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FOREIGN POLICY
China buys
Iran’s oil in
face of U.S.
sanctions
Leverage weakens
for new nuke deal
BY GUY TAYLOR
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Biden administration claims to
be upholding the Trump-era pressure
campaign on Iran, but there are clear
signs sanctions are crumbling as China
dramatically increases its purchases of
embargoed Iranian crude oil.
A tripling of Chinese purchases since
President Biden took office has given
Tehran a financial lifeline and new lever-
age to fend off outside pressure, compli-
cating the administration’s hope for a
quick revival of the 2015 Iranian nuclear
deal that President Trump repudiated.
Mr. Trump spent his last two years in
office ramping up U.S. sanctions on Iran
and on the countries and companies that
tried to deal it. With China now openly
flouting the sanctions, some analysts
say, Tehran is emboldened to ignore Mr.
Biden’s demand that it make the first
concessions to come back into compli-
ance with the nuclear pact.
“The administration may have be-
lieved that China was going to help
them nudge Iran back into compliance,
but that doesn’t look like it’s happen-
ing,” said James Phillips, a Middle East
analyst with The Heritage Foundation.
“It would be a huge mistake to let these
sanctions be undermined to the extent
that China is undermining them because
the administration may be squandering
its negotiating leverage with Iran.”
China’s purchases and shipments of
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COMMERCE
Thailand’s
‘land bridge’
to reshape
trade, power
BY RICHARD S. EHRLICH
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BANGKOK | When God closes a canal,
sometimes he opens a land bridge.
As a stuck supertanker in the Suez
Canal focuses global attention on choke-
points in major commercial transporta-
tion networks, Thai officials say they are
moving ahead with an audacious plan to
build a “land bridge” across the country’s
narrow southern peninsula that could
transform shipping routes and tilt the
geopolitical landscape in the world’s
most dynamic economic region.
The vast bulk of oil and other cargo
shipments between the Middle East and
Asia now passes through the narrow,
congested Strait of Malacca, linking the
Indian and Pacific oceans. Building on
a dream dating back centuries, Thai of-
ficials want to construct a short overland
connection linking the Andaman Sea to
the Gulf of Thailand.
The “land bridge” idea has apparently
won out with the government of Prime
Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha over a com-
peting proposal to build a Panama-style
canal farther south.
“This future transport and cargo
exchange gateway will bring down
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WHITE HOUSE
President says he’s prepared for battles
ON BIPARTISANSHIP: President Biden said at his first press conference Thursday that he “got elected to solve
problems.” He reached out to Republicans before threatening to eviscerate the Senate filibuster if they stand in his way.
Congressional Democrats ‘silent’ on border
surge after loud complaints during Trump era
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Democrats called more
than 10 hearings during the last
migrant surge to rake the Trump
administration for its handling of
the border. Yet now, with the Biden
team slammed by a surge, Demo-
crats have put down their gavels
and clammed up.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky,
the top Republican on the House
Oversight and Reform Committee,
ANOTHER STIR: Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips was in a Denver court
to defend his refusal to create a male-to-female transition cake for the birthday of a
transgender woman. The latest case could land him back at the Supreme Court.
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demanded Thursday that things
start to change. He said it’s time
Capitol Hill starts to investigate
the Biden border, which “worsens
by the day.”
He said in 2019, during the
Trump surge, the panel held re-
peated hearings and sent staff down
to the border multiple times to in-
spect facilities. Yet this year, there
has been no peep of activity.
“It appears that Committee
Democrats only care about these
issues when there is a Republican
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in the White House. However, se-
curing our border and ending this
humanitarian crisis should be a pri-
ority for this Committee regardless
of party affiliation,” Mr. Comer said
in a letter joined by all Republicans
on the committee, demanding the
panel get off the sidelines.
The Republican lawmakers first
prodded Rep. Carolyn Maloney,
New York Democrat and the com-
mittee chairwoman, in a March 4
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COLORADO
Baker back in court over
gender transition cake
Legal team says Christian was set up
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Not even his high-profile 2018 victory
at the Supreme Court could halt the legal
saga of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner
Jack Phillips.
The Christian dessert maker was back
in court this week to fight a civil lawsuit
over his refusal to create a cake celebrat-
ing a gender transition, a case described
by his legal team as a “setup” aimed at
ensnaring Colorado’s best-known cake
maker.
“This week, we saw what represents
a disturbing trend: the use of the justice
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Threatens Republicans
on filibuster, pledges to
defeat rise of autocracy
BY SETH MCLAUGHLIN AND DAVID SHERFINSKI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Biden survived his long-delayed first
formal press conference in a Bidenesque fashion,
mixing calls for bipartisanship with partisan threats
and long-winded responses on policy that marked
a dramatic break with his predecessor in style and
substance.
Breaking some new ground, Mr. Biden said his
“expectation” is to run for reelection in 2024, and
he put Republicans on notice that he could support
scrapping the Senate filibuster if they get in his way.
It was Mr. Biden’s most pointed threat yet that
could support the so-called nuclear option to blow
up Senate rules and ram through legislation with
51 votes. It currently takes 60 votes for legislation
to survive in the upper chamber, which is divided
50-50 between the parties. Democrats are in control
because Vice President Kamala Harris casts the
tiebreaking vote.
Mr. Biden said he would go nuclear “if there is
complete lockdown and chaos as a consequence of
the filibuster.” He also agreed with former President
Barack Obama’s assessment that the tool is a “relic
of the Jim Crow era.”
The 78-year-old also said he sees his presidency
as a bulwark against the rise of the autocratic model
embraced by China and Russia.
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Biden wrestles with
questions about surge
of migrants at border
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Biden downplayed the severity of the
border surge Thursday, saying it “happens every
year,” and suggested things seem worse now because
the Trump administration left him with a broken
system unable to deal with the problem.
Even as he announced a crash effort to place
children in beds at military bases to ease horrific
conditions at Border Patrol facilities, he said most
of them aren’t young children who tug at the heart-
strings, but rather are 16 and 17 years old.
Mr. Biden also suggested one solution might be
deportations of some of the younger children, a
prospect that is unlikely to sit well with immigra-
tion advocates.
Speaking at his first press conference as presi-
dent, Mr. Biden was peppered with questions about
what most analysts argue is a migrant crisis, as
families and children stream toward the U.S. from
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system to ruin people who want to live
and work according to their beliefs,”
Mr. Phillips said in an email. “In this
case, a custom cake request was made
to ‘test’ me and ‘correct the errors’ of
my thinking. No one should be forced
to create expression or speak a message
that violates their conscience.”
The three-day trial in Denver District
Court wrapped up Wednesday, leaving
Mr. Phillips and Autumn Scardina, the
Denver lawyer who sued him, to await a
ruling by Judge A. Bruce Jones in a case
that could bring the baker back to the
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disorder symptoms, which includes headaches and jaw pain,” the

IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE REAGAN WAS SHOT

The 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President
Ronald Reagan is approaching. The stark and horrific event took
place on March 30, 1981 — played out before news cameras outside
a major hotel on a rainy afternoon in the nation’s capital.
Reagan had only been in office 69 days. He remained in the
hospital for 12 days.
“The first bullet hit Press Secretary James Brady. The second
bullet hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty.
The third bullet hit a window across the street from the hotel. The
fourth bullet hit Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy. The fifth
bullet hit the limousine window. The sixth bullet hit the limousine
and ricocheted into President Reagan,” notes an account from the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
“On March 30, 1981, Reagan was leaving a speaking engagement
at the Washington Hilton Hotel when he was hit by a bullet under
his left forearm that punctured a lung and caused life-threatening
internal bleeding. Reagan’s would-be killer, John Hinckley Jr.,
sought to murder Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster. Although
Reagan nearly died from the ordeal, doctors at George Washington
University Hospital were able to stabilize him, leading him to a
speedy recovery and a renewed sense of purpose,” recalls presiden-
tial historian Craig Shirley, who has authored four biographies on
the 40th president.
“The attempt on Reagan’s life, so soon after his inauguration and
the transition of power, could have had a much worse ripple effect
on the nation,” Mr. Shirley tells Inside the Beltway.
“We were not yet 20 years removed from the murders of John
Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., while overseas the Soviets
were still a very real threat. Thankfully everyone, from Reagan’s
Cabinet down to his most junior aides and staffers, met the chal-
lenge of the incident spectacularly as Reagan made it through sur-
gery. What’s more, Reagan emerged in many ways stronger than he
had been, not just physically but reenergized and ready to carry out
what he believed was God’s purpose for his presidency,” Mr. Shirley
continues.
The events were both a cultural and historical moment, and
provided another chapter in Reagan’s legacy.
“Reagan’s comeback portended great things for America and
demonstrated that we as a country could recover too,” he observes.
POLITICS ABOVE BASIC DUTY
News of the immigration crisis on the southern U.S. border is at
last reaching many Americans who now are coming to realize the
negative by-products of President Biden’s immigration policy. The
citizens see children and families in distress, frustrated law enforce-
ment officers and local citizens — plus a lot of talk about solutions.
“Texas and other states are forced to try to solve human
BELTWAY
INSIDE THE
BY JENNIFER HARPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President
Ronald Reagan is approaching, cited as significant by presidential
historian Craig Shirley. Reagan had only been in office for 69 days.
trafficking and illegal immigration because the White House isn’t.
The Biden-Harris administration is only focused on is covering up
and downplaying the crisis. The idea that the federal government is
putting politics above fulfilling its basic duty to protect our borders
is stunning to Americans, yet this is exactly what’s going on. They
won’t solve it, so We the People have to get used to the idea that
— through our elected officials in each State — we must solve this
ourselves,” Mark Meckler — president of the Convention of States
— tells Inside the Beltway.
The Texas-based grassroots organization boasts 3 million sup-
porters and seeks to “bring power back to the states and the people”
via Article V of the Constitution, which gives states the power to
call a constitutional convention to propose amendments.
AT LEAST MASK MOUTH IS NOT AN ISSUE
The vast majority of dentists — 70% — are now treating “stress-
related oral health conditions” since the onset of the COVID-19
pandemic, according to the American Dental Association’s Health
Policy Institute.
“More specifically, 71% of dentists surveyed reported an increase
in prevalence of teeth grinding and clenching; 63% for chipped
teeth; 63% for cracked teeth; and 62% for temporomandibular joint
organization said.
There is some promising news, though.
“In addition, despite speculation from recent news reports that
frequent mask-wearing may impact dental health and cause ‘mask
mouth,’ the survey found no meaningful change in the prevalence
reported for conditions such as bad breath and dry mouth com-
pared to pre-pandemic,” the ADA institute wrote.
FOXIFIED
Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson has new program-
ming, which premieres Monday on Fox Nation, the network’s vigor-
ous online entity.
“Freedom of speech is under attack. As other media outlets are
shrinking and pushing for censorship, we are expanding and speak-
ing freely. We will not be silenced or canceled. That’s why we’re
launching ‘Tucker Carlson Today’ exclusively on Fox Nation. Every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday we will have in-depth, unfiltered
conversations with the people shaping America’s future,” Mr. Carl-
son said in a statement shared with Inside the Beltway.
Check out the possibilities as FoxNation.com.
WEEKEND REAL ESTATE
For sale: Tom Cruise’s “legacy estate” ranch, built in on 320 acres
in Telluride, Colorado. The actor’s property includes 11,512 square-
foot cedar and native stone main house with four bedrooms, plus
three-bedroom guest house; nine baths total. Beamed ceilings, “stag-
gering view” of mountains, plus wood and stone interiors. Sport
court for tennis, basketball and ice hockey, private trail system;
“luxury meets legend.” Priced at $39.5 million from SothebysRealty.
com; enter 39270 in the search function.
POLL DU JOUR
⦁ 90% of U.S. adults know someone who has had a COVID-19
vaccine; 36% say they have received a vaccine themselves.
⦁ 24% will get the vaccine as soon as it is available, 18% will
“never” get the shot; 14% expect to get it in a “few weeks or
months”; 7% expect to get in a “year or more.”
⦁ 80% plan to continue wearing a face mask, 63% will continue
social distancing.
⦁ 59% believe returning to “normal, pre-coronavirus life” poses a
large or moderate risk to health and well-being.
⦁ 54% have visited a retail store in the last week; 48% have visited
friends or relatives; 45% have gone out to eat.
SOURCE: AN AXIOS/IPSOS POLL OF 992 U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED MARCH 19-22.
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INSIDE
PENTAGON
GOP’s Rogers: Extremism in military
rare, not a top-priority issue
There is no concrete evidence that
violent political extremism is as prevalent
in the military as some recent reports are
claiming, the top Republican on the House
Armed Services Committee said.
Speaking during a hearing on Capitol
Hill on extremism in the military, Rep.
Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican, said the
tiny number of actual cases discovered so
far do not justify the scare stories that have
appeared in the media.
Since the start of fiscal 2020, nine Army
soldiers have been removed from the ser-
vice for misconduct where extremism was
a factor. He also noted that just 17 Marines
were booted out of the Marine Corps under
a broad policy covering extremism, gang or
dissident activity since 2018.
“I agree with my colleagues that these
numbers should be zero, [but] this is far
from the largest military justice issue facing
our armed services,” Mr. Rogers said.
— Mike Glenn
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Jordan, Grassley push for stance
on extending fentanyl-knockoff ban
A pair of Republicans in the House
and Senate on Thursday called for Attor-
ney General Merrick Garland to explain
whether the Biden administration supports
extending a temporary ban on fentanyl
knockoffs that could jeopardize thousands
of opioid prosecutions if it expires.
In a letter obtained by The Washington
Times, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Sen.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa urged Mr. Garland
to brief lawmakers on where the Justice
Department stands on the issue.
In 2018, the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration enacted a temporary order classify-
ing fentanyl knockoffs as a controlled sub-
stance. The move closed a legal loophole
that allowed the drugs to dodge federal law
if their chemical makeup was slightly dif-
ferent than fentanyl.
The 2018 order was set to expire last
year, but Congress extended it by 15 months
so it now runs through May 6, 2021. If it
does expire, law enforcement and prosecu-
tors would be in unchartered territory and
thousands of cases could be dropped.
— Jeff Mordock
Federal regulation barring bump stocks is likely illegal, a federal appeals court ruled.
GUN RIGHTS
Court rules that bump-stock ban likely illegal, should be blocked
A federal appeals court Thursday
ruled that a federal regulation barring
bump stocks is likely illegal and was in-
correct in claiming that the devices make
a weapon a machine gun.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled that the accessories are not subject
to a 2018 ban imposed by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explo-
sives (ATF) at the order of then-President
Trump.
Bump stocks are plastic accessories
that allow semi-automatic weapons to
fire continuously in the manner of a ma-
chine gun, which have been more-or-less
banned for decades.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Vaccinated Cruz rebuffs request
from reporters to wear mask
A vaccinated Sen. Ted Cruz has a mes-
sage for skittish reporters who want him to
wear a mask while talking to them: Too bad.
The Texas Republican told a reporter,
who said he would “feel better” if he would
wear a mask despite his COVID-19 inocula-
tion, that he was being absurd.
“When I’m talking to the TV camera I’m
not going to wear a mask, and all of us have
been immunized,” he replied.
An appeal to make the gaggle of report-
ers “feel better” did not sway him.
“You’re welcome to step away if you
like,” he retorted. “The whole point of a
vaccine — CDC guidance is what we’re
following.”
Mr. Cruz then added while sharing the
video on Twitter: “Lefty reporters have lost
their minds. #commonsense.”
— Douglas Ernst
Paycheck Protection
Program application
deadline extended
BY DAVID SHERFINSKI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Senate on Thursday ap-
proved giving small businesses
two extra months to apply for the
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Paycheck Protection Program,
extending the deadline to May 31.
The Small Business Admin-
istration would have an addi-
tional month after the new May
31 deadline to process the out-
But, Judges Alice Batchelder and Eric standing loan applications.
Murphy ruled in a 2-1 decision, the 2018 The Senate voted 92-7 to ap-
finding by BATF that bump stocks were prove a House-passed measure,
machine guns was in error and the lower- sending it to President Biden’s
court was wrong to refuse to issue an desk.
injunction against the regulation. “It is clear that small busi-
The judges said U.S. District Judge nesses and nonprofits need ac-
Paul Maloney in Michigan should have cess to PPP beyond March 31, so
issued an injunction and ordered the case it was vital that the Senate acted
back to his court. to keep the program open,” said
The gun-rights groups that brought Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Dem-
the case “are likely to prevail on the mer- ocrat and chairman of the Senate
its and … their motion for an injunction Small Business Committee.
should have been granted,” the appeals The popular loan program,
court said. which was created under the
— Victor Morton $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief
package signed in March 2020,
provides low-interest loans to
SUPREME COURT businesses that are forgiven if a
certain percentage of the funds
Justices let excessive-force lawsuit are used for payroll expenses.
go forward despite delayed arrest As of March 21, more than
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday 8.2 million loans have been ap-
against police officers in New Mexico who proved, totaling more than $718
shot a woman who fled from arrest and billion.
said she could sue for excessive force even Since the SBA reopened the
though she escaped capture at the time. application process in January,
The police on a stakeout approached about $196 billion of a newly
Roxanne Torres, thinking she was another available $284 billion has been
woman. When Ms. Torres sped off, they spoken for.
fired 13 shots, hitting her in the back. She Business and consumer bank-
was arrested the next day. ing groups had pushed for an
Ms. Torres took her excessive-force case extension, saying new applicants
to the justices after lower courts sided with were still running into error
the police, saying that because she suc- codes and crosschecks.
ceeded in running away, she couldn’t bring Mr. Biden announced tweaks
her Fourth Amendment claim. to the program last month to
But in a 5-3 opinion, the high court let get aid to businesses who might
her lawsuit move forward, reasoning that a have missed out last year. Those
person doesn’t have to be immediately ap- changes included a two-week
prehended to sue for excessive force. window during which only
— Alex Swoyer companies with fewer than 20
employees were allowed to apply.
Mr. Biden’s $1.9 trillion coro-
navirus relief package included
an additional $7.25 billion in
funding for PPP and opened it up
to additional nonprofit groups.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida
Republican, tried to push an
amendment to bar further re-
strictions on eligible businesses,
but it did not pass.
“The Biden administration
should not make any further
arbitrary changes to freeze out
businesses previously made
eligible by Congress,” said Mr.
Rubio, a past chairman of the
small business committee. “The
PPP must remain a fair program
that delivers relief to the busi-
nesses that need it most, not
morph into a tool to reward
special interests.”
Despite the extension, the
program has attracted unwanted
attention for PPP-related fraud
and early struggles by the small-
est businesses to get access to
the funds.
More than $626 million in
funds involving PPP and the Eco-
nomic Injury Disaster Loan Pro-
gram (EIDL) have been seized or
forfeited, according to a memo
released Thursday by the Demo-
cratic staff of the select subcom-
mittee on the coronavirus crisis.
“The Trump administration
refused to implement basic con-
trols in PPP and EIDL despite
warnings from the select sub-
committee and others, leading
to billions of dollars in potential
fraud,” the memo said.
Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Repub-
lican, said more than 99% of PPP
funds have gone to the right place
and that the Trump administra-
tion aggressively pursued fraud
cases.
“The Democrats will claim
that the PPP program is rife with
fraud, when in fact it is just the
opposite,” Mr. Jordan said.

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Politics “This Capitol has survived many attacks over the centuries, including during the
War of 1812. We didn’t have a wall after that and don’t need a wall now.”
— Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat

INFRASTRUCTURE

Pelosi signals Democrats prepared to go alone on bill

Bipartisanship
not as important
as planet, future
BY KERY MURAKAMI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on
Thursday said bipartisanship will take
a back seat to what is needed to save
the Earth in President Biden’s massive
infrastructure plan.
“We cannot settle for what we can
agree on. We have to recognize that this
bill is about the future, recognizing the
climate crisis and the need for greening,”
Mrs. Pelosi told reporters.
That doesn’t mean she’s ruling out
some areas of agreement with Repub-
licans. Bipartisanship just isn’t the only
priority, the California Democrat said.
“We cannot abandon our responsibil-
ity to make this a bill for the future, to
save the planet,” she said.
Her remarks set a familiar tone on
Capitol Hill, where Democrats hold
narrow majorities in both chambers and
rammed through a $1.9 trillion COVID-19
relief package without the support of a
single Republican.
Democrats signaled that they are
prepared to go it alone in the same way
with the infrastructure package.
Most of the spending in the bill,
expected to total as much as $3 trillion,
would go toward upgrading the nation’s
roads, bridges and public transit systems.
But its most ambitious parts are expected
to deal with climate change, to try to
reach the Biden administration’s goal of
net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Schumer: Senate will prioritize voting rights, gun control, economic recovery
BY ALEX SWOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Senate’s top priorities in the
spring will be civil and voting rights,
gun control, and economic recovery
with a focus on climate change, Ma-
jority Leader Charles E. Schumer an-
nounced Thursday.
When senators return to Wash-
ington on April 12, their first piece
of business will be a COVID-19 Hate
Crimes Act to protect Asian Ameri-
cans, he said.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mazie
Hirono, Hawaii Democrat, would speed
up Justice Department review of hate
crimes and set up a reporting system in
multiple languages. The bill was intro-
duced during the last Congress and did
not get any Republican co-sponsors.
After a gunman in Georgia shot up
several Asian spa businesses, killing
The bill, among other measures,
is expected to include mandates that
tunnels and other projects be built
“green-friendly,” with concrete addi-
tives that absorb carbon dioxide. The
plan will include at least $500 million
to install electric vehicle charging sta-
tions across the country and funding for
an alternative to conventional car and
airplane travel.
The proposal also will deal with ra-
cial and gender inequities such as busi-
ness ownership that Congress neglected
“when we did infrastructure in the past,”
Mrs. Pelosi said.
In a wide-ranging press conference,
eight people, President Biden voiced
his support for Ms. Hirono’s bill.
“It’s been a busy two months, but we
are just getting started,” Mr. Schumer
told reporters before the Senate’s two-
week recess.
The New York Democrat cheered
his Democratic majority’s ability to
confirm members of Mr. Biden’s Cabi-
net, pass the American Rescue Plan to
give people relief during the coronavi-
rus pandemic, and hold an impeach-
ment trial for former President Donald
Trump in the first few months of taking
control of the upper chamber.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
has begun working on civil and voting
rights bills.
It already took up the Equality Act,
which bans discrimination on the basis
of gender identity, sex or sexual orien-
tation. It’s also going to hold hearings
for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act,
the speaker echoed Mr. Biden in blam-
ing factors other than the new adminis-
tration’s policies for a surge of migrant
children arriving at the U.S. border.
“This is the time of the year when
there are more people coming tradition-
ally. It’s important to note that more
people are coming now because COVID
prevented people from coming. So we
have a somewhat doubling down of the
people who are coming,” she said.
She didn’t answer when asked if
she plans to visit the border as House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and
some other Republican lawmakers have
done.
which would restore parts of the Vot-
ing Rights Act of 1965 requiring federal
pre-review of some states’ election
laws.
Democrats charge Republican legis-
latures are trying to suppress voters, so
they have pushed a number of election
bills including the For the People Act, a
major overhaul to nationalize elections.
Republicans have not supported the
For the People Act, and have charged
it would invite “chaos” into state elec-
tions by automatically registering vot-
ers, allowing 10 days past Election
Day to count mail-in ballots, and take
authority away from state legislatures
to draw district maps.
With a 50-50 party split in the Sen-
ate, Democrats might have a hard time
passing their agenda without GOP sup-
port unless they eliminate the filibuster,
a 60-vote threshold to pass bills.
Progressives have been pushing
Rather, she emphasized that dealing
with the surge involves undoing the
Trump administration’s policies, includ-
ing cutting aid to the three “Golden Tri-
angle” countries of Guatemala, Hondu-
ras and El Salvador, where the migrants
are coming from. Violence in those
countries, as well as an agricultural
downturn linked to climate change,
have pushed more families to head for
the U.S., she said.
“Why else would a mom and a child
cross a desert to come to the United
States?” Mrs. Pelosi asked.
She described the current chaos on
the border in terms of growing pains.
for Democrats to change the Senate
rules, but moderate Democratic Sens.
Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and
Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have in-
sisted they do not support the move.
Along with debating civil and
voting rights, the Senate will also
hold hearings aimed at forming an
infrastructure package that will focus
on climate change, Mr. Schumer an-
nounced. Democrats will be meeting
with Mr. Biden to discuss how the bill
will be funded and if taxes will need
to be raised.
Like Mr. Biden, Senate Democrats
are also eyeing gun control legislation
after two mass shootings this month in
Georgia and Colorado.
“We also must take action to deal
with the epidemic of gun violence
that has plagued this nation and gone
unaddressed by the Senate for far too
long,” Mr. Schumer said.
“We have to deconstruct the harm
that was done in the last four years to
construct what to do coming forward,”
she said. “Deconstruct so we can con-
struct better.”
Mrs. Pelosi predicted California
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom would
survive a likely recall election, which
she downplayed as being pushed by
“Trump-ites.” She dismissed, as well, the
idea of other Democrats entering any
recall race, in case Mr. Newsom loses.
“The governor will defeat this initia-
tive. He will continue to be governor,
and he will go on to another victory,”
Mrs. Pelosi said.

SENATE

Senators unveil plan to ban

permanent fencing at Capitol
BY JEFF MORDOCK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A bipartisan pair of senators introduced
legislation Thursday to ban permanent fencing
at the U.S. Capitol, saying turning the iconic
building into a fortress projects a negative mes-
sage to the world.
Sens. Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican, and
Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat, joined
with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.
Democrat, to unveil the legislation at a press
conference in front of the building.
“The Capitol is the citadel of democracy and
we should not turn it into a fortress,” Mr. Van
Hollen said. “We should not wall the people’s
house off from the people of the United States.”
The Senate bill, based on legislation intro-
duced in the House, would ban federal funding
from being used to construct a permanent fence
around the Capitol grounds.
Security at the U.S. Capitol complex was
bolstered to unprecedented levels after the Jan.
6 attack, including installing an imposing fence
topped with razor wire that extended for blocks
away from the building.
On Wednesday — more than two months
after the Capitol siege — the fence around
the outer perimeter was removed. An inner-
perimeter fence around the building will remain
in place while security officials work on a per-
manent plan.
Lawmakers of both parties decried the deci-
sion to surround the Capitol with a fence, saying
it was an overreaction.
“We can achieve security here without build-
ing a wall,” Mr. Van Hollen continued. “It would
send the wrong signal around the world if this
place was not accessible.”
“This Capitol has survived many attacks over
the centuries, including during the War of 1812,”
he continued. “We didn’t have a wall after that
and don’t need a wall now.”
Mr. Blunt said that the bill has bipartisan sup-
port in both chambers of Congress. He added
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that all the senators with whom he’s spoken have
asked to have their name on the bill. A worker removes razor wire from a security fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. A bipartisan plan seeks to
Ms. Holmes said the bill may have “100%” ban permanent fencing at the Capitol, saying the building should not be turned into a “fortress.”
support in the House, adding she doesn’t see
any opposition from Democrats.
The District of Columbia’s non-voting del- In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “Permanent fencing would infringe on their
egate has been one of the most vocal opponents California Democrat, sent earlier this month, Ms. ability, as well as the general public’s ability, to
of permanent fencing, arguing that it would hurt Holmes said the fencing turned neighborhoods enjoy the public spaces that define our nation’s
businesses and residents near the Capitol. into “militarized zones.” capital,” she wrote.

