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POLITICO Playbook: Is McCarthy prepared for Trump'south wrath about the Jan. 6 committee?
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THIS IS GOING TO Exist AN Accommodating TOUGH Day for House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY — and to a large degree, it'south a self-inflicted predicament.
The House'due south Jan. vi commission makes its debut this morning.
For the offset time across dozens of high-profile Trump-related oversight hearings, Republican leadership and allies will take no voice on the panel. (It'due south going to be weird for us Loma watchers who are used to Rep. JIM Jordan (R-Ohio) lobbing procedural grenades into proceedings to start fights. More on that from Olivia Beavers … )
McCarthy's rather abrupt conclusion last week to pull his members from the Jan. six committee means that Democrats — and their two GOP allies on this issue, LIZ CHENEY (Wyo.) and ADAM KINZINGER (Ill.) — volition accept gratuitous rein to set the narrative. (This is why several folks on McCarthy's ain leadership team idea that pulling out was a bad thought.)
Here's how that narrative is shaping up:
— Uniformed police officers who put their lives on the line to defend Congress on January. 6 will testify about the horrors they endured that solar day. Rep. BENNIE THOMPSON (D-Miss.), the chair of the panel, previews their stories in a WaPo op-ed: "[Metropolitan Police force officeholder MICHAEL] FANONE voluntarily rushed to the Capitol … [then] suffered a traumatic brain injury and a heart assail … [MPD officeholder DANIEL] HODGES can be seen being crushed by the mob equally he and his beau officers sought to defend a narrow hallway leading to a Capitol entrance … [U.South. Capitol Police officer HARRY] DUNN was i of the first officers to speak publicly about … the racial epithets he and others faced. [USCP officer AQUILINO] GONELL, a veteran who had been deployed to Republic of iraq … was beaten with a pole carrying an American flag."
— Their testimony alone is a public relations disaster for Republicans. The GOP likes to boast that they "back the blue" and are the party of "police force and order." Just in snuffing out the possibility of a nonpartisan commission to probe the Jan. 6 attacks, McCarthy effectively brushed aside pleas from law enforcement to authorize the investigation. Now, afterward pulling out from the select committee, Republicans (save for Cheney and Kinzinger) will be absent-minded as the officers speak.
— Meanwhile, where will some of the most vocal pro-Trump House Republicans exist instead? Reps. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.), MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.), PAUL GOSAR (R-Ariz.) and LOUIE GOHMERT (R-Texas) will head to the Justice Department to protest the "treatment of Jan. 6th prisoners." (Note the linguistic communication: not "rioters" charged with violent acts; "Jan. sixth prisoners," as if locked up for their political views.) This comes every bit some of the most hardcore Trumpies in the House have sought to cast the siege as a peaceful protest — a rewriting of history that McCarthy, frankly, has done little to push back on publicly.
— Meanwhile, McCarthy wants to focus attention on Speaker NANCY PELOSI's unprecedented power move last week to block two Republican lawmakers from the Jan. 6 committee. House GOP leaders will have a printing conference this morning earlier the hearing, no doubtfulness looking to try and frame the day's proceedings.
— Simply ask yourself this: Practice you think McCarthy's complaints nearly Pelosi will mollify DONALD TRUMP when he turns on his TV and sees no Republicans on the dais defending him?
What's adjacent for the probe? Kicking off with nonpartisan cops is a politically smart move for Democrats — who can argue against police in compatible? — simply there's already plenty of churr about where they go from here. We've heard conflicting things from folks close to the committee about whether they'll subpoena people like so-White House chief of staff Mark MEADOWS or congressional Republicans who spoke with Trump that day. But it's hard to imagine this probe could exist considered complete until they accept.
— "Democrats prep a somber yet TV-fix starting time hearing in Jan. six probe," by Nicholas Wu, Heather Caygle and Olivia Beavers: "Democrats want Americans glued to their TVs Tuesday for the commencement hearing of the Jan. vi select committee. They besides don't want a circus. … The four officers will be dressed in their uniforms to testify, despite actualization in a personal capacity. Questions to them volition be limited and interwoven with video footage. And members are restricted to one round of back-and-along, ensuring the hearing lasts only a few hours."
