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Political leader Playbook: Covid'due south comeback bursts the D.C. chimera
At that place's no denying it: Covid is rocking Washington right now. Days subsequently Saturday'due south annual Gridiron Social club dinner, multiple attendees of the boujee 600-seat confab have come down with it — including Commerce Secretary GINA RAIMONDO, A.Thousand. MERRICK GARLAND and Reps. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) and JOAQUIN CASTRO (D-Texas).
By Wednesday afternoon, another high-profile attendee — JAMAL SIMMONS, comms director to VP KAMALA HARRIS — revealed that he, too, tested positive. That test consequence came just a day afterwards he shook former President BARACK OBAMA's paw at the White Business firm'southward Obamacare party, where President JOE BIDEN and 200 other high-level officials hobnobbed maskless while celebrating the health intendance law.
Throughout the District on Midweek, the possible superspreader issue was seemingly all anyone could talk about, every bit NYT's Katie Rogers writes. Reporters and pols alike plant themselves trading text messages well-nigh who sat by whom and whether so-and-so who was feeling ill got a positive test result. The entire situation, she notes, is a reminder "that, fifty-fifty as officials seek to pivot abroad from strict restrictions and encourage Americans to larn to live with the coronavirus, the pandemic is not over."
The Gridiron dinner isn't the only likely superspreader event piercing the This Boondocks bubble. Every bit Eugene, Sam Stein and Steven Overly reported Wednesday, "a number of individuals who attended a prominent antitrust conference in Brussels final week also came down with Covid … Additionally, a number of reporters who attended a going-away party for National Security Council spokesperson EMILY HORNE have tested positive for Covid."
Two MAJOR QUESTIONS:
1. How will this affect the White House — especially POTUS? Biden is twice boosted, just let'south face it: He's no spring chicken, and is demographically in a high-gamble group. Fifty-fifty so, the 79-year-quondam has been out at that place mingling with the maskless masses at a agglomeration of events amid the D.C. fasten. On Wednesday: the national conference of North America'due south Edifice Trades Unions and a postal beak signing event. On Tuesday: the White Business firm's Obamacare commemoration. On Monday: a South Lawn gathering, at which he posed for photos with attendees.
And as D.C. numbers increase, people take asked nearly the safety protocols surrounding the most powerful man in the world. WSJ'due south Andrew Restuccia and Sabrina Siddiqui have some answers: "People who come into contact with the president, both staff and visitors, are tested for the virus that solar day. Meetings with the president often are socially distanced, the officials said. The White Business firm has said it would brand public any positive cases for staffers who take come into close contact with the president, commencement lady, vice president or 2d gentleman."
— Why the risk, you ask? Hither'southward the W.H. calculus, per Restuccia and Siddiqui: "Administration officials acknowledged that the president's regular contact with advisers and supporters could expose him to Covid-xix. Only they said it was important for Mr. Biden to project a sense of semi-normalcy as many Americans are opting to leave their homes, return to piece of work and socialize with friends. With midterm elections scheduled for the fall, a Wall Street Journal poll in March constitute that Democrats held an eleven-indicate edge on which political party would all-time handle the pandemic, down from a 16-bespeak edge in November."
2. Volition this change the plans for "Nerd Prom"? Rogers aptly chosen this new surge the "invisible party crasher," only it'south yet to be determined whether this unwanted guest will shut down the political party completely or just dampen the mood. Our ace colleagues on West Wing Playbook reported Wednesday night that when information technology comes to the much-predictable White House Correspondents' Dinner, the prove will proceed.
WHCA President STEVEN PORTNOY told Max Tani and Alex Thompson that "the arrangement developed guidelines months agone in training for a more-complicated-than-normal dinner. All attendees will have to show proof of a negative examination the day of the event. In that location is no vaccine mandate (as in that location was for the Gridiron dinner), but the WHCA has previously said that the vast bulk of its members are vaccinated and boosted, reducing the likelihood that contracting the virus would put many of those individuals at risk of serious illness."
