Biden impeachment investigation: Lev Parnas, who labored carefully with Rudy Giuliani who was working with Donald Trump in making an attempt to overturn outcomes of the 2020 presidential election testified in entrance of the House committee that’s conducting an impeachment investigation of President Biden. Parnas testified that the allegations the Trump supporters have been making that Biden was corrupt and had acquired payoffs from companies in Ukraine have been phony and so they had no proof to assist the phony prices. Parnas mentioned that among the allegations towards Biden have been fed to them by Russia.

Fundraising: Donald Trump has carried out one other on-line fundraising effort, asking his supporters to ship cash to assist him put up the $464 million bond or money as ordered by a courtroom on account of his conviction on financial institution, insurance coverage and tax fraud. This newest effort comes as marketing campaign filings present the Trump marketing campaign raised $10.9 million in February and had $33.5 million money readily available. President Biden’s marketing campaign reported elevating $21.3 million in February and had $71 million readily available.

Loan forgiveness: President Biden introduced that he’s utilizing his government energy to forgive $5.8 billion in pupil loans for 78,000 public service staff. The administration plans to ship emails to the general public service staff who’re eligible. The Supreme Court final yr threw out Biden’s unique pupil mortgage forgiveness program however Biden and the Department of Education have used current authority to forgive loans for sure particular classes of debtors.

Middle East: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned at present that he’ll invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to handle Congress. Netanyahu has already invited Johnson to talk to the Israeli Knesset. In Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held recent conferences with Egyptian officers in efforts to carry a couple of cease-fire between Hamas and Israel that would come with a launch of hostages being held by Hamas. Sources indicated that progress had been made within the talks.  

Ukraine: Russia launched a brand new assault on Ukraine’s capital metropolis Kyiv this morning, firing about 30 missiles towards metropolis. Ukraine mentioned its air protection forces shot down the incoming missiles however falling particles did trigger some injury. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy mentioned that to this point in March Russia has fired 130 missiles at his nation and used 320 explosive drones in varied assaults.

Government spending: A push to construct assist is predicted on Capitol Hill at present as a $1.2 trillion authorities spending bundle is launched in a bipartisan effort to maintain the federal government open after the present spending bundle expires at midnight tomorrow evening. The new spending bundle consists of $886 billion for the protection division, a rise of about 3% from the present spending degree. The House could not vote on the federal government funding till tomorrow and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer mentioned he’d carry it up for a Senate vote as quickly as despatched to the Senate following House passage.