NEW POLLING ON January. 6 — Across all of the political jousting is a public that wants more than information about what happened on Jan. 6. According to a new Pol/Forenoon Consult poll, 58% of American voters back up a congressional commission to investigate the events of January. 6. Only that support breaks down along political party lines: It'south supported by 83% of Democratic voters but just 34% of Republicans (52% outright oppose it).
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IN LIGHTER NEWS — "Michigan lawmaker reports $221 campaign spending at strip club," by the Detroit News' Beth LeBlanc and Craig Mauger: "A Michigan lawmaker reported spending $221 of his campaign money at a strip club in Dearborn for a March eight 'constituent meeting' to talk over 'potential economic projects,' co-ordinate to a disclosure filed Dominicus."
— Line of the day: "'We take (to) see people where they're at some times ... #HOLLA,' [state Rep. JEWELL] JONES said in a text message afterwards the interview. He added that the club had 'smashing lamb chops.'"
JOE BIDEN'S TUESDAY:
— ten:15 a.chiliad.: The president and VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive the President'due south Daily Brief.
— ii:xx p.m.: Biden will speak to the Intelligence Community workforce and leadership at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Va.
HARRIS' TUESDAY:
— Noon: The VP volition speak well-nigh to the National Bar Association.
— four:15 p.m.: The VP will host a conversation along with Interior Secretary DEB HAALAND focused on voting rights, meeting with tribal and other Alaska Native and American Indian leaders.
Printing secretarial assistant JEN PSAKI will brief at 12:30 p.k.
THE HOUSE will come across at 10 a.m. The Jan. half-dozen select committee volition hold its first hearing at ix:30 a.m.
THE SENATE will meet at 10:thirty a.m. to take up TODD KIM's nomination as an banana A.G., with a vote at 11:30 a.m. The chamber will recess from 12:30 p.m. to ii:xv p.m. Haaland volition evidence before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee at x a.m. Secretary of Homeland Security ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS will bear witness before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Commission at ten a.g. American Federation of Teachers President RANDI WEINGARTEN and New York A.G. TISH JAMES volition prove earlier a Cyberbanking subcommittee hearing on student loan borrowers at iii p.chiliad.
NEVER-Catastrophe INFRASTRUCTURE Yr
STATE OF PLAY — "High-stakes infrastructure talks stall out as deadline passes," past Marianne LeVine and Burgess Everett: "Senators capped off a day of trading blame and stalled efforts on their bipartisan infrastructure proposal with a Monday meeting that quickly broke up, signaling a tough path frontward as negotiators missed yet another cocky-imposed deadline.
"The core 10 senators huddled in the part of Sen. ROB PORTMAN (R-Ohio), the lead Republican negotiator, hoping to get past a crude weekend of fruitless talks. … Portman said he was still optimistic well-nigh a deal despite rejected offers, finger pointing and impasses. He and White Business firm counselor STEVE RICCHETTI will aid finish the deal, negotiators said, with input from the rest of the group. … Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER … warned that more human foot-dragging could crave the Senate to stay in over the weekend or cuts to some of the upcoming Baronial recess."
THE WHITE HOUSE
MUCK READ — "Brother of acme Biden counselor lobbied Executive Function of the President on behalf of GM," past CNBC's Brian Schwartz: "The report shows that JEFF RICCHETTI, blood brother of White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, engaged with the NSC for the motorcar-making giant on 'issues related to China.' The company paid Ricchetti $lx,000 last quarter for his lobbying services.
"Jeff Ricchetti's work to foyer the NSC, which is part of the Executive Office of the President, comes as he tries to publicly distance his work from his brother … Jeff Ricchetti said in an email to CNBC that he no longer lobbies the White House Office … He did not answer several other questions, including whom he spoke with at the National Security Council on behalf of GM, and specifically what he was lobbying nigh with regard to Prc."
Hither WE GO AGAIN — "Biden squad weighs return to mask mandates in some states," by Erin Banco, Adam Cancryn and Anita Kumar
CONGRESS
IS Immigration INFRASTRUCTURE? — On Monday, calls grew for comprehensive clearing reform to be added to the reconciliation bundle, with both Reps. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD (D-Calif.) and JAMAAL BOWMAN (D-N.Y.) signing on via Twitter — though stopping short of proverb they'd otherwise cake the legislation. More than on that from Gyre Telephone call … Bloomberg's Laura Litvan has the readout on what the policy could look like
ALL IN THE Family unit — "Matt Gaetz'south Future Sis-in-Law Says He'south a Gaslighting 'Creep,'" past The Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger
THE PANDEMIC CONGRESS — "Pelosi'due south new COVID plans," by Axios' Hans Nichols: "Business firm Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is expected to extend proxy voting through the fall — and potentially until the stop of the year."
