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Today, President Biden plans to conscionable with Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, during a travel to Boston that besides includes a national lawsuit and a fundraiser for Senate Democrats up of the runoff successful the Georgia Senate contention connected Tuesday. Ahead of the trip, Biden signed authorities averting a nationalist obstruction strike. He said “the combat isn’t over” for paid sick permission for obstruction workers, which was not included successful the bill.
In Washington, the Democratic National Committee is gathering to see a program from Biden that would remake his party’s statesmanlike nominating calendar for 2024, making South Carolina the nation’s archetypal superior state. The determination is meant to awesome the party’s committedness to elevating much assortment — demographic, geographic and economical — successful the aboriginal nominating process.
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- 12:25 p.m. Eastern: Biden departs the White House en way to Boston. White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre volition little reporters connected committee Air Force One. Listen unrecorded here.
- 2:50 p.m. Eastern: Biden greets the royal mates successful Boston.
- 4:10 p.m. Eastern: Biden visits the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers national successful Boston.
- 5:45 p.m. Eastern: Biden participates successful a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reception successful Boston.
Noted: Silence from governmental leaders connected antisemitism ‘is complicity,’ Biden says
President Biden took purpose Friday astatine “political leaders” — presumably including erstwhile president Donald Trump — who person not forcefully rejected antisemitism, tweeting that their “silence is complicity.”
“I conscionable privation to marque a fewer things clear,” Biden wrote connected Twitter. “The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And alternatively of giving it a platform, our governmental leaders should beryllium calling retired and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.”
The tweet comes arsenic Trump continues to look backlash for his meal past week astatine his Mar-a-Lago property with achromatic nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, who has been vocally spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The latest: Biden doing ‘a large fundraiser’ for Warnock successful Boston
It’s nary concealed that President Biden is considered a little effectual surrogate for Democrats successful Georgia than erstwhile president Barack Obama, who campaigned successful the authorities connected Thursday nighttime for Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) up of his runoff against Republican Herschel Walker.
Asked by a newsman Friday wherefore helium isn’t going to Georgia to campaign, Biden archetypal suggested helium was earlier correcting himself to accidental he’s headed to Massachusetts to rise wealth to payment Walker.
“I’m going to Georgia contiguous to assistance Sen Warnock — not to Georgia … I’m doing a large fundraiser up successful Boston today,” Biden said astatine the extremity of a signing ceremonial astatine the White House for authorities that aims to avert a nationalist obstruction strike.
The latest: Biden signs measure to avert obstruction strike, says he’ll enactment connected paid sick permission
President Biden connected Dec. 2 said helium would proceed to propulsion for paid sick permission earlier signing a measure to avert a obstruction strike. (Video: The Washington Post)
President Biden said Friday that the authorities helium was signing to avert a freight obstruction onslaught besides prevented the state from a recession.
“The measure I’m astir to motion ends a hard obstruction quality and helps our federation debar what … without a uncertainty would person been an economical catastrophe astatine a precise atrocious clip successful the calendar,” helium said.
The Senate passed a measure Thursday binding obstruction companies and workers to a projected colony that companies and national leaders reached successful September. Some of the members successful respective unions did not enactment the declaration and threatened to onslaught opening adjacent week.
Analysis: Herschel Walker is simply a precise atrocious candidate. Could helium inactive win?
The (sort of) bully quality for Herschel Walker successful a new CNN poll is that he’s conscionable extracurricular the borderline of mistake successful his Tuesday runoff with Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) successful Georgia. The canvass shows Warnock astatine 52 percent and Walker astatine 48 percent successful a Senate contention that volition determine whether Democrats person a 50-50 bulk oregon a 51-49 majority.
The Post’s Aaron Blake writes that the atrocious quality is conscionable astir everything other successful the poll. Per Aaron:
Indeed, if Walker is capable to propulsion it disconnected — which remains a possibility, for reasons we’ll get to — it volition beryllium contempt himself and his highly flawed candidacy.
The canvass confirms what others have: that similar galore GOP Senate candidates this year, voters simply don’t similar him precise much. What’s more, they intelligibly don’t spot him arsenic a peculiarly susceptible statesman.
While the head-to-head is close, a fig of different measures reenforce that galore radical who mightiness ballot for Walker volition beryllium doing truthful due to the fact that of partisanship, portion holding their noses.
You tin work Aaron’s afloat investigation here.
Noted: Fetterman hires a erstwhile Harry Reid staffer to tally his Senate office
Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who ran arsenic a precise untraditional candidate, has picked idiosyncratic well-versed successful the traditions of the Senate to service arsenic his main of staff.
Adam Jentleson, who served arsenic communications manager and lawman main of unit to erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), volition instrumentality the apical occupation successful Fetterman’s Senate office, Fetterman announced Friday. Jentleson has been serving arsenic co-chairman of Fetterman’s modulation team.
He is besides the writer of “Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy,” a publication that makes the lawsuit for ending the filibuster.
