Former President Donald Trump will likely speak to the cameras at the courthouse on Tuesday at some point during the arraignment proceedings in New York, according to his lawyer Chris Kise. 

Presiding New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan ruled that news outlets will not be permitted to bring cameras into the chamber during the arraignment, but they are allowed to be stationed outside. Trump is slated to head back to Mar-a-Lago in Florida after the proceedings and deliver a response about the indictment.

Kise revealed ahead of the arraignment that Trump is “resilient, upbeat, and is determined as ever to fight off drivers of injustice,” according to CNN. Read Full Story

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The Senate approved a resolution 68-23 Wednesday to end the COVID-19 public health emergency crisis after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Democrats the White House wouldn’t veto it, according to a Senate Democratic source.

The announcement from the Senate majority leader opened the floodgates for Democrats to back the resolution. Nine Democrats and one Independent  joined with all Republicans to end the public health crisis. 

The end of the emergency will end several regulations that started at the beginning of the pandemic in an effort to aid the U.S. response. The change will mean many patients will have to pay for a portion or all of the cost of COVID-19 therapeutics. It is still unclear how it will affect the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy ordered by the Trump administration in March 2020 to shut down the southern border in the name of public health. The policy is expected to end May 11. Read Full Story

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The majority of voters say they approve of an energy package by House Republicans that is designed to increase production and lower costs, according to a new poll.

The survey comes as the House GOP plans to debate and pass the wide-ranging package in the coming days while President Biden and Senate Democrats say it’s dead on arrival.

Seventy-one percent of those polled by the conservative advocacy nonprofit Senate Opportunity Fund said they somewhat or strongly support the Lower Energy Costs Act. It centers on streamlining the lengthy environmental approval process for fossil fuel and renewable energy projects. Read Full Story

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