that we are not looking for conflict. But I made absolutely clear that we will defend American interests across the board,” he added.
This includes standing up against unfair trade practices that undermine American workers and industries and theft of American technologies and intellectual property, the president said.
Biden also emphasized the U.S. would not back off militarily in the Indo-Pacific — where his administration has condemned Chinese military posturing in the South China Sea as threatening to Asian allies — in order to prevent conflict with the Chinese.
“I also told President Xi that we will maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific just as we do with NATO in Europe, not to start a conflict but to prevent one,” the president said.
He added that he told Xi his administration would stand up for human rights. The president and administration officials have said the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province amounts to genocide.
“I pointed out to him, no responsible American president can remain silent when basic human rights are being so blatantly violated. An American president has to represent the essence of what our country stands for,” the president said.
“America is an idea — the most unique idea in history. We are all created equal. It’s who we are. We cannot walk away from that principle.”
Updated at 10:16 p.m.
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The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration’s shaping of the judiciary.
The first 17 hires to the court system responsible for determining whether migrants get to remain in the country is filled with former prosecutors and counselors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as a few picks with little immigration experience.
Almost none have made their career representing migrants in court.
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The Thursday announcement from the Department of Justice (DOJ) initially perplexed immigration attorneys, advocates and even some former immigration judges who wondered why the group so closely mirrored the jurists favored by the Trump administration.
“The 17 new immigration judges referenced in the notice all received their conditional offers under the prior administration,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Hill.
Critics said the Biden administration has an obligation to fully vet the judges hired under their watch and rebalance a court system heavily shaped by the Trump team.
It’s also a surprising move for a president that has otherwise sought to quickly reverse a number of Trump immigration policies while calling for a more humane response to migration.
“This is a list I would have expected out of Bill Barr or Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsBiden fills immigration court with Trump hires Trump admin got phone records of WaPo reporters covering Russia probe: report Ex-Sen. Doug Jones joins law and lobbying firm Arent Fox MORE, but they’re not the attorney general anymore. Elections are supposed to have consequences,” said Paul Schmidt, now an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School after 21 years as an immigration judge. That included time serving as the chair of the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest administrative body dealing with immigration cases.
“No one on that list is among the top 100 asylum authorities in the country, and that’s the kind of people they should be hiring — not prosecutorial re-treads,” he added.
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Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department, which oversees the immigration court system, filled roughly two-thirds of the 520 seats on the bench, often picking those with long careers in ICE who argue in favor of deporting people.
“The Trump administration was very astute when it came to the importance of who sits on the bench. That was as true of the Supreme Court as it was all of the federal circuits and the federal district courts, and to their immense credit they did not have a blind spot for the immigration court,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.
“I think it’s important for the administration actually putting these individuals on the bench to decide if they have the information they need to make this decision or delay the process or to take ownership for making these appointments,” he added.
Biden’s budget calls for hiring 100 new immigration court judges — a figure many argue will hardly make a dent in a backlog of 1.3 million cases that will take an estimated four years to get through.
And his designated White House counsel wrote in a letter to lawmakers in December seeking suggestions for who to nominate to the bench, writing that they were “focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been historically underrepresented on the federal bench, including … those who represent Americans in every walk of life.”
For many, that means the immigration court system needs to be filled with more immigration defenders.
“The bottom line is that the president has been clear and forceful that he wants to put judges on the bench with diversity that had been lacking in past, and that’s not just in terms of race and other markers but that diversity in professional background is just as important,” said Peter Markowitz, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.
“You can’t just have judges that were former prosecutors,” he added. “We need former defense attorneys and other actors in the legal system represented on the bench as well.”
A failure to do so under the Trump administration has led to an imbalance in the system, García Hernández said.
“People who work as immigration lawyers and immigration defense lawyers develop a different perspective than people that work as immigration prosecutors,” he said.
Some of that can be seen in the number of asylum case denials, which surged under Trump as judges denied petitions from those arguing they would face danger if they returned to their home country due to things like their race, religion or political beliefs.
Denial rates that had hovered around 50 percent under prior administrations jumped closer to 70 percent.
