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SPOTTED dining together Tuesday night at Cafe Milano: Sen. JOE MANCHIN, GAYLE MANCHIN, RANDI WEINGARTEN and STEVE CLEMONS.
An afternoon update on infrastructure news …
IT DOESN’T GET EASIER — Our colleagues Marianne LeVine, Andrew Desiderio and Burgess Everett have a reality check this morning for anyone who thinks the new talks will produce a deal:
“‘I’d do what I could to frustrate its passage,’ the ornery Wisconsin Republican [Sen. RON JOHNSON] said, taking umbrage with any infrastructure proposal that costs more than $700 billion. Johnson also vowed to make its path to approval a painful one on the floor. ‘I think we have a growing group of people who are willing to do that as well,’ he added.
“The China competition measure’s stumbles on its way to passage Tuesday have only intensified Democratic skepticism about working with a GOP they see as determined to snarl any attempt at bipartisan agreement. … A modest hate-crimes bill also took two weeks to negotiate earlier this year. So, sure, the Senate can still work in a bipartisan way. But on some issues, a partisan approach would simply be easier.”
CAPITO IS MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR BIDEN TO MOVE ON — Sen. SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO (R-W.Va.) sounded a smidge sharper this morning on President JOE BIDEN’S decision to end infrastructure negotiations with her. Though she told Fox News that the White House sincerely wanted a deal, Capito said she was “a bit disappointed and frustrated that the White House really kept moving the ball on me and then finally just brought me negotiations that were untenable, and then ended the negotiations altogether.”
“When they brought the tax hikes before me the last time when I was in the Oval Office, I knew that they weren’t really serious at that point,” she said.
AFTER MONTHS THERE ARE STILL NO AGREED UPON PAY-FORS — Don’t expect the White House’s insistence on raising taxes to pay for infrastructure to play any better with the new GOP negotiators. Sens. MITT ROMNEY (Utah) and ROB PORTMAN (Ohio) both shot down the idea of new taxes as a nonstarter this morning, CNN’s Manu Raju reports. Minority Whip JOHN THUNE (S.D.) is already saying he can’t really envision the group being successful. And Sen. JON TESTER (D-Mont.) says he’s giving the talks about a week.
PROGRESSIVES ARE TURNING UP THE VOLUME — The left is stepping up its warnings that Democrats can’t expect a united front if they forgo climate planks in an infrastructure deal. Sen. MARTIN HEINRICH (D-N.M.) made it plain this morning: “An infrastructure package that goes light on climate and clean energy should not count on every Democratic vote.” He quickly got co-signs from Rep. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-N.Y.), Sen. BRIAN SCHATZ (D-Hawaii), and even the relatively moderate Sen. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.). Read Zack Colman on this looming issue for the White House
RELATED READING: “Inside Biden and Manchin’s Joemance,” by Burgess and Laura Barrón-López: “[B]ehind the scenes, the president — who spent nearly half his life in the Senate — is taking a more subtle approach to the senator. In an interview, Manchin said Biden has not leaned on him to support the sweeping elections bill that the moderate Democrat publicly rejected over the weekend. Nor has Biden covertly asked Manchin to support another Democrat-only spending bill focused on jobs and the economy. Yet. …
“Biden and his senior staff are regularly in [touch] with Manchin … Still, they don’t see eye-to-eye on everything. … Biden can win Manchin over when it matters, but the former longtime Democratic senator must be strategic in both timing and substance.”
WHAT AMERICANS WANT FROM CONGRESS — All eyes in Washington are on infrastructure, and they have been for months. In our new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, voters are mostly on board: Thirty-five percent say passing an infrastructure spending bill should be a top priority for Congress, and another 31% rank it as an important priority.
But infrastructure isn’t No. 1 on the list. Several other topics garner a higher percentage of voters who say they should be top priorities, including reducing the federal budget deficit (42%), passing a health care reform bill (41%) and passing an immigration reform bill (37%). By far the most popular priority is stimulating the economy to recover from the pandemic (55%).
COLD HARD CASH: A lottery prize of money is the most desirable incentive to get a vaccine, with 57% of respondents in the poll going for it — ahead of 44% who found a truck or a vacation desirable, 34% for a scholarship and 23% for a gun. Toplines… Crosstabs
SPEAKING OF DEALMAKING … CNN’s @alizaslav: “Sen. John Cornyn, who has been negotiating with Democratic Sen Chris Murphy to reach a long shot bipartisan compromise on gun background checks, says they were ‘unable to find an agreed upon outcome’ & talks have ceased.”
