New… W.h. DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS ALYSSA FARAH and W.H. PRESSE SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY asked MORGAN ORTAGUS of the State Department to lend a hand in coronavirus communications at the White House. ORTAGUS will lend a hand as cases in the south and southwest increase. After the details of the two weeks, he will return to Foggy Bottom. BRIAN MORGENSTERN also recently joined the White House communications operation from the Treasury.
REALITY IS INDECENT … WHAT YOU WANT, pretends you need things back to normal, but OUR COUNTRY IS STILL PARALYZED BY the coronavirus:
– BLOOMBERG’s JENNIFER JACOBS and SALEHA MOHSIN learned this morning that ROBERT O’BRIEN, the president’s national security adviser, had tested positive for Covid-19. “O’Brien, 54, the closest user to the president known for contracting the disease, has been out of the workplace since he expired last week… O’Brien stuck the virus by taking a few days off, spending time with his relatives, according to others familiar with the issue, suspects that he contracted the virus from a college-age relative who has to expand symptoms.
OFFICIAL, WHITE HOUSE, through Washington Blade Cleaner Chris Johnson: “He has mild symptoms … There is no threat of exposure to the president or vice president.” (White House economic adviser LARRY KUDLOW later testified in a fight in which O’Brien contracted his daughter’s virus while on vacation.)
– BASEBALL CAN BE FINISHED AFTER A WEEKEND… ESPN JEFF PASSAN: “Eight more players and two coaches from the Marlins [of Miami] tested positive for coronavirus because an outbreak has spread their club and has reported the total number of cases in the last few days, at least 14 years, they told ESPN resources close to the stage.
– GOOGLE WILL BE HOME FOR ANOTHER YEAR – UNTIL THE SUMMER OF 2021 … ROB COPELAND of WSJ in San Francisco: “Google will keep its workers at home until at least next July,” others close to the issue said, causing the Search for the Engine Giant, the first U.S. primary company to formalize such a long schedule in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This resolution will affect nearly all of the approximately 200,000 full-time and contracted workers from Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., and will surely pay attention to other tech giants that have scheduled staff to return as early as January.”
– WAPO’S @CleveWootson: “1 in Florida has [had] a coronavirus”.
THE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI asked Republicans to go inside 30 minutes after the publication of their Covid bill. They are expected to broadcast it around 4:30 p.m. And…
… WE DO NOT SURPRISE if a family face of management appears in the Capitol Suite on the second floor of PELOSI later this afternoon. MARK MEADOWS, the White House staff leader, and Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN met with PELOSI last week. Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL has not yet met with PELOSI at this stage of the negotiations.
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THE JOHN LEWIS RUNDOWN … THE MAISON is now out until Wednesday to allow the late representative JOHN LEWIS (D-Ga.) Lie in the state. Thursday’s votes were postponed until 6:30 p.m.
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LAFAYETTE SQUARE FALLOUT – “The Commander of the National Guard says the police passed over the protesters in Lafayette Square, used ‘excessive force’ before Trump’s visit,” through Tom Jackman and Carol Leonnig of WaPo: “An Army National Guard commander who saw protesters forcibly evicted from Lafayette Square last month , Array contradicts the Attorney General’s claims and Trump’s management that they did not speed up the cleanup to make way for the president’s photo shoot a few minutes later.
“News from Adam DeMarco, an Iraqi veteran who now serves as a primary in the DC National Guard, also casts doubt on the claims of interim police leader gregory Monahan Park that the violence of the protesters led the park police to leave the domain blank at the time. . With unusually competitive tactics. DeMarco stated that “the protesters behaved peacefully” and that tear fuel had been deployed in an “excessive use of force.” DeMarco is expected to testify to the House’s Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday. Wapo
SCOOPY SCOTUS STORY via CNN’s JOAN BISKUPIC (first in a four-part series!): “Within John Roberts’ unexpected liberal winning streak”: “When Roberts joined the Liberals in the Supreme Court to maintain an Obama-era program that protected young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as a child , surprised some of his colleagues by voting against the Trump administration.
