Day 1343: "Balance of power."

WTF Just Happened Today

Monday, September 23, 2024

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1/ The House unveiled a bipartisan spending bill to temporarily fund the government through Dec. 20. It doesn’t include the SAVE Act, the Trump-backed election security proposal that would require people to show proof of citizenship to register as a voter. Speaker Mike Johnson plans to vote on the legislation by Wednesday. It would then head to the Senate ahead of the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline. The bill generally funds agencies at current levels, but directs an additional $231 million to the Secret Service. Last week, House Republicans rejected their own funding bill after Trump demanded that the government be shut down if legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote isn’t passed. (Associated Press / CBS News / Bloomberg / NPR / Axios / New York Times)

2/ The Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule requiring all ballots to be hand-counted on Election Day. The Republican-controlled board pushed the measure through over the opposition of Georgia’s Republican secretary of state and attorney general, and dozens of local election officials who said the last-minute change could delay certification and cause confusion on election night. The vote was 3-2, with three Trump allies supporting the move, and a Democratic and independent Republican-appointed member strongly opposing it. The new rule requires counties to count the number of ballots cast to make sure the count matches the ballots tallied by voting machines. It does not require hand tabulation of how people voted. (Washington Post / New York Times / CNN / Bloomberg / NPR)

3/ A Nebraska Republican state lawmaker blocked a Trump-backed effort to change how the state awards its five electoral votes. Mike McDonnell said he wouldn’t support the effort to change the state’s electoral system to winner take all. The outcome that could have cost Kamala Harris an electoral vote. Nebraska is one of two states — the other is Maine — that awards its electoral votes by congressional district. (Washington Post / NBC News / CNN / New York Times)

4/ The Justice Department said the man suspected of attempting to assassinate Trump last week left a note stating “this was an assassination attempt.” In one note, addressed to “The World,” Ryan Routh said “I failed you,” urging others to ...

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