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POLITICO Playbook: Breaking downwards Biden's latest Build Back Better plan
ROUGH NUMBERS — As aggrandizement continues to raise prices of everyday household items, Americans are laying the arraign at President JOE BIDEN's feet. In a new POLITICO/Morning time Consult poll, 62% of American voters say the assistants's policies are either somewhat or very responsible for increasing aggrandizement, including 41% of Democrats, 61% of independent voters and 85% of Republicans.
The right track/wrong track question besides looked pretty grim for Biden: Just 38% of voters — and seven of ten Democrats — said the country is heading in the correct management. Toplines … Crosstabs
THE READOUT — Biden began pitching lawmakers on an outline for his Build Back Better plan Tuesday night. The proposal, pegged in the range of $one.75 to $1.9 trillion, is far from a done deal: Moderates and progressives will have plenty to say before giving anything their approval. Just Hill Democrats are relieved that Biden is getting his hands dirty after sitting on the sidelines for weeks.
"This was a productive conversation and likewise 1 that demonstrates momentum," said a senior congressional aide briefed on 1 of several meetings Tuesday betwixt the president and lawmakers. "This is a sign that the White House is actually putting pen to paper."
Here'southward what Biden told lawmakers nearly the land of play, every bit well as our own assay of the latest:
1) MOST SURPRISING: Trivial LOVE FOR THE CHILD Revenue enhancement CREDIT — It was one of the crowning achievements of Biden'due south start legislative victory in the pandemic relief neb. But Biden told lawmakers they may extend the enhanced CTC for just 1 year.
Problems afoot: House sources tell us this could be a large problem for Democrats who wanted to make the enhancements permanent, particularly the 100-fellow member New Democrat Coalition. Fifty-fifty front end-liners in tough districts wanted to extend this as long every bit possible.
The thinking: Of all the policy changes in BBB, this is 1 that some Democrats believe the GOP volition actually extend since the political party has endorsed versions of the credit before. And therefore, some think it could be a safer bet to fund for only a brusk time. Democrats are also at odds over how to means-test information technology.
2) LEAST SURPRISING: FREE Community COLLEGE IS OUT — The president said tuition-free community higher is unlikely to make the final cut. But sources tell us in that location was a word about doubling Pell Grants and boosting funding for workforce development and apprenticeships.
three) BERNIE'S DENTAL Programme IS Even so IN PLAY — Sen. BERNIE SANDERS' (I-Vt.) proposal to aggrandize Medicare to include dental may be scaled back but could all the same make the cut. Biden pitched progressives on what one of our sources briefed on the meeting called a "pilot plan": a new system in which seniors would receive a dental carte du jour to pay for their dental issues. It's unclear whether this would likewise encompass hearing and vision.
A note of caution: Moderates who met with Biden weren't convinced this was a done deal given the opposition to information technology among some influential Dems.
Problems afoot: Firm Democratic leaders would rather use limited coin to shore up the Affordable Care Act indefinitely. Our Congress team hears Biden mentioned merely a three-year extension.
The thinking: Establishing Sanders' preferred dental, vision and hearing plan would take years and be expensive. This flex-business relationship-type setup would allow seniors to do good correct away, we hear, which may alleviate the concern front-liners have about spending money on something that won't assistance in their reelection efforts.
4) FAMILY PROGRAMS SCALED BACK — Biden told lawmakers that funding for kid care and universal pre-K are even so in. Also, Biden signaled that they're considering cut a family exit benefit from 12 weeks to four.
Related: Our sources told u.s. the White Business firm is looking at near $150 billion over 10 years for elderly home intendance, a driblet from the initial $400 billion proposed.
v) THE "FUZZIEST" PART: CLIMATE — Biden danced around the climate proposals, non surprising given Sen. JOE MANCHIN's (D-W.Va.) continued resistance to many of them. The president discussed providing hundreds of billions in tax credits for those who use clean free energy. But sources said it was unclear exactly what he meant, and the sense was that the White House is still trying to get its footing on the issue.
WHAT'S NEXT? We mentioned Mon that lawmakers were surprisingly upbeat about getting this done by Halloween. Tuesday's talks fueled that optimism. But Biden, of course, is also negotiating with Manchin and Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.). We don't know where they are on this working framework, merely could get an idea today.
