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Today, President Biden is welcoming Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the Golden State Warriors, the 2022 NBA champions, to the White House for abstracted gatherings. Rutte’s sojourn is expected to absorption connected Russia’s ongoing warfare connected Ukraine and exertion argumentation toward China.
The Warriors are visiting the White House for the archetypal since Barack Obama’s presidency contempt having doubly won the rubric during President Donald Trump’s tenure. One twelvemonth Trump rescinded an invitation. Another, the squad chose to absorption connected assemblage work instead. Biden is apt to get peppered with questions from reporters astatine some events astir the ongoing contention implicit his retention of classified records from his days arsenic vice president.
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- 11:15 a.m. Eastern: Biden meets with Rutte.
- 1:45 p.m. Eastern: White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters. Watch unrecorded here.
- 2:45 p.m. Eastern: Biden hosts the Warriors.
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The latest: Rep. Ritchie Torres calls for probe of Rep. George Santos’s run funds
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) called for the Federal Election Commission to analyse the run finances of his recently elected Republican colleague, Rep. George Santos (N.Y.).
“Where did each the wealth travel from?” Torres said astatine a quality league Tuesday successful Great Neck, N.Y., successful Santos’s 3rd Congressional District.
Santos reported lending his run $700,000 earlier winning a important House spot connected Long Island that helped springiness Republicans a slim bulk successful the House. Since that November victory, reporting by respective quality organizations recovered that overmuch of what Santos said astir his beingness is either mendacious oregon has not been corroborated.
On our radar: For Black voters, large expectations of America’s lone Black governor
It’s a constituent Democrat Wes Moore made dozens if not hundreds of times portion asking for votes for politician of Mayland past year: He wasn’t moving to marque history.
But for galore Black voters who helped assistance Moore to victory, this infinitesimal — arsenic helium prepares to instrumentality his oath connected a Bible that belonged to abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who was calved enslaved successful Maryland and died escaped — is 1 of pride, and large expectations, The Post’s Ovetta Wiggins, Erin Cox and Lateshia Beachum write. Per our colleagues:
Noted: Wyoming GOP lawmaker pushes electric-car ban, past says helium didn’t mean it
A radical of Republican lawmakers successful Wyoming introduced a measure past week urging the legislature to question to signifier retired the merchantability of caller electrical vehicles by 2035.
Electric vehicles are impractical, and their batteries hog precious resources, the lawmakers said. Fox Business reported that the measure would “protect a authorities system mostly fueled by state and oil.” (Wyoming is the country’s eighth-largest crude lipid producer, according to the national Energy Information Administration.)
But authorities Sen. Jim Anderson, who introduced the bill, said helium doesn’t really privation electrical conveyance income to beryllium phased out, though the solution pushes the legislature to question conscionable that, The Post’s Bryan Pietsch reports. Per Bryan:
Noted: Trump vents astatine ‘disloyalty’ of evangelical leaders
Former president Donald Trump lashed retired Monday astatine evangelical leaders who person been hesitant to enactment his 2024 White House bid, calling them disloyal to him and downplaying the value of their support.
Trump, appearing connected “The Water Cooler” podcast hosted by David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, was asked if helium had a connection to salient evangelicals who supported him antecedently but are present waiting to spot which different candidates participate the 2024 field.
“Well I don’t truly care,” Trump said. “That’s a motion of disloyalty. There’s large disloyalty successful the satellite of politics, and that’s a motion of disloyalty due to the fact that nobody, arsenic you cognize … has ever done much for right-to-life than Donald Trump. … There’s cipher who’s done much for the infinitesimal than I have.”
The latest: Ex-GOP campaigner arrested successful shootings astatine N.M. Democrats’ homes
A erstwhile Republican campaigner for the New Mexico House was arrested Monday for allegedly orchestrating a bid of drive-by shootings targeting Democratic authorities officials this winter, Albuquerque constabulary said.
The Post’s Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Kyle Rempfer study that Solomon Peña, who mislaid the November predetermination to incumbent Rep. Miguel P. Garcia (D), has been accused of paying 4 different men to sprout astatine the homes of 2 region commissioners and 2 authorities legislators. The Albuquerque constabulary acting commander, Kyle Hartsock, spoke astir the case Monday astatine a quality conference. Per our colleagues:
Noted: Trump says ‘we’ll grip that’ if DeSantis runs against him
Former president Donald Trump issued a cryptic informing implicit the vacation play to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) if helium decides to situation him for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination.
“So, present I perceive helium mightiness privation to tally against me. So, we’ll grip that the mode I grip things,” Trump said Monday connected “The Water Pooler” podcast hosted by David Brody.
Trump remains the lone announced GOP campaigner for 2024, but respective caller polls person shown DeSantis would beryllium competitory successful a tract with Trump, peculiarly if the contention comes down to conscionable the 2 of them.
Analysis: How acheronian wealth groups led Ohio to redefine state arsenic ‘green energy’
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed authorities this period to redefine earthy state arsenic a root of “green energy,” supporters characterized it arsenic the culmination of a grass-roots effort to admit the Buckeye state’s largest vigor source.
