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TRUMP PARDONS STEVE BANNON, LIL WAYNE, DOZENS OF OTHERS; ALSO COMMUTES SENTENCES Trump first worked with Bannon, 67, a former executive chairman of conservative site Breitbart News, during his 2016 campaign when Bannon was hired as the campaign's executive director and was credited by many with bringing more focus to Trump's White House bid. t055 Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation," aide Melissa DeRosa said in remarks first reported by the New York Post. t055 nbsp;But the lawmakers maintained the importance of the free flow of information, saying explicitly in the legislation that the Treasury Department "should encourage the free flow of information in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and other countries controlled by authoritarian regimes in order to counter such regimes’ repression of their peoples. t055 DEMS ON HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVE $15 MINIMUM WAGE IN STIMULUS PACKAGE DESPITE CBO WARNING 1.4M JOBS AT RISKErnst's comments came after Democrats on the House Committee on Education and Labor approved a $15 federal minimum wage proposal included in President Biden's coronavirus relief package in the early hours of Wednesday morning. t055