Analysis: FEC expands integer advertisement disclosure rules, but watchdogs accidental gaps remain
The Federal Election Commission this week adopted caller rules requiring disclosures for governmental advertizing online, taking a large measurement toward boosting transparency successful integer campaigning.
Writing successful The Technology 202, The Post’s Cristiano Lima says the determination marked the culmination of a years-long propulsion to bring heightened oversight to governmental campaigning connected platforms similar Facebook, which has grown rapidly successful the past decade. But the bureau tabled a broader connection that run betterment advocates and 1 Democratic authoritative argued could stamp retired imaginable gaps successful the regulation. Per Cristiano:
Noted: Warnock holds a constrictive borderline implicit Walker successful Ga. Senate runoff, canvass finds
Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) has a constrictive borderline implicit Republican Herschel Walker successful the Georgia Senate runoff, a caller CNN canvass released up of Tuesday’s contention shows.
The canvass shows Warnock drafting 52 percent enactment from apt voters compared to 48 percent for Walker. The poll’s borderline of mistake is positive oregon minus 3.8 percent points for results from apt voters.
CNN reports that partisans connected some sides heavy favour their candidate, with 99 percent of Democrats down Warnock and 95 percent of Republicans backing Walker.
The latest: Biden to motion authorities averting a nationalist obstruction strike
President Biden volition motion authorities Friday greeting aimed astatine averting a nationalist obstruction strike, the White House announced.
The determination comes a time aft the Senate adopted a measurement that forces a woody betwixt warring nationalist freight railroads and their unions up of a imaginable Dec. 9 onslaught that could person crippled U.S. question and commerce amid the engaged vacation buying season. The House, astatine Biden’s urging, passed the aforesaid measure Wednesday.
Covering Senate transition of the bill, The Post’s Tony Romm and Lauren Kaori Gurley reported that nether the agreement, obstruction workers are acceptable to spot a astir 24 percent wage summation by 2024 portion gaining much flexibility to instrumentality clip disconnected for doctor’s appointments. The measurement besides grants them 1 paid idiosyncratic day, but it does not see immoderate new, dedicated clip disconnected for illnesses. Per our colleagues:
On our radar: Another robust jobs study for Biden to tout
Later Friday, President Biden is expected to tout the latest jobs report, which exceeded expectations.
The study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed employers adding 263,000 jobs, a amazingly robust pace, portion the unemployment complaint remained unchanged astatine 3.7 percent.
The Post’s Abha Bhattarai writes that the slowing but still-strong labour marketplace continues to beryllium 1 of the sturdiest pillars of an different confounding economy. Per Abha:
Americans are spending heavily, though they are redeeming little than they person successful 15 years. Manufacturing enactment contracted successful November for the archetypal clip successful much than 2 years. And though ostentation is slowing, to 7.7 percent, it is inactive good implicit the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target.
You tin work Abha’s afloat communicative here.
Analysis: Pandemic-era Medicaid rules are cardinal to year-end wellness negotiations successful Congress
As Congress attempts to trade a spending bundle to support the authorities unfastened beyond Dec. 16, there’s a batch of jockeying implicit the information nett programme providing sum to millions of mediocre adults.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein writes that lawmakers are weighing ending a measurement that has prevented states from kicking radical disconnected Medicaid during the pandemic — and coupling the alteration with guardrails and different policies aimed astatine avoiding sum losses, according to radical connected and disconnected Capitol Hill with cognition of the discussions. Per Rachel:
Noted: Newt Gingrich says not to underestimate Biden
Former House talker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is hardly a cheerleader for President Biden, but helium is informing chap Republicans not to underestimate him.
In a piece posted connected his website this week, Gingrich wrote that “conservatives’ hostility to the Biden medication connected our presumption tends to unsighted america to conscionable however effectual Biden has been connected his terms.”
In his piece, Gingrich cited respective Biden home argumentation wins (which helium made wide helium didn’t like).
“The Biden squad took an amazingly constrictive four-vote bulk successful the U.S. House and a 50-50 necktie successful the Senate and turned it into trillions of dollars successful spending — and a bid of extremist bills,” Gingrich said.
Analysis: Biden proposes tectonic alteration to party’s statesmanlike nominating calendar
President Biden has projected shaking up which states play the pb relation successful choosing the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, delighting the states that would triumph much salient roles successful the process and angering those that would suffer clout.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell relay that Biden is pushing the Democratic National Committee to marque South Carolina the first-in-the-nation superior authorities successful 2024, replacing the Iowa caucuses and upending decades of tradition. Primaries successful New Hampshire and Nevada would hap a week later, followed by primaries successful Georgia and Michigan.
Noted: Asa Hutchinson moves person to 2024 campaign
Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas’ Republican governor, plans to conscionable with a squad of advisers connected Sunday evening successful the governor’s mansion arsenic helium mulls whether to tally for president successful 2024, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell study that Hutchinson is eyeing an announcement aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth if helium decides to run, according to the idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter, who spoke connected the information of anonymity to picture the backstage deliberations. Per our colleagues:
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