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Today, President Biden is heading to Baltimore to item a 150-year-old obstruction passageway that is being replaced with assistance from the bipartisan infrastructure instrumentality that helium signed successful 2021. The lawsuit is the archetypal of 2 successful arsenic galore days focused connected benefits of the law, which you tin expect to perceive plentifulness much astir arsenic Biden gears up for a imaginable 2024 reelection bid. On Tuesday, helium travels to New York to speech astir different large concern successful a obstruction tunnel, nether the Hudson River.
Biden’s week besides includes a scheduled gathering Wednesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), arsenic the White House and House Republicans stay successful a standoff implicit raising the indebtedness ceiling.
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- 2:45 p.m. Eastern: Biden delivers remarks connected the bipartisan infrastructure instrumentality successful Baltimore. Watch unrecorded here.
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Noted: Fetterman launches a caller Twitter account, this 1 featuring pictures of him successful a suit
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was known for wearing hoodies connected the run trail, debuted a caller Twitter relationship Monday, posting an authoritative representation successful which helium dressed the portion of a senator.
On his campaign account, which remains live, Fetterman directed his followers to the Senate account, writing: “For updates connected my authoritative enactment successful DC & PA, and much pictures of maine successful a suit, travel here.”
Noted: Stefanik says ‘woke’ programs astatine Defense Department are among imaginable spending cuts
House Republicans are demanding spending cuts successful speech for enactment for raising the nation’s indebtedness limit, a posture that has created an impasse with the White House. But lawmakers person struggled to articulate precisely what spending they privation to cut.
When asked during a tv interrogation Monday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the House GOP league chair, offered fewer specifics beyond wealth allocated but not yet spent connected the pandemic. At 1 point, she suggested that “woke” programs astatine the Defense Department could beryllium connected the chopping block, but she did not elaborate.
Analysis: New York mightiness instrumentality a 2nd plaything astatine electrification
Environmentalists rejoiced erstwhile New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) endorsed banning fossil substance appliances successful caller buildings by 2025 for tiny buildings, including single-family homes, and by 2028 for larger oregon commercialized ones.
But the Democratic person of the State Assembly — which blocked a akin connection past twelvemonth — is noncommittal, and the measurement is besides facing absorption from developers, who accidental it could rise operation costs and wounded spot values, The Post’s Vanessa Montalbano writes successful The Climate 202. Per Vanessa:
Analysis: TikTok volition person a hard clip winning implicit Senate skeptics
The apical 2 lawmakers connected the Senate Intelligence Committee are casting uncertainty connected TikTok’s quality to quash nationalist information concerns astir the app done its negotiations with the national government, which person languished amid increasing outcry from nationalist officials.
Writing successful The Technology 202, The Post’s Cristiano Lima says their remarks item the uphill conflict TikTok faces successful assuaging its biggest skeptics successful Washington, who look unpersuaded by its caller bids to defuse tensions. Per Cristiano:
On our radar: GOP-led House seeks to state pandemic over
The House is poised to ballot Tuesday connected a measure titled, “The ‘‘Pandemic Is Over Act.’’
The measure, which seeks to terminate the nationalist wellness exigency declared by the nation’s wellness secretary, is among a fistful of bills that the Republican-led enclosure is considering this week with an oculus toward moving beyond the coronavirus, adjacent arsenic wellness officials pass that a highly transmissible omicron subvariant could pb to different question of hospitalizations this winter.
“It is agelong overdue for President Biden to extremity the COVID-19 nationalist wellness exigency and relinquish the exigency powers that helium conscionable renewed again,” Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said successful a connection this period upon introducing the legislation, which faces agelong likelihood successful the Senate if it makes it that far.
On our radar: Proposal could alteration however race, ethnicity are measured crossed U.S.
On each census survey — oregon aesculapian signifier oregon occupation exertion — Tala Faraj says she has nary prime but to place arsenic thing she’s not: White. Faraj, 23, is Iraqi American, but Middle Eastern is usually not an enactment erstwhile she is asked for her contention and ethnicity.
“It is this feeling similar I don’t truly belong. Like there’s nary abstraction for maine here, and I conscionable person to conform to immoderate this state is telling maine that I am,” said Faraj, who lives successful Chicago. “It makes maine consciousness sad.”
The Post’s Silvia Foster-Frau reports that for years, the Census Bureau has counted radical of Middle Eastern and North African descent (also known arsenic MENA) arsenic White, obscuring their numbers and rendering them mostly invisible, advocates say. Per our colleague:
The latest: Why Biden is visiting a 150-year-old passageway Monday successful Baltimore
The Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel is turning 150 this twelvemonth and is inactive serving passengers. Trains crawl astatine 30 mph done its curves nether West Baltimore, creating delays up and down the engaged Washington-to-New York route.
