Today, the House is poised to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, a sweeping package that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change, raise taxes on some large companies and reduce the deficit. The legislation would then go to President Biden for his signature, handing the president the latest in a summer string of legislative victories.
Meanwhile, drama continues to play out over the FBI search this week of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence. The FBI search found four sets of top-secret documents, and seven other sets of less-secret but still classified information, according to a list of items seized in the high-profile raid and unsealed by a federal magistrate judge on Friday.
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The warrant used by the FBI to search former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate says it was seeking all “physical documents and records” that could be “illegally possessed in violation of three potential crimes, including a part of the Espionage Act.”
The warrant refers to sections 793, 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. The latter two laws make the “concealment, removal, or mutilation” and the “destruction, alteration or falsification” of government records a crime. The former, 793, is the Espionage Act, and part of it states:
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any...
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