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Strong debut on the WH's frequent invocations of the Hatch Act and the grumbling about it in the briefing room...
"This has become a tactic to avoid even the simplest questions."
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More context on some of the wider consequences at stake if McCarthy's speakership battle extends beyond Jan. 3 👇
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Naturally, lots of staff concern for protracted speaker fight.
One reason: it could jeopardize their status in govt's 10-year student loan forgiveness program, by causing a break in service
If race goes as long as Jan 15, committee staff go UNPAID.
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Two of the biggest tech trade groups are asking SCOTUS to protect their First Amendment rights to remove extremist and hate content from platforms like Facebook and Twitter — arguing that a Texas law banning “censorship” of viewpoints is unconstitutional.
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NEW: The US is considering expanding its support for the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv worries that Russia could make a new push to take the capital as soon as January, according to 6 people w/ knowledge. On the table:
-Patriot
-JDAMs
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-expanded training
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Trump is set to meet with an Orthodox Jewish educational group on Friday, amid ongoing controversy over his dinner with prominent antisemites Ye and Nick Fuentes.
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Kevin McCarthy’s ongoing speakership battle is creating a domino effect of delays that could keep House Republicans in limbo in January just as they were hoping to jumpstart their majority.
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NEW: McCarthy's decision to formally punt vote on contested committee gavels comes as little surprise to many lawmakers amid his imperiled bid for speaker.
Still, many R's are concerned that limbo could have lingering effects—particularly if it drags on.
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The bill cleared the House 233-191 (16 Republicans supported it) and was praised by Biden's White House.
There almost certainly isn't enough time for the Senate to consider the bill this year — and it likely wouldn't have enough support to pass if it did.
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The bill would allow the people of Puerto Rico to vote between three options for their political future:
👉Statehood
👉Independence
👉Sovereignty in free association with the U.S.
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Today the House passed a historic bill that would set up a process for the people of Puerto Rico to decide their own political status.
The bill will likely die in the Senate, but this level of consensus is already considered a remarkable breakthrough.
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Opinion: America has embarked on one of its most difficult and dangerous international challenges since the Cold War.
The task: reversing decades of economic and technological integration with its chief rival, China.
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A D.C. bar panel found that Rudy Giuliani violated at least one professional rule in his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election.
The preliminary finding could result in the suspension or loss of Giuliani's law license.
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The Senate is sprinting to clear a one-week funding patch that would avert a government shutdown on Friday at midnight.
But timing remains uncertain as any one senator could delay the legislation.
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Fifty-nine years after John F. Kennedy’s death, the National Archives is about to release more info from the roughly 8,000 documents related to his assassination.
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The leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs panels are seeking a boost in weapons sales to Taiwan and Ukraine.
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Scoop: Moderate Rs came out swinging this week against conservative demands 2 reinstate the infamous “motion to vacate.”
Turns out McCarthy personally encouraged their protest.
Inside the GOP leader’s good-cop, bad-cop ploy to try to get the gavel->
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a former Harvard basketball player, will be the next president of the NCAA.
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Tensions between China and the U.S. have been rising for years. Some of the competition — like fighter jets — has been plain to see.
But China is also playing a quieter game in its quest for power, and it poses new threats to the United States.
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Having moderates play “bad cop” could set McCarthy up to be seen as the “good cop” — a reasonable dealmaker trying to find a path forward between warring factions. More in Playbook:
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In the last two days, Ron DeSantis sought a grand jury to investigate Covid-19 vaccines, questioned a new federal law protecting same-sex marriages and won a legislative victory that will hit the pocketbooks of lawyers
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RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel will likely win a fourth term, despite disappointing election performances from Republicans since she took over in 2016. What’s the secret to her staying power? Nightly reports 👇
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Kevin McCarthy’s camp hoped they had settled with the GOP conference’s conservatives on a deal requiring a majority of its members to support a motion to vacate. But the right price to rein in his detractors will likely be lower than that.
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The Biden administration plans to reopen its popular program with the U.S. Postal Service to mail free at-home Covid-19 tests to households that request them ahead of a potential winter surge.
Ordering will open Thursday.
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Congress has approved the removal of a statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who crafted the infamous Dred Scott pro-slavery decision.
It will be replaced by one of Thurgood Marshall.
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President Biden: “We’re all in on Africa’s future."
At the second ever U.S.-Africa summit, Biden took steps to repair the trust with a continent that has felt abandoned by the U.S. — with Russia and, in particular, China stepping in to fill the void.
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Non-traditional security threats are essentially hazards not created by the military that can still shape conflict. (think Covid, climate change, food insecurity, etc.)
These threats could define the next century. Here's what the U.S. can do about them👇
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The Pentagon is increasingly waking up to serious national security threats that aren’t nukes, tanks and bombs.
A leading expert breaks down the biggest non-traditional security threats facing the U.S. today 👇
Learn more: politi.co/3Yn16bx
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Despite two straight months of slowing price spikes, Fed officials are raising interest rates yet again — and said they're now more pessimistic about what inflation might look like next year.
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Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan announced impending layoffs in a newsroom town hall today.
He said a “number of positions” that are “no longer meeting the needs of our consumers” would be cut in 2023. More in 👇
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A California mine is at the center of America's plan to rival China’s grip on critical rare earth elements used in some of the most advanced commercial and military technology, from electric cars to attack submarines.
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U.N. member states voted to oust Iran from its women's rights panel, backing a resolution the U.S. introduced after Tehran’s crackdown on protests.
The resolution passed with 29 votes to oust Iran and eight votes against. Sixteen countries abstained.
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“This industry in the upstream is going to be totally dominated by the Chinese,” James Litinsky, chair and CEO at Mountain Pass, tells me.
“There has to be an American champion in this space.”
My latest, for
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