CONGRESS

GOP letter accuses Biden of violating restrictions on domestic snooping

BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Republicans who oversee U.S.
intelligence are accusing the Biden admin-
istration of violating federal law by inject-
ing a counter-foreign terrorist agency into
the job of assessing domestic extremism.
The March 18 letter, spearheaded by
Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the top
Republican on the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, says
President Biden crossed the line that
prevents overseas spying agencies from
snooping on Americans.
The letter went to Director of National
Intelligence Avril Haines. Her office re-
leased a report, titled “Domestic Violent
Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in
2021.”
Signed by all 10 committee Republi-
cans, the letter calls the four-page DNI
report “misleading” with a “deceptive
nature” and says the reason for the report
is unclear. The Republicans find the DNI
activity inconsistent with federal law.
“It is our view that your office, and the
elements of the IC [intelligence commu-
nity] for which you are responsible under
the auspices of the National Security
Act and National Intelligence Program,
are subject to longstanding prohibitions
against domestic activities,” the letter says.
Republicans have grown suspicious of
Mr. Biden’s focus on domestic extremists
and see Democrats as trying to paint all
GOP voters as security threats.
“We are alarmed by the lack of expla-
nation provided by the authors to justify
the … production of such a report,” the
Nunes-led letter states.
A DNI statement said the report was
drafted by the National Counterterrorism
Center (NCTC), an agency designed to
focus on foreign threats such as al Qaeda,
Islamic State and other groups that plan
or inspire deadly attacks on Americans.
This specifically violates federal law,
the Republicans argue.
The DNI report came after the riot at
the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when some 800
Trump “Stop the Steal” protesters invaded.
The Justice Department has filed charges
against more than 300 people, with many
identified by the FBI from social media
posts of photos and videos.
The DNI report on domestic violent
extremists (DVEs) included a statement
that said the CIA and the Pentagon’s De-
fense Intelligence Agency, organizations
identified as focused on foreign adversar-
ies, also had contributed. The report was
primarily the product of the DNI, the FBI,
the Justice Department and the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security.
Said the Republican letter: “While we
acknowledge the seriousness of the do-
mestic violence extremist threat and the
need for a coordinated federal response,
the involvement of the Intelligence Com-
munity in this circumstance should be
limited to an examination of potential
foreign ties, such as foreign influence,
direction or funding of DVEs. There
are numerous federal agencies with the
requisite authority and subject matter
expertise to produce a report on this topic,
with appropriate support from the IC.”
The Washington Times on Thurs-
day obtained a copy of the letter, which
was first reported by journalist Glenn
Greenwald.
The letter argues that, while Ms.
Haines calls the report an intelligence
assessment, it was not in fact the product
of the vigorous Intelligence Community
Assessments (ICAs).
One report finding: “The IC assesses
that domestic violent extremists (DVEs)
who are motivated by a range of ideologies
and galvanized by recent political and so-
cietal events in the United States pose an
elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.”
The DNI says the most lethal attacks
will come from racially or ethnically in-
spired extremists as well as from militias.
It singled out right-wing militias, such as
the Oath Keepers who took part in the
Jan. 6 riot, as a growing threat.
It also says that white supremacists
have “the most persistent and concerning
transnational connections.”
The DNI report lists four major DVE
categories:
⦁ Racially or ethnically motivated
violent extremists.
⦁ Anti-government/anti-authority vio-
lent extremists
⦁ Animal rights/environmental violent
extremists.
⦁ Abortion-related violent extremists.
The anti-government extremists fit the
definitions of militias, which contend the
U.S. government exceeds powers granted
by the Constitution, and left-wing Antifa,
the Portland, Oregon-centered group that
wants an end to capitalism.
The Republican letter asks the DNI a
series of questions such as “Under what
authority were National Intelligence Pro-
gram personnel and resources expended
for the generation of a report concerning
domestic violent extremists?”
Also, “Did you authorize any individual
or element of the IC to search or examine
US person information contained within
an IC system or database for the purpose
of supporting the production of this re-
port on domestic violent extremists? If
not, are you aware of any such activities?
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SENATE
Committee deadlocked on Gupta’s
nomination for Justice Department
BY JEFF MORDOCK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s
vote to advance the nomination of Vanita
Gupta, President Biden’s pick for the No.
3 position at the Justice Department,
ended in a tie Thursday, but the nomi-
nation is still likely to reach the floor.
In a party-line 11-11 vote, the com-
mittee deadlocked on advancing Ms.
Gupta’s nomination to the full Senate.
Her nomination almost certainly will
receive a floor vote, but the deadlock
puts up an additional procedural hurdle.
Ms. Gupta was nominated to serve
as the Justice Department’s associate
attorney general. Republicans sought
to block her confirmation, saying she’s
too liberal and would work against law
enforcement.
The committee did approve Lisa Mo-
naco, nominated to serve as the deputy
attorney general. She also needs to be
approved by the full Senate.
While Ms. Monaco received strong
bipartisan support, Ms. Gupta was
fiercely opposed by the committee’s
Republican members.
Ms. Gupta, who previously headed
the Justice Department’s Civil Rights
ACCOUNTABILITY
Congress grills tech CEOs on inciting violence
Lawmaker says
she fears for her
children’s safety
BY RYAN LOVELACE
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The CEOs of Facebook, Google and
Twitter struggled on Thursday to beat
back lawmakers’ accusations that their
platforms harmed children, fomented
the riot at the U.S. Capitol and spread
manipulative content online.
During a House Energy and Com-
merce Committee hearing, Republican
and Democratic lawmakers interrogated
the tech titans about how their companies
endangered children.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Wash-
ington Republican, told the CEOs that
their platforms made her fear for chil-
dren’s lives.
“Do you know what convinced me
Big Tech is a destructive force? It’s how
you’ve abused your power to manipulate
and harm our children,” said Ms. McMor-
ris Rodgers at a hearing on Thursday.
“Your platforms are my biggest fear as a
parent. I’m a mom of three school-aged
kids and my husband and I are fighting
the Big Tech battles in our household
every day. It’s a battle for their develop-
ment, a battle for their mental health, and
ultimately, a battle for their safety.”
The CEOs disagreed about who
should be held accountable. Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to shift
the blame away from social media and
onto what he labeled the “political and
LEGISLATURES
Lawmakers fight longstanding dress codes viewed as sexist, racist
BY PHILIP MARCELO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON | A sneaker-clad Hispanic state
senator in Rhode Island is objecting to his
chamber’s jacket and dress shirt edict as a
form of white oppression. Female lawmak-
ers in Montana complain that proposed
rules dealing with skirt lengths and neck-
lines are sexist.
And an Iowa state representative wore
jeans on the floor last month to highlight
the irony of Republican leaders refusing to
mandate face masks in the chamber as the
coronavirus pandemic rages while banning
jeans and other casual clothes.
With women and people of color
elected in larger numbers in many states,
legislatures are being forced to confront
longstanding dress codes that are increas-
ingly viewed as sexist and racist.
“These rules make it OK for us to judge
people based on the way they dress or
how they look, and I just feel that’s super
problematic,” said Jonathon Acosta, the
31-year-old Democratic state senator from
Rhode Island. “I assure you that what I
wear does not influence the quality of the
work I produce.”
The National Conference of State Legis-
latures hasn’t tallied how many legislatures
are considering or have adopted rules
addressing attire this year. But the Denver
organization said roughly half of all state
legislatures had some sort of formalized
Division during the Obama administra-
tion, has come under fire for earlier com-
ments suggesting she supports defund-
ing the police and the decriminalization
of all drugs.
During a hearing before the commit-
tee this month, Ms. Gupta said she did
not support either position.
Republicans, however, countered that
she was just telling senators what they
wanted to hear to earn confirmation.
“Ms. Gupta has been misleading
and deceptive in many of her answers
to our questions on many important
issues,” said Sen. John Cornyn, Texas
Republican.
Last year, Ms. Gupta appeared before
the Senate Judiciary Committee and
said it was “critical” that state and local
leaders heed calls from far-left groups
to “decrease police budgets.” She also
called for shifting funds away from
public safety toward economic oppor-
tunities, health care and other benefits
for minority communities.
At her confirmation hearing this
month, Ms. Gupta insisted she does not
support defunding the police and has
advocated for increasing law enforce-
ment resources.
“Any senator who votes to confirm
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (left), Google CEO Sundar Pichai (center), and Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg faced a new grilling by Congress on Thursday. The hearing focused
on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading lies and inciting violence.
media environment.”
“Some people say that the problem is
that social networks are polarizing us but
that’s not at all clear from the evidence or
research,” Mr. Zuckerberg told lawmak-
ers. “Polarization was rising in America
long before social networks were even
invented and it’s falling or stable in many
other countries where social networks
are popular.”
When Rep. Mike Doyle, Pennsyl-
vania Democrat, asked whether their
companies had some responsibility for
the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol,
Mr. Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar
Pichai refused to directly answer. Twit-
ter CEO Jack Dorsey, however, accepted
some of the blame.
dress code in 2019.
Debates over dress also have come up
in Congress. Objections from female law-
makers to a longstanding ban on sleeveless
tops and open-toed shoes in the House
prompted former Republican Speaker Paul
Ryan in 2017 to promise a review, though it’s
not clear if the rule was updated to reflect
contemporary standards. Representatives
for Democratic House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi didn’t respond to phone and email
messages seeking comment.
On the other side of the globe, a Maori
lawmaker won his battle against wearing
a tie in the New Zealand Parliament last
month. He derided the tie as a “colonial
noose” and wore a traditional hei tiki
pendant instead.
Wearing unconventional clothing can
be an effective “statement of resistance”
or solidarity in the political arena, but
dress codes also play an important role
in preserving decorum in the democratic
process, said Rhonda Garelick, a dean at
the Parsons School of Design in New York.
“That is where the pushback comes
from: We dress differently for a funeral
from the way we do at a barbecue,” she said.
“Are there other ways to convey difference
or resistance while still conveying respect
or formality?”
The strife over dress codes also reflects
a general movement toward more casual,
informal dress in modern society, said Rich-
ard Thompson Ford, a Stanford Law School
Vanita Gupta is a senator who is voting
in favor of defunding the police,” said
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican.
Democrats were quick to point out
that Ms. Gupta had earned support
from several top conservatives and law
enforcement organizations.
The National Fraternal Order of
Police, which twice endorsed President
Trump, the National Sheriff ’s Associa-
tion, and the International Association
of the Chiefs of Police have urged the
committee to confirm her.
“If Ms. Gupta wanted to defund the
police, would she have the support of
the Fraternal Order of Police?” asked
committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin,
Illinois Democrat. “She has the support
of law enforcement groups that any one
of us would be proud to have, and yet she
continues to be labeled as soft on crime
and there is no truth to that.”
Republicans also accused Ms. Gupta
of shifting her position on the decrimi-
nalization of drugs.
As the American Civil Liberties
Union’s deputy legal director in 2012,
Ms. Gupta co-wrote an op-ed calling
on states to decriminalize possession
of small amounts of “all drugs.”
She disavowed that position at her
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“Yes, but you also have to take into
consideration a broader ecosystem,” an-
swered Mr. Dorsey. “It’s not just about
the technology platforms that were used.”
The CEOs offered little in the way of
recommendations for Congress to use
in solving the alleged problems that the
lawmakers said the tech companies had
enabled. Mr. Pichai said he feared that
changes to the tech companies’ legal li-
ability protections contained in Section
230 of the Communications Decency Act
would diminish Google’s ability to share
information.
Mr. Zuckerberg, however, welcomed
changes to the law so long as Congress
does not scrap the legal protections
entirely.
professor and author of “Dress Codes: How
the Laws of Fashion Made History.”
“When I look at the senator from Rhode
Island, he looks more like a ‘tech bro’ to me
than anything else,” Mr. Ford said, referring
to the sometimes derisive nickname for
certain workers in Silicon Valley.
The Democrat-controlled Rhode Island
Senate approved its new dress code Tues-
day, over objections from Mr. Acosta and
other lawmakers.
The provision, a revision of a policy the
chamber has had for decades, requires Sen-
ate members and staff to dress in “proper
and appropriate attire, such as blouses,
dress slacks and collared shirts with ac-
companying jacket.”
Democratic Sen. Louis DiPalma,
chairmnan of the rules committee that
vetted the revised mandates, argued that
the dress provision is broader than those
in other state legislatures.
“It’s not about judging how anyone
looks,” he said. “A dress code and decorum
are about respecting an institution that is
200-plus years old.”
Sen. Gordon Rogers, a Republican from
rural Foster, said he supported the attire
rules even as he admitted it was difficult
to trade in his beloved Chippewa boots for
dress shoes and secondhand suits to enter
the chamber.
“It’s not about disenfranchising any-
body,” the businessman and farmer said
to some applause. “Sometimes you have
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Vanita Gupta is the nominee for the No.
3 position at the Department of Justice.
Though the Senate Judiciary Committee
voted 11-11, she’s likely to advance to a
full floor vote.
confirmation hearing, insisting she
didn’t support decriminalizing drugs.
When pressed by Mr. Cornyn about
her column, she acknowledged that her
views had changed since 2012.
“It is not just about marijuana. She
said all drugs — fentanyl, methamphet-
amine, heroin, prescription opioids —
you name it. She said ‘all drugs’ and then
she lied about it to you and me under
oath,” Mr. Cornyn said Thursday.
Mr. Durbin argued that Ms. Gupta
has the right to shift from a position she
took nearly a decade ago and shouldn’t
be judged based on one op-ed.
“She simply changed her mind over
the years due in part to her own fami-
lies’ experience with opioid addiction,”
he said.
“I think it’s impossible to ask compa-
nies to take responsibility for every single
piece of content that someone posts,
and that I think is the wisdom of 230,”
said Mr. Zuckerberg to lawmakers. “At
the same time, I do think that we should
expect large platforms to have effective
systems for being able to handle, broadly
speaking, categories of content that are
clearly illegal.”
Lawmakers from both sides of the
aisle appeared more interested in grilling
the CEOs for their alleged role in many
different crises — including civil rights
concerns and the recent immigration
surge at America’s southern border —
than in discussing policy solutions.
For example, Rep. Buddy Carter, Geor-
gia Republican, pressed Mr. Zuckerberg
to address whether human smugglers
using Facebook made him complicit in
the ongoing immigration crisis, while
Rep. Bobby Rush, Illinois Democrat,
ripped Mr. Dorsey for not producing a
civil rights audit.
To expedite Congress’ legislative pro-
cess and avoid burdensome regulation,
former Google U.S. public policy se-
nior director Adam Kovacevich said he
thought the tech CEOs should have told
Congress that they were not neutral about
the content they host online.
“We’re in a moment of kind of extreme
overreactions about tech’s influence:
Calls to break up the companies, abolish
Section 230, these are kind of extreme
reactions,” said Mr. Kovacevich, who also
served as a former Democratic Senate
aide. “I think once we get past this phase
of extreme reactions, I’m hopeful that we
can have a more sane conversation about
what are sensible rules of the road.”
to force respect.”
But Sen. Cynthia Mendes, an East Provi-
dence Democrat, countered that this year’s
dress code is more specific than the cham-
ber’s previous one, which simply required
all persons on the Senate floor “be properly
dressed.”
She also questioned the timing of the
new edict, following an election in which
more women and people of color were
voted into the 38-member chamber in its
history.
“This is colonization language. The
need to remind everyone who is in power. It
has always started with what you tell them
to do with their bodies,” Ms. Mendes said.
“That’s not lost on me.”
Mr. Acosta, who was elected in Novem-
ber to represent the strongly Hispanic city
of Central Falls, argued that the Senate’s
dress code isn’t even widely enforced.
He’s been wearing cardigans, joggers and
Air Jordan sneakers for weeks without any
apparent objection.
“Whose sensibilities are being in-
sulted?” Mr. Acosta asked, purposefully
donning a black guayabera, a traditional
Caribbean dress shirt, that didn’t have a
collar for Tuesday’s debate.
After the vote, the Brown University
sociology graduate student acknowledged
that Senate leaders at least removed lan-
guage imposing the dress code on chamber
guests, a concern he and others raised
earlier.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2021
ENERGY
Democrats
balk at
expanding
nuclear
energy
GOP baffled by
party’s reluctance
BY HARIS ALIC
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Congressional Democrats want no
part in expanding nuclear energy, even as
they contemplate large-scale and radical
measures to tackle climate change.
Since entering office, Mr. Biden has
tasked Democrats on Capitol Hill with
designing comprehensive legislation to
reach the Paris climate accord’s goal of
net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The most notable bill that Democrats
have devised in that regard is the Climate
Leadership and Environmental Action for
our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act. Tucked
within the bill is a bevy of progressive
proposals from hastening the transition
away from gas-powered vehicles to remov-
ing fossil fuels from the electric grid. The
latter commits the U.S. to reach a 100%
carbon-free electricity standard by 2035.
To reach that goal, the CLEAN Future
Act prioritizes solar and wind power,
while nearly ignoring nuclear energy —
which does not emit carbon dioxide or
other greenhouse gases.
One of the only mentions of nuclear
power within the bill’s nearly 1,000 pages is
language creating an Energy Department
pilot program for “at least one long-term”
agreement of an unspecified value “to pur-
chase electricity generated from advanced
nuclear power technologies.”
In comparison, just one provision of the
CLEAN Future Act earmarks upwards of
$1.25 billion over nine years for installing
solar panels in low-income and “under-
served” communities.
The reluctance by Democrats to com-
mit to investing in the expansion of nuclear
power has left some mystified.
Republican lawmakers, in particular,
point to the fact that nuclear energy is not
only a stable alternative to oil and coal, but
also fits into the White House’s ambitions
to promote “clean electricity.”
“Nuclear technology is fundamental to
meeting our energy, environmental, and
national security goals,” said Sen. John Bar-
rasso, Wyoming Republican and ranking
member of the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee. “Nuclear power is
our nation’s largest source of carbon-free
electricity. It’s critical to reliable electricity,
resilient electricity, and affordable electric
service.”
Data from the Nuclear Energy Insti-
tute indicates that 55% of all carbon-free
electricity produced in the U.S. comes
from nuclear power plants. Furthermore,
nuclear power is estimated to provide
roughly 10% of all electricity across the
globe.
Despite the realities, most Democrats
have yet to come around. The party has
long been averse to nuclear power since at
least the 1970s, because of environmental-
ists who argue nuclear waste poses a grave
threat even if disposed of properly.
Green activists have also invoked the
threat of meltdowns and accidents, includ-
ing the 1979 incident at Pennsylvania’s
Three Mile Island, as proof that nuclear
power plants are unsafe.
Democratic dislike of nuclear power
was on display during the 2020 presiden-
tial primaries.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts
Democrat then vying for the nomination,
pledged to not allow any new nuclear reac-
tors to be built. Ms. Warren even suggested
that she would seek to phase out the use
of nuclear power by 2035, a goal similarly
proposed within the Green New Deal.
President Biden, who campaigned as
a moderate against Ms. Warren and other
progressives, was slightly more open to
nuclear power, pledging that “advanced
nuclear” reactors would part of his “clean
energy” agenda.
Although the Biden campaign never
explicitly elaborated on what he meant, his
lukewarm support was enough for Demo-
crats to include a provision within their
platform endorsing “advanced nuclear,”
the first time in nearly 50 years the party’s
platform expressed a positive note about
nuclear power.
A significant number of congressional
Democrats, who will have significant influ-
ence overall climate change and energy
legislation, remain unconvinced.
“One of the great challenges of devel-
oping new nuclear energy assets, beyond
the costs, is the fear,” said Sen. John Hick-
enlooper, a Colorado Democrat who has
shown some openness to nuclear power.
“There is still this residual concern and
fear [whether] this new facility going to
be built in my community and what is
the risk.”
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IMMIGRATION
From page A1
Central America.
“The truth of the matter is nothing has changed,”
the president said. Of the surge, he said, “It happens
every year.”
Yet he also seemed to acknowledge that this
year’s surge is unusual as he ticked off the steps he
is taking to deal with the situation.
That included the 5,000 beds he said will soon
be available at Fort Bliss, creating space to get the
children off floors and benches, where more than
5,000 are sleeping in plexiglass cells at the border.
A PBS reporter suggested that the migrants
are coming because of the perception of Mr.
Biden “as a moral and decent man,” whom parents
are “entrusting” by sending their children north
unaccompanied.
“I guess I should be flattered people are coming
because I’m the nice guy,” the president responded.
He then shot down the theory by pointing to in-
creases under President Trump.
“Does anybody suggest there was a 31% increase
under Trump because he was a nice guy and he
was doing good things at the border? That’s not the
reason they’re coming,” he said.
Mr. Biden said the solution to illegal immigration
lies in bolstering Central America so people don’t
leave their home countries.
In the near term, he said, the U.S. is still blocking
most illegal immigrants at the border and 70% of
the children admitted are 16 and 17 years old.
“The idea that we have tens of thousands of kids
in these god-awful facilities that are, really, little
babies crying all night — and there’s some, that’s
true,” he said. “That’s why we got to act.”
Minutes after Mr. Biden concluded his press
conference, the Department of Homeland Security
revealed that a 9-year-old Mexican migrant had died
after being stranded in the Rio Grande on Saturday
near Eagle Pass, Texas. Border Patrol agents did
manage to rescue and revive a Guatemalan woman
and her 3-year-old child, who were also stranded.
Farther east along the river, several large groups
of unaccompanied alien children, or UACs, as the
government labels them, were nabbed by Border
Patrol agents on Wednesday and Thursday. All told,
70 UACs were taken into custody in the actions.
UAC arrests in southern Texas have more than
doubled since the same time last year, the Border
Patrol said.
An ABC reporter confronted Mr. Biden with the
story of a 9-year-old migrant boy who walked from
Honduras without any parent and whose mother,
when the network contacted her, said she sent the
child because she expected Mr. Biden to let him in.
“Astounding,” Mr. Biden said, though he doubted
the woman’s reason. He said the mother was really
motivated by desperate circumstances in her country.
“There’s no easy answer,” he said.
But he suggested he would support deportation of
the boy because of the mother’s presence back home.
“In this young man’s case, he has a mom at
home. There’s an overwhelming reason why he’d
be put in a plane and flown back to his mom,” the
president said.
Mr. Biden’s insistence that migration surges early
in each year does not exactly match the numbers.
Indeed, in 2017, the first year of Mr. Trump’s
presidency, arrests plummeted more than 40%
because of the new administration’s tougher stance.
Over the past decade, the average increase from
January to February was about 14%. Mr. Biden,
though, has overseen a 28% increase in Border
Patrol arrests.
Those overall numbers also don’t reveal the real
surges of children and families.
The nearly 9,300 unaccompanied juveniles
nabbed by Border Patrol agents last month is by far
the highest February on record, and it represented
a 63% increase over January. Over the previous 10
years, the usual increase from January to February
was just 9%.
“This is not seasonal — the responsibility lies
squarely with the president’s poor planning and
policies,” The Heritage Foundation said in a fact
check written in part by Mr. Trump’s border team,
including former acting Homeland Security Sec-
retary Chad Wolf, former acting Deputy Secretary
Ken Cuccinelli and former acting border chief
Mark Morgan.
“Make no mistake, his remarks are making the
crisis worse, not better,” the Heritage experts said.
March is in fact looking worse, with juveniles
coming into border facilities faster than the govern-
ment can transfer them out.
On Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection
brought in 681 more unaccompanied children, and
transferred just 437 out. That left CBP with more
than 5,100 children in custody as of Wednesday.
Meanwhile, 11,900 children were in shelters run
by the Department of Health and Human Services.

BIDEN Biden can move lawmakers beyond some

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“Your children or grandchildren are
going to be doing their doctoral thesis on
the issue of who succeeded: autocracy or
democracy?” Mr. Biden told reporters
in the East Room at The White House.
“This is a battle between the utility of
democracies in the 21st century and
autocracies.”
“We have to prove democracy works,”
he said.
Held 64 days into his administration,
the press conference served as a public
reset for a president who has invested
most of his political capital on enacting
the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act to
help the nation recover from the COVID-
19 pandemic.
The focus on the coronavirus, how-
ever, fell by the wayside as reporters
pressed Mr. Biden on what he plans
to do about a surge of migrants at the
southern border; global tensions with
China, Russia and North Korea; and gun
violence after recent mass shootings in
Colorado and Georgia.
Reactions to Mr. Biden’s performance
broke largely along partisan lines.
Supporters praised him for showing
a mastery of the issues. They said the
president effectively diffused some of
the criticism leveled at him. His critics
said he made a series of false claims and
came off as a bumbling, scripted fool.
“No wonder they kept him from
doing this for so long,” said Ronna Mc-
Daniel, chair of the Republican National
Committee.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
Republican, said, “This press conference
is hard to watch.”
David Axelrod, a former senior
Obama adviser, said Mr. Biden “navi-
gated his presser well, keeping focus on
his priorities, touting progress on the
virus and recovery, and generally avoid-
ing making big news on other subjects.”
“The dominant narrative from the
On foreign policy, President Biden said he sees his presidency as a democratic bulwark against the rise of the autocratic model
embraced by China and Russia.
right-wing industrial complex is that
Biden is senile and being manipulated
by shadowy leftists,” said Max Boot, a
former senior foreign policy adviser to
Republican presidential nominees John
McCain and Mitt Romney. “It’s a charge
so crazy it doesn’t deserve refutation.
“But Biden’s crisp press conference
shows he is fully in command of the
issues,” he said.
Mr. Biden stressed that his primary
focus until this point has been getting
COVID-19 under control so people can
get back to their normal lives.
His remarks opened with an an-
nouncement that the administration is
doubling the vaccination goal he previ-
ously set of 100 million doses adminis-
tered by April 30, his 100th day in office.
“That’s right, 200 million shots in 100
days,” Mr. Biden said.
He downplayed the role he played in
creating the problems at the border. He
said he should be “flattered people are
coming because I’m the nice guy” and
said President Trump’s approach made
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a bad situation worse.
“Truth of the matter is nothing has
changed,” Mr. Biden said. “It happens
every single solitary year. There is a
significant increase in the number of
people coming to the border in the
winter months.”
On foreign policy, Mr. Biden said he
plans to pull U.S. troops out of Afghani-
stan but suggested the May 1 deadline
that the Trump administration put into
place was likely too soon.
It remains to be seen whether Mr.
of the traditional political battle lines that
have frustrated past presidents.
Mr. Biden said he “got elected to solve
problems” and that Republicans have
to decide whether they want to stand
in his way on immigration and other
issues such as guns, infrastructure and
climate change.
“Here’s the deal. I think my Repub-
lican colleagues are going to have to
determine whether or not we want to
work together or decide the way in which
they want to proceed is just to divide the
country [and] continue the politics of
division,” he said.
Mr. Biden struck a partisan note
minutes later by making it clear that he
could support eviscerating the 60-vote
filibuster threshold for passing legisla-
tion if Republicans stand in his way.
Previously, Mr. Biden would say only
that he could support a rule change to re-
institute the talking filibuster that would
require lawmakers to hold the Senate
floor and literally talk a bill to death.
“We are going to get a lot done, and
if we have to, if there is complete lock-
down and chaos as a consequence of the
filibuster, then we will have to go beyond
what I’m talking about,” he said.
Mr. Biden said the Republican-led
“election integrity” efforts at the state
level are “un-American” and “sick.”
“I am convinced that we will be able
to stop this because it is the most perni-
cious thing,” Mr. Biden said. “This makes
Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”
Election integrity activists called the
remarks dishonest and irresponsible.
“The president’s portrayal of these ef-
forts as somehow racist is dishonest,” said
J. Christian Adams, president of the Public
Interest Legal Foundation. “He disparages
the millions of Americans who believe in
safeguarding our elections.
“To compare these reforms to Jim
Crow not only lessens the severity of
those laws and real racism but also de-
means minorities across the country,”
Mr. Adams said.