Good Wednesday afternoon.
THE PARTY DON’T STOP — “U.S. withdrawing Trump executive orders that sought to ban TikTok, WeChat,” Reuters: “President Joe Biden is withdrawing a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok and ordering a new Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps …
“Biden’s new executive order revokes the WeChat and TikTok orders, along with another in January that targeted eight other communications and financial technology software applications. A separate U.S. national security review of TikTok remains ongoing.”
FIRST THE PRESS PLANE, NOW BIDEN: Cicadas continued to interfere with the departure of the press and administration officials for Biden’s trip to Europe. On Tuesday night, the clamorous bugs grounded the press plane for hours. This morning, one of the large flying critters smashed into the president himself. Biden could be seen swatting it away while talking to a military aide on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews before takeoff.
“Watch out for the cicadas,” he told reporters, “I just got one.” In fairness, the bug could have been confused. Seventeen years ago it would have known Biden as a senator and GEORGE W. BUSH as president, and it could have wondered why Biden was commandeering Air Force One now.
MEANWHILE, IN THE PRESS CHARTER: Things didn’t get much easier for our colleagues flying to the U.K. after their seven-hour delay. They secured a plane free of cicada-linked mechanical issues, but after crossing the Atlantic, the press charter couldn’t land because British PM BORIS JOHNSON’S airplane was in the same airspace. After some circling and being told they might be diverted to another city, they finally touched down in Cornwall around 3:30 p.m. local time after the PM’s plane landed.
WHAT THE G-7 WILL TACKLE — “Trans-Atlantic talks to end steel tariffs face a tough problem: China,” by Steven Overly: “European leaders are expected to press President Joe Biden in meetings starting this week to scrap the steel and aluminum tariffs that former President DONALD TRUMP slapped on them. That will require reaching a deal that appeases Biden’s key constituencies at home — namely steelmakers and unions.
“Senior U.S. and European officials recently started negotiations to remove the duties … But getting rid of the European tariffs won’t solve the problem that worried Trump and his predecessors: the global glut of steel coming largely from China … Before lifting the tariffs on the European Union, the administration will have to show steelworkers and other constituencies back home that Europe and the U.S. can act in concert to reduce excess capacity in China that is driving down steel prices globally.”
— THE BIG PICTURE: “Biden Aims to Bolster U.S. Alliances in Europe, but Challenges Loom,” by NYT’s Michael Shear and David Sanger: “The good will President Biden brings on his first trip abroad papers over lingering doubts about U.S. reliability and the cost that Europe will be expected to pay.”
WATCH: Biden heads to Europe to prove ‘America is back’: RYAN is back with a new episode of “The Breakdown.” This week he talks to POLITICO foreign affairs correspondent NAHAL TOOSI to break down Biden’s eight-day European trip. Biden will attempt to emphasize that the steps he, as the president, takes on the international stage will have a direct impact on average Americans back home. Ryan and Nahal break down how Biden plans to reverse Trump’s agenda and what that could mean for America moving forward.
IT’S OFFICIAL — “Val Demings launches 2022 campaign for Senate against Marco Rubio,” by the Orlando Sentinel’s Steven Lemongello
THE NEW GOP — “The Senate Republicans’ main fundraising tool for the 2022 elections is now largely devoted to exalting Trump,” by Insider’s Warren Rojas: “Senate Republican reelection chief RICK SCOTT is using an unorthodox playbook to reclaim the majority in 2022. It doesn’t involve talking up GOP lawmakers or have anything to do with mapping out what they’d do if they wrest back control of the 50-50 chamber. …
“Insider examined a month’s worth of the frantic [email] missives to get a sense of how the GOP's 2022 messaging is shaping up. The NRSC devoted a third of those messages (32%) to hyping up Trump’s attempted return to internet glory.”
FOLLOWING THE MONEY — “Arizona ballot audit backed by secretive donors linked to Trump’s inner circle,” by The Guardian’s Sam Levine and OpenSecrets’ Anna Massoglia
— “State GOPs Can’t Explain Millions In ‘Trump Victory’ Cash,” by The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger: “Months after the Federal Election Commission notified several GOP state parties of major gaps in their 2020 fundraising and spending reports, the committees are correcting their numbers—but they still can’t explain why the discrepancies occurred. The issue has raised new questions about possible abuse of a longstanding campaign finance loophole that allows wealthy megadonors to cut massive checks.”
