Thursday, April 1, 2021

President Biden plans to pay for his $2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill by raising taxes on corporations. The FDA is investigating the contamination of a large amount of a main ingredient in the Johnson and Johnson shot. And, the government is paying tens of millions of dollars a month for empty ICE detention beds across the country.

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