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Today, President Biden is addressing a gathering of African leaders and volition big a White House meal for them arsenic his medication continues a three-day acme successful Washington aimed astatine strengthening relationships crossed the continent. The gathering is the archetypal of its benignant since 2014. Ahead of its start, the White House announced Biden’s enactment for having the African Union join the Group of 20 large satellite economies.
On Capitol Hill, apical Democrats and Republicans announced precocious Tuesday that they person reached a “framework” to money the authorities done astir of adjacent year. At the aforesaid time, lawmakers are racing to walk a stopgap measurement to proceed backing the authorities beyond Friday, which would let much clip to finalize details of the longer-term deal.
Your regular dashboard
- 1:30 p.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks astatine the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Watch unrecorded here.
- 4 p.m. Eastern: A representation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) volition beryllium unveiled successful Statuary Hall successful the Capitol. Watch unrecorded here.
- 7 p.m. Eastern: Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden big a White House meal for African leaders.
Reporter connected the breaking governmental quality team
President Biden opened his code to African leaders by giving a motion to Morocco’s men’s shot team, which volition go the archetypal African squad to play a World Cup semifinal crippled connected Wednesday.
“I cognize you’re saying to yourselves, 'Make it short, Biden! There’s a ... semifinal crippled coming up,” the president said with a laugh.
Congressional newsman covering the House of Representatives
Some Republicans are sporting buttons that work “O.K.” oregon “Only Kevin,” an endorsement of GOP person Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for House speaker. The GOP governance radical is beauteous bullish connected defending McCarthy. These buttons decidedly are to marque a connection astatine the league gathering aboriginal Wednesday successful which Republicans are acceptable to sermon House rules.
National newsman connected The Post's breaking governmental quality team
Arguing against an omnibus spending package, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took shots during a quality league astatine a chap Republican helium did not name: Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who brokered the woody with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). Both pb appropriators are soon retiring. “If 2 radical who are deciding it aren’t going to beryllium held up to the voters, bash you consciousness bully astir that arsenic an American?” McCarthy asked.
On our radar: House to ballot connected removal of bust of Dred Scott determination writer from Capitol
The House is expected to ballot Wednesday connected a measure that would region a bust astatine the U.S. Capitol of Roger Taney, the main justness who wrote the bulk Supreme Court sentiment protecting slavery successful Dred Scott v. Sandford.
As Amy B Wang and Marianna Sotomayor report, the bill, if approved, would nonstop the Joint Committee of Congress connected the Library to region Taney’s bust not much than 45 days aft the measure is signed into law. The measure would besides nonstop the committee to regenerate Taney’s bust with 1 of Thurgood Marshall, the archetypal Black Supreme Court justice.
This conscionable in: GOP senators sermon enactment future, authorities spending bill
The astir two-hour Republican caucus gathering Wednesday focused mostly connected the aboriginal of the GOP arsenic immoderate senators charged that the enactment offered voters nary vision.
The well-attended gathering comes arsenic Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — who past period turned backmost a situation by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) for his enactment relation — is negotiating a massive, last-minute spending bill.
Many members who attended said that the bid has already near the presumption for the coming year’s authorities backing and that the interior treatment astir spending is for the future.
Noted: Little appetite for a Biden-Trump rematch
Americans aren’t anxious to spot a rerun of the 2020 contention for the White House successful 2024, a new canvass commissioned by CNN suggests.
The canvass finds that a bulk of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents privation their enactment to nominate idiosyncratic different than erstwhile president Donald Trump successful 2024.
A akin fig of Democrats and Democratic leaners — 59 percent — privation to spot idiosyncratic different than President Biden astatine the apical of their ticket.
Trump has announced a 2024 bid portion Biden has said helium intends to tally for a 2nd term.
Noted: McDaniel says GOP statesmanlike tract could beryllium ample capable for 2 statement stages
Ronna McDaniel, seat of the Republican National Committee, said Wednesday that the Republican statesmanlike tract could beryllium ample capable successful 2024 to warrant 2 stages successful the party’s superior debates.
McDaniel said connected Hugh Hewitt’s syndicated vigor amusement that an RNC committee is inactive moving done details but that debates are apt to statesman successful July oregon August.