— “More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows,” by Lev Facher: “Overall, the sector donated $14 million. … [C]ontributions were almost evenly split between major political parties.”
BRINGING IT BACK — “HUD to reinstate Obama-era fair housing rule gutted under Trump — minus the ‘burdensome’ reporting requirement,” by WaPo’s Tracy Jan: “President Biden’s housing department is restoring the requirement that communities take steps to reduce racial segregation or risk losing federal funds. But missing from the requirement is the 2015 mandate that communities undergo an extensive analysis of local barriers to integration and submit plans to dismantle them to the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
“Biden administration HUD officials said the creation and review of these assessments of fair housing ‘proved to be unnecessarily burdensome’ for communities as well as the agency, echoing some of the complaints voiced by former HUD secretary BEN CARSON. Some housing experts say they worry that without mandating jurisdictions submit reports … the agency would have a difficult time enforcing the requirement.”
VEEP REALITY CHECK — “Human Smugglers Couldn’t Care Less About Kamala Harris’ ‘Do Not Come’ Message,” by Vice’s Emily Green in Mexico City: “Harris’ stern message that Guatemalan migrants aren’t welcome in the U.S. received widespread coverage in American media outlets. But her plea fell on deaf ears or was dismissed by the very people it was aimed at: Central Americans thinking about migrating to the U.S.”
ENDURING MYSTERY — “For a second year, most U.S. police departments decline to share information on their use of force,” by WaPo’s Tom Jackman: “Despite a presidential order, congressional demands and a proposed new law requiring police to tell the FBI how often officers use force, for the second straight year only about 27 percent of police departments have supplied data to the National Use-of-Force Data Collection program launched in 2019. With such a meager response, the FBI will only release a list of participating agencies and no data whatsoever about how often police fire their weapons, cause serious injury or kill people.”
TOP-ED — NYT’s Thomas Edsall doesn’t mince words: “How Far Are Republicans Willing to Go? They’re Already Gone”: “Determined to enforce white political dominance in pivotal states like Georgia, Arizona, Texas and North Carolina, Republicans are enacting or trying to enact laws restricting the right to vote, empowering legislatures to reject election outcomes and adopting election rules and procedures designed to block the emergence of multiracial political majorities.”
AP TAKES ON AP — “Journalists demanding more action against online harassment,” by David Bauder: “The Associated Press’ recent firing of a young reporter for what she said on Twitter has somewhat unexpectedly turned company and industry attention to the flip side of social media engagement — the online abuse that many journalists face routinely.
“During internal meetings after the Arizona-based reporter, EMILY WILDER, was let go, several journalists expressed concern over whether the AP would have the backs of employees under attack from the outside. … The AP set a Sept. 1 deadline for a committee of staff members to bring forward ideas to improve how harassment is dealt with.”
SPOTTED at a Zoom party Tuesday night celebrating Peter Canellos’ new book, “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero” ($32.50): Sasha Issenberg, Adam Willis, John Harris, Joe Schatz, Teresa Wiltz, Ken Vogel, Alex Thompson, Ann Carrns, Alan Khazei, Farah Stockman, Alec Ward, Brakkton Booker, Kevin Baron, Luiza Savage, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Priscilla Painton, Thanassis Cambanis, David Halbfinger, Marty Kady, Mike Zapler, Michael Crowley, Michael Schaffer, Adam Cancryn, Elizabeth Ralph, Katie Fossett, Josh Green, Juliette Kayyem, Joanne Kenen, Clea Benson, Chris Suellentrop, Ben Schreckinger and Aaron Zitner.
MEDIA TRADE — Stella Bugbee will be the new editor of the NYT’s Styles section. She most recently has been an editor at large at New York magazine. (On Monday, Choire Sicha, who recently stepped down as editor of the NYT’s Styles section, announced that he would become an editor at large at New York magazine.)
TRANSITIONS — Sangita Sigdyal will be president and CEO of Verified Voting. She most recently was an EVP at FairVote. … The Hudson Institute is adding Thomas DiNanno, Ezra Cohen, Casey Michel, Paul Massaro and Josh Block as adjunct fellows. DiNanno and Cohen were previously Trump appointees. Announcement
WEEKEND WEDDING — Meredith Kelly, a media consultant at her firm, Declaration Media, and Travis Brimm, who most recently managed Ben Ray Luján’s Senate campaign, got married Friday at the White Elephant Resort in Nantucket, Mass. Her childhood best friend Sam Chasin officiated. The couple met while both working at the DCCC in 2018. Pic … Another pic
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