Absolutely owning the U.S-Steel and Nippon beat: Josh Wingrove & @joedeaux.

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden will forgive $7.4 billion in federal student debt in his latest push to provide relief to borrowers and deliver on a campaign promise to ease the cost of higher education as he seeks reelection, via ⁦Akayla Gardner⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Maryland's Governor Wes Moore said all options — including private partnership and tapping capital markets — under consideration to finance rebuild of collapsed Baltimore bridge if federal govt unable to cover the costs as originally promised.
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The Japanese executive sat in silence, for minutes, as union leaders read his olive-branch offer. It wasn't enough. But their blessing holds the key.

With Joe Deaux on how the US Steel saga erupted and now hangs over the Japanese PM's DC visit this week.
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.Vice President Kamala Harris's office announces she'll travel to Tucson on Friday 'to continue her leadership in the fight for reproductive freedoms'

Today, President Biden spoke by phone with UConn coach Dan Hurley to congratulate him on his team’s championship, per WH.

The Tom Renner Award goes to Bloomberg for 'America, Global Gun Pusher,' which revealed how the U.S. government profits from and promotes the sale of American guns around the world. bloomberg.com/news/storythre…

President Joe Biden’s “Plan B” student-debt relief plan is expected to be caught in the crosshairs of November’s election, as legal challenges and deadlines loom.

Here’s what he’s proposing and what comes next: tinyurl.com/2jtk6ru6

If reelected, Joe Biden said he would push “hard” for free tuition at community colleges.

“If we do this, the economic gains would fair outweigh the costs,” he says.

NEW - In video now removed from YouTube, Kennedy's NY State Dir. Rita Palma is seen saying her 'number 1 priority' is to keep Biden from winning reelection. She even goes so far as to urge voters to 'go to Pennsylvania to help Trump' more w/ Aaron Pellish

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Eclipse fun: When Harris arrives in Philadelphia today, she'll greet Philadelphians on the tarmac, including young students. All will receive appropriate eyewear and they will view the solar eclipse together, I'm told.

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden raised more than $90 million for his reelection campaign and the Democratic Party in March, topping Republican nominee Donald Trump’s haul and widening his financial advantage, via Bill Allison.

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An aerial view of Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore from an Osprey

Speaking at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse alongside Biden, Gov. Wes Moore says 'Marylanders of this generation and the next will look up and once again, they will see the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and they will see it standing tall.'

NEWS: Israel dismissed two officers tied to the deaths of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in a strike on Monday, calling it “a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure,' Galit Altstein reports. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tomorrow on Way Too Early with Jonathan Lemire:

Biden gives Bibi an ultimatum. Another Trump legal setback. 2024.

With me:

Charlie Sykes
Akayla Gardner
Alex Ward
Dave Aronberg
SilviaAmaro

See you at 5 am EDT on MSNBC

NEW: Joe Biden's allies are launching a behind the scenes effort to help the president gain the backing of key anti-Trump Republicans.

Details on the test Biden faces on getting anti-Trump Republicans to support him.
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'There has been growing frustration,' per WH spox John Kirby.