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Today, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is pursuing “political vengeance” by blocking him and Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) from serving connected the Intelligence Committee. At a quality conference, Schiff accused McCarthy of doing the bidding of “his maestro astatine Mar-a-Lago,” a notation to erstwhile president Donald Trump. Schiff was a cardinal subordinate successful Trump’s archetypal impeachment. McCarthy has besides vowed to artifact Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from serving connected the Foreign Affairs Committee, a determination that would necessitate a ballot of the afloat House. Omar accused McCarthy of a “political stunt.”
At the White House, President Biden has elaborate plans to send 31 of the United States’ premier conflict tanks to Ukraine to assistance successful the combat against Russian aggression. Vice President Harris is heading to Monterey Park, Calif., to mourn the victims of the wide shooting that near 11 dead implicit the weekend.
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The latest: Biden says U.S. tanks are not an ‘offensive menace to Russia’
President Biden said Wednesday that his determination to nonstop 31 of the United States’ premier conflict tanks to Ukraine is not meant arsenic an “offensive menace to Russia” but alternatively portion of an ongoing committedness to assistance Ukraine support itself from “the genuinely brutal aggression by Russia.”
“There is nary violative menace to Russia,” Biden said successful remarks astatine the White House. “If Russian troops instrumentality to Russia, they’ll beryllium there, conscionable wherever they belong. This warfare would beryllium implicit today.”
Biden was flanked by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken arsenic helium announced plans to nonstop M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a determination helium said would necessitate immoderate clip and grooming for the Ukrainians. Biden said the tanks — which helium called “the astir susceptible of tanks successful the world” — are the equivalent of 1 Ukrainian battalion.
The latest: Biden touts grounds connected Affordable Care Act enrollment
President Biden connected Wednesday touted a study showing that a record-breaking 16.3 cardinal radical selected an Affordable Care Act Marketplace wellness program during the latest unfastened enrollment play that ended Jan. 15.
The fig eclipsed each different unfastened enrollment periods since the marketplace was launched 10 years agone aft transition of the Affordable Care Act, a signature accomplishment of erstwhile president Barack Obama during an medication successful which Biden served arsenic vice president.
“I promised to little costs for families and guarantee that each Americans person entree to quality, affordable wellness care,” Biden said successful a statement. “Today, we received further impervious that our efforts are delivering record-breaking results.”
The latest: Aguilar says it’s ‘ridiculous’ for McCarthy to artifact Democrats from quality panel
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), president of the House Democratic caucus, said Wednesday that it was “ridiculous” for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to artifact Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from serving connected the House Intelligence Committee.
“I deliberation it’s ridiculous that the talker would footwear 2 bully members who cognize a batch astir the quality satellite disconnected of the committee, portion astatine the aforesaid clip seating George Santos and giving him 2 committee assignments,” Aguilar said, referring to the New York Republican who has acknowledged fabricating cardinal parts of his inheritance but declined calls to resign from Congress.
The latest: Harris tells House Democrats, ‘Let’s instrumentality backmost the flag’
Vice President Harris was similar a manager trying to rally her squad during her archetypal sojourn this twelvemonth with House Democrats connected Wednesday morning.
Harris was astatine the Capitol to energize the Democratic caucus and stress that they tin inactive wield power successful the number if they instrumentality together.
“For immoderate of you, invited to the minority,” Harris said. “It’s going to beryllium different.”
Multiple radical successful the country said Harris stressed spending clip distant from Washington and reminding voters often of what a Democratic bulk successful Congress was capable to achieve, specifically highlighting the infrastructure law, the sweeping health, clime alteration and ostentation simplification act, and the instrumentality focused connected boosting home semiconductor manufacturing.
On our radar: Biden, Harris heading to Pennsylvania connected Feb. 3
President Biden and Vice President Harris are readying to question to the statesmanlike battleground authorities of Pennsylvania connected Feb. 3, days up of the president’s State of the Union address, the White House announced.
The travel to Philadelphia is authoritative White House question but could supply a preview of what we’ll perceive connected the run way successful 2024.
According to the White House, Biden and Harris volition talk astir “the advancement we person made and their enactment implementing the Biden-Harris economical docket that continues to present results for the American people.” No further details were provided.
