By ELI OKUN
04/13/2022 01:09 PM EDT
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THE GROUNDHOG SEES ITS SHADOW — The CDC is planning to extend the national mask mandate on public transit for two more weeks, from April 18 to May 3, amid a slight uptick in cases, per CNN. The pause will give the administration more time to study the BA.2 Omicron subvariant. An announcement could come as soon as today.
TRUMP SETS DOWN A MARKER — DONALD TRUMP has continued to raise gobs of money since leaving office, but he’s never opened up the coffers to support another candidate in a significant way — until now. Alex Isenstadt scoops that Save America PAC has pumped $500,000 into a bid to take down Georgia Gov. BRIAN KEMP in his heated primary against DAVID PERDUE. “The move underscores the importance — and urgency — of Georgia in Trump’s eyes,” Alex writes, as Kemp leads in the race despite Trump’s branding of him as insufficiently loyal.
SURVEY SAYS — Progressives have been pushing JOE BIDEN since before he got into office to turn the pandemic student loan repayment pause into an outright mass cancellation of debt. But the administration has resisted going there so far. We have new data from our POLITICO/Morning Consult poll that breaks down where the voting public stands on the issue:
— By a 2-to-1 margin, voters support federal forgiveness of at least some student loan debt: Just 29% oppose the idea. But supporters are split over how much and for whom....
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...