BORDER In 2019, Mr. Peters said that would sap needed

From page A1
letter to start to probe the border. She has been “si-
lent,” Mr. Comer wrote, even though the yardsticks
show the border situation is worsening.
Ms. Maloney’s office didn’t respond to a request
for comment.
It’s not just the oversight committee that has
been staying off the playing field.
The House Judiciary Committee in 2019 held
two hearings in February on the border situation,
which was nowhere near as serious at that point as
it is now. It then held several other hearings over the
ensuing months, tucking them in between action
on the Russian collusion investigation.
The committee has not held any border hear-
ings this year.
“Democrats refuse to act,” said Rep. Jim Jordan
of Ohio, the top Republican on the panel. He issued
an invitation to all Democrats on the committee to
join Republicans on a trip to the border.
“The Biden border crisis is real and unfortu-
nately getting worse. The committee cannot con-
tinue to sit idly by and allow our nation’s borders
to be erased,” wrote Mr. Jordan and Rep. Tom
McClintock of California, the top Republican on
Judiciary’s immigration subcommittee.
The House Homeland Security Committee in
2019 was also active on border matters, holding
two hearings by the end of March and another
in April.
That committee this year has hosted Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The official
subject was “the way forward” on broad homeland
security challenges, though Republicans did use the
hearing to pin down Mr. Mayorkas on the surge,
getting him to acknowledge that migrants were
being released without COVID-19 testing.
On the other side of the Capitol, Democrats,
who were in the minority in 2019 and now hold the
gavels, have been just as reluctant to launch probes
that could embarrass Mr. Biden.
Sen. Gary C. Peters of Michigan, the new chair-
man of the Senate Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs Committee, railed against the
Trump administration in 2019, including blasting
its decision to activate a “Volunteer Force” of other
Homeland Security employees to rush to the border
to help out.
personnel from other core missions. This year, as
the Biden team reactivated the volunteer force, Mr.
packed conditions that violate notions of decency
as well as coronavirus warnings about social
distancing.
Peters has been silent, and his office didn’t respond
to requests for comment on the matter.
Mr. Peters did travel to the border with Mr.
Mayorkas last weekend, along with Sen. Christopher
Murphy, Connecticut Democrat and chairman of
the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that over-
sees the Homeland Security budget. Also on the trip
were the top Republicans on the Appropriations
and Homeland Security panels.
While they’ve been reticent to weigh in on the
border situation, Democrats have been active on
another area of illegal immigration, pursuing le-
galization for millions of people already in the U.S.
without authorization.
The House passed bills to grant citizenship
rights to perhaps half of the estimated 11 million
illegal immigrants in the U.S., and leaders in the
House and Senate are eyeing a massive bill to offer
a path to citizenship to the entire unauthorized
population.
Republicans insist those measures won’t become
law without more attention to border security.
But without control of either chamber, the
Republicans’ ability to shape the debate is more
limited. Senate Republicans took to the chamber
floor Wednesday to try to embarrass Democrats
into action by demanding immediate action on bills
dealing with the border.
Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican,
tried to pass a measure declaring the border a
“crisis.” That was blocked by Democrats.
Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Ted Cruz of Texas
tried to pass legislation cracking down on illegal
immigrants with serious criminal records or who
have made repeated illegal border crossings. Those
were also blocked, as was a bill by Sen. Marsha
Blackburn of Tennessee that would have required
DNA testing of all adult migrants who show up
at the border with juveniles, as a way of making
sure they really are related and not perpetrating a
dangerous fraud.
Mr. Cruz will also lead a delegation of 18 other
senators — nearly a fifth of the entire chamber — to
the border Friday.
A few Democrats have been vocal.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat, provided
the press with photos taken from within one of the
juvenile holding pens at the border, revealing the
belatedly release its own photos, after weeks of
rebuffing such requests from the press.
Mr. Comer, in his letter Thursday, specifically
His photos prompted Homeland Security to praised Mr. Cuellar for his actions.
NOTICE OF PROPOSED REAL
PROPERTY TAX INCREASE-2021
The City of Fairfax proposes to increase real property tax levies.
1. Assessment Increase: Total assessed value of real property, excluding
additional assessments due to new construction or improvements to
property, constitutes an increase of 0.46 percent to last year’s assessed
value of real property.
2. Equalization Tax Rate Necessary to Offset Increased Assessment: The
tax rate which would levy the same amount of real estate tax as last year,
when multiplied by the new total assessed value of real estate with the
exclusions mentioned above, would be $1.0367 per $100 of assessed
value for residential properties and $1.135 per $100 of assessed value for
commercial properties. The combined tax rate which would levy the same
amount of real estate as last year would be $1.0701 per $100 of assessed
value. This rate will be known as the “equalized tax rate.”
3. Effective Rate Increase: The City of Fairfax proposes to advertise a tax
rate of $1.08 per $100 of assessed value, which is a $0.005 (0.5¢) increase
from the current rate of $1.075. The difference between the equalized tax
rate and the proposed tax rate would be $0.0099 (0.99¢) per $100, or 0.93
percent. This difference will be known as the “effective tax rate increase.”
Individual property taxes may, however increase at a percentage greater or
less than the above percentage.
4. Proposed Total Budget Increase: Based on the proposed real property tax
rate and changes in other revenues, the total general fund budget of the
City of Fairfax will increase from last year’s budget by 13.9 percent.
A public hearing on any increase will be held on April 27, 2021 (This public
hearing will take place of the Budget Hearing scheduled for that evening), at
7:00 p.m. electronically pursuant to Ordinance No. 2020-27, and as otherwise
permitted by law, and is available for live viewing on Cityscreen-12 (Channel
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culture but a legitimate wrong that was done on my part. MANAA [Media Action Network for Asian
Americans] has been very gracious in accepting my apology. I hope that the Asian American community
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HEALTH NEVADA

Researchers: COVID-19 variants Lawsuits,

infecting pets, mice for first time
BY SHEN WU TAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
New evidence shows that coro-
navirus variants can infect pet
dogs and cats and, for the first
time, mice.
Veterinarians in Texas and the
United Kingdom this month re-
ported infections of B117, the highly
transmissible coronavirus variant
in the U.K., in dogs and cats.
Texas A&M researchers de-
tected the variant in a black Lab-
mix dog and a domestic shorthair
cat from the same household in
Brazos County. The pets were
tested last month after their owner
was diagnosed with COVID-19
two days earlier.
“Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2
[the virus that causes COVID-19]
in animals in and around house-
holds and genetic investigations
of the virus from infected pets
are critically important for un-
derstanding the transmission and
evolution of the virus as well as
predicting what may happen next,”
said Dr. Sarah Hamer, a veterinar-
ian and epidemiologist for the
Texas A&M College of Veterinary
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Hamer served as the lead
investigator for the study that un-
covered the variant in pets, and is
part of a collaboration of scientists
who are testing pets for COVID-19
to learn more about the spread of
the virus from people to animals.
In the U.K., researchers found
that dogs and cats were infected
with B117 about three to six weeks
after their owners and handlers
began experiencing coronavirus
respiratory symptoms. The in-
fected pets also developed heart
problems, but it is unclear if they
were linked to the virus or already
present.
Meanwhile, French research-
ers have discovered that the B1351
variant from South Africa and the
P1 variant from Brazil can infect
lab mice, raising questions about
whether mice and other rodents
living close to humans can be-
come “secondary reservoirs” for
the coronavirus with potential
spillback to people, according to
a preprint published last week in
the journal BioRXIV.
The researchers, most of them
from the Institut Pasteur in Paris,
found that the wild type viruses
were unable to infect mice since
they couldn’t bind to the receptors
on their cells, but that the B1351
and P1 variants could.
A virus can spread and evolve
once it establishes itself within a
population of animals and eventu-
ally could jump to humans, which
is why birds and pigs are closely
monitored for influenza viruses.
“Different species have differ-
ent susceptibilities to any coro-
navirus, including SARS-CoV-2.
It would be a concern if pigs and
cattle were infected; fortunately,
they have not been able to be
infected with this coronavirus
to date,” said Dr. Tanya LeRoith,
director of Virginia Tech Animal
Laboratory Services.
Farmed minks are the only
animals so far that have caught
COLORADO
Veterinarians reported infections of B117 in dogs and cats this month in
the U.K. The B117 variant of the coronavirus is highly transmissible.
the coronavirus and passed it back
to people.
Researchers detected out-
breaks of coronavirus disease
among escaped minks living near
mink farms in Utah last year. The
free-ranging minks had corona-
virus antibodies, suggesting the
virus could spread to wildlife, the
researchers said in a letter pub-
lished last month in the journal
Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Laura Hungerford, a profes-
sor of population health sciences
at the Virginia-Maryland College
of Veterinary Medicine, said most
animals seem unlikely to catch
the virus from humans because
of how it “binds to cells; animals
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without a good match for the spike
protein to bind to resist infection.”
“As the virus mutates, it is
important to watch to see if it
changes in a way that allows it to
be more infective for nonhumans,”
Dr. Hungerford said. “But, as the
virus becomes more human-
adapted, it may be even less likely
to infect other species.”
Dr. LeRoith said most infected
pets show no clinical signs, but
some experience symptoms such
as fever, cough, vomiting or diar-
rhea. The virus does not spread
easily from animal to animal, es-
pecially among pets, which catch
the illness from their owners,
she said.
probe pile
on bottled
water brand
BY KEN RITTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS | Lawsuits are
mounting against a Las Vegas-
based bottled water brand, Real
Water, amid a Food and Drug Ad-
ministration investigation and ac-
cusations by more people in more
states that it caused liver illness
and other ailments.
A Nevada man’s case blamed
the product for his liver transplant
in September 2019, a federal class-
action lawsuit was filed this week
in Nevada, and another lawsuit
filed in state court also sought
class-action status.
“Defendants … sold their prod-
uct as ‘the healthiest drinking
water today,’ ” attorneys Gustavo
Ponce and Mona Amini said in
the third case, representing Peter
Anthony Arambula. “In reality it
has dangerous levels of toxins in
it making it unsafe and dangerous
to human life.”
Brent Jones, president of the
bottler, AffinityLifestyles.com
Inc., and a former Nevada state

Lawyer: Suspect needs mental evaluation
Alissa appears in court for first time since deadly supermarket shooting
BY COLLEEN SLEVIN, BERNARD CONDON
AND PATTY NIEBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOULDER, COLO. | The suspect in the
Colorado supermarket shooting ap-
peared in court for the first time Thurs-
day, and a defense attorney immediately
asked that he receive a mental health
evaluation before the case against him
proceeds.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, did not
speak during the brief hearing except to
say “yes” to a question from the judge,
who advised him that he is charged
with murder in the attack that killed
10 people, including a Boulder police
officer.
Mr. Alissa also is charged with at-
tempted murder for allegedly shoot-
ing at another police officer, who was
unhurt.
Boulder County District Attorney
Michael Dougherty said authorities
planned to file more charges. He did
not elaborate.
Mr. Alissa did not enter a plea, which
will come later in the judicial process.
He has been jailed without bail.
The young man entered court in
a wheelchair, presumably because of
a gunshot wound to the leg that he
suffered in Monday’s shooting. Five
deputies with black bands of mourning
across their badges stood close by. He
appeared alert and attentive, moving his
knees from side to side, his eyes dart-
ing back and forth from his lawyers to
the judge. He wore a mask and purple,
short-sleeved coveralls.
His attorney, public defender Kath-
ryn Herold, provided no details about
his health. At Ms. Herold’s request, Mr.
Alissa’s next hearing will not be sched-
uled for two to three months to allow
the defense to evaluate his mental state
by the online extremist tracking firm
SITE Intelligence Group.
In July 2019, Mr. Alissa wrote that
his phone was being hacked by “racist
islamophobic people.” At another point,
he wrote that his old high school had
likely gotten access to his phone, ask-
ing Facebook followers for advice on
how to stop it.
Mr. Alissa was convicted in 2018
of assaulting a fellow high school stu-
dent, according to police documents.
A former classmate told the AP he was
kicked off the wrestling team after yell-
ing he would kill everyone following a
loss in a practice match.
After a white supremacist killed
51 people in the 2019 New Zealand
mosque massacre, Mr. Alissa called the
dead “victims of the entire Islamopho-
bia industry that vilified them.” Three
months later, he posted a link to a PBS
story about how immigrants help the
economy, writing, “Why refugees and
immigrants are good for America.”
“What Islam is really about,” he
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wrote in one Facebook post that re-
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, appeared in Boulder, Colorado, District Court on Thursday ferred to a list of teachings from the
for the first time since Monday’s deadly supermarket shooting. His defense lawyer Koran, including to “be good to others”
asked for a mental health assessment “to address his mental illness.” and “restrain anger.”
In other posts, he urged followers
to give to charity, described abortion
and evidence collected by investigators. Mr. Alissa told them people were fol- as “disgusting” and said he opposed
“Our position is we cannot do any- lowing or chasing him, which they said gay marriage.
thing until we are able to fully assess may have contributed to the violence, “There was no indication on his
Mr. Alissa’s mental illness,” Ms. Herold the official said. The official was not Facebook account that suggested radi-
said, adding that the defense cannot authorized to speak publicly and spoke cal views of any kind, whether it be
begin that assessment until it receives to The Associated Press on condition Islamist, anti-Trump, or anything else,”
evidence from investigators. of anonymity. said Rita Katz, executive director of
A law enforcement official briefed Screenshots of what was believed SITE, which analyzed the postings. “He
on the shooting previously said that to be Mr. Alissa’s Facebook page hint did mention Islam on his Facebook, but
the suspect’s family told investigators of fears that he was secretly being never to any extremity.”
they believed Mr. Alissa was suffering tracked on his phone and reflect his Thursday’s court appearance was
some type of mental illness, including interest in Islamic teachings, immigra- the first time Mr. Alissa appeared in
delusions. tion and martial arts. The screenshots public since his arrest Monday inside
Relatives have described times when and dozens of postings were captured the King Soopers supermarket.
Republican lawmaker, did not im-
mediately respond Wednesday
to telephone and email messages
seeking comment.
Mr. Jones issued a statement
March 17 calling for stores na-
tionwide to pull Real Water from
shelves “until the issue is resolved.”
Now, a nearly two-minute video
message featuring Jones on the
Real Water website offers “deepest
sympathy and concern over the
events that led to the inquiry.”
It said the “voluntary nation-
wide recall of all products” will
remain in effect “until the safety of
our product is clearly established.”
The court actions follow an
FDA warning last week not to
drink, cook with, sell or serve Real
Water, which is marketed widely
in the U.S.
Lee Gray, an attorney repre-
senting the company in the FDA
probe, said Wednesday that Real
Water “issued a voluntary product
recall and is continuing to work
closely with FDA to investigate
and determine the root cause of
any issues with its products.” He
declined to comment about the
lawsuits.
Will Kemp, a Las Vegas at-
torney, launched the legal barrage
with a civil negligence and de-
ceptive trade practices case filed
March 16. It blamed the water for
liver illness in five hospitalized
children.
The regional Southern Ne-
vada Health District reported in-
vestigating illnesses of six other
people since November 2020 who
reported less severe symptoms
including vomiting, nausea, ap-
petite loss and fatigue.
A new lawsuit by Mr. Kemp,
filed Monday on behalf of plaintiff
Myles Hunwardsen and four other
people, blamed the water for Mr.
Hunwardsen’s liver failure in Sep-
tember 2019. It said he received
a liver transplant at a hospital in
Los Angeles.

CALIFORNIA
Judges must weigh
ability to pay bail
SACRAMENTO | The California
Supreme Court unanimously
ruled Thursday that judges
must consider suspects’ ability
to pay when they set bail, es-
sentially requiring that indigent
defendants be freed unless they
are deemed too dangerous to be
released awaiting trial.
Judges can require electronic
monitoring, regular check-ins
with authorities or order the
suspect to stay in a shelter
or undergo drug and alcohol
treatment — conditions that “in
many cases protect public and
victim safety as well as assure
the arrestee’s appearance at
trial,” Associate Justice Mari-
ano-Florentino Cuellar wrote
on behalf of the court.
BRIEFLY
THE NATION
“What we hold is that where
a financial condition is nonethe-
less necessary, the court must
consider the arrestee’s ability to
pay the stated amount of bail —
and may not effectively detain
the arrestee ‘solely because’ the
arrestee ‘lacked the resources’ to
post bail,” the justices wrote.
— Associated Press
GEORGIA
Kemp signs bill to tighten
election-security rules
ATLANTA | Georgia Gov.
Brian Kemp drew protests
Thursday as he signed into
law a sweeping Republican-
sponsored overhaul of state
elections that includes new
restrictions on voting by mail
and greater legislative control
over how elections are run.
Democrats and voting rights
groups say the law will dispro-
portionately disenfranchise vot-
ers of color. It is one of a wave
of GOP-backed election bills
introduced in states around the
country after former President
Donald Trump claimed that
fraud led to his 2020 defeat.
President Biden called such
GOP efforts “un-American” and
“sick” during a news conference
Thursday.
Mr. Kemp signed the bill less
than two hours after it cleared
the Georgia General Assembly.
The bill passed the state House
100-75, before the state Sen-
ate quickly agreed to House
changes, 34-20. Republicans
in the legislature supported it.
Democrats were opposed.
“After the November elec-
tion last year, I knew, like so
many of you, that significant
reforms to our state elections
were needed,” said Mr. Kemp,
who drew Mr. Trump’s ire after
certifying Mr. Biden’s victory in
Georgia.
— Associated Press
PENNSYLVANIA
Gas drilling firms defeat
state’s antitrust lawsuit
HARRISBURG | Pennsylva-
nia’s highest court has deliv-
ered a victory for natural gas
exploration firms, ruling that
the state attorney general’s
office doesn’t have authority
under state law to sue them
on antitrust grounds over
their mineral rights-leasing
practices.
The bid by the attorney
general’s office to pursue an
antitrust action under state law
had attracted the close atten-
tion of major business groups
in Pennsylvania, the nation’s
No. 2 gas-producing state.
But the state Supreme
Court, in a 6-1 decision late
Wednesday, overturned lower
court decisions and agreed
with Texas-based Anadarko
Petroleum Corp. that state
consumer protection law does
not allow sellers to take action
against buyers.
— Associated Press
TEXAS
Migrant child drowns, but
border security rescues 2
A 9-year-old migrant child
died after being stranded in
the Rio Grande but Homeland
Security agents managed to
rescue and revive another child
and an adult from the river, the
government said Thursday.
The migrants were trying to
cross the river on Saturday but
became stranded on an island
on the Mexican side.
Border Patrol agents found
them and brought them to
shore while performing first
aid. A Guatemalan mother
and her 3-year-old child were
revived.
Efforts to revive the other
child, a Mexican, failed.
Migrant deaths on the
border appear to be on the
rise this year, with drownings,
mass-casualty vehicle crashes
and exposure to the elements
accounting for the totals.
— Stephen Dinan
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2021
Iranian refineries are fueling defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. China has
sent a lifeline to Tehran by tripling its purchases of oil from the nation since President Biden took office.
CHINA
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crude oil from Iran more than
doubled during February, from a
2020 average of 306,000 barrels
per day to roughly 856,000 barrels
per day, according to OilPrice.
com.
The commodities data com-
pany Kpler estimated that China
will import an average of 918,000
barrels a day from Iran in March,
according to The Wall Street
Journal, the highest total since
the Trump administration im-
posed a full embargo on Iranian
oil two years ago.
Republican lawmakers on
Capitol Hill, many hostile to the
nuclear accord, also have begun
to take notice. They say the Biden
administration is talking a big
game on China but turning a
blind eye to its violations of
American sanctions.
China “is openly flouting U.S.
sanctions and flooding bad actors
like Iran, Venezuela and North
Korea with cash,” Rep. Andy
Barr, a Kentucky Republican who
sits on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, told The Washington
Times on Thursday.
“Unfortunately, President
Biden and his administration
have been asleep at the wheel,
enabling [China’s] scheme,” he
said, arguing that “the U.S. needs
to send a strong message to Bei-
jing that propping these coun-
tries up economically poses a
global threat and there will be
consequences … if it continues.”
Strategic goals
Mr. Phillips said that by al-
lowing China to increase its
purchases of Iranian oil without
consequences, the Biden admin-
istration may also be playing into
Beijing’s wider strategic goals.
“China not only has an inter-
est in buying discounted oil from
Iran,” he said in an interview.
“It also has geopolitical incen-
tives in the sense that it could
prop up the Iranian regime with
the goal of prolonging tensions
between the U.S. and Iran in a
way that prevents the U.S. from
achieving its desired strategic
pivot to Asia.”
Some say that gives Beijing
strategists too much credit.
“If China tries to do that, it
will be constrained and limited
by its dependency on energy
supplies from Saudi Arabia and
other Gulf countries as well,” said
Brian Katulis, a national security
and Middle East fellow with the
Center for American Progress.
“There is only so much hedging
China can do in today’s fractured
Middle East, and China is much
more dependent on that region’s
oil these days than the United
States is.”
Administration officials say
they intend to enforce the exist-
ing sanctions on Iran’s oil sector,
but there is little sign of that
happening. The White House has
instead focused on raising con-
cerns privately with the Chinese
in hopes they will change their
behavior.
National Security Adviser
Jake Sullivan and Secretary of
State Antony Blinken raised the
issue last week during their first
face-to-face talks in Alaska with
their Chinese counterparts. Of-
ficials say the meeting was rife,
at least in public, with tension
and disagreements on a range of
fronts.
“Our discussions in Anchor-
age included our concerns about
[China’s] purchases of Iranian oil,
as well as other sanctions enforce-
ment issues,” a senior administra-
tion official told The Washing-
ton Times on the condition of
anonymity, adding that Chinese
compliance with U.N. sanctions on
North Korea was also discussed.
“We regularly raise these issues
with PRC officials and will keep
doing so,” the official said.
U.S. analysts have long been
aware that China regularly skirts
international sanctions on North
Korea, but Beijing’s willingness
to defy U.S. oil sanctions on Iran
has received less attention in
Washington.
Countries have long chafed
at the “secondary” sanctions the
U.S. has levied on entities that do
business with Iran. The Trump
sanctions were imposed unilater-
ally after Washington withdrew
from the Iran nuclear deal, unlike
the pre-deal sanctions that were
broadly supported around the
world.
Some believe Washington has
either lost leverage over China or
badly miscalculated Beijing’s over-
all approach toward the Middle
East and the authoritarian theoc-
racy ruling Iran.
Beijing has increased oil pur-
chases after signing a deal in June
on a special 25-year strategic part-
nership with Tehran. Pressed to
find reliable sources of energy
for its booming manufacturing
sector, Beijing continues to pump
money into energy infrastructure
projects around the region.
Iran is not the only rogue inter-
national actor with whom Beijing
is pursuing expanded oil ties. Sev-
eral recent reports have pointed
to a similar spike in Chinese pur-
chases from Venezuela, also with-
out retaliation from Washington
despite U.S. sanctions targeting
the South American nation’s pe-
troleum sector.
The Trump administration
imposed sanctions on Venezuela
in a bid to drive out the nation’s
authoritarian president, Nicolas
Maduro. Beijing is reportedly
flouting the sanctions, and Mr.
Maduro is hanging on to power.
Internal documents from Venezu-
ela’s state oil company showed
that direct shipments of oil to
China resumed in November in
direct violation of the U.S. mea-
sures, according to a report by
Reuters.
Biden administration officials
did not respond to questions from
The Times this week about the
Chinese-Venezuelan activity.
However, administration officials
insist there has been no policy
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change with regard to Iranian oil
sanctions.
Making the first move
Under the 2015 nuclear deal,
Iran agreed to limit its nuclear
programs and open them to in-
ternational inspections in ex-
change for relief from punishing
international sanctions, including
from China. But since the Trump
administration began reimposing
sanctions, Iran has ratcheted up
its nuclear activities in violation
of the nuclear deal, known as the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac-
tion (JCPOA).
The Biden administration says
it is prepared to lift the Trump-
era sanctions if Iran returns to
compliance with the limits set
by the JCPOA, but Iranian of-
ficials have demanded in recent
weeks that Washington lift sanc-
tions first. So far, neither side had
blinked.
A State Department spokes-
person said this week that “our
current Iran-related sanctions
remain in effect unless and until
they are lifted as part of a diplo-
matic process.”
With regard to China’s in-
creased purchases, the official
said: “We will, of course, address
any effort at sanctions evasion.”
Mr. Katulis said China
represents a “big challenge
across the board” for the Biden
administration.
“Its energy purchases in Iran
and Venezuela is just one of sev-
eral arenas the Biden team is
going to have to deal with,” he
said, adding that the adminis-
tration more broadly will “face
considerable challenges recon-
ciling competing parts of many
of its stated goals on the foreign
policy front.”
“The Biden administration
seeks to prioritize democracy
and human rights, but it also
wants to build a coalition around
the world to counter China,” Mr.
Katulis said. “That presents cer-
tain wrinkles it needs to iron
out in countries like India and
key parts of the Middle East and
Africa, where many countries
are led by authoritarian, anti-
democratic forces.”
Mr. Phillips, meanwhile, sug-
gested that the administration has
misplayed its hand with regard to
the China-Iran dynamic.
“Perhaps the administration
was counting its chickens before
they hatched in the sense that
it thought it would quickly go
into talks with Iran and maybe it
didn’t want to rock the boat over
China’s purchases of Iranian oil,”
he said.
“I gave the administration
credit for making it clear that it
will not lift sanctions unless Iran
came back into compliance, but
this seems like a backdoor way
to release sanctions pressure on
Tehran,” Mr. Phillips said. “If you
don’t enforce the sanctions, what
good are they? The administra-
tion talks a good ballgame, but if
it doesn’t enforce the sanctions,
it undermines its own publicly
announced policy.”
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and these product work better
than we could have ever
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This is the case with the
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Why so effective? We asked
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MILITARY
Biden says U.S. military will withdraw from Afghanistan
However, likely to miss Trump’s May 1 deadline
BY BEN WOLFGANG
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Biden on Thurs-
day laid down a broad marker
for America’s troubled military
mission in Afghanistan, virtually
ruling out a U.S. troop presence
beyond this year while suggesting
he’s prepared to brush aside the
May 1 withdrawal deadline put in
place by President Trump.
At his first press conference
since taking office, Mr. Biden of-
fered his most detailed comments
to date about his plan to eventually
wind down the war in Afghani-
stan, now the longest conflict in
U.S. history and one that the presi-
dent during his campaign vowed
to bring to a close.
But Mr. Biden was light on spe-
cifics, offering no detailed time-
table and even leaving himself
wiggle room on the final with-
drawal date, with Mr. Trump’s
deadline now just a little more
than a month away.
“It’s going to be hard to meet
the May 1 deadline just in terms
ISRAEL
Netanyahu faces
difficult path to
preserving position
Party splits could mean yet
another election in Israel soon
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM | Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and his
right-wing allies fell short of win-
ning a parliamentary majority in
Israel’s latest election, accord-
ing to a final vote count released
Thursday, leaving a political dead-
lock that — once again — put
the longtime leader’s future in
question.
The fourth election in just
two years brought a stinging re-
buke for Mr. Netanyahu, the most
dominant figure in Israeli politics
in a generation. Adding to the
pain, he lost ground to former
partners who vowed never to sit
in a government with him again.
Under Israel’s fragmented po-
litical system, the hawkish prime
minister could still try to reach
across the aisle and cobble to-
gether a governing coalition. But
the makeup of the new parliament
will make that extremely difficult,
giving his opponents the upper
hand in coalition talks. It’s also
quite possible Israel will go into a
fifth election later this year.
“It is clear that Netanyahu
does not have a majority to form
a government under his leader-
ship,” said Gideon Saar, one of
the former Netanyahu allies who
now oppose him. “Action must
now be taken to realize the pos-
sibility of forming a government
for change.”
In order to form a government,
a candidate must work with allied
partners to secure a 61-seat major-
ity in the Knesset, or parliament.
According to the final results re-
leased by Israel’s election com-
mission, Mr. Netanyahu and his
allies captured 52 seats, compared
to 57 held by his opponents.
In the middle were two unde-
cided parties: Yamina, a seven-
seat nationalist party headed by
former Netanyahu lieutenant Naf-
tali Bennett, and Raam, an Arab
Islamist party that won four seats.
Neither Mr. Bennett of Yamina
nor Mansour Abbas of Raam has
committed to either camp. Yet
deep divisions in both the pro-
Netanyahu and anti-Netanyahu
blocs could make it difficult for
either side to secure a majority
with them.
“Israel is experiencing its
worst political crisis in decades.
of tactical reasons. It’s hard to get
those troops out,” Mr. Biden said.
“It is not my intention to stay there
for a long time, but the question is
how and in what circumstances”
the U.S. exits the country.
The administration faces a
delicate balancing act. U.S. voters
are clearly tired of the 20-year
mission, but military experts say
the U.S.-backed government in
Kabul is still to weak to hold off
the Taliban insurgency without
foreign help.
“We are not staying a long
time,” Mr. Biden continued. “We
will leave. The question is when
we leave.”
Pressed on the timeline, Mr.
Biden said he “can’t picture” U.S.
forces still being in the country
by next year.
There are currently about 2,500
U.S. troops in Afghanistan, along
with several thousand NATO and
allied troops. The U.S. forces are
supposed to withdraw by May 1
under a deal Mr. Trump struck
with the Taliban in early 2020,
but most observers believe the
It’s apparent that our political
system finds it very difficult to
produce a decisive outcome,” said
Yohanan Plesner, president of the
Israel Democracy Institute. “This
is as a result of inherent weak-
nesses in our electoral system, but
it’s also because of the Netanyahu
factor.”
Tuesday’s vote was widely
seen as a referendum on Mr. Ne-
tanyahu’s leadership style and
fitness to rule while under in-
dictment. “Israelis are split right
down the middle on this ques-
tion,” Mr. Plesner said.
Mr. Netanyahu’s support-
ers see him as a statesman with
global stature uniquely qualified
to lead the country. He cam-
paigned on the strength of his
management of the country’s suc-
cessful coronavirus vaccination
program and diplomatic agree-
ments reached last year with four
Arab countries.
His opponents, however, say
Mr. Netanyahu is untrustworthy
and has bungled many aspects
of the coronavirus crisis. They
also say he should not be running
the country at a time when he is
on trial on multiple corruption
charges. The evidentiary phase,
in which a series of former aides
are to take the stand against him,
is set to begin on April 5.
Thursday’s results set the
stage for weeks of uncertainty
as the country’s constitutional
president, Reuven Rivlin, con-
sults with party leaders on who
gets the first crack at forming a
coalition government.
Merav Michaeli, whose cen-
ter-left Labor Party won seven
seats, declared victory for the
anti-Netanyahu camp. “Now it is
time to form a government,” she
told Channel 13 TV.
That may not be so simple.
The anti-Netanyahu camp in-
cludes a diverse array of parties
ranging from leftist Arab factions
to hard-line nationalists opposed
to cooperation with them.
One option floated on Thurs-
day was the possibility of using
their slim parliamentary major-
ity to pass legislation that would
disqualify an indicted politician
from forming a new government,
a measure aimed at barring Mr.
Netanyahu from office. Several
parties said they were leaning in
that direction.
“There’s something of the character of a nation in its money, and we are
right to consider and celebrate the people on our bank notes.”
— Bank of England Gov. Andrew Bailey, at the unveiling Thursday of the design for a new 50-pound bank note honoring World War II code-breaker and
computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who was convicted of “gross indecency” in 1952 because of his sexuality and died in 1954 from cyanide poisoning
Taliban has failed to live up to its
promises under the agreement,
such as cutting off all ties with
terrorist groups such as al Qaeda
and reducing violence across the
country.
Taliban leaders have already
warned Washington that a delay in
the May 1 timeline could mean the
collapse of the entire deal, and a
possible return to direct attacks on
American forces. Military leaders
and foreign policy analysts fear a
major uptick in insurgent violence
that could destabilize the entire
country.
Afghanistan may be the presi-
dent’s most pressing foreign pol-
icy headache, but it is not the
only one. Mr. Biden faced ques-
tions Thursday about new North
Korean missile tests, talks with
Central American countries on
the current immigration crisis,
and the challenge of dealing with
China.
On North Korea, Mr. Biden
reversed course after just days
ago laughing off questions about
recent Pyongyang’s recent missile
GREECE MARKS ITS INDEPENDENCE DAY
Members of the Presidential Guard raising the Greek flag in front of the Parthenon as Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Katerina Sakellaropoulou attend the ceremony in Athens on Thursday.
Greece celebrates the bicentenary of the start of the war of independence against the Ottoman Empire.
DIPLOMACY
U.S. gives $15 million to Palestinians
to deal with COVID-19 pandemic
BY EDITH M. LEDERER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK | The Biden ad-
ministration said Thursday it
is giving $15 million to vulner-
able Palestinian communities in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip
to help deal with the COVID-
19 pandemic, a sharp reversal
from the Trump administration
which cut off almost all aid to the
Palestinians.
U.S. U.N. Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield made the
announcement at the Security
Council’s monthly Mideast meet-
ing, saying the money from the
U.S. Agency for International De-
velopment will support Catho-
lic Relief Services’ “COVID-19
response efforts in health care
facilities and for vulnerable fami-
lies in the West Bank and Gaza.”
In addition, she said, the funds
will support emergency food aid
to communities in need as a result
of the pandemic.
“This urgent, necessary aid is
one piece of our renewed com-
mitment to the Palestinian peo-
ple,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said.
“The aid will help Palestinians in
dire need, which will bring more
stability and security to both
Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
Under former President
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“We are not staying a long time,” President Biden said about U.S. troops
in Afghanistan. “We will leave. The question is when we leave,” he said.
launches. The administration has
dismissed last weekend’s launches
as little more than “normal mili-
tary activity” by the regime, but
the president said that the more
recent tests — which saw North
Korea fire two ballistic missiles
into the sea between the Ko-
rean Peninsula and Japan early
Wednesday — violated United
Nations resolutions and could
demand a much tougher response.
“We are consulting with our
ASSOCIATED PRESS
“This urgent, necessary aid
is one piece of our renewed
commitment to the Palestinian
people,” said Linda Thomas-
Greenfield, a U.S. ambassador.
Donald Trump, the U.S. provided
unprecedented support to Israel,
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital, moving the U.S. Embassy
from Tel Aviv, breaking relations
and slashing financial assistance
for the Palestinians. The Trump
administration also reversed
course on the illegitimacy of Is-
raeli settlements on land claimed
by the Palestinians. It did restore
about $1 million during the pan-
demic last year.
Soon after President Biden
was inaugurated on Jan. 20, his
administration announced that it
was restoring relations with the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
allies and partners and there will
be a response if they choose to
escalate,” Mr. Biden said of North
Korea.
The U.N. Security Council’s
North Korea sanctions committee
will meet Friday at the request
of the United States, the Reuters
news agency reported Thursday.
The White House is readying
a diplomatic push aimed at secur-
ing a permanent end to North
Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians and renewing aid to
Palestinian refugees, a reversal
of Mr. Trump’s cutoff and a key
element of its new support for a
diplomatic two-state solution to
the long-running dispute.
Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said
the $15 million in aid is “consis-
tent with our interests and our
values, and it aligns with our ef-
forts to stamp our the pandemic
and food insecurity worldwide.”
She made the announcement
as Israel awaits the final results
from Tuesday’s fourth parliamen-
tary elections in two years. It was
widely seen as a referendum on
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu’s fitness to rule while
under indictment. His prospects
for victory moved out of reach
Thursday as the complete vote
count showed Mr. Netanyahu and
his right-wing allies falling short
of a parliamentary majority. His
opponents also did not assemble
a majority of the 120-seat Knesset.
The U.S. announcement
Thursday also follows a virtual
meeting Tuesday of the so-called
“Quartet” of Mideast mediators
— the U.S., U.N., Russia and the
European Union — to discuss re-
launching their long-stalled effort
to get Israel and the Palestinians
to negotiate a two-state solution
to their decades-old conflict.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2021
Administration officials said ear-
lier this week that they are in con-
tact with former Trump adminis-
tration diplomats to gain insights
into Pyongyang’s thinking. Mr.
Trump held three in-person sum-
mits with North Korean leader
Kim Jong-un during his tenure, but
those meetings failed to produce
a denuclearization deal.
On China, Mr. Biden vowed
that the U.S. will hold Commu-
nist Party leaders accountable
for what he described as grave
human-rights abuses, including
the treatment of minority Uyghur
Muslims in the Xinjiang province
and a harsh crackdown on protest-
ers in Hong Kong.
More broadly, the president
said he is committed to ensuring
that Beijing does not achieve its
goal of supplanting the U.S. as the
globe’s preeminent superpower.
“They have an overall goal to
become the leading country in the
world, the wealthiest country in
the world, and the most powerful
country in the world,” Mr. Biden
said. “That’s not going to happen
on my watch.”
⦁ Bill Gertz contributed to this
story.
BRIEFLY
THE WORLD
HEALTH
Manufacturer’s woes
bring delays for vaccines
GENEVA | The U.N.-backed
program to ship COVID-19 vac-
cines worldwide has announced
supply delays involving a key
Indian manufacturer, a major
setback for the ambitious
rollout aimed at helping low-
and middle-income countries
vaccinate their populations and
fight the pandemic.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,
and its partners said Thursday
that the Serum Institute of
India, a pivotal vaccine maker
behind the COVAX program,
will face increasing domestic
demands as coronavirus infec-
tions surge.
The move will affect up to
40 million doses of the Oxford
University-AstraZeneca vac-
cines being manufactured by
the Serum Institute that were
to be delivered for COVAX this
month, as well as 50 million
expected next month.
— Associated Press
RUSSIA
Navalny complains
of poor treatment
MOSCOW | Russian opposi-
tion leader Alexei Navalny has
accused prison authorities of
failing to provide proper treat-
ment for his back pain and leg
problems, saying in a letter
posted Thursday that his physi-
cal condition has worsened in
prison and he now has trouble
walking.
The 44-year-old Mr.
Navalny, who is President
Vladimir Putin’s most outspo-
ken opponent, was arrested on
Jan. 17 upon his return from
Germany, where he spent five
months recovering from a
nerve-agent poisoning that he
blames on the Kremlin. Russian
authorities have rejected the
accusation.
— Associated Press
LIBYA
European ministers offer
new government support
CAIRO | The foreign min-
isters of France, Italy and
Germany met with Libyan
officials Thursday to show
support for the country’s newly
elected transitional authorities,
who are expected to lead the
war-stricken country through
general elections by the end of
2021.
The European foreign minis-
ters also called on mercenaries
and foreign fighters to leave the
country immediately.
— Associated Press
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SHIPPING
From page A1
transport costs by bypassing heavy
traffic in the Malacca Strait,” Transport
Minister Saksayam Chidchob said.
Government survey crews and en-
gineers envision a sleek, upside-down
L-shaped route more than 70 miles long
from coast to coast, with a railway and
highway side by side the entire way. Ports
at both ends of the project would be
vastly upgraded to handle the expected
rise in traffic.
In such a strategic neighborhood, the
project already has political ramifica-
tions, particularly if China gets involved
in what has long been a key U.S. ally in
Southeast Asia. Chinese President Xi
Jinping’s vastly ambitious Belt and Road
Initiative has already set off alarms for
the U.S. and its allies as a potential ve-
hicle to increase China’s economic clout
and political influence.
“If built with the help of China, [the
land bridge] could fit within the Belt
and Road Initiative, linking to Chinese-
backed railways and making Beijing less
reliant on the Strait of Malacca,” the
Singapore-based publication ASEAN
Today said in an editorial last week.
“Thailand has made it clear that — while
it’s happy to build a close relationship to
Beijing — it doesn’t want to be seen as
beholden to foreign influence.
“Thailand will likely look for sup-
port from multiple partners across the
region,” it said.
China is already extending its rail-
way system south across Laos toward
Bangkok, which is linked to Thailand’s
port services along the Gulf of Thailand.
The land bridge would present China
with a much faster way to move imports
and exports to and from the warm An-
daman Sea, improving access to waters
that archrival India regards as vital to its
lengthy east coast. It would also address
Chinese fears that it would be vulnerable
in a time of crisis to a blockade of the
Strait of Malacca.
If the Strait of Malacca becomes a
U.S.-dominated chokehold for oil ship-
ments, then China still may be able to
use the land bridge because Bangkok
prefers to maintain good relations with
both Beijing and Washington.
Economic benefits
Thai officials are stressing the eco-
nomic benefits of the project. They
say the land bridge will be especially
efficient at helping to transport oil from
the Strait of Hormuz to energy-hungry
markets in China, Japan and South Korea.
Ranong, on the Andaman Sea, does
not yet have train service but is reachable
by highway. Thai trains have a station at
Chumphon, located on the Gulf of Thai-
land. Thailand’s slender southern penin-
sula has ports on either side, at Ranong
SHORTCUT
Thai officials are moving ahead with an ambitious rail-roadway “land bridge” linking ports
on the east and west sides of its southern peninsula. The project could be a boon for
China and threaten the dominance of the narrow Strait of Malacca as the main shipping
route linking the Pacific and Indian oceans.
THAILAND
Bangkok
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Andaman Sea
Chumphon
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Thailand
Strait of
Malacca
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Kuala Lumpur
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and Chumphon, but would require a
considerable and expensive upgrade.
Using the connection, ships arriving
from the Middle East could unload cargo
at Thailand’s southwest Ranong Port
on the Andaman Sea near Myanmar’s
southeastern border. The land bridge
would transport cargo containers north
along the Andaman coast.
About halfway, the route would veer
east inland and cross the peninsula,
where rugged mountains are lower in
elevation.
Continuing straight into Chumphon
Port on Thailand’s southeastern coast,
cargo would be unloaded at the com-
mercially active Gulf of Thailand, which
has attracted international shipping for
centuries.
Cargo then would be reloaded onto
ships in the gulf sailing northeast to East
Asian markets. Goods from China, South
Korea and Japan could make the passage
in reverse on their way to markets in the
Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Ships currently must sail farther
south and go around Singapore at the
tip of the peninsula, just below Malay-
sia. The Strait of Malacca is wedged
between Indonesia’s northern Sumatra
island and Singapore, which services
shippers’ needs.
Some vessels avoid the Malacca Strait
and choose a much longer, less crowded
route by chugging south of the equator,
skirting the Indonesian archipelago’s
southern beaches.
The Thai government and the na-
tional railway system have spent about
$10 million in the past year on feasibility
studies for the land bridge. Mr. Prayuth
has reportedly swung in favor of the
LAOS
CAMBODIA
CAMBODIA VIETNAM
Phnom Penh
South China Sea
MALAYSIA
Singapore
SINGAPORE
INDONESIA
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
project, suggesting it could help the
Thai economy recover from a COVID-
19-induced slump.
“The location of the government’s
land bridge project in the south — touted
as a more convenient way to transport
goods from the Middle East to the Pacific
region — will be decided by June,” Mr.
Saksayam told the Bangkok Post.
If the project does get the green light,
then it would doom decades of dreams
about digging a much more expensive
“Kra Canal” — Thailand’s version of
the Panama Canal — on a similar route
across the Kra Isthmus, linking Ranong
and Chumphon. That canal would have
spanned the peninsula at its narrowest
point by dredging a deeper 40-mile-
long stretch of the Kra Buri River near
Ranong Port.
During the 17th century, European
and Thai leaders talked about hacking
through the jungle but lacked the will,
finances and technology to make the
Kra Canal.
Arrangements to finance the land
bridge have not been made public, but
a major injection of foreign investment
is anticipated. China, the U.S., Australia
and India appeared to be interested in
helping build the Kra Canal, but the
price for Thai partners spiraled too
high.
Both the canal and the land route
increase the risk of sea pollution, oil
spills and other environmental havoc
in an area largely dependent on coastal
fishing. Also, the U.S.-Chinese rivalry ap-
pears to be heating up again in Thailand.
Washington had been toning down its
rhetoric on Mr. Prayuth’s increasingly
authoritarian rule.
Traffic backs up behind stuck ship
An operation is underway to try to work free the Ever Given, which is still stuck in
the Suez Canal. Authorities are looking for new ways to free the massive ship.
BY JON GAMBRELL AND SAMY MAGDY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISMAILIA, EGYPT | Dredgers, tug-
boats and even a backhoe failed to free
a giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s
Suez Canal on Thursday. More than
150 vessels are now backed up, with
hundreds more headed to the vital
waterway, and losses to global ship-
ping are mounting.
The skyscraper-sized Ever Given,
carrying cargo between Asia and Eu-
rope, ran aground Tuesday in the
narrow, human-made canal divid-
ing continental Africa from the Sinai
Peninsula. Even helped by high tides,
authorities have been unable to push
the Panama-flagged container vessel
aside, and they are looking for new
ideas to free it.
The ship’s Japanese owner even
offered a written apology.
As efforts to free it resumed at
daylight Thursday, an Egyptian canal
authority official said workers hoped
to avoid offloading containers from
the vessel as it would take days to do
so and extend the closure. The official
spoke on condition of anonymity as he
wasn’t authorized to talk to journalists.
So far, dredgers have tried to clear
silt around the massive ship. Tug boats
During the past several years, the
U.S. has been training the Thai navy in
submarine warfare to guard its ports
and waters along the Andaman and gulf.
“It is important to maintain rela-
tions with Thailand because they have
outstanding visibility in the maritime
ASSOCIATED PRESS
nudged the vessel alongside it, trying
to gain momentum. From the shore, at
least one backhoe dug into the canal’s
sandy banks, suggesting the bow of
the ship had plowed into it. However,
satellite photos taken Thursday and
analyzed by The Associated Press
showed the vessel still stuck in the
same location.
Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, the head of
the canal authority, said navigation
through the waterway would remain
halted until the Ever Given is refloated.
A team from Boskalis, a Dutch firm
specialized in salvaging, arrived at the
canal Thursday, although one of its top
officials warned removing the vessel
could take “days to weeks.”
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement,
the company that manages the Ever
Given, said they were focusing on
dredging to remove sand and mud from
around the port side of the vessel’s bow.
It said a specialized suction dredger
would join other dredgers on the site.
That dredger is able to shift 2,000 cubic
meters of material every hour, it said.
The ship had two pilots from
Egypt’s canal authority aboard the
vessel to guide it when the grounding
happened around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday,
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement
said.
domain in a critical part of the world,”
Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford,
then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said in 2018.
China, meanwhile, has been trying
to sell three submarines to Thailand to
boost its relatively weak navy.

