Wednesday – 5/11/22

Wednesday - 5/11/22

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PBS NewsHour live episode, May 11, 2022
CNN, May 11, 2022 – 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/10/politics/house-vote-ukraine-aid-bill/index.html

House passes $40 billion Ukraine aid bill
CNN, Clare Foran et al.May 11, 2022

The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted 368-57 on Tuesday evening to pass a roughly $40 billion bill to deliver aid to Ukraine as it continues to face Russia’s brutal assault.

All 57 votes in opposition were from Republicans.

The measure will next need to be passed by the Senate before it can go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier in the day on Tuesday that after the House approved the package, the Senate “will move swiftly” to get the measure passed and sent to Biden’s desk.

Aid to Ukraine has been a rare bright spot of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill with Democrats and Republicans largely rallying around a call to help the nation as it faces Russian attack.

Trump candidate loses in Nebraska, wins in West Virginia
Associated Press, Grant SchulteMay 11, 2022

Republican voters in Nebraska picked Jim Pillen as their nominee for governor, siding with the University of Nebraska regent backed by the state’s outgoing governor over a rival supported by former President Donald Trump and accused of groping multiple women.

Pillen, a hog farm owner and veterinarian, defeated eight challengers, including Charles Herbster, a businessman who faced groping allegations late in the campaign, and Brett Lindstrom, a state senator and Omaha financial adviser who was generally viewed as a more moderate choice.

“We live in the greatest place on the planet, right here in Nebraska,” Pillen said in a victory speech late Tuesday as a crowd cheered and chanted, “Let’s go, Jim!” He said his opponents had called to concede.

While Trump-endorsed candidates won primary races in West Virginia for the U.S. House on Tuesday, the statewide loss in Nebraska was a setback for Trump. He has issued hundreds of endorsements and staged his signature campaign-style rallies in support of his preferred candidates, including Herbster, all in an effort to bend the GOP in his direction ahead of another possible presidential run in 2024.

Senate votes on federal abortion rights bill
May 11, 2022 – 2:00 pm to 5:20 pm (ET)
Austin, Milley testify on defense budget in House committee hearing
May 11, 2022 – 10:30 am to 12:03 pm (ET)
Biden delivers remarks on rising food prices
CNN, May 11, 2022 – 2:15 pm to 2:38 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/putin-biden-jfk-russia-ukraine/index.html

Fauci testifies on National Institutes of Health budget in House committee hearing
CNN, May 11, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:45 pm (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/putin-biden-jfk-russia-ukraine/index.html

Putin’s current dilemma was JFK’s worst fear
CNN, Stephen CollinsonMay 11, 2022

Reflecting on the Cuban missile crisis, President John Kennedy once warned that nuclear powers “must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”

The showdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine does not yet mirror the one-minute-to-midnight brinkmanship that brought the Soviet Union and the West to the cusp of Armageddon in October 1962.

But Kennedy’s superpower logic is resounding poignantly as Putin gets backed into a corner by the strategic disaster of his war, Ukraine’s heroic resistance and an extraordinary multibillion-dollar allied conveyor of arms and ammunition.

President Joe Biden, who has always stated his twin aims are to help Ukraine defend itself and to avoid a direct escalation with Putin that could risk nuclear war, seems to have been mulling JFK’s warning.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland gives update on Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
May 11, 2022 – 1:00 pm to 1:53 pm (ET)

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