POLICY CORNER
Clear Optics, EMPTY SHELVES — "From ports to rail yards, global supply lines struggle amid virus outbreaks in the developing globe," past WaPo's David Lynch: "Fresh coronavirus outbreaks are forcing mill shutdowns in countries such as Vietnam and People's republic of bangladesh, aggravating supply chain disruptions that could exit some U.S. retailers with empty shelves as consumers brainstorm their back-to-school shopping."
DEEP DIVE — "How Unemployment Insurance Fraud Exploded During the Pandemic," by ProPublica's Cezary Podkul: "Bots filing bogus applications in bulk, teams of fraudsters in strange countries making phony claims, online forums peddling how-to advice on identity theft: Within the infrastructure of peradventure the largest fraud wave in history."
PANDEMIC
IN THE DANGER ZONE — "'What's Covid?' Why People at America's Hardest-Partying Lake Are Not About to Get Vaccinated," past Natasha Korecki in Osage Beach, Mo.: "A year ago, Backwater Jack's made national news afterward photos went viral of partiers packed inside the pool surface area, ignoring guidelines to avoid crowds and go on a altitude from others. Today, as revelers laugh and toss back drinks in shallow puddle water, some 600,000 deaths after, they aren't but forgoing masks, they are forgoing the vaccine. …
"Interviews with dozens of the clientele frequenting dockside bars, restaurants and resorts in this area … revealed an opposition to the vaccine campaign and a disbelief in news around the Delta variant so intense it bordered on belligerence. No promise, they say, would entice them to voluntarily go vaccinated, not a $1 1000000 cheque, or a plea from a loved one, or the encouragement of Donald Trump himself."
THE NEW WAVE — As it becomes ever clearer that a lackluster vaccination rate is imperiling the whole country'due south ability to extricate itself from the Covid-nineteen pandemic, a flurry of activeness Monday showed governments getting impatient with cajoling vaccinations and starting to crave them — marking "an abrupt shift in policy for some of the nation's largest public employers," equally Victoria Colliver writes in her ten,000-foot view from Oakland.
— "V.A. Bug Vaccine Mandate for Health Intendance Workers, a Beginning for a Federal Agency," by NYT's Jennifer Steinhauser
— "California regime, wellness workers must evidence proof of vaccination or exist tested regularly," by L.A. Times' Luke Coin, Emily Alpert Reyes and Taryn Luna
— "NYC to require vaccines or weekly testing for urban center workers," AP
— The legal underpinning: "Federal police doesn't prohibit Covid-19 vaccine requirements, Justice Department says," CNN
AMERICA AND THE Globe
MOMMY, WHY DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A BOMB? — "A second New Nuclear Missile Base for Red china, and Many Questions About Strategy," by NYT's William Broad and David Sanger: "In the barren desert one,200 miles west of Beijing, the Chinese government is excavation a new field of what appears to be 110 silos for launching nuclear missiles. Information technology is the second such field discovered by analysts studying commercial satellite images in recent weeks.
"It may signify a vast expansion of People's republic of china's nuclear arsenal — the cravings of an economic and technological superpower to show that, later on decades of restraint, it is ready to wield an arsenal the size of Washington's, or Moscow'south. Or, it may only be a creative, if costly, negotiating ploy. The new silos are clearly being built to be discovered."
POLITICS ROUNDUP
TODAY'Due south SPECIAL ELECTION — "Susan Wright, Jake Ellzey make terminal pitches to voters in runoff to replace Ron Wright in Congress," past Dallas Morning News' Gromer Jeffers Jr.
AND THE NEXT ONE — "Left goes all-in for Nina Turner in tightening Ohio race," past Marry Mutnick in Cleveland: "Desperate for a victory afterward centrist candidates prevailed in Virginia, New York Metropolis and Louisiana, [Rep. ALEXANDRIA] OCASIO-CORTEZ and other stars of the left are barnstorming the district to aid [NINA] TURNER in next week'south special Democratic primary — every bit polls show her one time-yawning atomic number 82 dwindling. …
"While knocking doors last weekend, Turner's fame was conspicuously on display. A few voters were visibly starstruck by her advent on her doorstep, and two told her the stop had fabricated their day. … Only the aforementioned outspokenness that made her a breakout star at [BERNIE] SANDERS rallies has also handed detractors some armament."
