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Today, Congress is facing a Friday deadline to walk a spending measure earlier authorities backing runs out. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Sunday that “sufficient progress” was made successful negotiations implicit the play for Democrats to backmost disconnected a program to effort to summation leverage implicit Republicans by releasing their ain package. But the parties inactive person a agelong mode to go, and if they springiness themselves an extension, they could upwind up remaining successful Washington close up until the holidays.
President Biden volition marque quality this week connected home and overseas policy. He plans to motion a measure Tuesday to support same-sex and interracial marriages. On Wednesday, helium volition invited African leaders to the White House arsenic portion of a acme that his medication is hosting successful Washington this week.
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- 12:40 p.m. Eastern: Biden participates successful a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots lawsuit successful Arlington, Va.
- 3 p.m. Eastern: White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters. Watch unrecorded here.
Noted: Sen. King says Sinema’s autarkic statement complicates things for Democrats successful 2024
Sen. Angus King (Maine), an autarkic who caucuses with Democrats, said Monday that the determination by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) to become an independent volition complicate efforts by Democrats to clasp onto the spot successful 2024.
Sinema has yet to accidental whether she’ll question reelection. But if she runs, she could look some a Democratic and Republican challenger successful the wide election. If she and a Democrat divided the wide vote, it would summation the likelihood that a Republican prevails.
“It volition beryllium a analyzable contention due to the fact that if you tally arsenic an autarkic you either person to triumph oregon you’re a spoiler,” King said during quality connected CNN. “That’s the danger. That’s the situation.”
On our radar: Biden to motion same-sex matrimony legislation, big U.S.-Africa acme this week
President Biden volition marque quality this week connected some home and overseas policy.
On the home front, Biden connected Tuesday plans to motion the measure protecting same-sex marriages that cleared the House past week.
The Respect for Marriage Act requires that radical beryllium considered joined successful immoderate authorities arsenic agelong arsenic the matrimony was valid successful the authorities wherever it was performed.
The authorities besides repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. In summation to defining matrimony arsenic the national of 1 antheral and 1 woman, that instrumentality allowed states to diminution to admit same-sex marriages performed successful different states. It has remained connected the books contempt being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Noted: Ukrainian person who idolizes Reagan tries to triumph implicit today’s GOP
In Washington, legislature Republicans, who are astir to instrumentality power of the House, person vowed to bring much scrutiny to the Biden administration’s requests for assistance to Ukraine. Some person voiced skepticism astir continuing assistance to Ukraine; others whitethorn obstruct the assistance packages arsenic portion of a broader effort to thwart President Biden’s docket up of the 2024 statesmanlike election.
Against that backdrop, The Post’s Jeff Stein takes a look astatine Maryan Zablotskyy, a subordinate of the Ukrainian parliament who idolizes President Ronald Reagan and is trying to person members of Reagan’s enactment not to turn against Ukraine successful its infinitesimal of top need.
Analysis: It’s acold from definite we’ll spot a pandemic effect overhaul
Democratic legislature investigators are calling for important investments and large-scale changes to the country’s efforts to amended hole for the adjacent pandemic. But immoderate advocates and wellness experts are skeptical the federation volition instrumentality those steps.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein relays that 2 sweeping reports from Democrats successful Congress faulted years of mediocre planning, chronic underfunding and the Trump administration’s enactment for the inability to curb the coronavirus pandemic astatine the outset. Per Rachel:
On our radar: Testimony from Bankman-Fried and different notable upcoming hearings
The scramble to trade a year-end spending measure is not the lone enactment connected Capitol Hill this week.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer study that 3 notable hearings are scheduled for Tuesday. Per our colleagues:
- The House Financial Services Committee volition clasp a proceeding connected the illness of the cryptocurrency speech FTX. Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX’s founder, is scheduled to attest in what could beryllium a blockbuster proceeding oregon a dud.
- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s imperishable subcommittee connected investigations volition clasp a proceeding connected the intersexual maltreatment of pistillate inmates successful national prisons. Three erstwhile inmates volition attest astir their experiences. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) has been investigating this contented for the amended portion of a year.
- Thomas Manger, main of the U.S. Capitol Police, volition attest earlier the Senate Rules Committee connected the constabulary unit during a clip of debased morale, information breaches and recruitment challenges.
You tin work The Early 202 successful afloat here.
Noted: How a Trump-allied radical warring ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden successful court
The woody successful aboriginal 2021 was hailed by advocates for Black farmers arsenic the most important portion of authorities since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — astir $4 cardinal successful President Biden’s monolithic pandemic stimulus bundle to rectify decades of discrimination. Minority farmers began investing successful caller machinery and different improvements, anticipating tens of thousands of dollars successful authorities aid.
But today, the landmark woody connected behalf of historically disadvantaged farmers is dormant — successfully challenged successful tribunal by a fledgling blimpish enactment that argued the programme racially discriminated against White farmers, constitute The Post’s Beth Reinhard and Josh Dawsey. Per our colleagues:
Analysis: It’s crunch clip for end-of-year spending negotiations
Congress has done it again. A December of anticipated vacation delight for galore crossed the state is erstwhile again a period of intermittent staring contests and tense negotiations connected Capitol Hill.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer relay that with less than 5 days earlier the existent authorities backing measure runs retired connected Dec. 16, there’s been a spot of progress. Per our colleagues:
Negotiations betwixt Democrats and Republicans implicit the play did not nutrient an statement connected a top-line fig for the yearly spending bills — a cardinal archetypal measurement to passing a bill. But capable question was made for Democrats to backmost disconnected their program to effort to strong-arm Republicans contiguous by releasing their ain backing package.
