HAPPY SUNDAY MORNING. Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN said on ABC’s “THIS WEEK” program that he and W.H. Chief of staff MARK MEADOWS would be on Capitol Hill every day until they reached an agreement on Covid-19 relief.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED AT SATURDAY’S CLOSING MEETING. President NANCY PELOSI hosted MEADOWS and MNUCHIN for a closed-door assembly at her workplace at the Capitol on Saturday. Senate majority leader MITCH MCCONNELL is not in that session, but management helps keep you informed of your discussions. PELOSI organized a breakfast for the participants: doughnuts, bagels, muffins and strawberries.
Both sides described the assembly as productive and, indeed, the modestly productive three-hour consultation. Here’s how to outline the productive in this case: they talked about their issues of agreement, their disagreements and their red lines. They have not made great strides at the end of the gap between the two sides.
WHAT DOMAINS TO THINK: The two parties are still very much on the side of school money: how much to spend and how to apply it. Democrats are asking for a threat premium for others earning up to $200,000, and Republicans must lower that threshold to approach the minimum wage. They will locate PPP cash and a moratorium on evictions. They agreed to continue talking about SNAP/cash for food. These are all secondary to the big items.
THERE IS AN ASSEMBLY OF POLITICAL DOMAINS where there are pitfalls. DEMOCRATS need new money for the postal service, new money for elections, and nearly $1 trillion for state and local governments. REPUBLICANS appear open to USPS cash to cover operating deficits, but do not need cash for a new mail-order voting system. Democrats need $25 billion for the USPS, Republicans believe the figure is closer to $5 billion. DEMS needs national and local liquidity: Republicans have pushed flexibility with cash already allocated. Republicans won’t give cash for the election either.
CHUCK SCHUMER, LEADER OF THE SENATE OF THE MINORITY, has driven the reversal of SALT’s limits.
Of course, the structuring of improved unemployment insurance and a review of civil liability remain the two largest spaces that require paintings for the Republican Party. Republicans have not taken a steady stance on getting better unemployment insurance: they floated $600 a week for a week, $200 a week, 70% of wages and 66% of wages. In other words, they’re all over the map, and Democrats have rejected each of their plans and say they need a UI solution just as a component of a great package. MCCONNELL’s allies privately reported that they were open to negotiate on the shield of responsibility and publicly stated that the proposal of Senator JOHN CORNYN (Republican for Texas) would be included in the bill.
SO A CASE ISN’T REALLY CLOSED. As MEADOWS said on CBS “FACE THE NATION”, “I am sure of the option of a very short-term solution.”
CALENDAR: Whatever the proceeds of this article, it will be the subject of many criticism from Senate Republicans, who are all over the map in relation to Covid’s release. The Senate may act temporarily when everyone agrees, but not here.
WHAT PELOSI SAYS … PELOSI, in a letter to House Democrats on Saturday, said, “Today’s assembly has been more productive than our past discussions, but there is still no agreement. Work will continue tomorrow. Chief Schumer and I will meet with Secretary Mnuchin and Meadows’ chief of staff on Monday.
LOL: PRESIDENT OF DONALD TRUMP at 3:18 p.m. Saturday: “Lower payroll taxes plus dollars!”
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HOUSE MAYORITY WHIP JIM CLYBURN (DS. C.) TO CNN’s DANA BASH on “UNION STAT” at TRUMP: “I’m very convinced that this guy has followed strong tactics. And I’m very convinced that he’s Mussolini, Putin is Hitler. Array… I don’t think he’s contemplating leaving the White House. It does not provide for fair and unrestricted elections. I think he’s making plans to move on to a kind of emergency to continue his duties. And that’s why Americans wake up. »
PELOSI at DEBORAH BIRX, in “THIS WEEK”: “I think the president spends – he disseminates incorrect information about the virus and is his – she is his appointment. So I don’t accept as true with there, no.”
THE PRESIDENT has nothing on his public program today. TRUMP left the White House at 8:25 a.m. and arrived at his golf course in Virginia at 9:05 a.m., to Cheryl BOLEN of Bloomberg BNA.
– HAS THE PROMISE TO SIGN A GLOBAL HEALTH MEDICAL PLAN to this day. Doesn’t look like he’s going to do it.