WHCA isn't solitary in refusing to phone call it quits, the pair add. "Talent agency CAA is putting on an exclusive party on a hotel rooftop near Logan Circle, while MSNBC and CNN are both still planning yethoped-for-announced parties. Political leader is hosting several events, including the almanac brunch at the home of founder ROBERT ALLBRITTON that volition require vaccines and boosters for entry. The invites for UTA'due south annual political party Friday nighttime at Georgetown's Fiola Mare went out on Wednesday." Political party at your own risk, D.C.
It's Thursday morning — and Tarmac Fever is spreading throughout the Capitol. Cheers for reading Playbook, where we are also fix for the 2-week congressional recess. Drop u.s.a. a line: Rachael Bade , Eugene Daniels , Ryan Lizza .
BIDEN'Southward THURSDAY — The president and VP will receive the President's Daily Brief at ten:15 a.m.
Press secretary JEN PSAKI will brief at one p.1000.
THE House will meet at ix a.m. The Administration Committee will hold a hearing on stock trading reforms for members of Congress at ix:10 a.m. Speaker NANCY PELOSI will hold her weekly press conference at x:45 a.m.
THE SENATE is in. Defense Secretarial assistant LLOYD AUSTIN and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. MARK MILLEY will be among those testifying earlier the Armed services Committee at 9:thirty a.m. IRS Commissioner CHARLES RETTIG will show before the Finance Committee at x a.thou.
And if all in the Senate goes as planned, Biden SCOTUS nominee KETANJI Brown JACKSON will exist confirmed to the high courtroom before your afternoon coffee, per a timeline unveiled by Bulk Leader CHUCK SCHUMER on Wednesday night. Await an 11 a.chiliad. cloture vote, followed by final confirmation around ane:45 p.thou.
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CONGRESS
BIPARTISAN Grouping CALLS FOR BIDEN TO REVERSE TITLE 42 CHANGES — A bipartisan group of 11 senators will introduce a bill today preventing the Biden assistants from "from lifting Title 42 without a detailed programme in identify to terminate an expected surge of migrants at the border," Axios' Alayna Treene reports. This nib will but up the pressure on the White House to delay its plan for a May 23 calibration-back of DONALD TRUMP's pandemic-era crackdown on aviary-seekers, which has vulnerable Democrats panicking virtually a border surge just before the midterms.
Simply it also could cause some complications for the assistants'southward $10 billion Covid funding package, which has been stalled in the Senate amongst GOP demands for a vote on a similar thought. While Schumer has blasted Republicans for trying to hold up needed pandemic bill over Title 42, this group is making clear that at that place'south bipartisan support to adhere this provision to that legislation, per the story.
— More on the beak, per Treene: "The bill urges the Biden assistants to delay catastrophe Title 42 until 60 days later on the Surgeon General submits written notification to Congress formally rescinding the Covid-nineteen public health emergency and the national emergency."
— The signers: KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.), JAMES LANKFORD (R-Okla.), MARK KELLY (D-Ariz.), MAGGIE HASSAN (D-North.H.), JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.), JON TESTER (D-Mont.), JOHN THUNE (R-S.D.), JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas), THOM TILLIS (R-N.C.), SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO (R-W.Va.) and ROB PORTMAN (R-Ohio).
Speaking of the border …
ABBOTT TO BUS MIGRANTS TO D.C. — Texas Gov. GREG ABBOTT is pulling a page from Trump and STEPHEN MILLER'due south playbook: "At a printing conference on Wednesday, Abbott unveiled a stunning plan that sent a shockwave through the immigration rights customs: Texas would place state troopers in anarchism gear to meet migrants at the edge and motorbus them straight to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., where he said the Biden administration 'will be able to more immediately accost the needs of the people that they are assuasive to come across our border,'" the Texas Tribune'southward James Barragan reports.