But, arsenic our workfellow Maxine Joselow writes successful The Climate 202, the caller instrumentality is thing but homegrown, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Per Maxine:
The Empowerment Alliance, a acheronian wealth radical with ties to the state industry, helped Ohio lawmakers propulsion the communicative that the substance is clean, the documents show. The American Legislative Exchange Council, different anonymously funded group, assisted successful the effort.
ALEC — a web of authorities lawmakers, businesses and blimpish donors — circulated projected authorities for Ohio lawmakers and has urged different states to travel suit, according to the documents, which were obtained via a nationalist records petition by the Energy and Policy Institute, a radical that advocates for renewable energy.
“What the emails uncover is conscionable however intimately Ohio lawmakers coordinated with a earthy state manufacture radical connected the caller instrumentality that misleadingly defines methane state arsenic greenish energy, arsenic the archetypal measurement of a program to present akin authorities successful aggregate states,” said Dave Anderson, argumentation and communications manager for the Energy and Policy Institute.
You tin work Maxine’s afloat investigation here.
Noted: In Pa., Shapiro to beryllium sworn successful connected Bible from Tree of Life synagogue
Democrat Josh Shapiro, who volition beryllium sworn successful Tuesday arsenic Pennsylvania’s 48th governor, is readying to instrumentality the oath of bureau connected a stack of Hebrew Bibles, including 1 that was connected the supplication level astatine a Pittsburgh synagogue during a 2018 wide killing.
“I’ll instrumentality my oath of bureau connected a book provided by the Tree of Life synagogue successful Pittsburgh,” Shapiro tweeted. “It was connected the bima the time eleven Jews were killed successful the deadliest enactment of antisemitism successful US history. On Tuesday, it volition beryllium astatine our authorities Capitol.”
The latest: What the Jan. 6 study didn’t archer you astir societal media
The Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning caller details connected however societal media companies failed to code the online extremism and calls for unit that preceded the Capitol riot.
The grounds it collected was written up successful a 122-page memo that was circulated among the committee, according to a draught viewed by The Washington Post, our colleagues Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima and Drew Harwell report. They write:
In the end, committee leaders declined to delve into those topics successful item successful their last report, reluctant to excavation into the roots of home extremism taking clasp successful the Republican Party beyond erstwhile president Donald Trump and acrophobic astir the risks of a nationalist conflict with almighty tech companies, according to 3 radical acquainted with the substance who spoke connected the information of anonymity to sermon the panel’s delicate deliberations.
Congressional investigators recovered grounds that tech platforms — particularly Twitter — failed to heed their ain employees’ warnings astir convulsive rhetoric connected their platforms and bent their rules to debar penalizing conservatives, peculiarly then-president Trump, retired of fearfulness of reprisals. The draught study details however astir platforms did not instrumentality “dramatic” steps to rein successful extremist contented until aft the onslaught connected the Capitol, contempt wide reddish flags crossed the internet.
You tin work the afloat communicative here.
Analysis: The hard task of filling retired committee rosters
Even though the House is retired this week, Republicans and Democrats are moving to populate their committees.
On the Democratic side, immoderate members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are sending retired informing signals, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell constitute successful The Early 202. Per our colleagues:
Democrats volition person less slots present that they’re successful the minority, meaning immoderate lawmakers volition suffer committee assignments. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) could suffer his spot connected the almighty Ways and Means Committee, leaving perchance conscionable 1 Latino lawmaker connected the Democratic side, Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (Calif.).
A House Democratic adjutant said nary committee assignments are yet final. Democrats anticipation to capable the seats “soon.”
Meanwhile, the Republican Steering Committee, which makes committee assignments, met connected Monday, a national holiday, to enactment connected committees and volition proceed their enactment today.
Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Tex.) announced subcommittee chairs connected Monday, noting that Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) volition beryllium the panel’s vice chairman. Cole, a cardinal McCarthy ally, is besides caput of the Rules Committee, giving the seasoned lawmaker large power this Congress.
Granger and the Appropriations subcommittee chairs volition person a ton of unit connected them to conscionable conservatives’ spending simplification demands — including rolling backmost spending to fiscal twelvemonth 2022 levels (which is simply a monolithic spending cut, by the way).
The latest: Rep. Banks announces bid for Indiana Senate spot successful 2024
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who mislaid a bid to beryllium House bulk whip precocious past year, is present grooming his sights connected the Senate.
Banks announced a 2024 bid connected Tuesday, saying the federation is “at a turning point.”
“We request conservatives successful Washington who are not acrophobic to combat backmost against the extremist socialist Democrats who are trying to alteration America,” helium said successful a connection accompanied by a astir three-minute video. “I was arrogant to service my state successful the military, and I person been connected the beforehand lines warring for our blimpish Hoosier values successful Congress. With your help, I’ll bash that successful an adjacent bigger mode successful the United States Senate.”
On our radar: After skipping 2 visits nether Trump, the Warriors are headed to the White House
The Golden State Warriors won the NBA title doubly during the presidency of Donald Trump, but Tuesday marks the archetypal clip the squad volition instrumentality to the White House since Barack Obama’s tenure.
The Warriors did not spell to the White House successful 2017, erstwhile Trump revoked the accepted invitation extended to the league’s champion aft prima defender Stephen Curry said helium would not go.
“Going to the White House is considered a large grant for a title team,” Trump tweeted that year. “Stephen Curry is hesitating, truthful invitation is withdrawn!”
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