*Some personal news*: I'm thrilled to share that I'm back on the White House beat for @business. Infinitely grateful to my BBC editors and colleagues but excited to get back to reporting. Please get in touch! [email protected]
NYT reports that Trump reduced his taxable income by paying consulting fees to Ivanka Trump. She reportedly received $747,622 from a consulting co. she co-owned that exactly matched consulting fees claimed as tax deductions by Trump Org for projects in Vancouver & Hawaii.
That means "she appears to have been treated as a consultant on the same hotel deals that she helped manage as part of her job at her father’s business." Kind of undercuts the whole Hunter Biden thing...
NEW: Biden to announce OSHA rule requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure workers are either fully vaccinated or tested weekly, per WH. Violations could come with "substantial fines up to nearly $14,000 for providers."
On a campaign call with reporters, @BillStepien says that states like Wisconsin are in "recount territory" while they're confident Trump will win Nevada once all "legal ballots" are counted. "If we count all legal ballots, the president wins," he said.
"Whether Congress acts or not, I'm going to use all the resources at my disposal as president to keep the American people safe from gun violence," @POTUS says. "But there's much more that Congress can do to help that effort."
"We’re not attacking Russia. We’re helping Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression," Biden says in remarks on the WH request to Congress for $33 billion more in aid for Ukraine.
Asked by @SabrinaSiddiqui what steps Modi is taking to improve rights of Muslims & other minorities & uphold press freedoms in India, the PM responds with a longwinded answer about democracy being in India's DNA
Biden's name will not appear on this round of stimulus checks, @PressSec says. Focus was on getting them out as quickly as possible. "This is not about him, this is about American people getting relief," she says.
Asked about this tweet during a campaign call, @JasonMillerinDC told reporters: "These states and localities should not be counting ballots that were mailed in or magically appeared in a sack of ballots after election day."