Only 1 large campaigner — erstwhile president Donald Trump — has officially announced a 2024 bid, but respective others person been making preparations.
Noted: Americans person debased expectations for the caller Congress, canvass finds
Americans person debased expectations for the incoming Congress, successful which Republicans volition beryllium successful power of the House, a caller Monmouth University Poll finds.
Only 18 percent of Americans expect GOP power to alteration Washington for the better, the canvass finds. Twenty-one percent accidental it volition alteration for the worse, and a bulk — 51 percent — bash not foresee overmuch alteration either way.
Neither existent enactment person successful the House earns affirmative ratings from the American public, according to the poll, though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is viewed much favorably by members of her enactment than Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is viewed by members of his party.
Analysis: Breaking down Sam Bankman-Fried’s governmental donations, mostly to Democrats
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced laminitis of the cryptocurrency speech FTX, was a prolific governmental donor, pumping astir $40 cardinal this rhythm unsocial into run committees and different groups, mostly aligned with Democrats, national records show.
The Post’s Isaac Stanley-Becker, Chris Zubak-Skees and Nick Mourtoupalas study that his contributions are nether scrutiny arsenic national prosecutors alleged Tuesday that Bankman-Fried had broken run concern laws by sourcing donations from his related crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, falsely reporting them arsenic originating from different people. Per our colleagues:
The latest: Schumer warns shutdowns are not governmental winners
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned Wednesday that risking a authorities shutdown is not a bully governmental strategy arsenic lawmakers scrambled to walk a short-term backing measurement by Friday to support the authorities running.
Schumer is pushing for the one-week stopgap measurement to springiness negotiators clip to scope a longer-term spending deal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is connected committee with the strategy, but House Republican leaders person urged their members to ballot against a one-week extension.
Analysis: Democrats up unit connected Facebook to support Trump prohibition successful place
Democratic lawmakers are calling connected Facebook’s genitor institution to widen its suspension of erstwhile president Donald Trump, ratcheting up unit connected the tech elephantine up of an expected determination connected the aboriginal of his accounts adjacent month.
Writing successful The Technology 202, The Post’s Cristiano Lima relays that the societal web initially suspended Trump indefinitely, citing “risks” posed by his accounts aft his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, but Facebook aboriginal said it would keep the prohibition successful spot for 2 years and past “assess whether the hazard to nationalist information has receded.” Per Cristiano:
Noted: Blind and disabled veterans can’t entree VA websites, study says
Ron Biglin is simply a 73-year-old unsighted seasoned successful Clarks Summit, Pa., who regularly goes kayaking and fishing, sorts his message and uses nationalist proscription to get around.
But helium can’t log connected to the Department of Veterans Affairs website portal for his wellness benefits. The portal’s plan isn’t compatible with his surface reader, which converts substance to speech, The Post’s Amanda Morris writes. Per Amanda:
Now, a caller study from the Senate Special Committee connected Aging is taking VA to task for neglecting accessibility issues connected its websites. Despite the information that 27 percent of each veterans person a service-connected disablement — and much than 1 cardinal veterans are unsighted oregon person debased imaginativeness — lone 8 percent of VA’s public-facing websites and 6 percent of its interior sites are afloat compliant with national accessibility law, according to the study released Wednesday.
The contented with VA websites is simply a motion of a larger occupation with accessibility astatine the national level that has persisted for years, according to Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), who serves arsenic the committee’s chairman.
You tin work the afloat communicative here.
The latest: Georgia caput of authorities calls for extremity to runoff elections
ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called connected the state’s legislature to destruct runoff voting during its league adjacent twelvemonth aft different bitter overtime predetermination gripped the authorities earlier this month.
Raffensperger, a Republican, cited the added accent that conducting a runoff predetermination puts connected counties and voters arsenic portion of his reasoning.
“No 1 wants to beryllium dealing with authorities successful the mediate of their household holiday,” Raffensperger said successful a Wednesday greeting statement. “It’s adjacent tougher connected the counties who had a hard clip completing each of their deadlines, an predetermination audit and executing a runoff successful a four-week clip period.”
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