PEEK SNEAK … PRESIDENT WEEK: Monday: THE PRESIDENT will signal a “decree on hiring Americans” and have lunch with VP MIKE PENCE. Tuesday: THE PRESIDENT will hold a signaling rite for the Great American Outdoors Act and have lunch with Secretary of State MIKE POMPEO.
– JUST DEMANDE: Representative JOE CUNNINGHAM (D-S. C.) Have you ever written down the invitation you were looking for at this signing ceremony?
WHAT YOU READ AMERICA … PAGES BEFORE NATION: THE Times: “How County Virus Tracking Failed to Protect Workers” Array.. San Diego Union-Tribune: “COVID-19 RECRITE THE LOI OF EMPLOYMENT: Experts say that lots of hard work demands already filed are just the beginning “Array.. Miami Herald:” Florida makes it difficult for immigrants to get an “Array.
… Tampa Bay Times: “Florida is a change and a failure: July 2020 was not a party for any of the parties seeking the presidential election.” Array.. Wichita Eagle: “Kansas, Missouri is preparing to count the votes on the occasion of an “Array” pandemic. Dallas Morning News: “The U.S. Postal Service expects the Senate to provide help”
TRUMP FRONTS: WAPO … Nyt… N.Y. POST
ANITA KUMAR: “Trump is educated in overthrow”
ICYMI … Representative of Arizona RA-L GRIJALVA (D-Ariz.) – a hardened smoker – the tenth legislator to test positive for Covid-19. GRIJALVA is the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, which is chaired by Representative LOUIE GOHMERT (R-Texas).
BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN: “Cuccinelli at ease of monitoring the DHS intelligence office”: “Before the Department of Homeland Security intelligence service compiled intelligence reports on journalists, its leaders called for less internal office surveillance.
Several months ago, the Directorate of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis asked the second-in-command of DHS, Ken Cuccinelli, to restrict the normal review of the intelligence products it produces and distributes through a surveillance branch. Cuccinelli approved the measure, according to two nearby sources. to the situation, which restricted the role of the Branch Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in approving the intelligence office’s cadres.”
ABBOTT SAYS NOT THROUGH CONVENTION … PATRICK SVITEK OF THE TEXAS TRIBUNA: “Governor Greg Abbott will skip the Republican National Convention e late this month in North Carolina as he continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in Texas, and Deputy Governor Dan Patrick will preside over the state delegation to the reduced meeting.
“Abbott announced the plan in a letter dated Friday to Republican national President Ronna McDaniel.” It is an honor to be selected to preside over the Texas delegation to the 2020 Republican National Convention,” Abbott wrote. However, as we face the COVID-19 pandemic, my most sensible precedence remains to protect the fitness and protection of The wedians.”
NEW CBS BATTLEGROUND TRACKER Survey… NORTH CAROLINA: JOE BIDEN 48, DONALD TRUMP 44 … GEORGIA: JOE BIDEN 45, DONALD TRUMP 44
VEEP WATCH … Representative KAREN BASS (D-Calif.) About his ties to communist CUBA in NBC’S “RENCONTRE THE PRESSE”: BASS: “When I was in my twenties, I went to Cuba to help other Cubans build houses, but for the past 20 years, Chuck, I’ve painted. First, I believed that closing the gap between our two countries. Cuba is 145 km away. But for over the 20 years, I’ve really been working on fitness care. problems in Cuba. You know, Cubans practice American doctors, and I recruit those doctors to paint downtown because they’re not in school. Cubans also have two medications: one for diabetes, for which my mother died, lung cancer, for which my father died, and I would like those drugs to be tested in the United States.
“This does not excuse the fact that I know that the Castro regime is a brutal regime towards its other people. I know there’s no freedom of the press, there’s no freedom of reprisal, and, attractively, when I went there in my teens and early twenties, you know, one of the reasons: to build relationships with The Americans who were there because there were more than a hundred young people who were there, and we all worked on other issues. Well, the appeal is that we were able to move from home and protest against our own government by the way, but the other Cubans certainly can’t. They couldn’t do it then, and they can’t do it now.”