“Bipartisan and bicameral negotiations continue,” said a elder Democratic adjutant who spoke connected the information of anonymity to sermon backstage negotiations. (It’s highly apt that a caller one-week stopgap backing measure volition beryllium needed to wrapper immoderate woody — oregon for lawmakers to recognize there’s nary woody to beryllium had and chopped bait.)
The parties stay divided implicit whether spending connected defence and home programs should beryllium accrued by the aforesaid amount, and they are astir $26 cardinal isolated overall. There are besides much circumstantial disagreements, including however to categorize millions of dollars successful assistance to veterans exposed to toxic chemicals portion serving successful the military.
You tin work the afloat investigation here.
Take a look: Reaction connected the Sunday shows to Sinema’s power from Democrat to independent
On Dec. 11, Democrats and pundits analyzed the implications of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's announced power from Democrat to independent. (Video: The Washington Post)
On Sunday’s speech shows, guests and panelists offered their takes connected the power successful enactment affiliation announced Friday by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) from Democrat to independent.
Some, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), speculated that the determination was mostly astir Sinema’s governmental predicament successful Arizona. She has alienated galore liberals successful her authorities and was apt to gully a superior situation if she ran for reelection successful 2024 arsenic a Democrat.
Analysis: How Kari Lake’s run to beryllium the Trump of 2022 unraveled
Arizona Republican gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake burst onto the nationalist governmental stage this twelvemonth arsenic possibly the purest embodiment of erstwhile president Donald Trump’s grievance-fueled marque of politics.
The Post’s Isaac Stanley-Becker and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez constitute that her slash-and-burn run cognition courted controversy, stoked distrust successful the antiauthoritarian process and earned her mentions arsenic Trump’s imaginable 2024 vice-presidential prime — oregon possibly adjacent a statesmanlike campaigner herself. Then she lost.
The latest: Biden speaks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky
President Biden underlined the United States’ ongoing enactment for Ukraine during a telephone Sunday with President Volodymyr Zelensky, arsenic good arsenic efforts to fortify Kyiv’s aerial defenses against tactical strikes by Russia connected civilian infrastructure.
Biden vowed to clasp Russia accountable for warfare crimes and atrocities and to enforce “costs connected Russia for its aggression,” according to a White House readout. He besides welcomed Zelensky’s stated openness to a “just bid based connected cardinal principles enshrined successful the United Nations Charter.”
The latest: Karen Bass takes implicit a Los Angeles divided by crisis
As Karen Bass prepared to instrumentality bureau Monday, the erstwhile Democratic congresswoman made audacious promises to the city’s 4 cardinal residents, pledging to code the interlocking crises of homelessness, affordability and inequity, problems that person grown much acute successful caller years contempt the efforts of erstwhile mayors.
The Post’s Reis Thebault takes a look astatine the challenges confronting Bass and what we cognize astir her governing style, writing:
“If we conscionable absorption connected bringing radical wrong and comprehensively addressing their needs and moving them to imperishable lodging with a mode to wage their bills, we volition prevention lives and we volition prevention our city,” Bass said successful her inaugural address, held successful a soaring theatre successful downtown Los Angeles. “And this is my ngo arsenic your mayor.”
Bass has pledged to “solve homelessness” and to state a authorities of exigency connected her archetypal day. In her archetypal year, she said, she volition location 17,000 people. And she announced a strategy to forestall transgression successful portion by hiring civilian employees to escaped up immoderate 250 constabulary officers from clerical work, allowing them to instrumentality to metropolis streets.
Outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti, leaving bureau aft much than 9 years, besides took purpose astatine homelessness, aided by a ballot measurement that allowed the metropolis to get $1.2 cardinal to wage for lodging and wellness services for those surviving outside. But the occupation has grown worse.
Bass was sworn successful Sunday by Vice President Harris.
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On our radar: Congressional Republicans divided connected attacking Trump investigations
Republicans successful Congress are splintering implicit however aggressively to tally interference for erstwhile president Donald Trump arsenic helium faces imaginable transgression prosecution, with lone his closest allies readying to straight onslaught the Justice Department investigations present nether the purview of peculiar counsel Jack Smith.
The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey study that the fissure betwixt lawmakers who person continued to vehemently support Trump and those who person started to softly inch distant from the recently announced statesmanlike campaigner widened past week arsenic apical GOP leaders laid retired the party’s investigative priorities. Per our colleagues:
Noted: Nonprofit laminitis says she was fired for being blimpish Republican
A Republican who doubly campaigned for Donald Trump and founded a D.C. nonprofit that offers fiscal enactment to legislature interns sued the enactment past month, alleging she was fired due to the fact that of her blimpish governmental beliefs.
The Post’s Justin Wm. Moyer reports that Audrey Lynn Henson is the laminitis of College to Congress (C2C), a nonprofit that provides fiscal assistance for Capitol Hill interns. The enactment aims to guarantee that radical from divers backgrounds tin service successful unpaid Hill positions. Per Justin:
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