— We're getting flashbacks to this story we wrote a few years ago, when Trump and MIller said they'd exercise this and drop migrants in Pelosi'due south district for payback for not funding his wall. AP has more on Texas' other border action.
AND IN OTHER Middle-POPPING BORDER NEWS: "Homeland Security Watchdog Omitted Damaging Findings From Reports," NYT's Chris Cameron scoops, writing this morn that the DHS IG "and his top aides directed staff members to remove dissentious findings from investigative reports on domestic violence and sexual misconduct by officers in the department'southward constabulary enforcement agencies."
THE WHITE HOUSE
WaPo is up with a pair of early on reads this morning about the Biden White Business firm:
ane) Merely POSTED AT 3 A.One thousand.: "Biden at war: Within a deliberate yet impulsive Ukraine strategy," past Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager and Marianna Sotomayor, which leads with a tick-tock of the president's "this man cannot remain in ability" gaffe: "The 37-minute scramble to clarify Biden's nine-discussion gaffe, details of which have not been previously reported, illustrates the singular office Biden has played during Russia'south vicious invasion of Ukraine — at times emotional and freewheeling, at other times carefully choreographed and deliberate, just frequently a central player in helping to marshal the Westward's response to Russia."
"As the war enters its seventh week Thursday, Biden has left his distinct imprint on the crisis — in ways both intentional and not, and in means that have both antiseptic and complicated the situation."
2) Simply POSTED AT v A.M.: "Why Biden's executive society on policing is still upwards in the air," past David Nakamura, Marking Berman and Annie Linskey: "The Biden White Business firm is struggling to reshape an executive order on constabulary accountability iii months after a leaked draft drew precipitous opposition from law enforcement groups, putting the initiative at run a risk at a time when vehement criminal offense is ascent and civil rights groups take expressed frustration over the pace of reform."
"Law organizations said they remain in talks with Biden's domestic policy adviser, SUSAN RICE, and other senior aides. Just nearly two years afterward the police killings of GEORGE FLOYD, BREONNA TAYLOR and others sparked nationwide protests and demands for modify, the White House has offered no timeline for the release of the gild or details of what it might include."
MEDIAWATCH
DRAMA AT NBC OVER REPORTED PSAKI HIRING — The recent news that Psaki is leaving the administration to take on a task at MSNBC and Peacock is causing some internal strife at NBC News, CNN's Oliver Darcy reports. "NOAH OPPENHEIM, the NBC News president, fifty-fifty held an impromptu phone call Friday so that he could address the matter with vexed staffers from the Washington agency, some of whom accept complained to their superiors that the tentative hiring tarnishes the NBC News brand. Oppenheim, attempting to quell the anger, reaffirmed the distinction on the call between NBC News and MSNBC'south stance programming, some of the people familiar with the affair said. Oppenheim, who does not oversee MSNBC, told the journalists that NBC News did non have a part in hiring Psaki."
ALL POLITICS
CONSERVATIVES Defection AGAINST TRUMP ENDORSEMENT — Ahead of Trump's visit to North Carolina this weekend, a group of local conservatives are trying to sink the candidacy of BO HIMES, a 26-twelvemonth-old from outside the congressional district he'due south running in. Natalie Allison has the story this forenoon: "Through newspaper advertisements, electronic mail blasts and door-knocking, some local Republicans are trying to spread the word that Hines, Trump'south favored candidate in the 13th Congressional District, is a carpetbagger. In their view, the former president was misguided in endorsing Hines over homegrown conservatives invested in local party politics."
SECRET SPENDING SOARS — NYT's Ken Vogel, Shane Goldmacher and Ryan Mac accept the deets on a "new coalition of wealthy conservative benefactors" who descended on Mar-a-Lago this week for a individual peak "that included closed-door addresses from sometime President Donald J. Trump and an allied Senate candidate." Who they are: "The coalition, chosen the Rockbridge Network, includes some of Mr. Trump'due south biggest donors, such as PETER THIEL and REBEKAH MERCER, and has laid out an ambitious goal — to reshape the American right by spending more than than $thirty million on bourgeois media, legal, policy and voter registration projects, among other initiatives.