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“All but one of these new judges were former prosecutors, law enforcement, or in other branches of government, demonstrating a clear lack of diversity and little change from hires made under the Trump administration whose bench had the highest rate of asylum denials in history at 72 percent,” Greg Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told The Hill by email.
“The Biden administration is rushing to hire more judges to address the massive 1.3 million backlog in cases, but on its own more judges won’t fix the fundamental lack of fairness in the immigration courts which is why Attorney General [Merrick] Garland must immediately institute reforms to restore the court’s integrity,” he said.
DOJ pushed back against criticism that the new judges would contribute to a pattern of rulings that favor government attorneys over immigrants, saying it “takes seriously any claims of unjustified and significant anomalies in adjudicator decision-making and takes steps to evaluate disparities.”
“Note also that the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) continually evaluates its processes and procedures to ensure that immigration cases are adjudicated fairly, impartially and expeditiously and that its immigration judges uniformly interpret and administer U.S. immigration laws,” the spokesperson said.
But Schmidt said diversifying the attorneys on the bench is what will be needed to have a greater impact.
“You need to get some progressive immigration experts into the system who recognize what good asylum claims are who can establish precedent for granting cases and then move those cases through the system,” he said.
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“I haven’t seen much evidence to back up their initial claim they want to be fair and just to asylum seekers. It’s just Stephen MillerStephen MillerBiden fills immigration court with Trump hires Sunday shows preview: Biden hits the road to promote infrastructure proposals; US begins withdrawal from Afghanistan Trump speechwriter calls Biden address ‘tedious’ MORE Lite.”
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THE BIG DEAL—US economy roars in first three months of 2021: The economy grew at an annualized rate of 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2021, according to Commerce Department data released Thursday.
How did it happen? The economy was boosted by an increase in vaccinations, declining COVID-19 cases and massive levels of support from the government. Both the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill signed by former President TrumpDonald TrumpWashington’s split with Turkey widens — but it is up to Turkey to heal the rift Tomorrow’s special election in Texas is the Democrats’ best House hope in 2021 Giuliani to Tucker Carlson: ‘No justification’ for FBI raid MORE in the waning days of December and early effects of President BidenJoe BidenAmericans for Prosperity launches campaign targeting six Democrats to keep filibuster Washington’s split with Turkey widens — but it is up to Turkey to heal the rift Incomes, consumer spending soared in March as stimulus bill boosted recovering economy MORE‘s $1.9 trillion relief bill pushed up the level of personal income and consumption in the first quarter.
The Hill’s Niv Elis breaks it down here.
And that’s not the only strong economic data we got today:
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White House: Only couples making more than $509K would see tax hike: President Biden’s proposed top income tax bracket of 39.6 percent would impact single filers with income above about $453,000 and married couples with income above roughly $509,000, a White House official said.
“Consistent with the President’s campaign proposal, we are proposing to reverse the tax cut for the top bracket by returning that top tax bracket to what it would’ve been under pre-2017 law,” a White House official said in a statement. “That applies to less than 1 percent of Americans — the very top earners.” The Hill’s Naomi Jagoda explains here.
The background: Biden repeatedly spoke about a $400,000 threshold for tax increases when he was running for president and has continued to emphasize it since taking office.
SEC enforcement chief resigns just days after taking job: The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division resigned Wednesday following an order from a federal judge potentially raising questions about her previous legal representation of ExxonMobil.
Alex Oh stepped down as the SEC’s enforcement chief, the agency announced Wednesday afternoon, just six days after she took the post under heavy criticism from progressives and other financial sector critics.
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So, what happened? Oh had been a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP before joining the SEC, co-chairing the law firm’s practice focused on corruption cases.
The SEC impact:
Why? Democratic lawmakers and financial sector skeptics argue that the SEC has let off bad actors under the leadership of corporate attorneys who once represented such firms.
“The SEC has failed the American people by repeatedly selecting Wall Street defense lawyers as Directors of Enforcement. They come to the SEC with needless and unhelpful baggage, including crippling conflicts of interest regarding current and past clients as well as a mindset and milieu ill-suited to being an aggressive enforcer of the law against those past private sector clients,” said Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, a nonprofit group that supports strict financial regulation and oversight.
