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President Joe Biden announced The American Family Plan this week that would help rebuild American infrastructure and help grow jobs and education in an effort to bring the U.S. into the 21st century.

During an MSNBC panel, reporters noted that Republicans have always won on issues around money and the economy, but that appears to be slipping as most Americans didn't see an impact from the GOP tax bill in 2017. At the same time, Republicans fought hard against Biden's COVID-19 stimulus package that gave additional payments to Americans making under $75,000 a year. It was a plan that former President Donald Trump attempted to pass, but Republicans were opposed to it.

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to one count of burning personal property this Thursday after setting fire to a hay bale that displayed a Biden-Harris campaign endorsement last year, The Berkshire Eagle reports.

Trump supporter, Lonnie Durfee, 50, was sentenced to one year in jail, which was the maximum penalty for the charge.

The FBI announced that they have arrested over 400 people thus far for the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, reported MSNBC on Friday. They intend to arrest at least 100 more people, the report also said.

It has been a massive undertaking for the FBI to comb through hours of videos and photos that have been posted online, then research the identities of the people involved.

A shocking expose in the New York Times revealed Thursday how wounded Republican men were when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) stood up to former President Donald Trump. It began with caucus meeting in which Republicans decided not to punish Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her first act that humiliated the GOP. The group then voted whether to keep Cheney in her leadership position, which she won, but only after male members whined about how emotional they felt that Cheney acted without consulting them.

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) walked through some of the battles happening on the ground in his state between the GOP and the far right.

A video posted by reporter Eoin Higgins revealed the harsh actions by Boston Police Department members who kicked, punched and shoved unarmed protesters with their hands up.

The video, which shows a time-stamp of June 2020, shows the officer taking his nightstick and using it to shove Jasmine Huff in her neck or chest while she held up her hands. He then moves onto someone on a bicycle who he shoved over. The officer behind the one with the body cam then stomped on her body while she was laying on the ground.

The Post Office became political last election when right before a number of Americans were voting by mail, Donald Trump's Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pulled out several sorting machines in major swing states. The mail was slowed dramatically, infuriating those who rely on USPS for important documents or prescription drugs.

CNN.com noted Thursday that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) put nominees to the Post Office Board of Governors on the spot demanding that they reveal if they've been pressured to fire DeJoy. Portman even asked the three nominees, Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds and Ron Stroman, the question before his colleague asked the same question.

There's an impending problem facing the Republican Party as the 2022 midterm election approach, their own voters don't believe that their votes matter. Global opinions contributor Brian Klass wrote in the Washington Post that this is setting the GOP up for disaster.

The conspiracy theories that the GOP manufactured resulted in 60 percent of Republican voters who still believe the 2020 election was "stolen" from former President Donald Trump. The polls also say that 55 percent of Republicans think that the 2020 election was full of voter fraud.

Reports this week claimed that a Capitol Police officer told other officers to stand down with supporters of President Donald Trump's but to arrest anti- Trump protesters.

"The department's Office of Professional Responsibility found that a radio transmission to 'all outside units' attention' that they should not be 'looking for any pro-Trump in the crowd,'" according to Rep Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Politico reported. "She added they were 'only looking for any anti-Trump.'"

Bodycam footage was released after a violent arrest in Grand Rapids, Michigan in which a Black man was punched several times by police after the car he was in was stopped for littering, TMZ reported, citing police Chief Eric Payne.

The incident happened March 26, but the video was just released showing Diabate Hood, who was pulled over with two other men in the car. Hood refused to step out of the car.

Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin unleashed on the unfairness of the way 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant was killed while white criminals who had shot and killed people were "thanked" by police officers or got to stop by a Burger King for a snack.

The conversation was sparked by CNN host Don Lemon, who agreed with the police that there was a knife in Bryant's hand and they had no way of knowing that she wouldn't kill someone. Others argue that the officer could have used a taser instead of opening fire on her with several bullets to the chest.

If there's one thing that former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has done since leaving office, it has called into question the "intelligence" portion of his previous job title.

Such was the case Wednesday when the long-time federal employee proclaimed that no state should have most of the federal jobs in it. He was talking about his reasons for opposing statehood for Washington, D.C., which comes up for a vote in the U.S. House Thursday.

Americans just spent four years being gaslighted and lied to, and still, Republicans are still trying to do it, "Late Night" host Seth Meyers explained in Wednesday's "Closer Look" segment.

Speaking out on the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Meyers brought up former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who is now working for Fox News.

Oklahoma and Florida legislatures have legalized running a car into a crowd of people if one feels "threatened." It's being called a get-out-of-jail-free card for white supremacists and terrorists who want to commit murder during a Black Lives Matter rally.

Ironically, Oklahoma experienced an incident in which a disgruntled student plowed into a crowd of people at the homecoming parade in 2015, killing two people. Oklahoma was also home to large, armed tea party rallies that could now be targeted thanks to the law. There are generally much larger and louder protests from the right-wing in Oklahoma than from Black Lives Matter protests.