WHAT THE LEFT IS READING — "What the Congressional Blackness Caucus Lost When It Won Ability," by N.Y. Magazine's Zak Cheney-Rice
QUITE A READ — "Kathy Barnette'southward futile hunt for voter fraud outside Philadelphia — and what it says about the GOP," by Philly Inquirer'south Andrew Seidman: "[As KATHY] BARNETTE energized the deprival movement with her futile hunt for voter fraud on Philadelphia's Main Line, which hasn't been previously reported, the motion elevated her. She's now running in Pennsylvania's disquisitional 2022 Senate race, raising more than money than meliorate-known opponents."
BEG, Borrow AND THIEL — "A political bogeyman of Silicon Valley," by Axios' Lachlan Markay: "Tech billionaire PETER THIEL is injecting huge sums into some crucial 2022 midterm contests — and drawing fire from Republicans eager to tie their rivals to the GOP's Silicon Valley bogeymen. … JOSH MANDEL striking [J.D.] VANCE for positioning himself against Big Tech while he has 'a guy who is on the board of Facebook as his biggest political funder.' … Text letters reviewed by Axios show Mandel flagged his candidacy announcement for Thiel and followed upwardly to request meetings with him in February and March. Thiel does not appear to take responded."
BEYOND THE BELTWAY
THE SHADOW 2024 Front end-RUNNER — "'Sellout': Anti-vax conservatives come for DeSantis," by Matt Dixon in Tallahassee: "Florida's Covid crunch has wedged Gov. RON DESANTIS betwixt two competing forces: public health experts who urge him to practice more than and anti-vaxxers who want him to exercise less. … [A]s Covid infections swell across the country, DeSantis' major accomplishment has the potential to backfire on him ahead of his 2022 reelection campaign and potential 2024 presidential bid."
THE NEW VOTING RESTRICTIONS — "The Texas Election Bill Contains a New Obstacle to Voting That Virtually No One Is Talking About," by Votebeat'due south Jessica Huseman in Texas Monthly: "[M]ost lawmakers accept plainly overlooked a provision that would strength counties to automatically reject some mail-in ballot applications. … one.nine million voters — about 11 percent of the full — have only 1 of the two [required] numbers on file with the state."
THE About VALUABLE Get in POLITICS — "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets all-important endorsement from Donald Trump over fellow Republican George P. Bush," by Texas Tribune's Patrick Svitek
SCARY NEWS — "Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer robbed, assaulted in Oakland," past the San Francisco Chronicle's Emma Talley
TRUMP CARDS
BARRACK'Due south ROW — "Tom Banter Pleads Not Guilty to Foreign Agent Charges," Variety
Classy — "Michael Flynn Totes Rifle And Jokes 'Maybe I'll Find Somebody in Washington, D.C.,'" Newsweek
VALLEY TALK
THE THREAT Within — "Facebook and tech giants to target aggressor manifestos, far-right militias in database," by Reuters' Elizabeth Culliford: "A counterterrorism organisation formed by some of the biggest U.Due south. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a primal database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-correct militias …
"Until now, the Global Cyberspace Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and and then has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban."
LADIES' NIGHT FOR GOP WOMEN — It's been eight months since Election Twenty-four hour period, simply House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) are hosting a trivial party this night at the Capitol Colina Club to celebrate the celebrated number of Republican women elected to Congress last fall. (We at Playbook fully endorse parties of all sorts, fifty-fifty a quarter-year late!) We hear RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel will attend, likewise. For context, read Rachael'south story from concluding autumn about the very diverse — and FEMALE! — freshman form
DCCC COVID SCARE — Two fully vaccinated DCCC staffers take tested positive for the coronavirus following a happy hour last week, we're told by 2 sources familiar. The DCCC confirmed the cases to Playbook, and said "staff and event attendees were … notified." "The office is optionally open to fully vaccinated individuals and fully in compliance with CDC guidelines," the committee said. Information technology'southward a reminder that while life returns to something similar normal, nosotros're however in the throes of a historic pandemic. Be safe.
