Trump campaign knew voter fraud claims were baseless soon after

We are wrapping up another day of US politics coverage. Here are today’s highlights:

• The Biden administration is facing public criticism from powerful Democrats about its continued use of a Trump-era border policy, Title 42, which denies migrants at the US border the ability to seek asylum. Senator Chuck Schumer, among others, have spoken out against the Biden administration’s use of Title 42, in the context of a still-unfolding scandal about US Border Patrol treatment of Haitian migrants.
• Kamala Harris expressed her support for a “thorough investigation” of the treatment of Haitian immigrants at the US-Mexican border. The vice-president said the footage of US border patrol agents confronting Haitian immigrants on horseback and potentially using whips on them was “horrible”. “Human beings should never be treated that way,” Harris said. “And I’m deeply troubled about it.”
• Adam Schiff said the select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is “going straight to subpoenas where we think we’re dealing with recalcitrant witnesses.” The Democratic congressman told reporters that he expects some of the panel’s requests to be complied with, but he added, “Where we do meet resistance, we intend to push back hard and fast.”
• Newly released court documents show that the Trump campaign knew its allegations against Dominion Voting Systems were baseless within weeks of the 2020 election. The New York Times reports that the former president’s campaign drafted an internal memo on November 19 that debunked election conspiracy theories involving Dominion and its voting machines. And yet, Trump’s legal team continued to pedal the false allegations against Dominion.
• Congressional Democrats are facing multiple crises as they attempt to advance Joe Biden’s economic agenda. Intraparty divisions remain over both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5tn reconciliation package, while lawmakers are trying to simultaneously suspend the debt ceiling and extend government funding past the end of the month. Republicans remain adamant that they will not assist in any effort to increase the debt ceiling, even though Democrats helped them do just that during Donald Trump’s presidency.
• Biden addressed the UN general assembly and outlined his approach to foreign policy. As the US president receives criticism for his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and weathers France’s outrage over a nuclear submarine deal with Australia, Biden promised “a new era of relentless diplomacy”. “US military power must be our tool of last resort, not our first,” Biden said.
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