TODD: “Member of Congress, I have to say he’s talking a lot harder to Castro now than when he was talking, when he described him as ‘commander chief’ when he died, and then he said everything I found interesting. You said you hadn’t realized how susceptible the other People in South Florida were about it… So, in a way, I’m curious that you think that Californians wouldn’t mind that description, but that it might offend the Floridians. Forget it for a minute. It looked like you had a beautiful view of Castro, so to speak.
BASS: “And let me also because I think the use of the term ‘commander-in-chief’, what I meant by that, is that obviously in Florida, it’s a term that appeals to it. I didn’t see it that way. I expressed my condolences to the Cuban people, to the Cuban people, not to Cubans from all over the world. I don’t think it’s a poisonous expression in California, but let me tell you, Chuck, lesson learned, I wouldn’t do it again. I without delay spoke to my colleagues in Florida and knew that this was something I just deserved not to have been said.”
– BASS in “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”: “I have done what President Obama and Vice President Biden have done, by opening relations with the island of Cuba, which is 145 kilometers away.”
Senator TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-Ill.) TO CHRIS WALLACE in “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”: “I think all the women whose names have been discussed are fabulous and well-prepared women or do the task of vice president or step up and take the presidency if necessary.”
BIDEN’S K STREET CABINET … NYT, through KEN VOGEL and GLENN THRUSH: “After 8 years as vice president and decades in the Senate, Mr. Biden has close ties to Washington’s permanent political elegance and political geniuses moving between government and industry positions. .
I said, “Sir. Ricchetti has spent years as a registered lobviaist and, through a company called Ricchetti Consulting Group, is paid through the Biden crusade and AT-T, its only corporate consumer for the past nine years. Anita Dunn, sir. The leading strateque of Biden’s crusade, which also ran for AT-T last month.
“Since Saturday, Ms. Dunn has been taking an ‘official license’ from her company, which had earned millions in recent years for an airline advocacy group, while offering communications recommendations to an Israeli spy software company and fugitive Nissan, Carlos Ghosn. the corporation had registered to exert pressure, which ended all those relationships with visitors over the following year.
“One of the leading candidates for the post of Secretary of Defense, Michale A. Flournoy, has presented a company whose online page lists the tables of monetary, generation and pharmaceutical services companies. Former CIA and Obama national security chief Avril Haines, who, representative of knowledge mining company Palantir, saturday resigned from Ms Flournoy’s company to begin work on Biden’s transition team.”
HOLLY OTTERBEIN in Philadelphia: “Joe Biden’s hatred doesn’t fill his base”: the state of the key swing escapes trump”
STEVE PEOPLES, from AP: “Foreign threats loom before the U.S. presidential election”: “When asked directly, Trump’s crusade refused to say whether he had accepted Biden-like documents from foreign citizens. harmful data on the paintings of Biden’s son in the country, even though repeated accusations of corruption opposed to the Biden have been widely discredited.
“A spokesman for Biden” absolutely not “when asked if the crusade had won documents from foreign actors.”
BOSTON GLOBE: “Methuen’s police chief is one of the highest paid in the country and says he deserves more,” through Andrea Estes: “This network on the New Hampshire border is probably smaller than 772 other U.S. cities, but Police Chief Joseph Solomon’s salary is very small. His salary of $326707 in 2019 has made Solomon one of the highest-paid police chiefs in the country, paid more than his counterparts in Boston, New York, Chicago. and many other primary urban areas.
And unlike them, Solomon doesn’t have to deal with a serious crime problem: Methuen had a homicide last year. However, Solomon thinks he is underpaid.
“He refuses to take 10 days of unpaid leave to make up a $7 million deficit. He is the only branch manager to reject the request of the city mayor, Neil Perry, who recently reduced his own salary from $80,000 to $68,000 a year.” Boston Globe A1
New… JOE LOCKHART and KATIE BARLOW have a new interview with ROD ROSENSTEIN for their Words Matters podcast. The interview
Hmm… HE WASN’T IN HIS SKED … REVUE-JOURNAL OF LAS VEGAS: “Trump meets John Yoo in the White House,” through Debra Saunders: “President Donald Trump met with UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo on Thursday at the White House, heard the Review-Journal: the first face-to-face meeting between the president and his new legal guru and an article arguing that a recent Supreme Court ruling can help Trump
“It’s positive and energetic,” Yoo told the Review-Journal. Yoo said he wouldn’t reveal the content of his conversation, but he presented that the guy who greeted him wasn’t “Nixonian” in the bunker and was paranoid and dark. I didn’t realize that. »…
“The Review-Journal spoke to Yoo Saturday, hours after Trump posted a favorable tweet about Yoo’s new book,” Defender-in-Chief: Donald Trump’s fight for presidential power.”