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More than two dozen people were killed in Afghanistan after a bomb exploded near a school in the capital city of Kabul.
Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian confirmed that 25 people were killed and 52 others were wounded in the bombing at Syed Al-Shahda school, which is located in a Shiite majority in west Kabul.
No group has immediately taken responsibility for the attack or explained why the school was targeted, but Shiite Muslims, who represent a minority in Afghanistan, are frequently targeted with violence in the country.
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The bombing comes as all of Afghanistan is on high alert as U.S. forces depart the country in a process that will be completed by mid-September.
The country has braced itself for increased violence as the Taliban have vowed to ramp up attacks after the U.S. pushed its timeline for withdrawal back from May 1, a date agreed upon between the group and the Trump administration.
However, the Taliban condemned the attack on the school in Kabul, saying it was conducted by ISIS.
ISIS militants have been known to target Shiite Muslims, including past attacks in west Kabul.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) has ordered all federal, pandemic-related unemployment programs in the state to end on June 30, citing workforce shortages.
In a memo to South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce Director Daniel Ellzey, McMaster said that businesses “face an unprecedented labor shortage” attributed caused by pandemic-related benefits given on top of state unemployment benefits.
McMaster said what was intended to be short-term assistance turned into “dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.”
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“Since the Biden administration and Congress appear to have little to no comprehension of the damage being done and no appetite to terminate the federal payments, the State of South Carolina must take action,” McMaster wrote.
South Carolina is the second state that will end expanded unemployment benefits next month.
Montana Gov. Greg GianforteGregory Richard GianforteSouth Carolina governor to end pandemic unemployment benefits in June On The Money: How demand is outstripping supply and hampering recovery | Montana pulls back jobless benefits | Yellen says higher rates may be necessary Montana to end expanded jobless benefits in June, offer return-to-work bonuses MORE (R) announced Tuesday that the state will stop participating in expanded benefits.
The state will instead use funds from President BidenJoe BidenAtlanta mayor won’t run for reelection South Carolina governor to end pandemic unemployment benefits in June Airplane pollution set to soar with post-pandemic travel boom MORE’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill to give $1,200 to people who had an active unemployment claim as of May 4, accepted a job offer and completed at least four weeks of paid work.
Both states are ending the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, which gave those on unemployment an additional $300 per week.
They will also not participate in the Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program (PEUC), which provided additional relief to those that exhausted state benefits. The states will cease participation in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which expanded benefits to those woh didn’t qualify for traditional unemployment insurance.
The move comes as Republicans argue that expanded unemployment benefits are contributing to companies’ ability to rehire workers because in some states, federal supplements push benefits above average wage.
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The European Space Agency has slightly narrowed down the trajectory of the Chinese rocket set to reenter Earth sometime this weekend, CNN reports.
Its “risk zone” encompasses “any portion of Earth’s surface between about 41.5N and 41.5S latitude.” Several parts of the world fall under that categorization, including essentially all of the Americas south of New York, all of Africa and Australia, parts of Asia south of Japan and Europe’s Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, CNN notes.
Several factors play into the large risk zone, including the speed the rocket is traveling at; small changes can greatly alter the rocket’s course as it plummets to earth.
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“The thing is traveling at like 18,000 miles an hour. And so if you’re an hour out at guessing when it comes down, you’re 18,000 miles out in saying where,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN.
A more precise trajectory will be available within hours of the rocket’s reentry.
McDowell predicted the rocket will land in the Pacific Ocean.
“If you want to bet on where on Earth something’s going to land, you bet on the Pacific, because Pacific is most of the Earth. It’s that simple,” he said.
Concern over the Chinese rocket’s reentry stems from its size; while typically space debris burns up when entering earth’s orbit, the rocket weighs 22 tons, making it more less likely to do so.
The government of Guatemala on Tuesday pushed back against claims from the White House earlier this week that it had signed an agreement with the U.S. to increase security at their border.
The statement, which says there is no “signed document” between the two countries relating to border security, points to an influx in troops sent to the border earlier this year.
