Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will announce in Houston on Saturday her plan to close the pay gap for public school teachers in her first term as president, the LA Times reports.
Details: The proposal is expected to be "an unprecedented federal investment in teacher pay," LA Times' Janet Hook reports, despite the campaign's scarcity of detail on how the plan will be achieved. Elementary, middle and secondary school public teachers earn 11.1% less than similar college graduates, according to 2017 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is providing the records the House Judiciary Committee has requested for its investigation into obstruction of justice, CNN and The Hill report, each citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter.
Backdrop: In the beginning of March, committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) sent requests to 81 individuals, including Kushner, for documents related to the president and allegations of misconduct. The deadline to respond was March 18, of which only 8 at the time had done so.
President Trump's legal and political pursuers will hardly back off based on the Mueller report.
Be smart: Pelosi's opposition to impeachment + Trump's shield of no collusion indictments = The high likelihood his fate will be settled on Election Day.
Spokespeople for former Vice President Joe Biden and onetime Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams denied claims Friday that they would be running mates in 2020, saying there was "no grand plan hatched" and that reports that there were plans were "false," the AP reports.
Details: AlthoughAbramsreportedly sat down with Biden last week to discuss her next political steps, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, both are still allegedly contemplating 2020 Democratic presidential runs, per the AP.
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill are calling for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report to be declassified and made public in short order, following news that his office submitted the final report to the Department of Justice on Friday after 2 years spent digging into Russian interference in the 2016 elections and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.
Why it matters: Attorney General Bill Barr, who is reviewing Mueller's report now, has said in the past he would release as much information publicly as is possible under the law, but that is no guarantee the report will be declassified and made public in whole. Barr told lawmakers on Friday in a letter he may be ready to reveal the findings as early as this weekend.
Rudy Giuliani, one of President Trump's attorneys, told the Washington Post that Trump's legal team has prepared a "counter report" to possibly challenge elements of Mueller's investigation. He also has no inside information on the delivery date for Mueller's report, the Post reports.
"It’s like waiting for a baby. Or, maybe, it’s more like waiting for a jury. You make your case, then you have to wait days for that verdict. ... If the report is good, I'll give out cigars."
President Trump announced in a Friday tweet that he plans to nominate conservative economist and 2016 campaign adviser Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve board.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Courtenay Brown: If nominated and confirmed, Moore, who previously called Fed Chairman Jerome Powell incompetent, would fill one of the two vacancies on the Fed’s board of governors. Trump has not backed down on his unprecedented criticism of Powell, even though the Fed has indicated it will pause interest rate hikes — one of Trump’s gripes with the Fed.
President Trump is considering conservative pundit Stephen Moore and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain for the two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's board, Bloomberg's Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer Jacobs report.
Buzz: Mohsin and Jacobs note that Moore is a good friend of White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and "blamed the Fed for slowing the economy while championing Trump's policies in a March 13 [Wall Street] Journal column that he co-authored."