"The emergence of Rockbridge, the existence of which has not previously been reported, comes amid escalating jockeying amidst conservative megadonors to shape the 2022 midterms and the time to come of the Republican Party from outside the formal political party machinery, and often with lilliputian disclosure."
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — A grouping of politically engaged parents is launching a new initiative, called Continue Families Afloat, "focused on supporting the expanded monthly Kid Tax Credit (CTC) and calling for increased visibility for the CTC among policymakers, candidates, and voters" ahead of the midterms. "Proceed Families Afloat will focus its resources on demanding political candidates to accost concerns from parents around the CTC, publishing political data demonstrating the importance of the CTC, running visibility tactics like billboards, digital advertisements, and more to keep up momentum. The initiative will also endorse candidates in key races who are speaking up for the CTC's extension and concord Members of Congress accountable for voting against the program." The grouping includes some big names in Autonomous politics: BUFFY WICKS, SACHIN CHHEDA and DYLAN HEWITT, NICK MERRILL and ADDISU DEMISSIE.
JAN. 6 AND ITS Backwash
RACKING Upward THE Contempt VOTES — The House on Wednesday voted 220-203 to agree former Trump advisers DAN SCAVINO and PETER NAVARRO in contempt of Congress, formally kicking the cases to the Justice Department for review, Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney report. "Scavino and Navarro bring to four the number of close Trump allies that have been referred for prosecution because of their decision to defy the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol."
— How important are these two witnesses? "Scavino is the more than significant of the two witnesses the Business firm held in antipathy. A longtime Trump confidant, Scavino was with the then-president during key moments on Jan. 6, and call records propose Trump reached out to him by phone that evening. Scavino was as well intimately involved in Trump's social media strategy and may have insights into the December 2020 determination to telephone call supporters to a 'wild' protest in Washington on Jan. half-dozen, a tweet that was seen amid extremists as a call to action."
FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK — A federal approximate on Wednesday squashed i of STEVE BANNON'southward key defenses against criminal contempt charges, ruling that the one-time Trump aide's claims of executive privilege are non applicable in his case, Kyle reports.
TALE OF THE TAPE — The showtime outright acquittal stemming from a Jan. 6 accused's case has now landed. "Post-obit a two-day bench trial, New Mexico engineer MATTHEW MARTIN was acquitted Wed on 4 misdemeanor charges past Judge TREVOR MCFADDEN. Martin claimed that he thought law allowed him into an entrance near the Capitol Rotunda. McFadden said that, based on video of the scene, that assertion was at to the lowest degree plausible and prosecutors failed to prove the case beyond a reasonable uncertainty," Josh Gerstein writes.
The Capitol Hill trick saga took a dark turn. On Midweek, officials announced that the creature, which was captured and euthanized later bitter at to the lowest degree nine people this calendar week, tested positive for rabies. Per NYT's Chris Cameron: "Information technology was not immediately clear what additional measures would be taken for the local play tricks population after the positive examination." And the little ones? "The belatedly vixen's children — known as kits — were too found on the Capitol grounds and recovered on Wednesday morn, D.C. Wellness said. Officials said they were still determining what to do with the kits." (If the babies are also put downwardly, Rachael might have a meltdown.)
Marjorie Taylor Greene defendant Jimmy Kimmel of making a violent "threat" against her, and filed the claim with the U.South. Capitol Constabulary. The offending incident? On his ABC late-night show, Kimmel referenced Greene's outlandish fake merits that Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins were "pro-pedophile" for supporting Ketanji Brownish Jackson'due south SCOTUS nomination, and said, "Wow, where is Volition Smith when you really need him?"
Speaking of Greene, Donald Trump endorsed her congressional entrada Wed.
