White House says Republicans increased offer on Biden infrastructure deal by $50bn – as it happened
by Julia Carrie Wong and Daniel Strauss from Technology | The Guardian on (#5JNGN)
- The president spoke with Senator Capito, the lead negotiator
- Russian president says he expects Geneva meeting to be positive
- Donald Trump suspended from Facebook until 2023
- Christopher Wray compares hacking to post-9/11 challenge
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At least 10 US states have siphoned millions of dollars from federal block grants, meant to provide aid to their neediest families, to pay for the operations of ideological anti-abortion clinics.
These overwhelmingly Republican-led states used money from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Tanf), better known as welfare or direct cash aid, to fund the activities of anti-abortion clinics associated with the evangelical right. The clinics work to dissuade women from obtaining abortions.
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