Nosotros also didn't hear a lot well-nigh pay-fors, the trickiest part of the equation here. Withal, the fact that moderates and progressives emerged from meetings at the White House hit an optimistic tone shows serious progress.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders say they want to get a framework past the terminate of the week. Every bit our Heather Caygle and Burgess Everett written report today, the congressional leadership strategy of using a self-imposed infrastructure vote deadline (Oct. 31) to attempt to force a deal on reconciliation is "a rerun of the playbook Autonomous leaders used just weeks ago, only to have it accident up in their faces. But Democrats insist it actually might work this time, with political and legislative incentives adjustment more neatly than they did in September. [Speaker NANCY] PELOSI and [Senate Majority Leader CHUCK] SCHUMER are telling their members they need to secure an agreement on the social spending bill by the end of this calendar week. The Firm could even vote past the end of the month."
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BIDEN'S WEDNESDAY:
— 9:30 a.k.: The president volition receive the President's Daily Brief.
— three:05 p.one thousand.: Biden will depart the White Business firm en route to Avoca, Pa., where he's scheduled to arrive at four:xv p.m.
— five:15 p.yard.: Biden volition deliver remarks at the Electrical City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pa.
— 7:05 p.m.: The president will depart Pennsylvania to render to the White House, where he's scheduled to make it at viii:10 p.m.
VP KAMALA HARRIS' WEDNESDAY: The VP will lead a workers roundtable at 11:35 a.grand. focused on "encouraging worker organizing and collective bargaining," along with Labor Secretary MARTY WALSH and Role of Personnel Direction Manager KIRAN AHUJA.
The White House Covid-19 response team and public health officials will brief at 8:45 a.m. Press secretary JEN PSAKI will gaggle on Air Force One on the way to Pennsylvania.
THE SENATE volition meet at 10 a.chiliad. to consider CATHERINE LHAMON'due south nomination to exist assistant Educational activity secretary for ceremonious rights, with a cloture vote at 11 a.m. and a possible confirmation vote at 1:45 p.m. The chamber volition and so vote on cloture on the move to proceed to the Liberty to Vote Act. The Foreign Relations Committee volition hold a hearing at ten a.grand. on ambassador nominations, including RAHM EMANUEL for Japan, NICHOLAS BURNS for China and JONATHAN KAPLAN for Singapore.
— FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Emanuel'southward hearing comes with a ton of controversy and pushback from progressives because of the LAQUAN MCDONALD police force killing and camouflage that took identify while he was mayor of Chicago. The hearing takes place on the seventh anniversary of McDonald'due south death. More than than 20 activists and progressives are sending a letter this morning to Foreign Relations Committee members urging them to press Emanuel about the case and calling for Biden to withdraw the nomination.
THE HOUSE will come across at 10 a.m. and will accept upward several bills at apex. The Rules Committee will meet at 11 a.chiliad. to have upward the resolution on finding STEVE BANNON in criminal antipathy of Congress.
CONGRESS
NO SURPRISE HERE — As the Senate is set to vote on voting rights legislation today, Republicans are set to employ the filibuster for the third time this year to block it, NYT's Carl Hulse reports. The moves have made Democrats beginning to rethink their stances on delay carveouts to pass federal voting rights legislation.
"'When we are talking about the fundamental operation of republic, I accept to recollect a Senate dominion will have to be modified or requite mode,' said Senator ANGUS KING, the Maine contained, saying that he would dorsum changes to the filibuster dominion if needed to pass the bill."
FORTENBERRY INDICTED — "A federal thousand jury indictment charged Rep. JEFF FORTENBERRY (R-Neb.) Tuesday with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal cloth facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators looking into illegal contributions to his 2016 campaign," Omaha World-Herald'south Ryan Hoffman reports. "The indictment alleges that Fortenberry repeatedly lied to and misled authorities during a federal investigation into illegal contributions to Fortenberry'due south reelection campaign made past a foreign billionaire, GILBERT CHAGOURY, in early 2016."
THE Assistants
GOING IT Alone — WaPo'southward Dino Grandoni and Tony Romm report that Biden is looking at using executive action to move larger, compromised climate change proposals along, ahead of the U.Due north. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, that brainstorm at the end of this month.
