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INBOX: Schumer announces full Senate classified briefing on the balloon, Feb 15 🎈
"I met with Lindsey Graham last week. So when you hear encouraging things from people like him, that gives me the sense that we could do something possibly in the Senate. But remember passing a bill in the Senate ... doesn't mean it'll pass the House."
McConnell: “We should not have let [China] make a mockery of our airspace. It defies belief to suggest there was nowhere between the Aleutian Islands of Alaska & the coast of Carolina where this balloon could have been shot down right away w/o endangering Americans or Canadians.”
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"I am definitely thinking about it," Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said on ABC News when asked if he was considering running for president.
Sununu said he felt rump would not be able to beat Biden in a head to head election contest.
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Fun non-balloon-related fact:
The lowest windchill ever recorded in the continental U.S. was measured this weekend atop Mt Washington, in the 🚨 KEY EARLY VOTING 🚨 state of New Hampshire
-109 F (!)
CHINESE SPY BALLON SHOT DOWN, REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER
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President Joe Biden said the United States is 'going to take care of' a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying across the country reut.rs/3wZkkaN
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Sen. Tester announces hearing on Chinese spy balloon that flew over Montana
"I’m demanding answers from the Biden Administration. I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again.”
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Biden admin to brief Gang of 8 next week on the Chinese spy balloon, per Schumer spox
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Essential reading on the migration beat this week: How Afghans are risking an 11-country trek across Latin America to seek haven in United States - "nobody wants to come this way." reuters.com/investigates/s by
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Kari Lake hits the road. Will be in Scott County, Iowa, next week
Biden revamp of Democratic primary faces final vote at DNC gathering in Philly this week. It will pass but challenges loom.
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Welcome to the Seinfeld Congress. It’s a show about nothing.
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SCOOP: Senate Dems will introduce legislation today ordering the FTC to create rules restricting the marketing of guns to children
Very limited bipartisan appetite for bipartisan legislation on gun control, but sheds light on avenues forward for Dems
MCCARTHY is dining tonight with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
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McCarthy pretty sanguine following meeting with
"I think at the end of the day, we can find common ground, I really do"
Boris Johnson continues to zing around the Capitol, this time seen heading from the Capitol to Senate offices.
He has little in the way of a public schedule but is rather popping up unpredictably around DC, often surprising bemused reporters
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Sens. Merkley and Kaine in the Senate press gallery right now talking about their proposed legislation designed to defuse debt limit battles
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NEW: Tim Scott is kicking off a tour in Charleston, SC, the day after Nikki Haley is scheduled to launch her campaign there
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Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will launch her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on February 15, squaring off against her one-time boss, former President Donald Trump, according to a source familiar with her plans
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Here's a (hopefully) helpful and pretty exhaustive list of all the debt limit proposals floating around the Republican conference, w/ :
Nikki Haley, once Trump's UN ambassador, to take him on in 2024, w/
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BREAKING: Nikki Haley is running for president. Formal announcement will happen Feb. 15. with the major scoop tonight >>> bit.ly/3YhXnLH #scpol #scnews #chsnews #2024Election
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SCOOP via The United States is readying a $2.2 billion package of military aid for #Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters.
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Trump taking the fight to DeSantis more explicitly every day
In latest policy announcement, says will fight to end "chemical, physical and emotional mutilation of our youth"
Despite the frequent comparisons with 2011, this time around, the problem is much, much worse, by
. on Santos: "He just said he recused himself for a while and then he’ll come back.”
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NEW: sources tells me Rep. Santos informed conference that he is stepping off his committees
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New w/ : J.D. Vance has told allies over the last few months he plans to endorse Trump in the GOP primary and Eric Schmitt said Monday he supports his third White House bid
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NEW: Former British PM Boris Johnson will be meeting with senators on the Hill today, as he gins up support for Ukraine
In the evening, he will go to a private event at the Capitol Club, hosted by Rep. Joe Wilson and others 🇺🇦 🇬🇧
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In our new story, we detail how a couple at the centre of a pro-Russian group raised funds last year that went on to buy communications equipment for Russia's 42nd Motorised Rifle Division fighting in Donbas. reuters.com/world/europe/p
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Back in DC!
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Takeways from Columbia, w/
1. Trump could've hoped for better attendance, several high-profile SC Republicans absent
2. He took the fight to DeSantis, hitting CRT and trans issues hard
3. He managed (mostly) to avoid election denialism
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Seems Trump’s first campaign swing is geared, in large part, as a response to DeSantis, whose focus on cultural issues (gender, CRT) has proved enormously popular
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Trump wades straight into the culture wars: "We're going to reaffirm that God created two genders called men and women. We're not going to allow men to play in women's sports." #scpol
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Trump + McMaster
Rep Fry speaking before Trump alongside Sen Graham, Rep Timmons, Gov MacMaster, and Rep Wilson
Headed to Columbia, SC, this morning for ’s first campaign swing since announcing 🗳️
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After saying, "I've got a problem, but he (DePape) thinks everything is good," the dispatcher says he should call back if needed.
Pelosi responds: "No, no, no, this gentleman just came into the house, and he wants to wait for my wife to come home."
