Joe Biden takes the threshold for the presidential candidacy. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is shrinking. More information in the news blog.
The most important things at a glance
The USA will elect a new president in November. The party primaries are currently underway, at the end of which one candidate will be nominated. It is considered likely that the Democrats will become the incumbent Joe Biden and the Republicans put up the former president Donald Trump will be sent into the race. Here you will find an overview of the polls and the US electoral system; you can read all new developments here:
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Biden wins in Georgia and becomes presidential candidate
0.39 a.m.: According to forecasts, US President Joe Biden has reached the necessary number of delegates for the nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate. This was the result of counts by US broadcasters CNN and NBC after Biden’s victory in the primary election in the state of Georgia on Tuesday evening (local time).
Republican majority in the US House of Representatives is shrinking
0.03 a.m.: The already narrow majority of Republicans in the US House of Representatives is shrinking after the unexpected resignation of a representative. Ken Buck of the state of Colorado announced on Tuesday on the short message service X that he would leave the congressional chamber at the end of the week. He spoke to journalists of a loss of decency and “priorities related to the wishes of the American people” in US politics.
The 65-year-old announced last year that he would no longer run in the November election. As a result of his early departure, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives shrinks to 218 votes to 213.
President Joe Biden’s Democrats, for their part, hold a slim majority in the Senate. In the USA, a law must pass both chambers of Congress in identical form, which is why the Republicans can currently block the political projects of the Democrats and vice versa. However, since there is no faction requirement in the USA, small majorities make it difficult for the respective party leaders to gather sufficient support for legislative proposals. In November, in addition to the president, a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be re-elected.
Trump wants to delay the start of the hush money trial
10:19 p.m.: Former US President Donald Trump has requested through his lawyers a delay in the start of a criminal trial against him planned for March 25 in connection with hush money payments to a porn star. First, we should wait and see what the US Supreme Court thinks about the ex-president’s possible immunity from prosecution. Trump’s legal team wrote this to the responsible court in New York, as US media consistently reported. The court, the public prosecutor’s office and the responsible judge, Juan Merchan, initially did not comment.
The Supreme Court accepted Trump’s appeal on the issue of possible immunity at the end of February and is planning a hearing at the end of April. The decision was a success for Trump, who wants to be re-elected US President in November and wants to delay the many trials against him as much as possible. You can read more about Trump’s trials here.
Biden for higher taxes on the rich and corporations
7:09 p.m.: US President Joe Biden is pushing to increase taxes on large corporations and the super-rich in the United States. This is what his government’s draft plans for the coming financial year, which begins in October. Biden’s new draft proposes, among other things, a minimum tax of 25 percent for people with assets of more than $100 million as well as tax cuts for lower and middle income groups. The US federal deficit is to be reduced by around three trillion US dollars (around 2.7 trillion euros) over ten years.
The draft also includes financial aid amounting to 482 million US dollars (around 441 million euros) for Ukraine. However, a much larger and more urgent relief package worth billions of dollars is currently stuck in Congress. A domestic political blockade there is preventing the delivery of military supplies from the USA to Kiev. The US State Department emphasized on Monday that this critical aid could not wait until fiscal year 2025.