SPOTTED at the 20th anniversary of the Get-go Tee "Politics and Pros" charity golf event Monday at TPC Avenel, where Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), Lyndon Boozer and Baker Elmore got "spirit awards": Reps. Rick Allen (R-Ga.), Blake Moore (R-Utah), Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) and Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Matt Kuchar, Doug Ghim, Billy Hurley III, Gary Hallberg, Shasta Averyhardt, January Stephenson, Ken Harvey, Marty Russo, Bryan Anderson, Mike Johnson, Jesse McCollum, Steve Ubl, Kathryn Kennedy, Robert Fisher, Tony Kavanagh, Michael Hutton, P.C. Koch, Gerry Harrington, Jake Perry, Josh Chocolate-brown, Tony Russo, Dontai Smalls, Yong Choe, Robbie Aiken, Bryan Jacobs, Rick Lombardo, David Culver, Clint Sanchez, Katie Casper and Will Lowery.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The America Offset Policy Institute is announcing Ken Blackwell and Hogan Gidley equally the chair and director of their center for election integrity. Blackwell is a old Ohio secretary of state, and Gidley was deputy press secretary in the Trump White House.
— Nicole Lewis is joining Slate as senior editor for the jurisprudence section. She most recently has been a staff writer at The Marshall Projection, and is a WaPo alum.
MEDIA MOVES — The NYT is shuffling David Halbfinger to exist politics editor (most recently Jerusalem agency chief) and Manny Fernandez to exist deputy politics editor (currently Los Angeles bureau chief). Announcement
TRANSITIONS — Keaghan Ames is now director of government affairs at the Found of International Bankers. He near recently was caput of regulatory policy at Credit Suisse. … Bethany Torstenson is joining Harris Media LLC as a senior business relationship executive. She previously was deputy campaign director for Amanda Makki's Florida congressional bid.
ENGAGED — Mike Carroll proposed to Mallory Quigley, VP of comms at Susan B. Anthony List, on Friday evening at the National Basilica in the Our Lady of Guadalupe chapel. They both grew up in Gaithersburg and had many friends in common, but never met until they matched on Hinge in the early days of the pandemic. Pic
— Tim Churchill, federal legislative affairs director at the NRA, and Victoria Snitsar, Virginia field coordinator at American Bulk and American Bulk Action and an Iowa Trump Victory alum, got engaged Saturday outside the U.S. Capitol building post-obit dinner at Fogo de Chão. They originally met when she was in D.C. for a briefing in 2017 and he led her grouping on a Capitol tour. Film
WEEKEND Wedding — Zeke Miller, an AP White Business firm reporter, and Jessie Crystal, a 2nd grade teacher at the Sheridan Schoolhouse, got married Sunday at her family unit home in Westhampton Embankment, North.Y. They were introduced in 2017 by Jessie's sister and brother-in-constabulary, Lara Crystal and Rob Saliterman. Picture show
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Rep. Glenn "Yard.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) … Sean Savett … former Rep. Lacy Dirt (D-Mo.) … Priscilla Painton of Simon & Schuster … Katie Wheelbarger … Alex Wirth of Quorum … Andy Spahn … BuzzFeed's Paul McLeod … Cecilia Muñoz of New America … Berin Szóka … U.S. Southern Command's Adm. Craig Faller … RNC'south Johanna Persing … Jeremy Adler of Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-Wyo.) office … Prime Policy Group'southward Stefan Bailey (45) … John Connell of Sen. Todd Young's (R-Ind.) office (38) … Linda Feldmann … Gaurav Parikh of Smart Policy Group and Meaning Consulting … Jason Lindsay … Bobby Cunningham of VH Strategies … Live Action's Lila Rose … Bobby Saparow … Jeremy Deutsch of Capitol Venture … Anna McCormack of Rep. David Rouzer's (R-N.C.) part … MSNBC's Denis Horgan … Juan Mejia … Ashley Howard of Sen. Rob Portman'southward (R-Ohio) office … Paul Dranginis … Andrew Grossman … onetime Rep. Dave Deviling (R-Va.) … Lauren Aratani … former Commerce Secretary Don Evans … Susan Durrwachter … erstwhile CIA Director John Yard. Deutch … PJ Wenzel
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