Noted: Dead whales and pugnacious economics bedevil Biden’s upwind vigor push
The school-bus-size humpback whale that washed ashore connected a constrictive formation successful Brigantine, N.J., this period weighed successful astatine 12 tons and took a dense affectional toll connected coastal towns helplessly witnessing a spate of specified deaths.
The humpback was 1 of 9 ample whales to get stranded implicit six weeks connected oregon adjacent beaches successful the Northeast, not acold from wherever developers of hundreds of offshore upwind turbines are engaged successful a flurry of preconstruction activity. The deaths person prompted pushback against the projects adjacent though government scientists accidental they are unrelated, The Post’s Evan Halper, Timothy Puko and Dino Grandoni report. Per our colleagues:
Analysis: Sen. Manchin doubles down connected electrical car subsidies, contempt Europe’s wrath
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) unveiled a measure Wednesday to halt taxation credits for electrical vehicles that don’t fulfill the artillery sourcing requirements successful the Inflation Reduction Act.
Writing successful The Climate 202, The Post’s Maxine Joselow says the measurement could summation tensions successful Europe, wherever leaders already worry that America’s clime instrumentality volition unfairly disadvantage their clean-energy industries, and successful Washington, wherever the Biden medication is inactive racing to instrumentality the landmark law. Per Maxine:
Noted: More radical deliberation Trump acted illegally connected documents than Biden
More Americans judge erstwhile president Donald Trump acted illegally by retaining classified documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago property than President Biden did by retaining immoderate astatine his Delaware location and successful a erstwhile bureau successful Washington utilized aft his vice presidency, a new CNN poll finds.
In the poll, 52 percent deliberation Trump has done thing illegal, portion 32 percent deliberation helium has done thing unethical but not illegal, and 15 percent deliberation helium has done thing wrong.
By contrast, 37 percent deliberation Biden has done thing illegal, portion 44 percent deliberation helium has done thing unethical but illegal, and 18 percent deliberation helium has done thing wrong.
This conscionable in: Biden to talk connected enactment for Ukraine
President Biden plans Wednesday to present remarks connected the continuing U.S. enactment for Ukraine, the White House announced.
The appearance, scheduled for noon Eastern time, comes arsenic the Biden medication is expected to denote that it volition send the main U.S. conflict tank, the M1 Abrams, to Ukraine for the archetypal time.
A elder U.S. authoritative with cognition of the concern said, speaking connected the information of anonymity due to the fact that of the sensitivity of the issue, that Washington is expected to nonstop astatine slightest 30 tanks, though astir apt not until astatine slightest the fall, The Post’s Loveday Morris, Emily Rauhala, Karen DeYoung and Dan Lamothe report.
Analysis: Republicans are hardly unified connected wanting to chopped Medicare
Looming spending battles person reignited a politically treacherous debate.
Some House Republicans person started weighing a bid of legislative proposals targeting Social Security and Medicare, which are often considered the 3rd obstruction successful American politics. The effort is portion of a broader pledge to slash national spending.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein says that immoderate conception of cuts to the programs volition deed absorption from the White House and legislature Democrats. And it’s not wide that each House Republicans would beryllium connected committee oregon what precisely specified a program would look like. Per Rachel:
Noted: State fiscal leaders impulse McCarthy to determination up connected indebtedness ceiling
Treasurers and comptrollers successful a twelve states and New York City are urging House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to “honor the Constitution” and let a ballot connected authorities raising the nation’s indebtedness ceiling without insisting connected spending reductions successful return.
“We are acrophobic that the United States Government volition beryllium forced to default connected its indebtedness which would person terrible consequences for the states and municipalities we serve, the U.S. system and the day-to-day lives of the American people,” wrote the officials from mostly Democratic-leaning states successful a missive to McCarthy dated Tuesday.
Analysis: Budget schoolhouse is successful league arsenic House GOP seeks to amended members astir indebtedness ceiling
As Washington prepares for a drawn-out clash implicit raising the indebtedness limit, House Republican leaders are embarking connected an acquisition run to marque definite their members recognize however the indebtedness bounds works, the consequences of failing to rise the ceiling, and the quality betwixt a garden-variety authorities shutdown and a imaginable indebtedness default.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer study that House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) volition talk Wednesday astatine the play luncheon of the Republican Study Committee, the largest radical of House Republicans. Per our colleagues:
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