JAMES ARKIN: “The Republican Party fears an imaginable appointment of Kobach in Kansas”: “On Thursday, the senior official on the Senate Republicans crusade branch participated in a personal call to Zoom organized through GOP agents to talk about the party’s efforts to save him a Democratic takeover.
“Durante la presentación, el director ejecutivo del Comité Senatorial Republicano del Senado, Kevin McLaughlin, advirtió que si el conservador radical Kris Kobach gana el Senado número uno de Kansas el próximo martes, podría condenar a la mayoría republicana en el Senado e incluso dañar al presidente Donald Trump en un estado que no ha votado a los demócratas desde 1964. ” Most of the Senate crosses Kansas,” McLaughlin warned, according to others close to the call.
NYT, A21: “Alienated through Trump, the suburban electorate smiles at the Republican Party in “Battle for the House,” through Emily Cochrane and Catie Edmondson in Ballwin, Missouri: “Suburban neighborhoods like that have long been critical bases of Republican support, filled with rich white electorate that reliably chose Republicans to form them in Congress. Democrats took office of the House in 2018 by making raids on communities like that, and Republicans have linked their hopes of regaining strength to preserve their remaining positions there.
But as Trump continues to stumble into his reaction to the pandemic and seeks to stoke racist fears with promises to keep the ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream,’ those neighborhoods are escaping more from the party’s success and threatening to overthrow Congressional Republicans. November elections.
“Interviews with more than two dozen party officials, strategists and electorates in spaces like those help with what recent polls have revealed: that Mr. Trump’s strategy is to encourage the independent and even conservative electorate – especially more informed women and Americans – who have become partisan through their appeals and disappointed with their leadership. From the suburbs of St. Louis to Omaha and Houston, they expressed a deep fear of Trump’s technique of the two national crises, lamenting his certain statements that the coronavirus was under control and its resolve. to stoke racial divisions after national protests opposed to police brutality against black Americans.”
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BIRTHWEEK (Saturday): Macaulay Porter of the White House
ANIVERSAIRES: Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) At 63 years old … Lawrence Wright, New York writer, 73 years old (h/t David Andelman) … Stephen Cox is 43 years old … FHA/ HUD Brian… Laura Nasim … Rich Edson of Fox News … Gigi Sohn … former Treasury Secretary John Snow is 81 years old … Benton Ives is 44 years old … Nick Ballas from RNC.. Peter Mihalick is 38 years old … CBS Caitlin Huey-Burns … Emily Gershon … Matthew Rosenberg, NYT reporter and CNN national security analyst … Sarah Bittleman … Hayley Brower, legislative correspondent for Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) Array… Camille Rooster … Mary Corley of Data Trust … David Eiselsberg … Geneva Kropper … Austin Laufersweiler, press manager for the Association for Public Service, is 29 years old (h/t Mitchell Rivard) … Seng Peng … Kevin Walling is 35 years old …
… Jeff Ballou … Patrick Ruffini, spouse and co-founder of Echelon Insights, is 42 years old … Retired Army Colonel Jack H. Jacobs is 75 years old … Roger Cohen is 65 years old … former representative Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.) At 65 years old … former Representative Dan Boren (D-Okla.) At 47 years old … Michael Manganiello … Arlen Valdivia of the MPAA … Brynn Barnett. .. Michelle White, COS of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak … Dennis Prager has years … Bryce Dustman … Dylan Dreyer of NBC … Kate Roberts … Gigi Kellett Liability Company … Daniele Baierlein.. Eric Meyrowitz of Hearst Television … Dave Mills … Kristin Carvell Hardwick by GE … Gil Duron, California Opinion Editor at The Sacramento Bee / McClatchy … Dan Burrows … Jennifer Streaks … Melissa Leebaert. .. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis … Brendan O’Sullivan … Sim Khan
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