It comes after White House press secretary Jen PsakiJen PsakiOvernight Energy: Michigan reps reintroduce measure for national ‘forever chemicals’ standard | White House says gas tax won’t be part of infrastructure bill Guatemala says it didn’t sign deal with US to increase border security White House says gas tax won’t be part of infrastructure bill MORE on Monday told reporters that the Biden administration had secured a deal with the Central American nation along with Mexico and Honduras to increase the number of personnel at their borders.
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“The objective is to make it more difficult to make the journey, and make crossing the borders more more difficult,” Psaki said Monday. “We worked with them to increase law enforcement at the border to deter the travel, which is a treacherous journey.”
“Guatemala surged 1,500 police and military personnel to its southern border with Honduras and agreed to set up 12 checkpoints along the migratory routes,” she added later.
In its Spanish language statement, Guatemala says the 1,500 troops were sent to the border in January of this year in response to migrant caravans.
“President Alejandro Guimmattei has committed, since the beginning of his term in January 2020, to strengthen border security as a strategy to battle transnational threats like drug trafficking, human trafficking, and as a preventive measure in the face of the pandemic,” the statement says.
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Psaki on Monday had been slim on details about when the agreements had been signed, saying only that they were signed within recent weeks.
“The United States, Mexico and Northern Triangle governments have worked closely together to implement collaborative migration measures to discourage irregular migration. Countries have deployed security personnel, migration officials, and other officials involved in migration management to contend with this shared challenge,” a White House spokesperson said Tuesday when asked about Guatemala’s statement.
White House Domestic Policy Council aide Tyler Moran, who spoke Monday on MSNBC, had characterized the agreements as a way to blunt the influence of cartels.
“We’ve secured agreements for them to put more troops on their own border. Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala have all agreed to do this. That not only is going to prevent the traffickers, and the smugglers, and cartels that take advantage of the kids on their way here, but also to protect those children,” Moran said.
At Monday’s briefing, Paski said Mexico would maintain a presence of 10,000 troops along its southern border while Honduras “surged 7,000 police and military to disperse a large contingent of migrants.”
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Recently patched vulnerabilities in Peloton’s bike software may have allowed unauthorized users to view sensitive user data, new security research published this week found.
Pen Test Partners, a cybersecurity group, said that earlier this year it discovered vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated users to exploit Peloton’s API, the software that facilitates communication between the bikes and company servers.
The vulnerabilities could potentially allow an individual to view personal information on Peloton users, including their location, gender and age, as well as class attendees, even if users have the private mode turned on.
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Pen Test Partners said it notified Peloton, giving the company 90 days to patch the vulnerabilities before going public. But according to a blog post published by Pen Test Partners on Wednesday, Peloton “acknowledged the disclosure” but did not “fix the vulnerability.”
TechCrunch first reported the vulnerabilities, which were made public the same week Peloton was forced to issue a recall for all of its treadmills following a child’s death and dozens of reported injuries by users. The treadmills used the same vulnerable API.
A spokesperson for Peloton pushed back against the idea that personal data may have been breached, telling The Hill in an emailed statement that “the identification of vulnerabilities by itself does not constitute a breach.”
“No software is immune from bugs, and we aim to responsibly investigate reported vulnerabilities that we deem legitimate,” the spokesperson said. “Our security team is continuing their work to monitor attempts at unauthorized access by exploitation of these vulnerabilities.”
The spokesperson added that Peloton took action and addressed the vulnerabilities when Pen Test Partners first reached out but had been “slow to update the researcher about our remediation efforts.”
“As of this week, we have implemented fixes to the rest,” the spokesperson said. “Going forward, we will do better to work collaboratively with the security research community and respond more promptly when vulnerabilities are reported.”
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The company also thanked Pen Test Partners founder Ken Munro for submitting the reports on vulnerabilities and “being open to working with us to resolve these issues.”
Pen Test Partners later indicated that Peloton had addressed the cyber vulnerabilities.
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“Peloton leaked sensitive data for all users,” the company tweeted. “Initially the disclosure was a mess but their lovely new CISO got it sorted fast!”