FOR YOUR RADAR — DHS Secretarial assistant ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday, a section spokesperson confirmed. Mayorkas is fully vaccinated. He was planning to travel to Colombia with Secretary of Land ANTONY BLINKEN, and got tested as office of a pre-travel precaution. The department spokeswoman confirmed he will shift to work remotely, CNN's Geneva Sands reports.
Beyond THE BELTWAY
HAPPENING IN 2021 — "Iowa authorities are investigating multiple threats — including i of lynching — that Iowa Democratic Party Chairman ROSS WILBURN received soon after writing an op-ed critical of [DONALD] TRUMP," WaPo'southward Mariana Alfaro reports. "Wilburn, the state party'due south first Black chairman, wrote the opinion piece published in the Des Moines Register ahead of Trump'due south Oct. 9 rally at the Iowa Land Fairgrounds. … In it, Wilburn accused Iowa Republicans of putting their loyalty to Trump ahead of Iowans' needs."
CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN OKLAHOMA — Civil rights groups, including the ACLU, sued the state of Oklahoma on Tuesday over its new law "limiting instruction about race and gender in public schools," NBC'south Tyler Kingkade and Antonia Hylton report. The adapt says that the law, "which took effect in May, violates students' and teachers' free spoken language rights and denies people of colour, LGBTQ students and girls the chance to acquire their history." The lawsuit is the first federal one to claiming the implementation of a country police theoretically aimed at limiting critical race theory.
JAN. 6 AND ITS Aftermath
IN Contempt — The House Jan. 6 commission voted unanimously Tuesday to agree former Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for defying the panel's amendment, AP'southward Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri written report.
— Read our Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein on why this is no silver bullet, despite panel members' tough talk. "It's riddled with legal loopholes and ambiguities that could allow Donald Trump's allies to bury the January. 6 select committee in Byzantine court challenges," they annotation.
TRUMP CARDS
WILD TRUMP HEADLINES, Function ONE TRILLION — Trump's Defense secretarial assistant MARK ESPER in the jump of 2020 stopped "an idea under discussion at a height military command and at the [department] to send as many equally 250,000 troops — more than one-half the active U.Southward. Army, and a sixth of all American forces — to the southern edge in what would have been the largest utilise of the military inside the U.S. since the Ceremonious State of war," NYT's David Sanger, Michael Shear and Eric Schmitt scooped.
Officials told the reporters that "Esper also believed that deploying then many troops to the edge would undermine American military readiness around the earth."
Another Twenty-four hour period, ANOTHER (POTENTIAL) TRUMP SUIT — Trump is looking to countersue SUMMER ZERVOS, a old "Apprentice" contestant, who says he defamed her "by saying she lied in accusing him of unwelcome kissing and groping in 2007," AP'due south Jennifer Peltz reports.
In the request, Trump's lawyer says the defamation suit is an effort to harass or intimidate his free oral communication. The move also "comes equally Zervos' nearly 5-year-old defamation accommodate is nearing an of import phase. Both he and she are due to undergo questioning under oath past Dec. 23."
EX-TRUMP PAC OFFICIAL SPEAKS — Former America First Activeness finance director JOSEPH AHEARN "testified at a criminal campaign finance trial on Tuesday that he idea that hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to Republican political groups in 2018 past LEV PARNAS was legal to accept at the time information technology came in," Josh Gerstein reports.
VALLEY TALK
A NEW NAME — The Verge's Alex Heath reports that "Facebook is planning to change its company name next calendar week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse … The coming name change, which CEO Mark ZUCKERBERG plans to talk near at the company'southward annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant'south appetite to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail."
Paul Manafort was spotted dining at Buffet Milano.
Rudy Giuliani released a video telling Virginians not to vote for Terry McAuliffe wearing an Abe Lincoln filter …
Katie Hill, who resigned from Congress amid scandal, appear she's pregnant in Vanity Fair, which included a photo shoot well-nigh a lake with her partner, Playboy reporter Alex Thomas.
Kanye West donned the most terrifying mask while getting lunch with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen.
CNN ballast John King revealed for the first time that he has multiple sclerosis.
