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In today's edition … The Post's Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Tyler Pager report that historians have privately warned Biden that America’s democracy is teetering … Post polling gurus Scott Clement and Emily Guskin explain how a new poll shows why supporting Trump's false claims about the election is a winning message in GOP primaries … Trump pleads the Fifth in deposition for New York AG probe … but first …
: “The national average for a gallon of gas has fallen below $4 for the first time since early March, a key psychological threshold for cash-strapped Americans even as inflation remains elevated,” our colleague Aaron Gregg reports. “The U.S. average dropped 2 cents overnight to $3.99, AAA reported Thursday, a 20 percent pullback from its June peak above $5.”
Democrats’ economic package is not yet law, but the campaign to define it has begun
House Democrats are flying back to Washington today so they can vote Friday on the $740 billion climate, health care and tax bill that passed the Senate Sunday.
When it clears the House — which is expected — it will give President Biden another major bill to sign into law and Democrats an infusion of new issues to campaign on ahead of the midterm elections: renewable energy tax credits designed to combat climate change, subsidies for health care insurance...
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