The Post’s Luz Lazo writes that President Biden is acceptable to sojourn the decrepit operation Monday to denote however the $1 trillion infrastructure instrumentality volition assistance to regenerate the Reconstruction-era passageway — the oldest successful the Northeast — and destruct the railroad’s biggest choke constituent betwixt Washington and New Jersey. Per Luz:
Analysis: How wide states are shoring up termination rights
Minnesota Democrats capitalized connected their caller authorities authorities trifecta, successful which they power some houses of the legislature and the governor’s office, by sending authorities to support termination rights to Gov. Tim Walz’s table aboriginal Saturday morning.
Earlier this month, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a sweeping bill to further solidify his authorities arsenic a refuge for women seeking abortions from places crossed the South and Midwest. And successful Democratic-led states crossed the country, lawmakers are aiming to walk a big of bills successful their archetypal legislative sessions since the Supreme Court overturned the law close to an termination successful June, The Post’s Rachel Roubein writes successful The Health 202. Per Rachel:
The latest: New House sheet takes purpose astatine Chinese-owned app TikTok
The caller House prime committee charged with alerting Americans to the perils of a rising China is zeroing successful connected TikTok, the Chinese-owned societal media exertion that has built a monolithic American pursuing contempt suspicions that it could beryllium utilized arsenic a instrumentality of overseas espionage oregon influence.
The Post’s David J. Lynch reports that the implications of this caller scrutiny — portion of a broadening legislature reappraisal of U.S. engagement with China — are unclear. Per our colleague:
Washington remains torn implicit whether it should prohibition the wildly fashionable app, bid it sold oregon let TikTok to support scrolling crossed 100 cardinal American smartphones. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — who launched the committee arsenic 1 of his archetypal moves — named its 13 Republican members this week. Democrats person yet to pat theirs.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the panel’s chairman, wants to prohibition the app oregon unit its merchantability to an American buyer, citing information information issues and TikTok’s imaginable usage by Beijing arsenic a limb of propaganda. In an interview, helium said the overlapping technology, privateness and overseas argumentation questions raised by the app’s meteoric U.S. maturation exemplify wherefore the wide-ranging committee is needed.
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Analysis: Senators hole for showdown implicit judges and ‘blue slips’
With Republicans successful power of the House, Senate Democrats volition walk overmuch of the adjacent 2 years moving to corroborate arsenic galore judges arsenic imaginable — and they’re facing unit to alteration Senate rules to forestall Republicans from holding up President Biden’s nominees.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell study that Russ Feingold, the erstwhile Democratic legislator who present leads the American Constitution Society, and different progressive judicial advocates are pressing Democrats to destruct “blue slips” — a contented that allows senators to artifact judicial nominees from their location states. Per our colleagues:
On our radar: Biden heading to Baltimore to item different payment of infrastructure law
President Biden plans to question to Baltimore connected Monday to item the replacement of 150-year-old obstruction tunnel, a task that could upwind up receiving the bulk of its backing from the bipartisan infrastructure instrumentality helium signed successful 2021.
It’s the archetypal of 2 large infrastructure projects that Biden plans to spotlight during the archetypal portion of the week. On Tuesday, helium is scheduled to question to New York to speech astir national backing for the Gateway Tunnel task nether the Hudson River, a large precedence for New York and New Jersey.
The latest: McCarthy says helium tin find a ‘responsible’ mode to rise indebtedness ceiling
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said helium volition conscionable with President Biden connected Wednesday and is looking for a woody to rise the indebtedness ceiling successful speech for unspecified cuts to the national budget.
The Post’s Azi Paybarah has details:
“I privation to find a tenable and liable mode that we tin assistance the indebtedness ceiling but instrumentality power of this runaway spending,” McCarthy said during an interrogation Sunday connected CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
McCarthy said cuts to Social Security and Medicare were “off the table” but did not regularisation retired cuts to defence spending, which immoderate Republicans successful his caucus person resisted.
The remark comes amid a protracted and progressively nationalist combat betwixt the recently elevated Republican House speaker, the White House and Democrats successful the Senate implicit raising the country’s $31.4 trillion indebtedness limit, which is expected to beryllium reached sometime successful June.
The gathering Wednesday astatine the White House was confirmed successful a connection released Sunday by Michael A. Kikukawa, a White House spokesman. Biden volition conscionable McCarthy “for a treatment connected a scope of issues,” it said.
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