IN MEMORIAM — Eric Boehlert "was killed by a New Bailiwick of jersey Transit train near the [Montclair] Watchung Avenue station Monday night," NorthJersey.com's Julia Martin reports. "Boehlert, 57, was a veteran writer and media analyst and a frequent television and radio invitee discussing politics and the printing on CNN and CNBC. He was a founding editor of Salon magazine, a fellow with Media Matters, and a onetime writer with Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines. He wrote 2 books, 'Lapdogs: How the Printing Rolled Over for Bush,' and 'Bloggers on the Bus.'" An outpouring of remembrances flooded Twitter on Wednesday as his former colleagues, friends and admirers — including Hillary Clinton — expressed their grief and appreciation for his life.
AND THE AWARD GOES TO — The White House Correspondents' Association announced its 2022 award winners: Axios' Jonathan Swan for overall excellence, AP's Zeke Miller and Mike Balsamo for coverage of the CDC easing mask guidance, ABC's Jonathan Karl for Jan. vi coverage, AFP's Brendan Smialowski for a photo of the Biden-Putin meeting in Geneva and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, WaPo and others for their Pandora Papers investigations. Run into all the work here
OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at the annual National Action Network's annual "Keeper of the Dreams" awards gala in New York: honorees U.Southward. Administrator to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Yolanda Adams, Camille Joseph-Gordon, Brian Flores and Bryan Stevenson. It was the first time the gala was held in 2 years because of the pandemic.
After receiving the Chairman'south Laurels from Rev. Al Sharpton and by honoree MSNBC President Rashida Jones, Thomas-Greenfield spoke well-nigh the importance of supporting Ukrainians and shared a story well-nigh facing off with the Russian ambassador at the U.North. Security Council ("Someone told me I did a perfect side-heart to my Russian analogue. What's a side-middle?" she said.). Also present: NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Uber executive Tony Westward, who also happens to exist Kamala Harris' blood brother-in-constabulary.
— SPOTTED at a fundraiser in support of Cadre'south work to aid Ukrainian refugees hosted by Brittany Swalwell and Robert and Lo-Mari O'Brien, and special guest Sean Penn: Sen. Hand Romney (R-Utah), Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Ruben (D-Ariz.) and Sydney Gallego, Qatari Ambassador Bin Hamad Al Thani, Dan Foote, Romanaian Administrator Andrei Mararu, Yardena Wolf, Neb Rockwood, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, Brad Howard, Kristen Hawn, Kelley Williams, Lin Whitehouse, retired Lt. Col. Alex and Rachel Vindman, and Kurt Bardella and Miroslava Korenha.
— SPOTTED at the Dream Corps Day Of Empathy celebration at the National Building Museum on Tuesday night: Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Van Jones, Chiraag Bains, Jessica Jackson and Reuben Vincent.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Rebecca Good has joined the American Enterprise Plant to support new initiatives strengthening Blackness uplift, campus engagement and policy traction. She is a erstwhile McKinsey analyst, Harvard chaplain and M-8 school founder.
NEW NOMINEES — The White House announced several new nominees, including Carol Spahn equally director of the Peace Corps, Robin Hutcheson every bit Federal Motor Carrier Safe ambassador at DOT, and Jaime Lizárraga and Marking Uyeda as SEC commissioners.
STAFFING UP — Michael Horowitz is now director of the Defense Department's Function of Emerging Capabilities Policy. He previously was director of the University of Pennsylvania'due south Perry World Business firm.
TRANSITIONS — Carson Steelman is now press secretarial assistant for Heritage Action. She previously was a senior account executive at Athos PR and is a Greg Steube alum. … Sakshi Mahajan is now senior coordinator of legal talent, recruiting and preparation at Sullivan & Cromwell. She previously was director of inquiry and communication at HHQ Ventures.
WELCOME TO THE World — Pete Davis, manager of the Democracy Policy Network and author of "Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Space Browsing," and Distraction Turner, an attorney at the FTC, on Fri welcomed Francis Shelton Davis, who is named after St. Francis and Pete's father. Picture show … Another pic
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