Kyrsten Sinema got the total NYT treatment — well, her wardrobe did.
LISTS Full OF WOMEN: It wasn't always so piece of cake to cobble together 100 names for the nigh powerful women in Washington list, Washingtonian CEO and possessor Cathy Merrill lamented. At one fourth dimension, the Washington glossy listed every female member of the House and Senate merely to fill up the slots. At present they are oftentimes faced with as many as 300 women to choose from, a sign of how far women have come in this town, Merrill said at The Society of the Cincinnati at Larz Anderson House on Tuesday to a crowd of more than 200 women, some honored and some there in back up. Amongst those in attendance: Abby Phillip, Suzanne Clark, Yamiche Alcindor, Holly Harris, Shanti Stanton, Juleanna Glover, Michael Schaffer, Dannia Hakki, Maha Hakki, Tammy Haddad, Heather Podesta, Ricki Niceta, Dave Moss, Carrie Glenn, Syrita Bowen and Alecia and Jill Webb-Edgington.
SPOTTED at a Hudson Institute upshot honoring Neal and Linden Blue of General Atomics with its annual Herman Kahn Laurels in San Diego on the deck of the USS Midway: Mike Pompeo, who delivered remarks, Ronne Blueish, Elaine Chao, Pete Wilson, Jocko Willink, Chris Cox, Sarah Stern, John Walters, David and Linda Asher, Ken Weinstein, Monu Joseph and Rick Hough.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — David Pepper, the quondam chair of the Ohio Autonomous Political party, is out with a new volume, "Laboratories of Autocracy" ( $16.99 on Amazon ), this calendar week. It warns that anti-democratic forces taking root in statehouses risk "calcifying [those bodies] into permanent undemocratic structures" — and that the problem extends beyond Trumpism.
STAFFING Up — The White House appear several new nominations, including Steven Cliff every bit administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Assistants, Donald Blome as ambassador to Islamic republic of pakistan and Peter Beshar as full general counsel at the Air Force.
TRANSITIONS — Sara Sendek is at present a senior manager for FTI Consulting's crisis and litigation exercise. She most recently was a director for the Aspen Institute's Committee on Data Disorder and is a CISA and Bush White House alum. … Kevin Carpenter is joining Strategic Elements as VP of public affairs. He previously was an SVP at Ichor Strategies. …
… John Stineman is launching Kdence, a political consulting business firm. He is the chief strategist at Strategic Elements. … Eric Steiner is now VP of government diplomacy at the American Forest & Paper Association. He previously was senior director of government affairs at Elanco Animal Wellness. … Sean Simons is now director of comms and campaigns at (RED). He virtually recently was U.S. press secretary for the 1 Campaign, and is a Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly alum.
ENGAGED — Stephanie Reichin, SVP and chief of staff at SKDK, and Cooper Smith, product blueprint manager at Lyft, got engaged Mon in their Rhode Island summertime/Covid escape home. The two met on Swivel in 2019 and started dating last year. Flick
WELCOME TO THE World — Clark Jennings, managing director for Asia at Crowell & Moring and an Obama White House alum, and Mary Rutherford Jennings, a WeWork and Hillary 2016 alum, on Tuesday welcomed Elizabeth Spencer Jennings, who came in at 7 lbs, 4 oz. Instapic … Another picture
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: VP Kamala Harris … Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) … Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) … Greg Lowman of Allegiance … John Grandy … WaPo'due south Ann Gerhart … Nardelli Group'southward Mick Nardelli … AARP'due south Khelan Bhatia … Education Department'south Clare McCann … Anneke Green … Roddy Flynn of Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon's (D-Pa.) part … Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani … Eliza Relman … Hanna Pritchett of the American Conservation Coalition … Lamia Rezgui … Matt Dogali of the American Distilled Spirits Clan … Pablo Manriquez … Henry Kaufman (94) … Politico'south Chris Tassa and Jean Chemnick … Arthel Neville ... Katherine DePalma … Christie Boyden … Chuck McCutcheon … Thomas Willard … former Labor Secretarial assistant Hilda Solis … Kay Foley … erstwhile DNI John Ratcliffe … Steve Moffitt … Tom Kahn of American University (66) … NYT's Matt Apuzzo
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