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Biden's Day: President Biden holds a cabinet meeting this afternoon. Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the meeting.

Jobless Claims: Claims rose last week to 719,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, but remain near their lowest point since Covid’s onset. Applications have trended downward this year.

Voting-Law Pressure: Georgia-based Delta and Coca-Cola took a tougher stance against the state’s new voting law after dozens of prominent Black executives called on corporations to fight Republican-led legislation they say would limit voting access for Black voters in numerous states.

Taxes: WSJ’s updated 2021 tax guide now reflects changes made in the most recent Covid-relief law. (🎧Your Money Briefing: Reporter Laura Saunders explains the changes.)

President Biden unveiled a $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday centered on fixing roads and bridges, expanding broadband internet access and boosting funding for research and development, plus higher corporate taxes to pay for the package, Andrew Restuccia and Tarini Parti report. It would tear down much of the structure that Republicans built in their tax law less than four years ago, Richard Rubin reports.

• 🎧What’s News: Reporter Tarini Parti discusses how Mr. Biden intends to sell his plan to Republicans and the public.

Economists say the infrastructure changes included in the proposal could enable the economy to grow more rapidly over the long term and lift living standards without triggering worrisome inflation. But critics, including business groups and many Republican lawmakers, say the plan to pay for the measures through tax increases will damp investment, undercutting the boost to growth, reports Kate Davidson.

The plan touches an array of American businesses and industries including auto makers, fiber-optic companies, pharmaceutical developers and home builders. Jacob M. Schlesinger reports on the businesses that could see windfalls—but with strings attached.

• Corporate-tax plan: Here are the basics of the revenue-raising side of the plan, which reverses many of the changes from the 2017 tax law.

• Where is the money going? Details of the infrastructure proposal

• Chip industry: The expansive proposal includes $50 billion for the American semiconductor industry amid a global chip shortage.

• High-speed internet: Expanding broadband access has bipartisan support, but Republicans say that wrapping it into the infrastructure proposal is the wrong approach.

• Green power: The plan would extend wind and solar tax credits another decade, and create new incentives for transmission lines. 

Democrats and Republicans are both interested in spending money on the nation’s infrastructure. But the two sides don’t see eye to eye on what that plan should be and how to pay for it. 

Many states are expanding Covid-19 vaccine eligibility this week, with supplies still tight. States are banking on a growing number of vaccine doses to meet the need, report Jon Kamp and Joseph De Avila. Mr. Biden has set a goal of 200 million shots by April 30.

While the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. is picking up, the number of new cases is on the rise. Health officials cite vaccine demographics, expanded reopenings, pandemic fatigue and variants as reasons behind the uptick, report Talal Ansari and Melanie Grayce West.

The White House won’t renew a ban on H-1B and other work-based visas imposed last year in response to the pandemic that was set to expire Wednesday, Michelle Hackman reports. Officials said Mr. Biden doesn’t plan to speak about the ban's expiration publicly.

• Deaths and newly reported cases in the U.S. both rose Wednesday from a day earlier.

• The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against symptomatic Covid-19 for at least six months, according to findings from a late-stage trial.

• China called for a probe into the origins of Covid-19 to shift its focus to countries other than China.

President Biden has directed the Pentagon to begin removing some military capabilities and forces from the Gulf region in the first steps of an effort to realign the U.S. global military footprint away from the Mideast, report Gordon Lubold and Warren P. Strobel. The changes come as Saudi Arabia endures rocket and drone attacks from inside Yemen and Iraq.

Russia has begun mobilizing troops along its border with Ukraine, throwing a fresh challenge at the Biden administration and threatening to upend a cease fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian fighters, report Thomas Grove in Moscow and Alan Cullison in Kyiv.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans would remove Rep. Matt Gaetz from the House Judiciary Committee if “it turns out to be true” that the Florida Republican had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paid her to travel with him, Siobhan Hughes and Rebecca Davis O’Brien report.

The NCAA faced a barrage of skeptical questions from the justices across the ideological spectrum Wednesday as it sought to defend tight limits on the types of compensation that college athletes can receive, report Brent Kendall and Louise Radnofsky. It wasn’t clear, however, that the student athletes who sued the NCAA were assured a victory.

• The U.S. is undertaking strategic planning with Australia to consider joint responses to a Chinese move on Taiwan. (South China Morning Post)
• Overwhelmed U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families without paperwork to appear later in court. (Associated Press)
• A kind of cold war has broken out among former Trump aides as they try to capitalize on the former president's influence and donor list. (Politico)

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