CAKE rejected, but “it still stunned and stung

From page A1
U.S. Supreme Court.
The lawsuit represents the latest
installment in a nine-year legal odyssey
that began when Mr. Phillips declined
in 2012 to make a cake for a same-sex
wedding, a case he won six years later
at the Supreme Court.
That is where Ms. Scardina comes in.
In June 2017, on the same day the high
court agreed to hear the case, she called
the Lakewood bakery and asked for a
blue-and-pink, male-to-female transi-
tion cake to celebrate her birthday. The
bakery declined.
She submitted a complaint with the
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but
the panel dropped the matter in March
2019 after Mr. Phillips sued the state for
harassment. Three months later, Ms.
Scardina filed a civil lawsuit accusing
Mr. Phillips of violating the Colorado
Anti-Discrimination Act.
During the trial, Ms. Scardina said she
knew her cake request would likely be
— how very sort of debasing it is to have
somebody say, ‘No, your kind doesn’t get
service.’ ”
“[T]o be seen as a less-than customer,
to be seen as an undeserving human is
very upsetting,” she said, as shown on
the transcript of the trial, which was
held remotely.
Ms. Scardina also admitted that she
also asked Masterpiece for a cake de-
picting Satan smoking a joint, which the
bakery declined, and sent Mr. Phillips an
email in August 2012 calling him a bigot,
although she said she later apologized.
“I want to believe that he’s a good
person. I want to believe that he could
be, sort of, persuaded to the errors of his
thinking,” she said.
Asked by Phillips attorney Sean Gates
whether she was “hopeful that you could
correct Mr. Phillips’ errors of thinking,”
Ms. Scardina replied, “I think, in part,
yes.” As for whether the cake request was
a setup, she said it was “more of a calling
of somebody’s bluff.”
Mr. Phillips has long argued that he
serves all customers but won’t make
products that convey messages with which
he disagrees, including Halloween and
anti-LGBTQ cakes. Ms. Scardina coun-
tered that there was nothing offensive
about the request for a blue-and-pink cake.
“If he offers custom cakes to the com-
munity, he must offer custom cakes to
the entire community,” she said. “And he
doesn’t get to pick and choose based on
perceived characteristics of members of
the community.”
In Masterpiece’s corner was Mike
Jones, an openly gay customer who said
Mr. Phillips, his wife and daughter have
always treated him with “respect and
good customer service” and that “there
are times I feel like I’m part of the family.”
No matter the judge’s ruling, the case
is likely to be appealed, meaning Mr.
Phillips could wind up once again at the
Supreme Court.
In the first Masterpiece case, the high
court ruled in favor of Masterpiece based
on the anti-religious hostility and bias
displayed by Colorado commissioners,
a narrow ruling that failed to resolve the
debate on whether he could refuse custom
cake orders based on their messages.
Jonathan Scruggs, Alliance Defending
Freedom senior counsel and Phillips at-
torney, said the “endgame is, agree with
me and support my views on human sexu-
ality, or we’re going to shut you down.”
“These laws that Jack has been sued
under numerous times are really being
used as a sword to target people,” he said.
Even after the appeals are exhausted,
another case could quickly take its place.
Ms. Scardina said she indicated during
mediation that she would request another
cake and file another lawsuit if the court
rulings fail to address “the fundamental
disagreement.”
“I believe that it’s very, very important
that Mr. Phillips understand he does not
have the ability to discriminate against
members of the LGBT community in the
goods and services that he provides,” she
said at the trial.
Her hand could strengthen if Congress
approves the Equality Act, which bars
discrimination based on sexual orienta-
tion and gender identity and exempts
itself from the Religious Freedom Res-
toration Act.
President Biden has said he will sign
the bill, which is now before the Senate
after passing the House last month on
a 224-206 vote, with three Republicans
joining all Democrats.
“What you face with the Equality
Act is doing this situation on repeat
nationwide,” said Mr. Scruggs. “We’re
filing lawsuits across the country now
to support the right of people to control
what messages they say on behalf of
photographers, calligraphers, filmmak-
ers, and we’ve won those lawsuits so far.”
Both parties say the trial has taken
a financial toll. Ms. Scardina said her
business has suffered, and Mr. Phillips
has reduced his staff from 10 to two
full-time employees since his legal saga
began in 2012.
The idea, said Mr. Scruggs, is “to ruin
Jack Phillips and punish him because of
what he believes.”
“It’s really a systematic harassment
campaign targeting him because people
disagree with his religious beliefs,” said
Mr. Scruggs. “That should be scary to
all Americans. In effect, this attorney is
trying to use the court system as an arm
of cancel culture, to cancel Jack Phillips.”

DEATH NOTICES
Sands Sr.,
Frank Melville
Age 82
Frank Melville Sands Sr., 82 years old, passed
away peacefully at his home surrounded by fam-
ily on March 18, 2021. Frank resided in Mclean
Virginia with his beloved wife of 52 years, Marjorie
Root Sands, prior to her passing in 2015.  Frank
was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up
in Arlington, Virginia. He was the son of Melville
Reynolds Sands, a lawyer, and his wife, Louise
Eviston Sands. Frank graduated from Washing-
ton-Lee High School in Arlington Virginia, Dick-
inson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania, and re-
ceived his MBA from the Darden School at the
University of Virginia.
Frank had a long career in investment manage-
ment and was an early innovator in concentrated
growth investing. As an entrepreneur, he founded
Sands Capital in 1992 with the support of his wife
and family. He built the firm with his son Frank
and many other bright and talented people. Most
important to Frank was delivering on the firm’s
mission of creating wealth and adding value for
clients with prudence over time. He radiated opti-
mism, honesty, integrity, kindness and grace. For
many, Frank was a mentor who loved to cultivate
talent and encouraged people to grow personally
and professionally.
Frank was a devoted  and loving  husband, father
and friend. He enjoyed spending time with his fam-
ily and many friends. His favorite place was Jack-
son, Wyoming, where he reveled in the beautiful
scenery, learned to ride horses, and spent time hik-
ing. Frank and Marjorie were also avid admirers of
western art and made many good friends from that
endeavor. He was a sports enthusiast who loved to
watch golf, basketball, and football.
He was generous philanthropist with education
and healthcare being his focus. He served on the
board at the Darden School Foundation and pre-
viously the Virginia Hospital Center Foundation. In
2017 Frank was awarded the Charles C. Abbott
award which is the highest honor bestowed by
the Darden School.
Frank is survived by his son Frank M. Sands,
Jr. (Julie Logan Sands), daughters Katharine
Sands Gunsalus (Curtis Gunsalus) and Laura
Sands Crenshaw (Clint Crenshaw), sister Jeanne
Shaw and eleven grandchildren Connor, Lucas,
Jackson, Ella, Christopher, Benjamin, Hart, Siaki,
Anna, Alexander, and Cyrus.
In lieu of Flowers the family asks for memo-
Smith,
rial contributions be made to The Marjorie Sands Elma E.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Virginia Age 81
Hospital Center or The Kimberly H. Tsamoutales Ms. Elma E. Smith, 81 of Clinton, Maryland, departed this life
Distinguished Professorship, https://give.unc.edu/ Friday, January 22, 2021 at Southern Maryland Hospital. She was
donate Fund # 345955. The professorship serves surrounded in love by her daughters. Born May 9, 1939 in the
to advance the research of patients in need of a Parish of St. Andrews, Jamaica (West Indies). Elma enjoyed life
Lung Transplant. and loved her family. She will be missed dearly by her children.
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Metro “The #AmericanRescuePlan includes a major expansion of the Child Tax

Credit for Virginia parents — with payments beginning to arrive in July.”
— Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia Democrat, on Twitter

MARYLAND DISTRICT

State Senate vote advances balanced budget Catholic

Funding from federal government helps bolster Maryland’s spending plan
BY BRIAN WITTE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANNAPOLIS | The Maryland Senate
unanimously approved a plan Thurs-
day to balance the state budget during
the next fiscal year, with enormous
help from the federal government to
respond to the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Lawmakers in both parties used
words like “stunning” and “unique”
to describe how federal aid reshaped
an ominous budget quandary last year
into the ability to address projected
deficits through fiscal year 2024. The
state’s revenues also held up better
than initially expected shortly after the
pandemic began.
State Sen. Guy Guzzone, a Howard
County Democrat who chairs the Sen-
ate’s budget committee, said the state
is now in a position he could not have
imagined “in my wildest dreams last
year.”
“You just can’t even imagine, when
VIRGINIA
Bill aims to fix pandemic-fueled unemployment issues
we think when this all started a year ago,
that we were all looking at $4 billion, $6
billion in the hole,” Mr. Guzzone said.
The chairman expressed gratitude for
the federal help and described a “high
sense of responsibility for doing what’s
right now for the people who need it.”
“It was a fortunate thing in many
ways, but there was a higher sense of
responsibility that I found, knowing that
we were getting this one-time money
and that we had to do the very best for
the citizens of Maryland right now, and
yet plan out and prepare for the future,
and I believe we’ve done that,” Mr. Guz-
zone said.
State Sen. George Edwards, the rank-
ing Republican on the budget panel,
said lawmakers had to focus on how to
best use “money flowing down from the
government like it’s springing up from
an artesian well,” describing a hole in the
ground from which water is forced to the
surface by natural pressure.
“This is probably the most unique
budget that we’ve dealt with, since I’ve
been in the Legislature, anyway,” said
Mr. Edwards, who has been a legislator
since 1983 and represents Garrett and
Allegany counties as well the western
part of Washington County.
Mr. Edwards also thanked Mr. Guz-
zone for being “very allowing” of the
minority party’s participation in the
budget process.
“This is the way things should work,
where you have some unity … even
though you don’t agree on everything,
you get your point of view in,” Mr. Ed-
wards said.
The House already has voted on its
version of the roughly $50 billion spend-
ing plan for the fiscal year that begins
July 1. The two chambers will work on
reconciling some differences before the
legislature’s scheduled adjournment on
April 12.
The measure provides more than
$1 billion to respond to the pandemic
in legislation that Gov. Larry Hogan
and lawmakers prioritized early in the
legislative session. It authorizes $687
million in state spending and provides
about $585 million in targeted tax relief
to support recovery.
“Most importantly, it significantly
places the state in an advantageous posi-
tion to continue supporting individuals,
particularly low-income earners, and
businesses that continue to be impacted
as we transition out of this pandemic,”
Delegate Maggie McIntosh, a Baltimore
Democrat who chairs the House budget
committee, said last when the House
took up the legislation.
The measure shores up the state pen-
sion system by allotting an extra $170
million. Lawmakers also maintained a
commitment to its sweeping K-12 educa-
tion funding overhaul to improve schools
over the next decade.
The budget plan leaves about $1.8
billion in reserves for the future. That
includes $1.1 billion in the state’s rainy
day fund, or about 5.6% of the state’s
general fund revenues. It also includes
a fund balance of about $675 million in
the general fund.
churches
get reprieve
from virus
restrictions
Judge: Worship
rights violated
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A federal judge issued an injunction
Thursday on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s
coronavirus restrictions on the city’s
Catholic churches, ruling that the
District’s limits of 25% capacity or 250
people at services violates fundamen-
tal worship rights.
Judge Trevor N. McFadden said the
city has allowed residents to buy alco-
hol or get restaurant takeout service as
“essential” services, but denied that
label for churches, even though reli-
gious practice is specifically protected
by the U.S. Constitution.
The city can still require social
distancing at Mass and cleaning, but
the judge said churches can be filled
to 40% capacity and still meet those
standards.

