Today, former president Donald Trump and former vice president Mike Pence plan appearances in Arizona with rival Republican gubernatorial candidates. It’s the latest sign that Pence is distancing himself from his former boss as they both eye potential 2024 White House bids. Trump’s rally will provide a platform for him to respond to Thursday’s prime-time hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. The panel featured dramatic testimony about how little Trump did to quell the violence that day.
Meanwhile, President Biden, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, has virtual meetings planned from the White House residence, including one on falling gas prices, as the administration seeks to portray a sense of normality.
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After months of negotiations, the president’s expansive “Build Back Better” plan has shrunk to a handful of items, principally in the area of health care. In particular, the emerging bill would achieve a long-sought Democratic goal of allowing Medicare to begin to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs.
In a recent statement, Biden said that provision “will not only lower the cost of prescription drugs and health care for families, it will reduce the deficit and help fight inflation.”
Writing in The Fact Checker, The Post’s Glenn Kessler...
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