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TOP NEWS | Trump Pleads Not Guilty, State Department Wants $76 Million for DEI, White House Bans Trans Activists | June 13

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former President Donald Trump is arraigned and enters a not guilty plea.  The Biden administration asks Congress for $76 million to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.  Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says there are audio recordings between President Joe Biden and a top Burisma executive.  The White House bans tansgender activists from future White House events after they went topless at a White House event.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signals Top News for Tuesday, June 13th.

0:07.7

Here are today's headlines.

0:21.0

Former President Donald Trump was arraigned at a federal courthouse around 3 p.m. today.

0:26.4

He entered a plea of not guilty.

0:29.3

Trump is facing 37 federal felony counts related to his possession of classified documents.

0:36.8

This is the first time a former president has ever faced federal charges.

0:42.8

Supporters of Trump rallied in support of the former president close to the courthouse.

0:47.7

Here's how it sounded via Twitter user Graham Allen.

1:02.2

Trump left the courthouse in Miami before 4 p.m. and headed to the airport.

1:07.2

He is flying back to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and he plans to give a speech

1:12.5

tonight.

1:13.5

Stay tuned.

1:15.5

And in other news, the Biden administration is asking Congress for $76 million to fund

1:22.1

diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

1:25.5

The State Department's first chief diversity and inclusion officer, Gina Abercrombie,

1:30.9

Wind Stanley, testified before Congress today.

1:34.1

And she said she is requesting the $76 million to help with things like tracking race

1:40.6

and gender demographics in the State Department.

1:44.0

This money would be spread across government departments, according to Abercrombie, Wind

1:49.1

Stanley.

1:50.1

A little under 10% of that funding will go to my office.

1:53.8

With that budget, we'll fund our bare analysis, travel, demographic baseline reports, and

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