Northam’s order freed “The District’s approach to regulat-

ing houses of worship reflects a lack

payments to residents of adequate consideration for constitu-

BY SARAH RANKIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND | Crystal Clifton, a former restaurant
worker in Southwest Virginia, waited 10 months
for the state to review whether she was entitled to
unemployment benefits.
Ms. Clifton, 55, says she applied last March,
when coronavirus-related shutdowns first began
impacting Virginia. She received benefits until
May, when she declined her boss’s request to
return to work.
She felt it was unsafe to go back because she has
hypertension and stage two chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, which make her vulnerable to
the virus and almost incapable of breathing while
wearing a mask to protect against it.
After The Associated Press questioned state
officials about her case, Ms. Clifton got a message
Wednesday from the Virginia Employment Com-
mission telling her she should apply for Pandemic
Unemployment Assistance, a program created last
year by a federal relief bill.
“Why all the sudden when they’ve had all that
information all this time?” said Ms. Clifton, who
described being unable to apply for that program
previously because her initial application for tra-
ditional benefits was in limbo.
The pandemic’s surge in applications for jobless
benefits swamped the commission and laid bare a
number of problems with the system in Virginia
and other states.
Recently, the General Assembly approved a
bill awaiting action from Democratic Gov. Ralph
Northam that aims to tilt the scales in favor of
workers like Ms. Clifton and the tens of thousands
of Virginians like her who over the course of the
pandemic found themselves stuck in the same
bureaucratic morass.
The measure from Delegate Sally Hudson would
essentially codify an executive directive Northam
made in December, so that someone initially
determined to be eligible for benefits won’t lose
that help before they have a chance to have their
case decided.
“From a labor law perspective, it’s a due process
issue,” said Ms. Hudson, a labor economist who
teaches at the University of Virginia.
Mr. Northam’s order freed up payments to tens
A General Assembly-approved bill awaits action from Gov. Ralph Northam that will help Virginians who were
stuck in a bureaucratic mess regarding unemployment payments during the pandemic.
of thousands of Virginians while the Virginia Em-
ployment Commission worked through a backlog of
claims needing adjudication. It’s not clear why Ms.
Clifton wasn’t affected by the governor’s directive.
Ms. Hudson’s measure also would make another
significant change: It directs the commission to
forgive overpayments due to state or employer
error if the recipient is effectively unable to repay.
That’s a policy most other U.S. states, including
many conservative Southern ones, already have
in place.
Ms. Hudson said the state anticipates forgiving
about $18 million in overpayments. Lawmakers
agreed to have the state foot this bill, rather than
recover the money through a tax on employers.
Carolyn and Zack Leasure, a Charlottesville
couple who both lost work at various points in the
past year, are wondering if that part of the measure
might help them.
Mr. Leasure, an executive chef who was laid off
early in the pandemic, recently received a letter say-
ing he was ineligible for the benefits he’d received
and was liable to repay $19,650.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
But his exact situation is also unclear: On the
same day, he also received a letter saying he’d been
found eligible for benefits.
The seemingly contradictory correspondence,
which the family shared with AP, was the latest
confusing turn in what Ms. Leasure described as
an absurd, nightmarish experience navigating the
unemployment system.
The Leasures also found themselves in a situ-
ation like Ms. Clifton’s last year, with benefits on
pause, inexplicably waiting months for a hearing,
unable to get answers from the commission, and on
the brink of financial disaster until they qualified
for rent assistance.
“From our perspective, the agency is completely
mismanaged and they are ruining lives they should
be helping,” Ms. Leasure wrote in an email.
The agency does not comment in detail about
individuals’ claims. Spokeswoman Joyce Fogg wrote
in an email that there are an array of reasons why
someone might not be receiving benefits.
“We cannot pay ineligible people under the
law,” she wrote.
tional rights,” wrote Judge McFadden,
a Trump appointee.
The Archdiocese of Washington
had sought the injunction ahead of
next week, which is Holy Week in the
Catholic Church. It begins with Palm
Sunday, includes the solemn services
of Holy Thursday and Good Friday,
and ends with Easter Sunday.
The archdiocese said it expects
churchgoers to be eager to attend ser-
vices this year, after a total shutdown
last year, and said the 25% capacity
limit would have forced many churches
to turn away parishioners.
The archdiocese also said since
its churches started holding masses
early last summer, after the first wave
of shutdowns eased, no COVID-19
transmission case has been attributed
to attendance. The city had argued
that some parishioners did contract
COVID-19, and argued that could po-
tentially have been spread at Mass.
Washington argued it had a valid
fear of COVID-19 spreading at religious
services, and it imposed restrictions
that went beyond what most other
jurisdictions have imposed on houses
of worship.
Mayor Bowser has urged parish-
ioners to watch services online or on
television, arguing that’s an acceptable
substitute. The archdiocese said it is
not the same, particularly since those
watching at home cannot partake of
Holy Communion.
Judge McFadden said the city’s
fears deserve some deference, but
it cannot hold churches to a higher
standard than other entities without
better reasons.
“The District would no doubt ac-
knowledge that there is risk attendant
in many activities it has classified as
‘essential,’ such as picking up a bottle
of wine or takeout from a local res-
taurant,” he wrote. “But the District
has permitted essential businesses
to stay open (often with less-onerous
restrictions) because the public’s need
for those things apparently outweighs
the risk.”

The Washington Football Team’s fishbowl is shrinking again

D
an Snyder is on the hit list
again. This time, it’s the
cancel culture’s Time’s Up
who has drawn a bull’s-eye
on his back.
The organization, whose supporters
include Hollywood bigwigs Shonda
Rhimes and Mark Walhberg, say the
owner of the NFL’s Washington Foot-
ball Team is making a power grab.”
What’s he done?
Chased a young starlet out of her
lingerie?
Nope.
Tried to knock Dallas Cowboys
owner Jerry Jones out of his highly
perched major league sports spot?
No.
Mr. Snyder respects Mr. Jones
and Mr. Jones outright. He wants to buy out minority in Dallas. or condone Mr. Snyder or any handy-
respects Mr. owners Fred Smith, Robert Rothman Even the Pittsburgh Steelers’ terrible man on the team. It’s just that it’s time
Snyder. They’re and Dwight Schar, who bought into the towels and Lambeau Field’s leaps were to reckon with the truth.
on the same team team in 2003. better crowd pleasers than most of People don’t like Dan Snyder. Fine.
— kinda. That is The cost: $875 million. Washington’s plays on the home field. But if he’s denied ownership, watch out.
to say, both want The size of the portfolio: 40.5%. And the team’s nickname? Suf- New things, new people stop
their team to win The dotted line: Permission from fice it to say the fight was long, as the glistening before long. Like the new
on and off the the NFL. nickname followed the team here from stadium the Cooke family built for the
DEBORAH field. Now, this might not be such a huge Boston in 1937. team in 1997.
SIMMONS And if the deal, except Mr. Snyder has been taking As for Washingtonians’ non-support The D.C.-Maryland-Virginia TV
Time’s Up gang beatings since he bought the team from of the home team, they jumped on the market is a moneymaker, and the
CAN WE thinks that’s why Jack Kent Cooke’s family in 1999. Cowboys’ wagon because they beat Washington Football Team is looking
TALK… Mr. Snyder made Washington’s media fish bowl never D.C. to the punch when hiring Black for a winning team, a new nickname, a
his power grab, made Mr. Snyder feel at home, al- players. new logo — and a new home.
well, they’re prob- though he grew up and was weaned on After all that comes the sexism. The lease in the incredibly shrinking
ably right. the former Redskins’ chief rivals — the The team has been accused of fishbowl in Maryland expires in 2027.
So what did Mr. Snyder do? Cowboys. sexual innuendos and Mr. Snyder has, Hmm.
He told the other 31 NFL own- The team’s cheerleaders never too. Oy vey. ⦁ Deborah Simmons can be contacted
ers that he wants to own the WFT measured up those popular Cowgirls This is not to debunk the allegations at dsimmons@washingtontimes.com.
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Biden’s state press

corps would make Ensuring that conservative
Putin jealous
At Thursday press conference
voices are heard
he spouts a bunch of lies Young America’s Foundation launch of ‘The Long Game’
about how there isn’t really will help students fight back against liberal bias
any crisis at the border
By Scott Walker YAF program in 2008 at the to invoke it.
By Charles Hurt Reagan Ranch. Thinking of As we’ve seen — and YAF has led the

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s anyone who’s been paying at- that experience, she notes charge in exposing — the left’s attempts to

W
hen Russian President Vladimir Putin tention for more than that “Young America’s Foun- start indoctrinating America’s students are
made the extraordinary offer a few five minutes knows, dation changed my life.” starting earlier and earlier.
weeks back to debate President Biden, conservative voices are We need more students We cannot wait until students are in col-
he set only one condition. He insisted being snuffed out across involved because our con- lege or even high school to start making an
that the debate be live. In other words, culture, entertainment, servative movement and our impact on their beliefs.
not recorded in order to be filtered by the media before academia and media. SCOTT country need more leaders YAF recently exposed an Iowa school dis-
being aired later. The troubling in- WALKER and writers like Katie Pav- trict’s plan for a Black Lives Matter “Week of Ac-
Now we know why. stances of censorship, political correctness lich and Peter Schweizer. tion” targeting students as young as preschool.
It wasn’t a ploy by the Russian president to set up and cancel culture didn’t arrive overnight. YAF also plans to expand One lesson included “transgender affirming”
the hopeless gaffe-machine for a high-wire act without a Those on the left have worked tirelessly for its activities at America’s notoriously-liberal coloring pages, which stated, “Everyone gets
safety net — although Mr. Biden would most assuredly more than half a century to create the inhospi- institutions of higher education by plant- to choose if they are a boy or a girl or both or
embarrass himself in any face-toff against Mr. Putin. table environment we find ourselves in today. ing a flag for freedom on more than 4,000 neither or something else.” This is wrong.
No, the reason that the authoritarian strongman During my time as the governor of Wis- campuses. Currently, YAF supports stu- To rebut the left’s craziness, YAF will cre-
“killer” insisted the debate be live was so that Mr. Biden consin, I learned how to fight back — and dents at about 2,000 campuses — half of the ate appealing programs for younger students
would not benefit from the slobbering house press in win — for common sense and provide resources to
America constantly covering for him. conservative values. When parents to instill patriotic
At an actual press conference Thursday inside the I first took office, my state values in their children.
actual White House, faced a dire economic and Not all professors are
an alleged reporter fiscal situation. We created liberal, but many who
asked Mr. Biden a big, bold plan to move reject the left’s group

OPTION
NUCLEARR about the national Wisconsin forward. think fear retribution and
humanitarian crisis Despite protests, riots exclusion if they share
he alone has created and even a recall, we pre- their conservative ideas.
BY CHARLES HURT at our southern vailed — on policy and in To ensure more balance
border — by far the politics. Our conservative in the classroom, YAF
greatest crisis of his young presidency (so far). reforms are still delivering will support conservative
“The perception of you that got you elected as a positive results today. professors and teachers
moral and decent man is the reason why a lot of im- The left tried to intimi- — including those at the
migrants are coming to this country and entrusting date us, but we fought back. elementary, middle and
you with unaccompanied minors,” Yamiche Alcindor And we won. It’s time for high school levels as well
gushed before asking several softball “questions.” conservatives to win again. as college — by creating
In all fairness, Ms. Alcindor may sound like a special Now, as president of a national network to
interest operative pretending to be a journalist inside Young America’s Founda- provide critical re-
the White House because she actually works for the tion, I’m launching “The sources. These conserva-
Public Broadcasting Service, a government-funded or- Long Game” to do just that. tive educators need help
ganization. Maybe she sounds hopelessly compromised It’s not going to be easy to just as our conservative
because, well, maybe she is. undo the damage done by students do, and YAF will
Whatever the case, it was a shocking display of the left, but it’s a war we ensure they have the sup-
corruption and collusion between the current White can win. port they need to teach
House and the supposedly independent press entrusted To ensure America the truth.
to ask questions and hold elected officials accountable. remains a shining city on a Teaching the truth
Mr. Putin — the former KGB “killer” himself — liter- hill for generations to come, will in turn reinforce the
ally cannot get that kind of press coverage. Mr. Biden’s we need to take bold action. strength of our founding
media coverup is so blatant that the only way Mr. Putin As it has done through its principles and Judeo-
would debate the guy is without the press running six decades of inspiring Christian values — and
interference. young people with free- combat the false nar-
Is it any wonder how this guy won the election with- dom’s principles, YAF is rative of liberal propa-
out even running a campaign? ready to lead the charge. ganda, including the 1619
The crisis at As I explain fully in Project.
the border is noth- “The Long Game,” we have YAF’s materials —
ing short of a na- a specific action plan that especially those geared
tional security ca- will win the battles we face toward middle and
tastrophe. Drugs, today as well as the war for elementary school stu-
criminals and America’s future. This ambi- dents and their families
who knows who tious plan includes sponsor- — will empower the ris-
else are stream- ing 1 million new students ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS ing generation to defend
ing across the to attend YAF’s break- American exceptional-
border. Democrats through programs. Our life-changing seminars schools in America. Our plan is to be active ism and the values upon which America was
have built a wall and conferences can strike the spark in young on every campus — because we need to be founded. We love the U.S.A!
around the U.S. people that will light up the rest of their lives. able to reach every student. And that means These ideas and many more are part of
Capitol to protect Best-selling author Peter Schweizer credits reaching students in associate degree pro- our bold plan for winning the battle and the
themselves and YAF for “igniting his interest in politics and grams and at technical schools in addition to war for the heart and soul of our republic.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
stationed thou- ideas.” The National Conservative Student undergraduates. This fight is about more than a news cycle and
sands of National Russian President Vladimir Putin   Conference (which YAF will hold in Hous- As YAF has already proven, conservatives even a presidential cycle. It’s about “The Long
Guard troops to ton this summer) he attended years ago was can fight back against liberal bias in education Game.” This plan of action will reverberate for
man the new wall. his first exposure to conservative books and by holding schools accountable. We’ve taken generations to come — we just need the help
All to protect themselves from American citizens. thinkers. Today, Mr. Schweizer has authored on liberal behemoths like U.C. Berkeley and of concerned Americans to win.
Yet our actual border is overrun and these people do nine books, including the No. 1 best-sellers won. Now it’s time to take on every school
nothing about it. “Clinton Cash” and “Profiles in Corruption.” in the nation that tries to silence conserva- Scott Walker was the 45th governor of Wiscon-
In addition to a national security catastrophe, the Fox News contributor, best-selling author tive students or speakers. We have the U.S. sin. You can contact him at swalker@washing-
border is also a growing humanitarian disaster. People and Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich attended a Constitution on our side, and we’re not afraid tontimes.com or follow him @ScottWalker.
are raped, trafficked and enslaved. Children are dying
— all because Mr. Biden chose wild political pandering
over sovereignty and statesmanship.
And he thinks it is funny.
“Well, look, I guess I should be flattered people are
coming because I’m the nice guy,” he replied Thursday to
The Pentagon needs to become a smarter shopper
the “question” from state television’s Yamiche Alcindor.
“That’s the reason why it’s happening, that I’m a Harnessing the 21st century revolution
decent man,” he joshed. “That’s why they’re coming —
because they know Biden’s a good guy.”
in technology won’t be possible without
Mr. Biden went on to spout a bunch of lies about an efficient acquisition process
how there isn’t really any crisis at the border and the
current surge is no more than previous surges. All of it By Daniel N. Hoffman
lies. By any measure this current surge breaks records.

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They are literally showing up at the border wearing hina and Russia are
Biden T-shirts. challenging America’s
Of course nobody pressed Mr. Biden on those lies or high-tech dominance.
all of his jokiness about how popular he is among illegals. The goal: not just to
Not that there were not White House reporters pres- contest but to achieve
ent who would have liked to have pressed him. But Mr. superiority in every fighting do-
Biden and the White House press shop have re-instituted main, including air, land, space, sea
a policy of hand-picking who gets to ask questions. and cyberspace.
In other words, Mr. Biden picks state television to ask Focused on enhancing censor-
a question because he has a pretty good idea what kind ship, surveillance and military
of question she is going to ask — especially if she has capabilities, China and Russia
been forewarned ahead of time, which is often the case. — each of which represents an
Truly, Vladimir Putin would kill for a press this existential threat to the U.S. —
adoring, corrupt and compliant. are developing and deploying
new technologies together. China
Charles Hurt is opinion editor of The Washington Times. is implementing President Xi Jin-
He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com. ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH ping’s military-civilian “fusion”
BY DANIEL N. HOFFMAN
strategy, incorporating artificial
intelligence, neuroscience and
quantum communications in its
blueprint for a global “return to
military preeminence.”
Alarm bells should be ringing
in the White House, because the
number of high-tech companies
partnering with the Department
of Defense has been steadily
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
Biden’s ‘Taxageddon’
Higher taxes are what Democrats do
P
resident Biden may have
promised middle-class
Americans that he wouldn’t
raise their taxes, but he didn’t say
he wouldn’t boost their costs. In
an interconnected society, higher
taxes on the wealthy and cor-
porate America radiate outward
like ripples on a pond, eventually
reaching every wallet. With four
years to work its productivity-
punishing mischief, Taxageddon
is approaching.
No Americans earning less than
$400,000 a year would pay “one
single penny in additional federal
tax,” Mr. Biden told ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos last week. The
White House subsequently issued
a caveat: The president was refer-
ring to families, not individuals. A
family in which two earners mak-
ing $200,000 each would be on the
hook for a tax increase from the
current 37% to the top rate of 39.6%.
All else being equal, their tax bill
add up to thousands more.
Mr. Biden intends to raise the tax
rate on corporations as well, from
the 21% that predecessor Donald
Trump orchestrated up to 28%.
Such a move would come with
serious consequences for work-
ing Americans. As corporate taxes
rise, employment and wages fall,
according to the Tax Foundation.
It’s common sense that higher
taxes force corporations to try
to save money by reducing their
workforce costs. Americans em-
ployed during the Great Recession
that the Obama administration mis-
managed with stiff corporate rates
can recall the grinding challenge of
heavier workloads as colleagues
were pink-slipped.
Onerous taxes send corporate
income fleeing overseas as com-
panies establish headquarters in
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Reinstate Trump bans
The Democrats’ self-serving and staged rationale
for seizing guns from the public smacks of treacher-
ous intentions. Such actions would deliver to the left
its insatiable goal of depriving citizens of the ability to
protect themselves and their families from the onslaught
of terrorists and homicidal criminals. Such individuals
will only grow in number as the weak, catastrophic
open-border policies and anti-law enforcement crusades
continue. President Biden and all these other frauds care
nothing for the victims of mass shootings; they are simply
trained to publicly engage in scripted, cheap outrage for
the benefit of their fellow shills in the media.
The 2020 election basically placed upon us a new
Obama administration, except that Barack Obama
now gets to sleep in and probably just gives orders
Heed warning signs, enforce laws
Democrats are pushing another senseless call for stricter
gun control (“Biden eyes executive action to impose new
gun control measures,” Web, March 23). This happens
after every mass shooting. They never focus on the
reasons these acts take place. In many previous cases
-- including in San Bernardino, Calif., Fort Hood, Texas
and Parkland, Fla. -- there were warning signs about
the individuals who would go on to do the shootings.
However, they were either not followed up on or else
were ignored by the FBI as well as the relevant state,
city and school officials.
A major problem with these shootings is a lack of
enforcement of existing laws. Before disarming law-
abiding citizens who own guns for hunting, target prac-
tice, competition and self-defense, the objective should
Biden bucks, anyone?
Joe Biden, with 50-odd years in Washington under his
belt, is perhaps the most unaccomplished politician
there is. However, we finally found something he can
do: spend money.
He is spending billions and trillions of dollars at
such a pace it requires a new vocabulary. Gazillion Joe,
Bazillion Biden. He must have been printing money in
his basement. No wonder we don’t see him around that
nations with less-onerous rates.
The Obama-era phenomenon
largely ended during the Trump
administration, but it could re-
kindle under Obama 2.0 — aka
Team Biden.
Perhaps most maddening, Mr.
Biden’s Democratic congressional
allies secreted a tax provision into
their American Rescue Plan that
reaches down to the state level. It
prohibits states receiving shares
of $350 billion in federal relief
from cutting taxes for four years.
The measure, according to Ameri-
cans for Tax Reform, is meant
to prevent low-tax states from
expanding their economic advan-
tage over high-tax, mostly Demo-
crat-run states in the aftermath of
the coronavirus pandemic.
In response, 21 Republican state
attorneys general threatened legal
action, contending in a letter to
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last
week that attaching conditions to
the use of the federal money would
override state tax authority and
“amount to an unprecedented and
unconstitutional intrusion on the
separate sovereignty of the states.”
Ohio followed through immedi-
ately and sued Mr. Biden.
Like a hound hunting a fox,
the president’s Democratic allies
are chasing a $15 minimum wage.
Though it was stripped from the
$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief pack-
age, Rep. Ro Khanna of California
is attempting to force the measure
through Congress by attaching it
to critically important defense au-
thorization or government funding
bills. No matter that it would kill an
estimated 1.4 million jobs, according
to the Congressional Budget Office.
Only the hopelessly naive could
be surprised that Taxageddon has
arrived. It’s what Democrats do.
to his new puppet by way of Zoom. The Biden
administration and the Democrats need to call the
Colorado shooting what is was: an Islamist terrorist
crime. Instead of trying to take America’s guns, Mr.
Biden needs to order a national crackdown on all
Islamist-terror suspects and cells in the United States
and reinstate President Trump’s ban on the U.S. entry
of Muslims from certain regions. Before they try to
divert attention from their disastrous political plan-
ning, Mr. Biden, Vice President Harris and the rest
of their flock must first secure and protect us from
vulnerability to carnage from within.
BOB SHAW
Prescott Valley, Ariz.
be to enforce current laws and prevent criminals and
people known to be either violent or mentally unstable
from obtaining guns.
Most importantly, we must hold the FBI and police
departments and school officials accountable. Too many
innocent people have been killed or injured.
One should also note that the Democrats never talk
aout the thousands of people killed in inner cities every
year. The clergy in those cities, as well as Black conserva-
tives, want this to end and stress the need for two-parent
families, education and job training to end the problems
with drugs, gangs and crimes that lead to these killings.
MARVIN L. HOOVIS
Centerville, Mass.
often. It takes a lot of time to print a quadrillion dollars.
I just wonder how the power of the purse moved from
Congress to the White House. If it keeps him hidden
from the media, Mr. Biden seems to think he can keep
on manufacturing cash.
STEPHEN MOUNGELIS
Mt. Airy, Md.
☆R
Medicare-X Choice Act
deserves a third strike
By Sally C. Pipes
S
ome ideas never die. Such
is the case with the Medi-
care-X Choice Act, a bill
just reintroduced by Sens.
Tim Kaine, Virginia Demo-
crat, and Michael Bennet,
Colorado Democrat. The
measure would create a public health
insurance plan that would eventually
be open to all Americans.
It’s the third time the duo have of-
fered up their bid for a public option.
This time, they have a sympathetic
ear in the White House. During his
campaign, President Biden called for
building on Obamacare by adding a
public option.
But the idea remains as misguided
as ever. A public option would not
create more choice in the health insur-
ance market. On the contrary, it would
eventually saddle all Americans with
the same government-run coverage —
whether they want it or not.
Proponents of Medicare-X present
it as a more moderate alternative to
the complete government takeover of
the health insurance system cham-
pioned by the Democratic Party’s
progressive wing. Mr. Kaine and Mr.
Bennet wouldn’t ban private health
insurance, as Medicare for All would.
They’d simply give a subset of in-
dividuals and small businesses the
option to purchase a government-run
“Medicare” plan on the Obamacare
exchanges.
And they’d roll the plan out gradu-
ally, starting with counties where
there are few insurers on the ex-
changes or where health costs are
particularly high. Not until 2025 would
the Medicare-X public option be avail-
able everywhere.
Such incrementalism merely dis-
guises the legislation’s radical nature.
A public option might begin as one
choice among many. But it wouldn’t
stay that way. That’s because private
insurers can’t compete with a govern-
ment-run health plan.
Private companies need to turn
a profit — or at the very least, break
even — if they’re to stay in business.
A Medicare-style government health
plan, on the other hand, would be able
to run massive deficits.
A public option would also have
the power to systematically underpay
doctors and hospitals, just as Medicare
and Medicaid have for years.
In 2019, Medicare paid 87 cents for
every dollar of care provided by U.S.
hospitals, according to an analysis
from the American Hospital Associa-
tion. Medicaid did only slightly better,
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remitting just 90 cents for every dollar
of care. All told, the two programs
underpaid hospitals by more than $75
billion that year.
Short-changing providers isn’t a
cost-control strategy that’s available to
private insurers. As the public option
enrolls more and more low-paying
beneficiaries, doctors and hospitals
will be forced to up what they charge
the privately insured in order to bal-
ance their books.
This kind of cost-shifting is already
rampant in our health system. In 2018
alone, private plans paid 247% of what
Medicare paid for the same care, ac-
cording to one recent analysis. That
figure is up from 224% just two years
earlier.
By availing itself of both these strat-
egies — deficit spending and provider
underpayment — Mr. Bennet and Mr.
Kaine’s public option would be able
to keep premiums and deductibles
artificially low.
With private insurers forced to
make up the difference for providers,
This kind of cost-shifting
is already rampant in our
health system. In 2018 alone,
private plans paid 247%
of what Medicare paid for
the same care, according
to one recent analysis.
premiums would skyrocket. Individu-
als and businesses would respond
by dropping their private coverage
and jumping to the public option.
The cycle would repeat, until private
insurers exited the market for lack of
customers. At that point, Medicare-X
would be the only “choice” available.
Americans don’t want this. The
majority oppose the elimination of
private insurance. But nearly 7-in-10
at least “somewhat” support a public
option, according to a recent poll from
the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Mr. Bennet and Mr. Kaine are
trying to capitalize on this dissonant
view. But Americans deserve to know
the truth. Medicare-X will lead to the
destruction of private insurance —
and put America on a path toward
Medicare for All.
Sally C. Pipes is president, CEO and the
Thomas W. Smith fellow in health care
policy at the Pacific Research Institute.
Her latest book is “False Premise, False
Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medi-
care for All” (Encounter 2020). Follow her
on Twitter @sallypipes.
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Military spouses: The force behind the force

Individuals should find ways to show appreciation for these heroes
By Denny R. Davies Military spouses often form life-long bonds with other
military spouses. These friendships have roots underpinned

S
he hadn’t yet risen from her chair to receive
her flowers and hug her husband, and the
tears were already streaming down her face.
I was attending an Air Force retirement
ceremony, and we had arrived at the most
anticipated part of any military retirement: the
member’s tribute to his or her spouse. I say “most
anticipated part” because attendees are nearly always guaran-
teed visible, emotional spillage from both parties. This emotion
causes others in the audience to sniffle or tear-up as they con-
sider both the retiring couple and their own family’s service.
The retiring officer spoke profusely about the love of his life,
recalling special memories throughout their career (we often
refer to “our” career in the
military), thanking her for Fewer citizens can
raising their children when directly relate to the
he was away for months at
a time, and noting contribu- U.S. military than at any
tions she made to improve other point in American
the lives of airmen and history. Less than one-
spouses around her.
These opportunities to half of 1% of the U.S.
honor our military spouses population currently
aren’t limited to retirement serves on active duty.
ceremonies. Spouse tributes
are often witnessed at significant award ceremonies, changes of
command and permanent change-of-station farewell ceremo-
nies. They are heartfelt, sometimes raw, and always fall short of
the true appreciation deserved by the spouse.
Fewer citizens can directly relate to the U.S. military than
at any other point in American history. Less than one-half of
1% of the U.S. population currently serves on active duty. As a
result, many Americans do not even personally know a military
family. Despite this, the public and private sectors have made
significant strides since the Vietnam era to honor and sup-
port our military members and veterans. However, does this
support translate to the real driving force behind our troops —
their spouses?
On their wedding days, most military couples do not truly compre-
hend the heaviness of the vows they are taking. Military life may be re-
warding, but it is far from easy. Moves often happen every three-to-four
years for younger members (and typically one-to-two years for senior
officers or enlisted). Occasionally, a move occurs with such short notice
that the military member departs ahead of his or her family, leaving the
spouse alone to pack-out the home and move the children.
Children of career military members may attend as many as five to
eight different grade schools. Continuity of friendships and support
structures become difficult, causing extra stress for the ever-present
spouse. Additionally, some moves take the family to countries like Japan
or Germany, where immediate family-related support often cannot reach
the lonely confines of isolated bases. In this year of COVID-19, the stress
of living on the far side of the world while under quarantine has brought
some families to the breaking point. The resiliency required of a military
spouse has never been higher.
ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS
The 2020s also find our spouses as the most well-educated in his-
tory. A staggering 89% have some college education, while 30% have a
four-year degree. Unfortunately, the lack of locational stability causes
irreparable harm to many spouses’ ability to advance their own careers.
Military spouse unemployment currently lies at a staggering 24%, while
underemployment sits between 30% and 50%. Ample opportunities have who stand eternally ready to defend our liberty and way of life.
not yet risen to meet the available talent.
With all of these drawbacks, why do families continue to serve in our fighting forces. I am eternally grateful for my wonderful wife, and I
military? Besides love of country, why do so many of our best and bright- remain thankful daily for all of the military spouses who sacrifice to sup-
est continue to re-enlist, subjecting their families to additional stress?
Around the globe, military families enjoy some of the most amazing
adventures. Living in a distant country is an unachieved dream for many
Americans; it is routine for many military families. The opportunities for fairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The views
children to interact with people different from themselves, whether in
the U.S. or abroad, opens their cultural aperture at a much younger age
than most who never leave home.
by common service that overcome the tyranny of time and
distance.
Military spouses also cherish the ability to help one another
and the neighborhoods in which they live. They volunteer at a
rate greater than three times the national average and are often
the glue that holds communities together. They are the epitome
of unselfishness and humility.
Leaders in Washington have begun to recognize the im-
portance of military spouses. On March 12, the Department of
Defense announced the approval of a series of grants that will
help military spouses in certain career fields with the issue of
professional license portability, enabling easier job transitions.
Further, military spouse employment preference allows
spouses who change stations to be noncompetitively considered
for certain government positions at their next base. In 2009,
lawmakers passed the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act, allow-
ing military spouses the same legal state residency rights as their
serving spouse, and in 2018, lawmakers amended the SCRA to
provide additional benefits and protections to military spouses.
While these government actions are a start, how can
we, as individuals, show our love and appreciation for the
unsung military spouse heroes among us? First and fore-
most, if you have a military spouse friend or family member,
a simple note or word of encouragement means more than
you can imagine. Military spouses are like missionaries on a
remote assignment; they often feel lonely and forgotten. Mo-
ments of encouragement from friends or family can sustain
them for weeks or months.
If you do not personally know a military spouse but live
near a military installation, seek out organizations or groups
that are led by or populated with military spouses. Consider
donating to organizations like the USO, which routinely cre-
ates innovative programs to strengthen and empower military
spouses all over the world; Operation Homefront, whose mis-
sion is to build strong, stable, and secure military families so
they can thrive in their communities; or any of the numerous
charities supporting our military families.
Business owners who provide military discounts to active-
duty members could consider offering discounts to the military spouses
as well. If such an act is financially unsustainable, consider offering
military spouse discounts during the month of May, which is Military
Spouse Appreciation Month.
Finally, continue to support the men and women of our U.S. military,
Military spouses are God’s blessing to the men and women of our
port our great nation.
Denny R. Davies, a U.S. Air Force colonel, is a National Security Af-
expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the official
policy or position of the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Defense or
the U.S. government.

