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Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential runoff, and now must pull together a majority of lawmakers for his year-old political movement to run in the mid-June legislative election.

Some politicians and media figures sought to place blame after Silicon Valley Bank became the second-largest bank to fail in U.S. history.

Blaming Loose Rules: Some voices noted that SVB was one of several small and mid-size banks which lobbied to exempt themselves from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s regulations. Those rules were rolled back in a 2018 bill signed by former President Donald

The small business lending program aimed to stimulate the economy has run out of funding allocated by Congress. About $350 billion was loaned out, with roughly 1.7 million loans being approved. New legislation is being debated, as Democratic leadership pushes for the new bill to include more funding to hospitals and local governments in addition to small business funding.

Some right-

President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday night, praising bipartisan legislative efforts and promoting Democratic policies before a divided congress.

Details: Throughout the speech, Biden emphasized growth and recovery in America— from the nation’s continued emergence out of the COVID-19 pandemic to federal investments in infrastructure laid out in the