How America watered down whiskey’s global appeal

Why the Biden administration must prioritize the removal of burdensome tariffs
By Alice Calder subject to tariffs of 25% by the hasn’t removed these tariffs. As U.S. Trade Representative Katherine
EU. It pushed up prices, and part of an effort to de-escalate Tai’s confirmation, urging her to return

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merican whiskey distillers resulted in lower demand and trade tensions with the U.K., to a state of duty-free trade in spirits
always deserve a toast. falling sales. the U.S. recently suspended with both the EU and U.K. by prioritiz-
They’re responsible for Recent trade talks brought tariffs on Scotch whisky for ing the negotiation of the immediate
creating some of the most some good news at the begin- four months, providing a boon removal of all tariffs before the June
delicious liquor in the ning of March, as a range of to that industry. However, increase damages the industry further.
world, and they’ve kindly shared it for other 25% tariffs on U.S. spir- the favor was not returned, This retaliatory trade war between
years and years. its including rum, vodka and with U.S. steel and aluminum the U.S. and EU was a Trump-era trade-
Sadly, recent trade news means brandy exported to the EU that tariffs cited as the U.K.’s reason mark, but the Trump era is over, and his
they may be in more need of a drink were imposed during the trade for holding back. The U.K. is needless tariffs should have ended with
than most of us. war were removed. These were the fourth-largest market for it. As it is with so much trade policy,
As the pandemic crippled the met with the elimination of tar- American whiskey but tariffs it’s the everyday producer, worker and
hospitality industry nationwide, distill- iffs of the same level on liquors imposed have caused exports consumer who suffers when politicians
ers have taken an especially hard hit. and other specialized drinks ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH to fall by 53% since their play this game. America’s whiskey dis-
Thankfully, easing re- coming from imposition in 2018, and their tillers need strong export markets to be

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strictions mean things Europe into the U.S. the U.S. and the EU in part due to a action alone has a significant impact for able to grow their businesses and em-

VOICES
are looking up, but, for
their largest export
markets in the U.K.
and EU, burdensome
tariffs remain in place.
The Biden administra-
tion needs to prioritize the removal of
these tariffs to help this heritage U.S.
industry become what it once was.
Since 2018, whiskey distillers, along
with many other producers and export-
ers, have been caught in the middle of a
trade war they should never have been
dragged into. America’s most exported
spirits — bourbon, Tennessee whiskey
and rye whiskey — were targeted and
However, Ameri-
can whiskey, the
United States’ largest
and most profitable
spirits export cat-
egory, (larger than all
others combined) was left out of the
negotiations with the EU, the biggest
export market for the whiskey. In fact,
remaining tariffs on American whiskey
are set to double in June 2021, further
debilitating an industry already beset
by the COVID-19 pandemic. President
Biden needs to do something soon.
The tariffs were originally levied as
part of an escalating trade war between
longstanding dispute over subsidies to American distillers. ploy more people, and to demonstrate
aircraft manufacture, as well as tariffs In their statement on the issue, the to the world the amazing craftsman-
on steel and aluminum. Many special- Distilled Spirits Council of the United ship and skill involved in the creation
ized and traditional goods were levied States decries the current tariffs as of their spirits.
with tariffs. Iconic products such as unfair and unsustainable, urging for “a Eliminating these tariffs would benefit
Italian wine and French cheeses were speedy resolution that eliminates all of thousands of Americans and keep a deli-
targeted as punishment in this war, with these debilitating tariffs on spirits for cious, deeply American tradition alive
American whiskey bearing the brunt good.” Emphasizing the importance of for years to come. I say: Cheers to that!
on the U.S.-side. As well as producers, these export markets, and the effect
consumers on both sides of the Atlantic of the tariffs, their research found that Alice Calder is a PhD candidate in eco-
were caught in the cross-fire as prices after growing by 40% from 2008 to 2018, nomics at the University of New South
were hiked up as a consequence and American whiskey exports to the EU Wales and a contributor for Young
these goods became harder to come by. have since declined by 37% in the two Voices, writing on issues in trade, the
Even the U.K., freshly single on the years since the tariffs were introduced. future of work and the intersection of
heels of Brexit and seeking to forge a The council released a further economics and culture. Follow her on
stronger U.S.-U.K. trade relationship, statement upon the announcement of Twitter @AliceCalder.

Hoffman regulations rather than on fostering innovation

From page B1
decreasing. Defense contractors are invest-
ing fewer resources into military-relevant
research and development. Facing lower
profit margins than in the private sector,
onerous bureaucratic regulations, and long
lead times before contracts are signed, the
defense industrial base lacks the financial
incentive to develop the technologies on
which the Pentagon relies.
The U.S. military still has not cracked
the code on expanding the defense in-
dustrial base to keep pace with its rivals’
technological advances. The U.S. has sought
to maintain technological superiority by
upgrading the acquisition process to the
“speed of relevance.”
But defense acquisition meshes poorly
with private sector imperatives, particularly for
high-tech companies with cutting-edge tech-
nologies. Government contracting remains a
risk-averse culture focused on complying with
and accomplishing missions.
The Biden administration has put a
high priority on defending, deterring and
countering Russia and China. To succeed,
the U.S. must leverage the most critical
comparative advantage we have — the free-
market economy, which can turbo-boost
the development and deployment of high
tech for our fighting forces.
But doing so will require repairing and
transforming the Defense Department’s
acquisition process in five key areas.
First, defense officials need to slash
regulations and accelerate acquisition
cycles. The acquisition system is too slow,
convoluted and bureaucratic to stimulate
commercial interest, which has diversified
away from the military over the past few
decades. The Pentagon should conduct a
zero-based review of acquisition laws and
regulations — with congressional oversight
— to eliminate obsolete, unnecessary pro-
cesses and procedures that raise the cost of
doing business with the government.
Second, the department should offer
commercially competitive incentives, espe-
cially with respect to profit margins. While
maintaining strict accountability for spend-
ing, prices should be negotiated not based
on some amorphous, unrealistic profit
standard, but rather based on commercial
market forces and the value to the govern-
ment. Low profit margins lead companies to
cut cost corners on R&D and cybersecurity.
Profit margins should therefore reflect
the expense of R&D and cyber defense, and
be sufficient to attract additional companies
to enter the bidding, thereby increasing
competition and getting the best deal at the
best price for the taxpayer.
Third, the Pentagon should invest in
private-sector research and development.
Testing 5G at military bases is only one
example of how to leverage the military’s
unique capabilities and authorities to stim-
ulate innovation. The Defense Department
should also cultivate relationships with
business and academic innovators, includ-
ing small start-ups which would otherwise
face barriers to entering the market.
Fourth, the Pentagon must do a better
job protecting and, when necessary, paying
for companies’ intellectual property. IP theft
has a significant negative impact on private-
sector businesses and the national security
programs they are trying to support. The
2018 National Defense Authorization Act,
which ordered the creation of a cadre of
Defense Department IP experts, was a good
start, but the Pentagon must go further to
safeguard sensitive and valuable new ideas,
especially from China, which has stolen
American IP on an industrial scale.
Fifth, the department should promote
a culture of innovation and intelligent risk-
taking among its own contracting officers.
One of the silver linings in the pandemic
has been how the Pentagon increased
capacity to promote competition for in-
novative medical treatments, streamlining
contracts and payments schedules and
partnering with small businesses to develop
disposable injection devices for vaccines.
Defense acquisitions can indeed be
executed quickly, effectively and with ap-
propriate oversight. The Pentagon should
apply what it learned over the past year
across the board.
Domestic industry is the bedrock of
our military strength. Harnessing the 21st
century revolution in technology will not
be possible without an efficient and in-
novative acquisition process at the Defense
Department.
The Biden administration should make
this a priority if it doesn’t want to see Mr.
Xi’s aspiration — that China’s military will
be the world’s strongest force by 2049 —
come true.
Daniel N. Hoffman is a retired clan-
destine services officer and former
chief of station with the CIA. His
combined 30 years of government ser-
vice included high-level overseas and
domestic positions at the CIA. He has
been a Fox News contributor since
May 2018. Follow him on Twitter @
DanielHoffmanDC.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2021 ☆R CLASSIFIED | B5

Legal Notices
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX

In accordance with Virginia law, notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, will meet in the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia on April 13 at 4:00 P.M. and April 14 and April 15 at 3:00 P.M. The meetings may be held
electronically due to the State of Emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Please contact the Clerk for the Board of Supervisors at (703) 324-3151 or clerktothebos@fairfaxcounty.gov, or review on-line at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/boardofsupervisors/2021-board-meetings at least one week prior to
the meetings for additional information on the status of the meetings. The meetings are available to view live on Channel 16 and stream live online at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cableconsumer/channel-16/live-video-stream. Live audio of the meetings may be accessed via telephone as noted on the website.

The purpose of these meetings is to consider the adoption of an FY 2022 County Budget and to consider such tax rate changes as described therein. A brief synopsis of the FY 2022 Advertised Budget Plan is shown below. Citizens may appear and be heard for and against the following estimates of revenues,
expenditures, transfers and surpluses as contained in the FY 2022 Advertised Budget Plan and proposed tax rate changes. Fiscal Year 2022 begins on July 1, 2021, and ends on June 30, 2022.

At the same time, the Board of Supervisors will hear public testimony regarding proposed adoption of the FY 2022 – FY 2026 Advertised Capital Improvement Program (With Future Fiscal Years to 2031).

All persons wishing to present their views on these subjects may sign up to be placed on the Speakers List at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/bosclerk/speakers-form or call the Office of the Clerk to the Board at 703-324-3151 and may appear and be heard via telephone or pre-recorded video. Deadlines by type of
testimony are on the website. In addition, written testimony and other submissions will be received at 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 552, Fairfax, 22035 and clerktothebos@fairfaxcounty.gov. If the meetings are in person, phone and video testimony are encouraged but in-person attendance and
testimony are also permitted at 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax VA 22035.

Copies of the full text of proposed ordinances, plans and amendments, as applicable, as well as other documents relating to the aforementioned subjects, are on file and may be examined at the Office of the Clerk to the Board of Supervisors, Suite 552 of the Fairfax County Government Center,
12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia.

Fairfax County supports the Americans with Disabilities Act by making reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. Open captioning will be provided in the Board Auditorium. For sign language interpreters or other accommodations, please call the Clerk's Office, 703-324-3151, TTY 711 (Virginia
Relay Center) no later than 48 hours before the public hearing. Assistive listening devices will be available at the meeting.

Copies of the FY 2022 Advertised Budget Plan and the FY 2022 – FY 2026 Advertised Capital Improvement Program (With Future Fiscal Years to 2031) are available on the Internet at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/budget.
Tax Required
TAX REQUIRED OTHER RESOURCES Revenue 2022 2021 2020
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OTHER REAL ESTATE & PERSONAL
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EXPENDITURES FROM/ 38%/,&6(59,&(&25325$7,216
& TRANSFERS FY 2022 FY 2021 FY 2020 OTHER TRANSFERS (ADDED TO)  (TXDOL]HGa $49,888,671 1.150 1.150 1.150
# Fund EXPENDITURES TRANSFERS OUT OUT AMOUNT RATE RATE RATE STATE AID FEDERAL AID RECEIPTS IN SURPLUS
Vehicles b 301,234 4.57 4.57 4.57
GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS 27+(5
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General Fund Group (General Fund Revenue) b 1,316,669 4.57 4.57 4.57
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10001 General Fund $1,638,926,624 $2,849,500,560 $4,488,427,184 $3,506,763,825 1.150 a 1.150 a 1.150 a $312,963,571 c $40,879,247 $665,960,620 $9,000,481 ($47,140,560) Research and Development (General Fund Revenue) b 9,195 4.57 4.57 4.57
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Antique Automobiles b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
10010 Revenue Stabilization 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mobile Homes a 170,344 1.150 1.150 1.150
10015 Economic Opportunity Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 150,000 0 (150,000) d
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10020 Consolidated Community Funding Pool 12,283,724 0 12,283,724 0 0 0 0 12,283,724 0
10030 Contributory Fund 14,493,160 0 14,493,160 0 0 0 0 14,492,449 711  0RWRU9HKLFOHV2ZQHGE\0HPEHUVRID9ROXQWHHU5HVFXH
Squad or Volunteer Fire Department b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
10040 Information Technology 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Debt Service Funds Sheriff b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
20000 Consolidated Debt Service $335,713,873 $0 $335,713,873 $0 $0 $2,300,000 $528,000 $332,885,873 $0  +RPHRZQHUV$VVRFLDWLRQV)XUQLWXUHRI¿FHHTXLSPHQWDQG
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Aircraft and Flight Simulators b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
30000 Metro Operations and Construction $82,670,850 $3,279,574 $85,950,424 $0 $0 $0 $42,000,000 $43,950,424 $0
Motor Vehicles Specially Equipped to Provide Transportation
30010 General Construction and Contributions 21,054,278 0 21,054,278 0 0 0 4,475,000 16,579,278 0 to Physically Handicapped Individuals b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
30015 Environmental and Energy Program 1,298,767 0 1,298,767 0 0 0 0 1,298,767 0
Boats b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
30020 Infrastructure Replacement and Upgrades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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30030 Library Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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30040 Contributed Roadway Improvement 0 181,732 181,732 0 0 0 181,732 0 0 Disabled Individuals b - 0.01 0.01 0.01
30050 Transportation Improvements 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Special Service District for Pest Infestations i 2,692,792 0.001 0.001 0.001
30060 Pedestrian Walkway Improvements 800,000 0 800,000 0 0 0 0 800,000 0
30070 Public Safety Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a. Real Estate Tax Rate per $100 of assessed value. It should be noted that the FY 2022 Advertised
30080 Commercial Revitalization Program 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Budget Plan was developed assuming a tax rate of $1.14 per $100 of assessed value. However, in
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30090 Pro Rata Share Drainage Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 real estate tax rate of $1.15 per $100 of assessed value is advertised. If a higher tax rate is adopted,
30300 Affordable Housing Development and Investment 19,670,000 0 19,670,000 13,570,000 e 0 0 6,100,000 0 0 the additional revenue of $27,140,560 would be available for the Board’s consideration. Because of
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30310 Housing Assistance Program 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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30400 Park Authority Bond Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LQFUHDVHLQWKHUDWHGRHVQRWSUHYHQWWKH%RDUGIURPORZHULQJDQ\DGYHUWLVHGWD[UDWHEXWDKLJKHU
S31000 Public School Construction 203,976,143 0 203,976,143 0 0 0 181,451,000 22,553,227 (28,084) rate cannot be imposed without advertising the higher rate.
Total Capital Project Funds $329,470,038 $3,461,306 $332,931,344 $13,570,000 $0 $0 $234,207,732 $85,181,696 ($28,084) b. Personal Property Tax Rate per $100 of assessed value (excluding household furnishings). Tax collections,
as a percentage of total taxes levied, are estimated as follows:
Special Revenue Funds
- 10001 General Fund - Real Estate, 99.50 percent; Personal Property, 97.6 percent
40000 County Transit Systems $137,930,629 $0 $137,930,629 $0 $47,480,424 $0 $6,044,452 $81,494,778 $2,910,975 - Sanitary District - Refuse Assessments, 100 percent.
40010 County and Regional Transportation Projects 65,943,105 37,400,000 103,343,105 62,026,632 0.125 f 0.125 f 0.125 f 41,316,473 0 0 0 0 F 3HUFHQWDJHRIVWDWH³&DU7D[´VXEVLG\RQTXDOLI\LQJSHUVRQDOSURSHUW\WD[OHY\2Q1RYHPEHU
40030 Cable Communications 10,316,971 10,473,069 20,790,040 0 0 0 19,237,413 0 1,552,627 as part of Action Item 3, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to implement the state “Car Tax”
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40040 Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board 183,749,314 0 183,749,314 0 7,839,233 4,208,641 24,117,476 147,583,964 0
Item 503(E) of the Central Appropriations Act, in accordance with the requirements set forth in Virginia Code
40045 Early Childhood Birth to 5 32,780,360 0 32,780,360 0 0 44,689 171,271 32,564,400 0 §§ 58.1-3524(C)(2) and 58.1-3912(E), as amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly (2004 Special
40050 Reston Community Center 8,600,359 0 8,600,359 8,930,260 0.047 g 0.047 g 0.047 g 0 0 544,896 0 (874,797) Session 1) and as set forth in Item 503(E)(Personal Property Tax Relief Program) of Chapter 951 of the
2005 Acts of Assembly.
40060 McLean Community Center 6,313,278 0 6,313,278 4,855,237 0.023 g 0.023 g 0.023 g 0 0 1,140,065 0 317,976
40070 Burgundy Village Community Center 46,596 0 46,596 38,081 0.020 h 0.020 h 0.020 h 0 0 46,138 0 (37,623) Beginning in tax year 2006, the state “Car Tax” subsidy on qualifying vehicles was “capped” to a statewide
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40080 Integrated Pest Management Program 3,317,657 141,000 3,458,657 2,692,792 0.001 i 0.001 i 0.001 i 0 0 7,691 0 758,174 )DLUID[&RXQW\¶VVKDUHRIWKLVPLOOLRQZDV¿[HGDWRU7KHDQQXDO
40090 E-911 53,174,477 0 53,174,477 0 3,396,251 0 47,734,938 0 2,043,288 VXEVLG\LVIUR]HQDWWKLVDPRXQWDQGLVIDFWRUHGLQWRWKH)<$GYHUWLVHG%XGJHW3ODQ.
40100 Stormwater Services 86,050,738 1,125,000 87,175,738 87,175,738 0.0325 j 0.0325 j 0.0325 j 0 0 0 0 0  &RQVLVWHQWZLWKWKH1RYHPEHU%RDUGUHVROXWLRQWKHVWDWH³&DU7D[´IXQGLQJZLOOSURYLGHD
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40110 Dulles Rail Phase I Transportation Improvement
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District 14,466,350 0 14,466,350 15,295,113 0.09 k 0.09 k 0.11 k 0 0 0 0 (828,763) DQGRUVSRXVH)XUWKHUPRUHWKHVWDWH³&DU7D[´IXQGLQJLVHVWLPDWHGWRSURYLGHDVXEVLG\RIWKHWD[
40120 Dulles Rail Phase II Transportation Improvement year 2021 levy for all other qualifying vehicles on the value up to $20,000.
District 500,000 0 500,000 20,375,303 0.20 l 0.20 l 0.20 l 0 0 0 0 (19,875,303) G )XQG  (FRQRPLF 2SSRUWXQLW\ 5HVHUYH DVVXPHV FDUU\RYHU RI WKH 7RWDO $YDLODEOH IXQGLQJ RI
40125 Metrorail Parking System Pledged Revenues 14,788,460 0 14,788,460 0 0 0 7,568,848 0 7,219,612 IURP)<WR)<

40130 Leaf Collection 2,611,491 54,000 2,665,491 0 0.012 m 0.012 m 0.012 m 0 0 2,367,104 0 298,387 H 5HDO(VWDWHUHYHQXHUHÀHFWHGLQ)XQG$IIRUGDEOH+RXVLQJ'HYHORSPHQWDQG,QYHVWPHQWUHÀHFWVWKH
allocation of the approximate value of one-half penny on the real estate tax rate to this program.
40140 Refuse Collection and Recycling Operations 20,275,463 494,000 20,769,463 0 400 n 370 n 385 n 120,114 0 19,539,653 0 1,109,696
f. Additional tax assessment per $100 of assessed value for commercial and industrial property in the County
40150 Refuse Disposal 53,617,780 626,000 54,243,780 0 66 o 68 o 68 o 0 0 52,383,100 p 0 1,860,680
to support transportation.
40170 I-95 Refuse Disposal 8,280,458 186,000 8,466,458 0 27.50 q 27.50 q 26.50 q 0 0 11,063,444 0 (2,596,986)
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40180 Tysons Service District 0 0 0 8,607,631 0.05 r 0.05 r 0.05 r 0 0 0 0 (8,607,631)
h. Utilities and other operating costs - Community Center. Tax Rate per $100 of assessed value.
40190 Reston Service District 0 0 0 2,397,229 0.021 s 0.021 s 0.021 s 0 0 0 0 (2,397,229)
40300 Housing Trust 3,667,191 0 3,667,191 0 0 0 3,667,191 0 0 i. Additional special tax levy of real estate within Fairfax County, but exclusive of the Lake Barcroft Water
Improvement District to control infestations of pests. Tax Rate per $100 of assessed value.
40330 Elderly Housing Programs 2,433,259 0 2,433,259 0 0 508,820 0 1,885,995 38,444
j. Additional special tax levy of real estate to support operating and construction requirements for the
40360 Homeowner and Business Loan Programs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 stormwater management program. Tax Rate per $100 of assessed value.
50000 Federal/State Grants 118,138,075 0 118,138,075 0 46,214,053 61,478,676 6,012,692 4,432,654 0
k. Additional tax assessment per $100 of assessed value for commercial and industrial property for the Phase
50800 Community Development Block Grant 5,960,799 0 5,960,799 0 0 5,960,799 0 0 0 I Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District.
50810 HOME Investment Partnerships Program 2,141,854 0 2,141,854 0 0 2,141,854 0 0 0 l. Additional tax assessment per $100 of assessed value for commercial and industrial property for the Phase
S10000 Public School Operating 2 3,029,136,514 34,376,411 3,063,512,925 0 763,180,831 46,578,398 78,505,119 2,158,326,821 16,921,756 II Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District.
S40000 Public School Food and Nutrition Services 86,373,274 0 86,373,274 0 1,448,727 43,613,061 41,311,486 0 0
S43000 Public School Adult and Community Education 8,401,558 0 8,401,558 0 1,080,364 2,209,820 4,136,374 975,000 0 m. Leaf Collection rate per $100 of assessed value. (See districts listed below)
S50000 Public School Grants & Self Supporting Programs 82,091,763 0 82,091,763 0 9,033,816 37,587,315 9,233,051 22,660,545 3,577,036 t Leaf Collection
Total Special Revenue Funds $4,041,107,773 $84,875,480 $4,125,983,253 $212,394,016 $921,110,286 $204,332,073 $334,832,402 $2,449,924,157 $3,390,319 Small District 2 Braddock Local District 1A Mason
Local District 1A11 Dranesville Small District 2 Mason
TOTAL GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS $6,371,995,192 $2,937,837,346 $9,309,832,538 $3,732,727,841 $1,234,073,857 $247,511,320 $1,235,678,754 $2,903,768,380 ($43,927,614) Local District 1A21 Dranesville Small District 4 Mason
Local District 1A22 Dranesville Local District 7A Mason
PROPRIETARY FUNDS
Local District 1A61 Dranesville Small District 9 Mason
Internal Service Funds Local District 1B1 Dranesville Small District 10 Mason
Local District 1E Dranesville Local District 1A Mount Vernon
60000 County Insurance $31,548,302 $0 $31,548,302 $0 $0 $0 $1,130,859 $24,291,320 $6,126,123
Small District 3 Dranesville Local District 1B Mount Vernon
60010 Department of Vehicle Services 83,936,105 0 83,936,105 0 0 0 82,338,946 0 1,597,159 Small District 7 Dranesville Local District 1C Mount Vernon
60020 Document Services Division 9,208,698 0 9,208,698 0 0 0 5,100,000 3,941,831 166,867 Small District 8 Dranesville Local District 1D Mount Vernon
60030 Technology Infrastructure Services 47,688,293 0 47,688,293 0 0 0 43,432,182 4,714,102 (457,991) Small District 10 Dranesville Local District 1E Mount Vernon
Small District 12 Dranesville Small District 1 Providence
60040 Health Benefits 176,514,488 0 176,514,488 0 0 0 165,167,622 0 11,346,866
Small District 15 Dranesville Small District 2 Providence
S60000 Public School Insurance 19,177,238 0 19,177,238 0 0 0 17,271,339 0 1,905,899 u Local District 1B Lee Small District 4 Providence
S62000 Public School Health and Flexible Benefits 567,938,109 0 567,938,109 0 0 0 467,828,538 0 100,109,571 v Local District 1C Lee Small District 6 Providence
Total Internal Service Funds $936,011,233 $0 $936,011,233 $0 $0 $0 $782,269,486 $32,947,253 $120,794,494 Local District 1D Lee Small District 7 Providence
Local District 1E Lee Small District 8 Providence
Enterprise Funds Small District 1 Mason
69000 Sewer Revenue $0 $259,100,000 $259,100,000 $0 7.72 w 7.28 w 7.28 w $0 $0 $255,144,500 $0 $3,955,500
8,507 x 8,340 x 8,340 x n. Refuse Collection assessment - the base annual charge for refuse collection service to be added to
the regular real estate tax bill. (See districts listed below)
36.54 y 32.91 y 32.91 y
69010 Sewer Operation and Maintenance 113,210,776 2,850,000 116,060,776 0 0 0 0 116,100,000 (39,224)
Refuse Service:
69020 Sewer Bond Parity Debt Service 32,106,606 0 32,106,606 0 0 0 0 32,000,000 Small District 2 Braddock
106,606 Small District 4 Lee
69030 Sewer Bond Debt Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Small District 3 Braddock Small District 1 Mason
Small District 2 Hunter Mill Local District 1A Mason
69040 Sewer Bond Subordinate Debt Service 25,689,605 0 25,689,605 0 0 0 0 25,000,000 689,605
Small District 3 Hunter Mill Local District 1B Mason
69300 Sewer Construction Improvements 86,000,000 0 86,000,000 0 0 0 0 86,000,000 0 Local District 5A Hunter Mill Local District 1C Mason
69310 Sewer Bond Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Local District 1A1 Dranesville Local District 1D Mason
Total Enterprise Funds $257,006,987 $261,950,000 $518,956,987 $0 $0 $0 $255,144,500 $259,100,000 $4,712,487 Local District 1A2 Dranesville Local District 1F Mason
Local District 1A3 Dranesville Small District 2 Mason
TOTAL PROPRIETARY FUNDS $1,193,018,220 $261,950,000 $1,454,968,220 $0 $0 $0 $1,037,413,986 $292,047,253 $125,506,981 Local District 1A4 Dranesville Small District 3 Mason
Local District 1A5 Dranesville Small District 4 Mason
FIDUCIARY FUNDS Local District 1A6 Dranesville Small District 5 Mason
Local District 1A8 Dranesville Small District 6 Mason
Custodial Funds Local District 1A9 Dranesville Small District 7 Mason
70000 Route 28 Tax District $11,826,948 $0 $11,826,948 $10,826,948 0.17 z 0.17 z 0.18 z $0 $0 $1,000,000 $0 $0 Local District 1A11 Dranesville Local District 7A Mason
70040 Mosaic District Community Development Authority 4,882,023 0 4,882,023 4,882,023 0 0 0 0 0 Local District 1A12 Dranesville Small District 8 Mason
Total Custodial Funds $16,708,971 $0 $16,708,971 $15,708,971 $0 $0 $1,000,000 $0 $0 Local District 1A21 Dranesville Small District 9 Mason
Local District 1A22 Dranesville Small District 10 Mason
Trust Funds Local District 1A61 Dranesville Small District 11 Mason
73000 Employees' Retirement Trust $426,440,635 $0 $426,440,635 $0 $0 $0 $596,915,393 $0 ($170,474,758) Local District 1B Dranesville Small District 1 Mount Vernon
Local District 1B1 Dranesville Local District 1A Mount Vernon
73010 Uniformed Employees Retirement Trust 142,607,615 0 142,607,615 0 0 0 219,108,528 0 (76,500,913) Local District 1B2 Dranesville Local District 1B Mount Vernon
73020 Police Retirement Trust 113,658,958 0 113,658,958 0 0 0 175,249,261 0 (61,590,303) Local District 1E Dranesville Local District 1C Mount Vernon
73030 OPEB Trust 13,604,592 0 13,604,592 0 0 200,000 2,033,974 5,000,000 6,370,618 Small District 3 Dranesville Local District 1D Mount Vernon
S71000 Educational Employees' Retirement 229,223,973 0 229,223,973 0 0 0 438,492,614 0 (209,268,641) Small District 4 Dranesville Local District 1E Mount Vernon
Small District 6 Dranesville Small District 2 Mount Vernon
S71100 Public School OPEB Trust 16,923,500 0 16,923,500 0 0 0 26,818,000 0 (9,894,500)
Small District 7 Dranesville Local District 2A Mount Vernon
Total Trust Funds $942,459,273 $0 $942,459,273 $0 $0 $200,000 $1,458,617,770 $5,000,000 ($521,358,497) Small District 8 Dranesville Local District 2B Mount Vernon
Small District 9 Dranesville Small District 1 Providence
TOTAL FIDUCIARY FUNDS $959,168,244 $0 $959,168,244 $15,708,971 $0 $200,000 $1,459,617,770 $5,000,000 ($521,358,497)
Small District 10 Dranesville Local District 1A Providence
TOTAL ALL FUNDS $8,524,181,656 $3,199,787,346 $11,723,969,002 $3,748,436,812 $1,234,073,857 $247,711,320 $3,732,710,510 $3,200,815,633 ($439,779,130) Small District 11 Dranesville Local District 1B Providence
Small District 12 Dranesville Small District 3 Providence
1 Personal Property taxes of $211,313,944 that are reimbursed by the Commonwealth as a result of the Personal Property Tax Relief Act of 1998 are included in the Revenue from the Commonwealth category in accordance with guidelines from the State Auditor of Public Accounts. Small District 13 Dranesville Small District 4 Providence
Small District 14 Dranesville Small District 6 Providence
2 The proposed County General Fund transfer for school operations in FY 2022 totals $2,157,451,821, an increase of $14,129,610, or 0.7 percent, over the FY 2021 Adopted Budget Plan. The Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent's Proposed Budget reflected a General Fund Transfer increase of Small District 15 Dranesville Small District 7 Providence
$42,685,629, or 2.0 percent, over the FY 2021 Adopted Budget Plan. In their action on the Superintendent's Proposed Budget on February 18, 2021, the School Board revised the General Fund transfer request to $2,247,724,023, an increase of $104,401,812, or 4.9 percent, over the FY 2021 Adopted Budget Local District 1 Lee Small District 8 Providence
Plan. Local District 1A Lee Small District 9 Providence
Local District 1B Lee Small District 11 Providence
Synopsis of County Levies Local District 1C Lee Small District 12 Providence
General provisions. The County property taxes are levied on each $100.00 of assessed valuation of real estate and tangible personal property, excluding household furnishings, and including Antique motor vehicles. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(6), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on qualifying antique motor vehicles. Local District 1D Lee Small District 13 Providence
machinery and tools of mining, manufacturing, radio or television broadcasting, dairy, dry cleaning or laundry firms, and all personal property of research and development firms, in the County, Boats. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(1), (12), (28), (29), (35) and (36), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on boats and watercraft.
including such property within the incorporated towns that are within the County. Except as otherwise stated herein, all such taxes are imposed on all taxable property throughout the County, Vehicles used by certain disabled veterans. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(19), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on vehicles owned and used by Local District 1E Lee 6PDOO'LVWULFW6SULQJ¿HOG
including the incorporated towns therein, and the Board of Supervisors shall appropriate the revenues derived from such levies in accordance with Virginia law. disabled veterans. Small District 2 Lee 6PDOO'LVWULFW6SULQJ¿HOG
General real estate tax levy. A tax rate of $1.15 per $100.00 assessed valuation shall be imposed on real property. The net value of taxable locally assessed real property within the County is Special levies for sanitary districts. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-858(C) and the powers granted to the Board pursuant to Title 21 of the Virginia Code and Chapter 161 of the 1926 Acts of the
estimated at $272,418,491,610. That total includes supplemental assessments of $525,000,000 and reductions of: $3,020,000,000 for Tax Relief for the Elderly and Disabled and for Disabled
Small District 3 Lee
Virginia General Assembly, as amended, additional special levies for all sanitary districts within the County, including those districts that support leaf and trash/recyclables collection services and
Veterans or Surviving Spouses; $1,529,000,000 for Exonerations, Certificates, and Tax Abatements. The total assessed value of all locally assessed real property, including taxable and tax those districts that support community centers, shall be as specified within the tax rate resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
exempt, is $292,649,428,350 of which 6.9 percent or $20,230,936,740 is tax exempt. The aggregate assessed value of tax-exempt non-governmental real property is $4,957,164,020. The Special levies for service district. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-2403, an additional special tax rate of $0.0010 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed to control infestations of o. Per ton refuse disposal fee charged to County refuse collectors, other jurisdictions, and private haulers.
reduction in tax revenues from the non-governmental tax exempt property is $57,007,386 based on a tax rate of $1.15 per $100.00 of assessed value. pests as described in Appendix I of the Fairfax County Code.
Commercial Real Estate Tax levy for Transportation. An additional tax rate of $0.125 per $100.00 assessed valuation shall be imposed on the taxable commercial and industrial real property in the Special levies for service district. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-2403, an additional special tax levy of $0.0325 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed to support Stormwater p. Includes revenues from user fees charged at the Recycling and Disposal Center. Information regarding the
County. This rate was set by ordinance of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on April 30, 2013. The rate will be imposed annually pursuant to the ordinance adopted previously by the Board. Management Services including stormwater capital projects and staff operating requirements. schedule of fees is available from the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES)
Any amendments to the C&I tax rate shall require the Board of Supervisors to amend or repeal the uncodified ordinance that was adopted by the Board on April 30, 2013. Special levy for water service. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-858(C) and the powers granted to the Board pursuant to Title 21 of the Virginia Code and Chapter 161 of the 1926 Acts of the
General personal property tax levy. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3500 et seq., a tax rate of $4.57 per $100.00 assessed valuation shall be imposed on personal property. The total estimated Solid Waste Management Program at 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 458, Fairfax, Virginia,
Virginia General Assembly, as amended, an additional special levy is imposed on all lots within Small District One of the Springfield District for Water Service of $661 per annum for thirty years
value of taxable personal property within the County is estimated at $15,438,575,675. commencing July 1, 1993. 22035 or online at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes. Residents who use the Recycling and Disposal Center
Real and personal property owned by Public Service Corporations. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-2600 et seq., a tax rate of $1.15 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on the Special levy for water service. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-858(C) and the powers granted to the Board pursuant to Title 21 of the Virginia Code and Chapter 161 of the 1926 Acts of the are charged for disposal of waste based on weight and category of waste. There are different fees for
real and personal property owned by Public Service Corporations, and a tax rate of $4.57 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on vehicles owned by Public Service Corporations. Virginia General Assembly, as amended, an additional special levy is imposed on all lots within Small District Three of the Springfield District for Water Service of $959 per annum commencing disposal of brush, yard waste, white goods, tires, and other materials.
The estimated value of real and personal property owned by Public Service Corporations is $4,344,736,784. January 1, 2003 and ending December 31, 2032.
Machinery, tools, and certain other tangible personal property. Pursuant to Virginia Code §§ 58.1-3500 and 58.1-3507, a tax rate of $4.57 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on Special levy for the State Route 28 Transportation Improvement District. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-4607 and as set out in Chapter 587 of the 1997 Acts of the General Assembly, an q. Per ton ash disposal fee charged to the County and participating jurisdictions.
machinery and tools and motor vehicles and delivery equipment of manufacturing, mining, radio or television broadcasting, dairy, dry cleaning or laundry businesses. additional special tax rate of $0.17 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on taxable real estate and taxable leasehold interests within the State Route 28 Transportation
Tangible personal property used in research and development. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(7), a tax rate of $4.57 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on the tangible Improvement District zoned for commercial or industrial use or used for such purposes. r. Additional tax assessment per $100 of assessed value for the Tysons Service District.
personal property of research and development businesses. Special levy for the Phase I Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 33.2-2105, an additional special tax rate of $0.09 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall
Mobile homes. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(10), a tax rate of $1.15 per $100.00 shall be imposed on vehicles without motive power used or designed to be used as manufactured be imposed on taxable real estate and taxable leasehold interests within the Phase I Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District zoned for commercial or industrial use or used for such s. Additional tax assessment per $100 of assessed value for the Reston Service District.
homes, as defined in Virginia Code § 36-85.3. purposes.
Van pool vehicles. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(13), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on qualifying van pool vehicles as defined in Virginia Special levy for the Phase II Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 33.2-2105, an additional special tax rate of $0.20 per $100.00 of assessed valuation t. Fund S50000, Public School Grants and Self-Supporting Programs, assumes carryover of Summer School
Code § 46.2-1400. shall be imposed on taxable real estate and taxable leasehold interests within the Phase II Dulles Rail Transportation Improvement District zoned for commercial or industrial use or used for such 5HVHUYHRIDQGUHÀHFWVWKHSURSRVHG7UDQVIHU2XWIURP)XQG63XEOLF6FKRRO2SHUDWLQJ
Vehicles used by volunteer firefighters. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(15), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on a single qualifying motor vehicle purposes. as shown in the School Board’s Advertised Budget, which is currently ($385,263) more than the Transfer In
owned or leased by a member of a volunteer rescue squad or volunteer fire department. Special levy for the Reston Service District. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-2403, an additional special tax rate of $0.021 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on taxable real
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Aircraft and flight simulators. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(2), (3), (4) and (5), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on aircraft and flight simulators. estate and taxable leasehold interests within the Reston Service District.
Property of planned residential subdivisions. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(24), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on the furniture, office, and Special levy for the Tysons Service District. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 15.2-2403, an additional special tax rate of $0.05 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on taxable real X )XQG63XEOLF6FKRRO,QVXUDQFHDVVXPHVFDUU\RYHURI$OORFDWHG5HVHUYHRIIURP)<
maintenance equipment, exclusive of motor vehicles, that is owned and used by an organization whose real property is assessed in accordance with Virginia Code § 58.1-3284.1, and that is used estate and taxable leasehold interests within the Tysons Service District.
by that organization for the purpose of maintaining or using the open or common space within a residential development. Service Charges for Ambulance Transport Service. Pursuant to Fairfax County Code § 4-26-1, the following service charges are proposed: (1) a service charge of $500 for Basic Life Support WR)<
Vehicles used by certain elderly and disabled persons. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506.1, a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on a single motor vehicle transport (BLS), (2) $650 for Advanced Life Support, level 1 transport (ALS1), (3) $800 for Advanced Life Support, level 2 transport (ALS2), and (4) $12.00 per mile for ground transport mileage
shall be imposed on each person being transported by any emergency medical services vehicle that is operated or maintained by the County or for which a permit has been issued to the County
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Vehicles specifically equipped for disabled persons. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(14), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on vehicles specifically by the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services. 5HVHUYHRIIURP)<WR)<
equipped for the transportation of physically handicapped individuals. Business taxes, consumer utility taxes, and other taxes. The FY 2022 County Budget also will include revenues from the business professional and occupation license (“BPOL”) tax, consumer
Vehicles used by auxiliary police officers. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506(A)(20), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on a single qualifying motor vehicle utility taxes, retail sales and use taxes, the transient occupancy tax, and such other taxes, penalties, and fees as are set forth in the Fairfax County Code. The current BPOL tax is estimated to w. Sewer service rate per 1,000 gallons of water.
owned or leased by persons who have been appointed to serve as auxiliary police officers. yield annual revenues of $164,207,543; the consumer utility taxes are expected to yield annual revenues of $45,639,081; and the sales and use tax is expected to yield an estimated
$199,209,725, as discussed in the FY 2022 Overview Volume, General Fund Revenue Overview. x. Sewer availability fee for single family homes.
Vehicles used by auxiliary deputy sheriffs. Pursuant to Virginia Code § 58.1-3506 (A)(32), a tax rate of $0.01 per $100.00 of assessed valuation shall be imposed on a single qualifying motor
vehicle owned or leased by persons who have been appointed to serve as auxiliary deputy sheriffs. y. Sewer service per bill base charge.
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Legal Notices Legal Notices

NOTICE OF A PROPOSED FAIRFAX COUNTY NOTICE OF PROPOSED

ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION SEWER AVAILABILITY CHARGES,
APPROPRIATING FIXTURE UNIT RATE AND HAULED
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS FOR WASTEWATER CHARGES - RATE
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA REVISIONS
FOR THE TWELVE-MONTH
PERIOD BEGINNING JULY 1, 2020 NOTICE is hereby given that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on:

AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2021 Tuesday

April 13, 2021
commencing at 3:00 p.m.
Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 15.2-2507 of the Code of Virginia that
at a regular meeting of the Urban County Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, on the matter of an amendment to Chapter 67.1 of the Fairfax County Code (Sanitary Sewers and Sewage Disposal), Article 10
held electronically (due to the State of Emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic) on (Charges), Section 2. Public hearing before the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, to be held electronically (due to
Tuesday, March 23, 2021, it was proposed to adopt a supplemental appropriation of funds the State of Emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic).
for Fairfax County, Virginia for the twelve-month period beginning July 1, 2020, and ending
June 30, 2021, and Clerk for said Board was directed to advertise the proposed resolution Pursuant to the authority of the Virginia Code, Title 15.2., Chapter 21 (including, without limitation, Sections 15.2-2111, 2119, and
with notice that the Board will hold a public hearing on the same at a regular meeting to be
2122), the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, proposes to amend Section 67.1-10-2 of the Fairfax County Code by,
held electronically (due to the State of Emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic) on
among other things, updating the availability charge schedule for residential, commercial, and all other users desiring to connect to
April 13 at 4:00 p.m. and April 14 and 15, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., at which meeting, persons
the County sanitary sewer facilities, the fixture unit rate, and proposed hauled wastewater charge as follows:
affected may be heard on said resolution by phone or pre-recorded YouTube video.
The following summarizes the proposed amendments to the FY 2021 Budget Plan. Those
funding adjustments included below are recommendations to revise funding levels in existing AVAILABILITY CHARGE SCHEDULE
agencies and programs. The entire FY 2021 Third Quarter Review package, which includes
Type of Connection
these adjustments, was presented to the Board of Supervisors on March 23, 2021, and is
available for public inspection online at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/budget/fy-2021-third- FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026
quarter-review.
Single-Family $8,340 $8,507 $8,592 $8,678 $8,765 $8,853
Current FY 2021 Revised Budget Plan Lodging House, Hotel, Inn or
$8,340 $8,507 $8,592 $8,678 $8,765 $8,853
Total Expenditures - All Funds $11,522,973,872 Tourist Cabin
Proposed Changes: Townhouse $6,672 $6,806 $6,874 $6,942 $7,012 $7,082
General Fund* ($28,676,352) Apartment $6,672 $6,806 $6,874 $6,942 $7,012 $7,082
Other Funds $368,544,788
s#APITAL#ONSTRUCTION  Mobile Home $6,672 $6,806 $6,874 $6,942 $7,012 $7,082
s&EDERAL3TATE'RANTS  Any other residential
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dwelling unit
School Funds ($3,005,452
Hotels, Motels, or Dormitory
s3CHOOL/PERATING  $2,085 $2,127 $2,148 $2,170 $2,191 $2,213
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Fournier to the Celtics in exchange for
two second-round picks and forward
Aaron Gordon to the Denver Nuggets for
guard Gary Harris, guard R.J. Hampton
and a first-round pick.  17-year-old sensation Yuma Kagiyama,
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to rebuild after failing to get out of the
first round of the playoffs in the last two
seasons. Orlando is just 15-29 this year,
the second-worst team in the Eastern
Conference. For the Nuggets, Celtics
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and Bulls (19-24) have each had disap-
pointing seasons and currently on pace
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a Western Conference Finals appearance,
but are fifth in the West at 26-18.  program packed with difficulty, style,
Thursday’s deadline turned out to be
much more active than league insiders
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few weeks ago. Some analysts thought
that with the league’s expanded play-in
tournament, teams could be less likely
to sell off pieces.
But there was plenty of activity. Guard
Victor Oladpio, who started the year in
Indiana, was traded for the second time
this season when the Houston Rockets
sent him to the Miami Heat for guard
Avery Bradley, forward Kelly Olynyk and
a second-round draft pick. The Heat also
acquired forward Nemanja Bjelica from
the Sacramento Kings for Moe Harkless
and Chris Silva.  In the Western Conference, the Dallas
Contenders like the Philadelphia
76ers and the Los Angeles Clippers were
also busy, addressing their needs for a
point guard. The 76ers acquired veteran
George Hill in a three-team swap with
the New York Knicks and Oklahoma City
Thunder, while the Clippers received
Rajon Rondo from the Atlanta Hawks
for Lou Williams and a pair of second
rounders.
NFL
Washington signs receiver
Humphries to one-year deal
The Washington Football Team
signed veteran receiver Adam
Humphries to a one-year deal Thurs-
day, giving the
team an experi-
enced option in
SPORTS the slot as it looks
BRIEFS to upgrade the
offense.
Humphries, 27,
spent the last two
seasons with the Tennessee Titans,
though his time there was marred by
injuries. Humphries appeared in only
seven games last year, catching 23
passes for 228 yards.
Humphries spent four seasons in
Tampa Bay and caught 219 passes for
2,329 yards. His best season came in
2018 (76 receptions for 816 yards),
coincidentally when new Washington
quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick started
seven games for the Buccaneers.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Georgetown center Wahab
enters transfer portal
Sophomore center Qudus Wahab
has entered the transfer portal,
Georgetown announced Thursday.
The 21-year-old started 25 of 26
games during the 2020-21 season,
averaging 12.7 points and 8.2 rebounds
per game.  Patrick radio show.
Wahab’s exit leaves Georgetown
with two centers on the roster. The
Hoyas also have four-star recruit Ryan
Mutombo — the son of Georgetown
legend Dikembe Mutombo — as part
of their incoming recruiting class.  ended up at Kansas, where he started
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Former Nationals pitcher
Gonzalez retires after 13 years
JUPITER, FLA. | Pitcher Gio Gonza-
lez has retired after 13 major league
seasons.
The 35-year-old left-hander signed a
minor league contract with the Miami
Marlins and made one exhibition
appearance, allowing seven runs and
eight hits last Saturday while getting
just one out against Washington, his
former team. González pitched in 12
games last year for Chicago White Sox
with four starts and had an ERA of
4.83.
He has a career record of 131-101
with a 3.70 ERA in 13 seasons for four
teams. He was a two-time All-Star,
with Oakland in 2011 and Washington
in 2012. He also played for Milwaukee.
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Guard Victor Oladipo was traded for the second time this season when the Houston
Rockets sent him to the Miami Heat before Thursday’s deadline for two players and a
draft pick. Oladipo started the season with the Indiana Pacers.
In somewhat of a surprise, Toronto’s
Kyle Lowry — the best point guard
rumored to be available — ended up
staying put.
Toronto, though, made other moves.
The team shipped out guard Norman
Powell to Portland for Gary Trent and
Rodney Hood and traded Matt Thomas
to the Utah Jazz for a second-round pick.
Mavericks acquired shooter J.J. Redick
and forward Nicolo Melli from the New
Orleans Pelicans, sending back James
Johnson, Wes Iwundu, a second-rounder
and cash.
As for the Wizards, Washington ad-
dressed a key position of need in acquir-
ing Gafford. The team was in need for
a physical center after Thomas Bryant
went down with a torn ACL earlier in
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Schar — own just more than 40% of the
franchise.
Snyder reportedly plans to pay $875
million for the shares, using a $450 mil-
lion loan from the NFL to help fund the
purchase. The deal, however, must first
be approved at the NFL owners’ meet-
ings next week — and it’s expected to
pass.
Tchen, an attorney and a former
Obama White House staffer, said allow-
ing Snyder to expand his control of the
franchise would be a “grave injustice to
the brave people who came forward,”
adding the league needs to hold Snyder
accountable.
“No deal should happen until the full
report of the investigation into the WFT
is released to the public,” Tchen said.
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Conference player of the year after av-
eraging 15.0 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.0
assists per game.
He also has a personality to match
his beefy presence on the court,
whether it’s playing harmonica or an
impromptu karaoke version of Hall
and Oates’ “Private Eyes” on the Dan
Quentin Grimes, Houston: His name
may sound familiar. Grimes was one of
the top recruits out of The Woodlands,
Texas, in 2017 and had his pick of blue
blood programs. The 6-foot-5 guard
36 games as a freshman.
Grimes entered his name in the NBA
draft after the season, but decided to
return to school. Problem was, Jayhawks’
coach Bill Self, assuming Grimes would
remain in the draft, had already filled his
scholarship.
The one-and-done in Lawrence
worked out well for him and the Cougars.
Thriving in Kelvin Sampson’s free-
flowing system, Grimes has the Cougars
drumming up memories of the Phi Slama
Jama days at Houston. He leads the Cou-
gars with 18.1 points and has them on the
cusp of their first Elite Eight appearance
since 1984.
His half-brother, Tyler Myers, plays
for the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets, so his family
is obviously oozing with athletic ability.
Chris Duarte, Oregon: OK, we know,
the Pac-12 isn’t exactly a small league
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The Terrapins (27-2) came into the
tournament with the nation’s highest-
scoring offense and have yet to take their
foot off the gas. The Terrapins were so
dominant in a 100-64 second-round win
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the season. In Chicago, Gafford was the
Bulls’ backup big — averaging 1.2 blocks
in just 12.4 minutes per game.  have left them as breathless as the skater.
At its core, the trade with Chicago
is a swap of players who had fallen out
of favor with their teams. Despite the
Wizards picking up Brown’s fourth-year
option before the season, the 2018 15th
overall selection fell out of coach Scott
Brooks’ rotation. Hutchinson, the 22nd
overall pick from that same draft, barely
saw the floor in Chicago in part because
of a leg injury and also because of coach
Billy Donovan’s decision — logging just
seven games this year.  There were no celebrations from the
The Wizards are 15-27 this season,
four games back of the Bulls for the last
play-in spot in the Eastern Conference.
They’ve lost seven of eight since the
All-Star break.
“The NFL, including all of the owners
who will be voting to give Snyder spe-
cial treatment, cannot turn a blind eye
to those who had the courage to come
forward to detail decades of pervasive
harassment and abuse.
“There cannot be accountability with-
out transparency. It is essential that the
NFL commits to both ensuring a fair
process and to holding accountable those
who are responsible for the mistreatment
and harassment of employees.”
The Time’s Up Foundation is a chari-
table organization aimed at helping vic-
tims of sexual harassment and assault.
They and other groups like the ACLU
and National Women’s Law Center have
called on the league to fully release the
report into Washington‘s workplace
when available.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
said last month that lead investigator
Beth Wilkinson, a Washington-based
Oregon State’s Ethan Thompson led the Beavers in scoring with 15.6 points per game
and took a team picked to finish last in the PAC-12 to its first Sweet 16 since 1982.
and Oregon is by no means a mid-major.
It’s all about Pac-12 After Dark.
over Alabama that Owusu didn’t make
her first basket until the lead was already
46-23 in the second quarter. Five Mary-
land players scored in double figures.
The Terrapins are averaging 99 points
in their two tournament wins after scor-
ing 91.3 per game in the regular season.
Maryland hit the 100-point mark for
the seventh time this season and got 46
points off the bench.
Wolverines coach Kim Barnes Arico
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FIGURE SKATING
Hanyu perfect in short
program after Chen’s fall
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN | The faceoff
between Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan
Chen was no contest.
Japan’s Hanyu, looking every bit the
champion of the sport, won the short
program Thursday at the World Fig-
ure Skating Championships, distancing
himself from Chen when the American
fell on his opening quadruple lutz while
Hanyu was sheer perfection.
Hanyu has been the sport’s biggest
attraction for two Olympic cycles, each
of which ended with him wearing a
gold medal. He showed why in a short
artistry and a ton of energy.
His body rotation on his jumps — a
quad Salchow, triple axel and quad toe
loop-triple toe loop combination — was
so fast it was almost imperceptible.
His musical selection, “Let Me Enter-
tain You,” by Robbie Williams, matched
Hanyu’s frenetic performance that, had
there been spectators on hand, would
“It is something we wanted every-
body to enjoy, of course, and we came up
with this program,” Hanyu said through
an interpreter, though he is fluent in
English. “It would become an even better
program if we have a live audience and
the clapping and cheering. Everybody
is tuning in on the internet and TV, and
I can actually feel that, and I am accept-
ing all that energy on the ice when I am
skating this program.”
Chen camp. The two-time defending
world titlist hasn’t lost a competition
since the 2018 Olympics. But he’s now
more than eight points behind Hanyu’s
106.98 points. And Hanyu’s countryman,
attorney, was close to finishing her report
into the team. But an NFL spokesman
said Wednesday the investigation is still
ongoing, noting Snyder‘s transaction
and the investigation are “two separate
matters.”
The league has not committed to
publicly releasing the Wilkinson report.
The news that Snyder seems to be
recovering his footing after a tumultu-
ous year for both the owner and his
team prompted a backlash on social
media.
Melanie Coburn, a former Wash-
ington cheerleader, tweeted that the
reported NFL deal with Snyder was
“BEYOND outrageous.” She shared a link
to her online petition calling for the NFL
to make the investigation public.
“Where is Beth Wilkinson?” Coburn
tweeted. “Where is the REPORT? How
can they approve this w/out even MEN-
TIONING the 120+ witnesses who came
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Duarte is unquestionably one of the
nation’s best guards, but all the late
is happy to have her team in the regional
semifinals for the first time as opposed
to Connecticut, which is making its 27th
consecutive appearance in the round
of 16.
“Things have changed. You could
go somewhere else and you could have
the opportunity right away to make an
impact and create something that’s never
been done before,” she said. “Those
kids are different. They are special in
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is between the two favorites in second
place.
Chen, winner of the last five U.S. titles,
struggled early in his program, similar
to what happened at the Pyeongchang
Olympics. He rallied Thursday, however,
by sticking a triple toe loop on the back
end of his quad flip so he would have
a required combination. And his spins
and footwork were strong and intricate.
But the fall did him in.
“I made a big mistake right off of the
bat,” Chen said. “I had to figure out how
to regroup. Mistakes happen. I’m glad I
had this opportunity to learn from and
move forward.”
As for rallying to a third consecutive
world crown — no American has man-
aged that since Scott Hamilton’s fourth
in a row in 1984 — Chen wasn’t thinking
that way.
“Medals are things that are out of my
control. I feel like I am putting myself
in the wrong mental state if I focus on
that,” he said.
Beyond the top tier, it was a flop-fest
for several of the top men: Olympic silver
medalist Shoma Uno, American Vincent
Zhou and China’s Jin Boyang.
Zhou, a bronze medalist at the 2019
worlds — fell on his quad lutz, under-ro-
tated on his combination quad salchow-
triple toe loop and then fell on a triple
Lutz. Looking bewildered by such a poor
performance, Zhou plummeted to 25th
and did not qualify for the free skate on
Saturday.
Uno crashed hard on his triple axel,
while Jin, a two-time world bronze win-
ner, fell on a quad lutz and then messed
up the second jump in his combination.
Uno wound up sixth, Jim was 19th.
forward and relived trauma from de-
cades of harassment and mistreatment.
I will NEVER support the @NFL again
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Snyder’s move to offload his minority
partners will give him more control over
the franchise as it navigates a difficult
rebranding process, said Georgetown
University sports law professor Ellen
Zavian.
Snyder also needs to address the
franchise’s need for a long-term stadium
solution — the team’s lease at the aging
FedEx Field is up in 2027.
Zavian suggested Snyder could look
to add a new partner for financial pur-
poses, such as funding a new stadium or
helping repay the $450 million loan from
the league that reportedly must be paid
off by March 2028.
“The money is going to drive the deci-
sion,” Zavian said, “which isn’t always the
best way to make a decision.”
games on the West Coast prevent him
from getting his full due.
A 6-foot-6 senior, Duarte was born
in the Dominican Republic and played
high school basketball in New York. He
started his college career as the sixth
man at Northwest Florida State College
before arriving in Eugene.
Duarte played through a broken pinky
at the end of his junior season and, with
the added perspective of becoming a fa-
ther, dedicated himself to getting bigger
and better for his senior season.
Duarte became Oregon’s catalyst at
both ends, leading the Ducks with 17.0
points while spearheading coach Dana
Altman’s ever-changing defense.
Basketball fans everywhere, not just
the West Coast, will know just how good
he is after this run.
Ethan Thompson, Oregon State: The
Beavers’ guard suffers from the same
Pac-12 After Dark affliction as Duarte,
but also from little brother syndrome.
Older sibling Stevie was one of the
greatest players in Oregon State history,
so the comparisons are always going to
follow him.
The 6-foot-5 senior guard has
carved out a name for himself during
four seasons in Corvallis, scoring in
bunches, dishing out assists and snar-
ing rebounds.
Thompson led Oregon State in scor-
ing 15.6 points per game while averaging
3.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.
He’s also the unquestioned leader on the
floor and in the huddle, taking a team
picked to finish last in the Pac-12 to its
first Sweet 16 since 1982.
their own right and they wanted to do
something that has never been done
before and I’m thankful to coach a group
of them.”
For the first time since 2013 three No.
6 seeds advanced to the Sweet 16 with
Michigan, Oregon and Texas all reach-
ing the regional semifinals. At the other
of the spectrum, for the third straight
tournament all the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds
reached the Sweet 16.
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WIZARDS
Wizards trade Wagner,
Brown at busy deadline
Washington acquires frontcourt depth
BY MATTHEW PARAS
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Roughly three hours before Thurs-
day’s NBA trade deadline, Washington
Wizards star Bradley Beal ominously
tweeted: “Here we go!!!” The tweet was
shared hundreds of times within minutes
with those eager for deals anxiously
waiting to see if Beal’s tweet meant that
he could be on the move.
Turns out, Beal’s tweet likely was
referencing a deal that broke minutes
later: The Washington Wizards sent
guard Troy Brown Jr. and center Moe
Wagner to the Chicago Bulls in exchange
for forward Chandler Hutchinson and
center Daniel Gafford. (Wagner was later
sent to the Boston Celtics in exchange
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Lesser-known
stars about to
make their mark
in third round
BY JOHN MARSHALL
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INDIANAPOLIS | The Sweet 16 stars
you know.
Kispert, Mobley, Zegarowski, But-
ler, Buddy Buckets — they’ve all
been on national TV or talked about
enough that even casual college bas-
ketball fans know their names.
This is about those guys you
might not know, players from smaller
schools or who otherwise don’t get
the same attention as the prime
timers.
They’re just as good, just as im-
portant to their teams — maybe more
so — and are part of what has made
this the maddest of Marches so far.
Max Abmas, Oral Roberts: His
last name is pronounced ACE’-miss,
which is ironic because he rarely
does. The 6-foot-1 sophomore was
lightly recruited out of Jesuit High
School in Dallas and now all the
power programs have to be wonder-
ing how they missed out on him.
Abmas led the nation in scoring at
24.5 points per game and didn’t care
who he was going up against, scoring
33 against Oklahoma State, 28 against
Wichita State. His range conjures up
images of from-the-logo-shooters like
Steph Curry and Damian Lillard, and
he’s a dead-eye, shooting 41% from
the arc.
Abmas had 29 points in the 15th-
seed’s opening upset of No. 2 Ohio
State, then 26 against Florida to send
them to the Sweet 16 for the first
time 1974.
Oh, and he’s a biomedical chem-
istry major, so he’s aces in the brains
department, too.
Cameron Krutwig, Loyola Chi-
cago: The wispy mustache can’t hide
the fact that we’ve seen the Ramblers’
fun-loving big man before.
The 6-foot-9 senior from Algon-
quin, Illinois, was a central figure in
Chicago Loyola’s Cinderella turn at
the 2018 Final Four. Now he’s back and
there’s no looking away when he’s on
the floor, for reasons far beyond the
Krustache.
The 255-pound Krutwig has the
heft of a center, but the hands and
passing skills of a guard. He’s the
conductor of the Ramblers’ offense
from the middle of the lane and the
never-give-an-inch anchor of the
defense.
Krutwig was the first center in 15
years to be named Missouri Valley
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for Daniel Theis)  BY MATTHEW PARAS
In a chaotic day of deals, Beal re-
mained a Wizard — hardly a surprise
given the Wizards have told teams the
three-time All-Star is off the market. But
elsewhere, teams — including Washing-
ton — used the deadline to complete a
flurry of trades that saw a number of
notable players get moved.
The Orlando Magic dominated the
day — blowing up their roster by trading
their top players. They sent two-time All-
Star center Nikola Vucevic and veteran
Al-Farouq Aminu to the Bulls for center
Wendell Carter, forward Otto Porter and
two first-round picks.  The Time’s Up Foundation argues
Orlando also dealt guard Evan
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Loyola Chicago’s Cameron Krutwig was a central figure in the Ramblers’ 2018 Final Four run. The 255-pound Krutwig is back with
the heft of a center, but the hands and passing skills of a guard. He’s led the Ramblers’ offense in this year’s run to the Sweet 16.
Kansas transfer Quentin Grimes averages 18.1 points per game
and has Houston on the cusp of its first Elite Eight since 1984.
Oregon guard Chris Duarte leads the Ducks with 17.0 points per
game and spearheads an ever-changing defense.
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Washington owner Dan Snyder’s plan to
buy out his minority partners should not
be approved during an ongoing probe.
Oral Roberts’ Max Abmas led the nation in scoring at 24.5
points per game. He shoots 41% from the arc.
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Women’s group calls for
NFL to block Snyder deal
Wants harassment report released first
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Dan Snyder’s plan to buy out his
minority partners hit some resistance
Thursday when a high-profile women’s
rights group called on the NFL to step
in and block the deal.
The Time’s Up Foundation, founded
by celebrities Ashley Judd, Reese With-
erspoon, America Ferrera and other Hol-
lywood figures in 2018, slammed the NFL
after news that Snyder is poised to regain,
with the league’s help, complete owner-
ship of the franchise, despite an ongoing
probe of allegations that the owner and
other executives at team headquarters in
Ashburn sexually harassed or mistreated
women employees.
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Time’s Up CEO Tina Tchen said in
a statement that the league’s owners
should not vote to approve the proposed
deal while the investigation is still being
conducted. More than 40 women have
said they were sexually harassed while
working for the Washington Football
Team.
Reports emerged Wednesday that
Snyder plans to buy out his three dis-
gruntled minority partners, giving him
and his family 100% of the team’s shares.
Snyder reached the agreement after a
contentious legal battle with the part-
ners, who want out. The three partners
— FedEx CEO Fred Smith, investor
Robert Rothman and developer Dwight
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Familiar
faces join
new ones
in Sweet 16
Terrapins make
8th trip since ’06
BY DOUG FEINBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO | The women’s
NCAA Tournament regional semi-
finals field is set with many familiar
faces like UConn, Baylor, Stanford
and South Carolina. There’s also some
fresh ones, including Michigan and
Arizona.
The Sweet 16 will tip off Saturday
with a much anticipated matchup be-
tween UConn and Iowa. The schools
are led by heralded freshmen Paige
Bueckers and Caitlyn Clark. Geno
Auriemma, who will be coaching
the Huskies for the first time in the
tournament after being sidelined
with COVID-19 the first two rounds,
couldn’t remember a time when
there was so much hype around two
freshmen.
“It’s been a while since you have
two kids that have had this kind of an
impact, both on their teams and on
the game itself nationally. To have one
is kind of cool. To have two and to be
so alike in so many ways?” Auriemma
said. “And yet unfortunately, they’re
going to be put in a situation where
it’s like a big football game, where they
say it’s (Tom) Brady versus Aaron
Rogers. It couldn’t be further from
the truth.
“It’s two really, really young kids,
really good players that do a lot for
their teams.”
Clark has led Iowa back to the
Sweet 16. The Hawkeyes are one of
a record four Big Ten teams in the
regional semifinals with. Michigan,
Indiana and Maryland joining them.
Maryland has been a familiar face
under coach Brenda Frese in the
Sweet 16 over the years, but it is
their first such trip since 2017. The
Terrapins have reached the Sweet 16
eight times since 2006, when it won
the national championship.
Marking their first time in the
Sweet 16 for Maryland will be a pair
of standout sophomores. Diamond
Miller and Ashley Owusu entered the
tournament averaging a combined 35
points a game, which earned both on
the All-Big Ten First Team honors.
They combined for 39 points, 11
rebounds, and nine assists in their
first NCAA Tournament game, a 98-45
victory over Mount St. Mary’s; Owusu
scored 20 points with eight rebounds
and seven assists. Miller had 19 points.
“You see that chemistry on the
court,” Frese said. “I remember when
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ead coach Ron Rivera
sees head athletic
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as one of the best medi-
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that he “couldn’t think of a better
person” to lead the Washington
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could have predicted the situation
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ing 2020. The novel coronavirus
spread rapidly and forced the league
to overhaul how the offseason and
regular season would be carried out.
The NFL believed that as long as
players and staff members adhered
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staff throughout the year, but also to
the devotion the players had to stay
healthy in an unprecedented season.
“He’s done a heck of a job,”
Rivera said of Vermillion, who was
also Washington’s Infectious Con-
trol Officer. “He’s a stickler on it.
It’s been amazing when something
comes across, [the players will]
call him immediately. They’ll call
him at 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock
in the morning. He has to deal with
it, and he does. He does a great job
with that.”
Washington experienced the important because you have to be
same protocols as the rest of the “He’s done a heck of a job,” Rivera said vigilant. If you’re not, something
NFL. Players had to take buses to of Vermillion, who was also Washington’s crazy might happen.”
and from a hotel during training Infectious Control Officer. “He’s a stickler The players themselves were
camp, wear face masks whenever also very diligent, and it helped that
they were in the facility and wear on it. It’s been amazing when something staff members like senior director
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not experiencing any schedule immediately. He has to deal with it, and he Blacken were consistently remind-
changes in response to a breakout ing them of the extra steps needed
until Week 4, Rivera admitted it
does. He does a great job with that.” in order to stay healthy.
could be easy for people to get lax. “I think that helps, I really do,”
Vermillion was part of helping any changes made throughout the “but you get lax so you have to Rivera said, “When you have a guy
Washington avoid that. He stayed on season. have somebody that’s always kind who’s constantly: ‘Hey guys, don’t
top of the rules, Rivera said, inform- “You get tested every day, every- of [helping] everybody and that’s forget we have this. Hey guys, don’t
ing the team of any communication body’s been negative so far which what Ryan’s been doing for us,
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forget we have that.’ There’s that
constant reminder.”
The NFL implemented other
protocols besides wearing masks
and contact tracers. Players were
required to make specific appoint-
ments to work out and receive treat-
ment so there were not too many
people in the same room at one
time. It was another hurdle the team
had to overcome for game prepara-
tions, but Rivera’s message to the
players was simple: “Don’t make a
big deal out of it.”
“If you make a big deal out of it
and make it worrisome, then you’re
distracting yourself from the task,
and that’s getting ready to go play
a football game,” he said. “Focus
on the football game. The situation
and circumstances are what they
are. Let’s do with that, and let’s go
forward. It’s no different than having
to practice outside in the cold or in
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the rain. There’s nothing you can do
about it. Just do it. Put your mind to
late into the season, everything has
gone so well,” Rivera said. “Let’s
but the team still managed to make
the best of the situation and work
it, set it and go.” continue to focus in on staying around the circumstances.
That was a message Rivera clear of everything and staying “Hats off to everybody that
preached for the rest of the season, healthy. Hopefully, we can maintain achieved it,” Rivera said of finishing
especially as the number of posi- that and continue.” the season, “and hats off to our play-
tive tests began to rise around the Fortunately, every player went ers for only having two guys having
league. One of the biggest tests through the holidays COVID-free, gone on COVID.”
came during Christmas weekend. and outside of two positive tests The NFL now enters its second
Not only was the team dealing with during the season from players offseason in a pandemic. Not much
has been decided on how it will
unfold, but a lot of it could be vir-
The NFL now enters its second offseason in tual once again. The positive is that
a pandemic. The positive is that Washington Washington and the rest of the NFL
and the rest of the NFL have more experience have more experience operating in
those conditions. And if last season
operating in those conditions. And if last gives any indication, Washington
season gives any indication, Washington should be able to handle it just fine.
should be able to handle it just fine. “We know how to handle Zoom
now -- everybody has used it for
an entire year -- so we’ll know how
injuries to key players like Alex who were on Injured Reserve and to do things by Zoom,” Rivera said.
Smith, Terry McLaurin and Antonio the practice squad, Washington “We’ll know how, when there’s an
Gibson, but it was also in the middle made it through the entire season opportunity to meet in person,
of a playoff push to win the NFC without the virus drastically affect- to meet in person following the
East. It could not afford to have a ing the roster. It was limiting, Ri- protocols. So, we’re not going to be
player test positive and miss a game. vera said, having to deal with vir- doing something we haven’t had the
“Where we are right now this tual meetings and other protocols, opportunity to take advantage of.”
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 ‘The best player you’ve ever trained’
Chase Young has been trying to validate that claim to his personal trainer,
Martin Gibson, since high school. It’s brought him to the doorstep of the
NFL as one of the best defensive prospects in recent memory.
By Kyle Stackpole
I
t was November of 2016
when Chase Young, who
had just finished his senior
season at DeMatha Catholic
in Maryland, walked through
the doors of Gibson Perfor-
mance Training.
Young was there to see Martin
Gibson, a personal trainer who
at the time doubled as the Stags’
running backs coach. Young told
Gibson the year before that he
would come work out with him, but
that never happened, leaving Gibson
cautiously optimistic when Young
made the same claim that offseason.
This time, though, Young fol-
lowed through with his declaration.
And his expectations were high.
“I want to be the best player
you’ve ever trained,” Gibson remem-
bers Young saying.
Gibson has been Young’s
personal trainer ever since. He
turned Young into a college-ready
prospect, worked with him when-
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ever possible during his illustrious
career at Ohio State and prepared
him for the 2020 NFL Draft, when
Washington selected him with the
No. 2 overall pick.
Gibson’s focus then shifted
towards pushing Young to be the
best possible professional entering
his rookie campaign in the nation’s
capital. Young’s goals are high, but
having worked with Young for the
past three-and-a-half years, Gibson
believes he can achieve them.
“I think Chase can be one of the
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Young was already one of the
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began working with Gibson. The
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dynamic edge rusher racked up
19 sacks, 118 tackles, five forced
fumbles and two defensive touch-
downs that fall, leading the un-
defeated Stags to the Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference
(WCAC) championship and making
USA Today’s All-USA team. He
was the No. 1 recruit in the state of
6
Arguably the most talented guy to go to the
NFL in quite a while,” former Buckeyes head
coach Urban Meyer said of Young. “I’m not
saying he’s the best player yet, because he
has to earn that...but just as far as God-given
height, size, strength, speed...you got it all.”
Maryland, according to 247Sports,
and eventually committed to Ohio
State over other powerhouses such
as Alabama, Clemson and LSU the
summer before his senior year.
Still, Young needed to bulk up
if he hoped to immediately con-
tribute for the Buckeyes. He was
6-foot-5 yet weighed 223 pounds
-- too skinny for a major conference
defensive end.
Gibson was there to help.
“I said, ‘Hey, by the time you
leave, I’m going to get you to 255
[pounds],” Gibson recalled telling
Young. “He kind of just tapped me
on the back, nodded his head and
was like, ‘All right, Coach Mo.’ But it
was kind of like an, ‘OK, I get what
you’re saying, but it’s not going to
happen.’ ”
Young gained nearly 35 pounds
over the next three months while
enhancing his speed and main-
taining his flexibility. He was also
stronger and more explosive thanks
to slowly working towards the
desired weight.
Sometimes, though, Young
would get carried away. Martin
always had Young prepare two
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
and once he got out of school, he
would eat those sandwiches on the
way to the gym. That way, Martin
knew Young had enough energy to
finish the workout.
One day, as Young continued to
fill out, he arrived at the training
facility with four sandwiches. When
Martin questioned him, Young said
he was excited about gaining weight
and wanted to keep going.
“And I was like, ‘Nahh, see that’s
what I’m saying. I don’t want to
rush. Don’t rush it. Let’s just stay
the course, stay the way we’ve
been doing it and things like that,’
which we did.’”
By the time he enrolled at Ohio
State in June of 2017, the faster,
sturdier and nimbler Young weighed
about 260 pounds. He was no longer
going to redshirt as the Buckeyes
initially planned. He was ready to
make an impact right away.
Gibson has worked out with a
host of athletes since becoming a
personal trainer, so becoming the
best is a tall task for anyone. Gibson
has trained multiple professional
boxers, including former world
champion Jarrett Hurd, as well as
several NFL players. He also trained
New York Giants running back
Saquon Barkley, the No. 2 overall
pick in 2018 and subsequent NFL
Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Young put himself in the conver-
sation with what he accomplished
at Ohio State. After showing flashes
of excellence as a freshman, Young
thrived in his first season as a
full-time starter and then reached
unprecedented heights in 2019.
Despite missing two games, he
set a school record with 16.5 sacks
and led the nation with six forced
fumbles. His efforts earned him
nearly every individual defensive
award and a trip to New York for the
Heisman Trophy Ceremony. He was
just the ninth defensive player to be
named a finalist since 1982.
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“Arguably the most talented guy
to go to the NFL in quite a while,”
former Buckeyes head coach Urban
Meyer said of Young. “I’m not saying
he’s the best player yet, because he
has to earn that...but just as far as
God-given height, size, strength,
speed...you got it all.”
By the time Young declared for
the 2020 NFL Draft, he was widely
regarded as one of the top prospects
in the class. Gibson knew then that
Young was going to be one of the
first picks, so his objective was to
mentally and physically prepare his
client to succeed against profes-
sional competition. To do so, Gibson
largely stuck to the routine that had
gotten Young to that point.
“I’m a believer in the saying
that if it’s not broke, don’t fix it,”
Gibson said. “To me, I think we’ve
done pretty well in the years that
we stayed with our process. We did
some of the same things that we’ve
been doing; we’ve just added things,
like it might have been more weight
at this point, more reps. I have a lot
more time to prepare him now than
I’ve had in the past except for that
first year getting ready for [Ohio
State]. We’ve pretty much done
some of the same things.”
Young’s regimen consisted of
fast-paced circuit training and
tough,” Gibson said. “So for me, if I
can prepare your body, prepare your
mind to deal with that, day in and
day out, by the time you touch that
field, I just field like you’ll be on a
different level.”
Following the combine, Young’s
plan was to return to Los Angeles to
continue training, show off during
Ohio State’s Pro Day in mid-March
and finally fly to Las Vegas to hear
his name called at the beginning of
the NFL Draft.
However, the coronavirus
obliterated those plans; all of the
sudden, Young went from work-
ing out at a state-of-the-art facility
to training in the basement of
Gibson’s cousin’s house in Clin-
ton, Maryland. And with all NFL
offseason programs being fully
virtual, Young had to prepare for
training camp on his own.
Young’s post-combine routine
mostly stayed the same. Some days,
he only did upper-body workouts.
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a takedown and a touchdown.
His offseason program began
at the Los Angeles Lakers’ train-
ing center, where he worked with
Gibson three times per day dur-
ing the last two weeks of January.
With Young having just completed
the football season, Gibson wanted
to make sure Young was doing
everything he could to get back into
top shape. Young lifted early in the
mornings, ran on the track in the
afternoons and then did either field
work or physical therapy after that.
Young then completed two work-
outs per day -- lifting in the morning
and either field work or running in
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three weeks leading up to the NFL
Scouting Combine in late February.
Young also boxed twice a week dur-
ing that span in order to “shock the
body” with unfamiliar workouts.
“I train boxers as well, so you’re
talking about guys just trying to
keep that same energy for 12 rounds
for three minutes, that can be pretty
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Other days, he did lower-body work-
outs and some kind of cardio, such
as running or football-specific drills.
Young also traveled to Ohio on mul-
tiple occasions to work with Buckeyes
defensive line coach Larry Johnson for
two weeks apiece.
“He was always willing to work;
that’s what I admire about Chase,”
Johnson told the Washington team
site in May. “You got to have that
mindset as an elite athlete. He had
a great work ethic.”
Like many NFL players, Young
documented this unprecedented
offseason on social media, which
resulted in a series of viral posts.
In one, he demonstrated his
strength by benching an undeter-
mined amount of weight. In others,
he displayed his quickness and
agility during on-field workouts
and showcased his explosiveness
by clearing several hurdles with
ease.
Gibson saw that athletic ability
and ambition on an everyday basis,
so he had to get creative to push
Young even harder.
There were times when Gibson
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designed a workout he did not
expect Young to finish. That way,
when Young failed, Gibson could
respond with phrases such as, “Oh,
you’re not as great as you thought
you were,” or, “You’re not as good
as everyone is saying you are.”
Gibson also used Young’s lofty
goals against him. If he did not
think Young was giving maximum
effort, he would remind Young of
what he expects for himself.
“I know if you’re not doing
what you’re supposed to do, that’s
something I can always hold you
accountable for,” Gibson said. “I
can always remind you, ‘Hey, this
is what you want. This wasn’t my
dream, and this didn’t come out
of my mouth. But this is what you
want. And if this is what you want,
then you need to do those things to
make it happen.’”
With training camp having
kicked off July 28 and a full season
coming after that, most NFL per-
sonnel used the first few weeks in
July to relax. Young was not one of
those people.
“Yeah, probably just sticking at
home with the workouts,” Gibson
said in June. “Chase is a dude that
is self-motivated. He’s no fool. He
knows the expectations, he knows
they’re high, he knows he has this
target on his back, people want to
see him fail -- he knows that. He
knows people question whether
he’s as good as people make him
out to be. That’s all you need.”
Instead, Young trained with
Gibson to maintain what he built
during the offseason, then em-
barked on one of the best rookie
campaigns in franchise history. His
Pro Bowl campaign included 7.5
sacks and four forced fumbles --
both of which led all rookies -- to
go along with 44 total tackles (32
solo), 12 quarterback hits, 10 tack-
les for loss, four passes defensed,
three fumble recoveries and a
touchdown. He was a menace to
opposing offenses, a captain to his
teammates and one of the faces of
a franchise coming off its first divi-
sion title since 2015.
Young has dreamed of playing
in the NFL since he was about 6
years old, and that aspiration has
driven him to become one of the
best young players in the league --
all while still trying to validate his
claim that he’s the best Gibson has
ever trained.
“Chase is definitely making
a case for himself,” Gibson said.
“He’s making a case for him, but
we still got years ahead, and there
are still some things he needs to do
at the NFL level.”
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By Peter MacArthur, MD
Inova Sports Medicine
Inova Sports Medicine is the
Official Sports Medicine Partner of
the Washington Football Team.
Peter MacArthur, MD is a
primary care physician at Inova
Sports Medicine board certified
in family and sports medicine.
Serving as a team physician for the
Washington Football Team, he has
a special interest in the prevention
and management of sports injuries
and regenerative medicine.
You’ve suffered a sports injury,
and you need to see a doctor.
Should you see an orthopedic
surgeon? Or would a primary care
sports medicine specialist be a
better bet?
Sports injuries come in all
shapes and sizes, and treatments
vary, too. Here’s a look at how
these different types of physicians
work together to deliver the very
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Orthopedic surgeons can diag-
nose and treat all musculoskeletal
injuries — even those that don’t
require surgery. However, these
specialists also have expertise in
surgical treatments such as replac-
ing damaged joints or repairing
torn ligaments and tendons.
Primary Care Sports
Medicine Doctors
Primary care sports medicine
physicians typically have a back-
ground in a primary care field such
as family medicine, internal medi-
cine or pediatrics. They have addi-
tional training in sports medicine
and can also diagnose and treat all
musculoskeletal injuries. However,
they focus on the non-surgical
treatment of these injuries, often
employing the use of ultrasound
and other non-surgical modalities
in their evaluation and treatment
plan. When patients do require
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Sports Medicine Doctors:
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 Kelvin Harmon aims to return from
first major injury better than before
Harmon had never missed a practice before suffering a
major knee injury last offseason, but he has not let that
setback shape his future outlook.
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K
it’s not going to bring my knee back, as a rookie in 2019, averaging five For support, Harmon has leaned
but putting in that work is going to targets and nearly 41.4 yards per on his mother, father, brothers and
elvin Harmon had do that.” game from Week 11 on. Combined close family friends. His improved
never missed a practice. Harmon, who underwent sur- with his physicality, curiosity and relationship with God through bible
Not growing up, not in gery to repair a torn ACL and LCL immediate success as a blocker, study has also helped. “Obviously
college, not ever. in his right knee in early July, ran his Harmon had “all the traits” of a had some down days and things
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before it started -- he suffered a out videos on social media. up for his second training camp, In fact, the biggest thing Harmon
major knee injury while training It’s been a long road, but Har- the knee injury thrust him into learned about himself was that he
in mid-June -- he was admittedly mon’s first major recovery is on the uncharted territory. Everything was “definitely up for the challenge”
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shocked. That disappointment right track. he worked for was put on hold, of turning this setback into a break-
quickly turned into motivation, “For me personally, I just had to replaced by an extensive recovery through. And as time passed, he
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though. figure out what I needed to do as far he had never experienced. began to see results. At 12 weeks, he
“The way I was brought up and as getting myself together physically One of the first steps in that lightly jogged in a pool; at 14, he ran
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my religion, I believe everything
happens for a reason, and this was a
time for me to look back and reflect
and just come back stronger, so I
took it as a positive,” Harmon said
earlier this week. “I tried to make
it into a positive because obviously
there was nothing I could do. Com-
plaining isn’t going to do anything,
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and mentally for rehab,” Harmon
said. “And then from there, just
come in and execute and dominate
each and every day so I could get
myself back on the field better than
I was before.”
The 6-foot-2, 215-pound sixth-
round draft pick emerged as one of
Washington’s top receiving options
process was working out on the
exercise bike, which he accom-
plished about two weeks after sur-
gery. About a week later, the team
congregated at the Inova Sports
and Performance Center to begin
preparing for the 2020 campaign.
Harmon was there, too -- gearing up
for 2021.
on the treadmill. After four months
of recovery, he tested his agility on
the speed ladder.
All the while, Harmon went
through the same COVID-19
protocols as his peers, such as
daily testing and contact tracing.
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From page C12
He attended meetings when they
did not coincide with rehab and
continued to interact with his team-
mates, especially fellow second-year
wide receivers Terry McLaurin and
Steven Sims Jr.
“My main focus for the most part
was my rehab,” he said. “but also
staying in the mix, too, so I could
still be familiar with the team and
still be involved with that chemistry
and that camaraderie.”
And if he ever needed inspira-
tion? Head coach Ron Rivera’s
cancer battle certainly sufficed.
“I was able to talk to him a lot
when I saw him throughout the
building,” Harmon said. “[We]
always spoke to each other and
always encouraged one another
because he was going through his
time, too. I think it was very moti-
vating in a sense knowing what he
went through, and he motivated the
whole team, so we could definitely
relate to each other in that sense.
Obviously, his was by far way worse
than mine, but just as far as over-
coming that adversity throughout
the season, I think that’s something
that we could kind of relate to.”
With Rivera leading the charge,
Washington overcame a 1-5 start to
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secure its first NFC East title since
2015. Harmon viewed the season as
a “great building block” for the fu-
ture and proof this franchise could
be a contender in this league.
But before Harmon can directly
contribute to the team’s turnaround,
he’s fully dedicated to returning to
full strength. He’ll spend his days at
the team facility strengthening his
knee, improving his mobility and
regaining his explosiveness -- all of
which will contribute to him trust-
ing his right leg more.
And once he has completed
his comeback, he’ll rejoin a young
and diverse wide receiver group
battling to elevate the offense to
new heights.
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us. We’ve got a lot of young guys
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Terry, Cam [Sims], Steve -- we’re
all different types of receivers.
...Steel sharpens steel, and that’s
what you’ll see throughout training
camp and OTAs, and the best man
is going to be out there. It’s a very
competitive room.”
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 Washington Salute and Women of
Washington partner with Blue Star families
and SweatNGlow to host virtual CHAIRity
yoga event for military families
By Alec LaCorazza
O
n Tuesday, Nov. 17, the
Washington Football
Team’s military ap-
preciation club and
female empowerment
platform continued
the month-long celebration of Salute
to Service Month hosting CHAIR-
ity Yoga with Blue Star Families and
SweatNGlow. The hour-long virtual
connection event was a part of the
team’s effort to honor the empower-
ment pillar in the NFL’s Salute to
Service mission – empowering and
leveraging organizations commit-
ted to serving those that serve. Blue
Star Families, founded in 2009, is
committed to strengthening military
families by connecting them with
their neighbors – individuals and
organizations – to create vibrant
communities of mutual support.
CHAIRity Yoga was in-part
with Blue Star Families long-time
partnership with SweatNGlow, the
world’s largest hot yoga network.
Petra Smeltzer, Founder & CEO of
SweatNGlow, hosted a 30-minute
yoga session live from FedExField
describing techniques to keep
military families (and more specifi-
cally children) focused, engaged,
and healthy. While families continue
working and learning from home
during the national pandemic, there
is more pressure on families to be
situated at home.
Following Petra’s yoga session,
CNN personality and expert on
nutrition and wellness Mark Mac-
Donald was introduced to discuss
best practices in meal prepara-
tion – and a well-balanced diet of
proteins, carbs, and fats. Featuring
a brand he trusts and advocates
for, Mark discussed the benefits
of ZEN and the ZEN Project 8
have had on military families he’s
worked with – detailing the ben-
efits of eating healthy and living a
healthier lifestyle and its correla-
tion to mental wellness and strong
communication among families.
MacDonald concluded the event
telling all participating military
families they’d be sent products to
help them get through the holiday
season fast approaching!
Included In both 30-minute ses-
sions, Washington Football Team
personality GeNienne Samuels
introduced special guests such as
two-time Super Bowl champion
Mike Nelms and an Air Force
family. They all participated in the
yoga session and discussed the
benefits of yoga, especially around
the holiday season! Military fami-
lies across the National Capitol
region participated in the event,
posting questions and comments
to all panelists throughout the
event!
Washington Salute and Women
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all organizations that participated
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