“Roberts exercised unprecedented control over internal affairs and court operations, i.e. after the nine were forced to paint in isolation due to the Covid-19 Array. Roberts also sent enough signals about internal deliberations on gun restrictions, resources said, to convince his conservative colleagues that he would not provide a fifth critical vote in the short term to repeal gun control regulations. Cnn
CHASSE FOR A VACCIN – “Begins the first Phase 3 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States,” through Elizabeth Cohen, CNN’s John Bonifield and Jamie Gumbrecht: “The experimental vaccine evolved through the Modern biotechnology company and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases… According to Moderna, the trial will be conducted at about one hundred U.S. think-up centers. The first patient won a dose at a downtown Savannah, Georgia.
“The trial is expected to recruit approximately 30,000 adult volunteers and compare the protection of the Modern/NIH vaccine and whether you can avoid symptomatic Covid-19 after two doses, among other results. Volunteers will get two injections of one hundred micrograms from the vaccine or a placebo approximately 28 days apart. Cnn
WAPO ERIC YODER: “Approximately 4,000 federal workers are claiming disability benefits on the basis that the new coronavirus is at work, while survivors of 60 deceased workers claim death benefits for the same reason.
“The total number of claims is expected to increase to 6,000 in a few weeks, according to a report that is one of the first accounts that the pandemic has an effect on the fitness of the federal workforce.” Wapo… The report
THE REOPENING — “For HBCUs, the coronavirus pandemic hits especially close to home,” by Nolan McCaskill and Maya King: “Leaders of historically Black colleges and universities are grappling with a challenge others in higher education don’t fully share: how to reopen their campuses to a population that has proven especially vulnerable to Covid-19. …
“Black academics who don’t have enough resources for online learning can simply drop out of school or take on more debt by moving to a closer college near home. At the same time, historically underfunded HBCU may lose even more sources of income if they enroll less academically in the fall, and personal surveys show that HBCU academics are feeling the weight of a pandemic that has infected, murdered, and disproportionately rejected black Americans.
BACKGROUND – “Army Corps of Engineers Emergency Care,” through The New Yorker’s Paige Williams: “Between March and June expired, the Corps built thirty-eight first-choice care services nationwide, adding more than fifteen thousand more beds more states would possibly have refused the Body’s assistance, but now face coronavirus outbreaks.
“Once there is a vaccine, the Corps will likely be invited to help distribute it. During the initial progression phase, state leaders thanked the Corps for being competent and ready at a time when many Americans felt differently abandoned by the federal government.” . New York
P-P-P-PROBLEMS – “PPP intended to keep workers on the payroll. Workers from some giant corporations have not yet been rehired,” through WaPo’s Peter Whoriskey
– PROPUBLICA LYDIA DEPILLIS: “The Small Biz Double-Dip: Transitional corporations have reasonable government money, they are paid through consumers for the same workers: one of the largest beneficiaries of the paycheck coverage program for small business transitional agencies. managed to turn government loans into profits.”
SURE, WHY NOT – “Melania Trump is reorganizing the White House Rose Garden,” through Katie Rogers of NYT: “The project, which includes electrical updates for television appearances, a new catwalk and new flowers and shrubs, is intended to be an act of expressing hope and optimism for the future,” according to statements that Ms. Trump handed over Monday to the White House Preservation Committee.
“Mrs. Trump’s plan comes when Mr. Trump uses the so-called Rose Garden strategy, invented through political strategists to describe the one used through sitting presidents to bolster their crusader efforts: ceremonial signatures, signatures, executive announcements, and, yes, press availability in the rose garden. But with his appearances on the crusade, Trump has overcome barriers more than his predecessors. Nyt
VEEPSTAKES – “Karen Bass returns to Castro’s comment in VP research,” through Quint Forgey
ATOUT ADMINISTRATION – “The Head of Civil Rights of the Department of Education retires in the midst of controversy,” through NYT’s Erica Green: “[Kenneth] Marcus, who came to paint as a fierce advocate of Israel and a critic of the anti-Zionists” as a neutral and independent law enforcement agency, which faithfully executes the legislation as drafted and in its entirety , no more, no less.”
“But in recent months, two separate court cases have been filed in which Mr. Marcus is accused of abusing his authority by forcing him to deal with instances that have a complex political agenda.” Nyt
HAPPENING THE TUESDAY Array.. ABC’s JOHNNY VERHOVEK (@JTHVerhovek): “INBOX: Tomorrow @JoeBiden will deliver a speech in Wilmington, Delaware on the fourth component of its economic plan”Rebuild Better.” Biden will explain how his systemic racism plan will be managed and promote racial economic equity in The United States,” according to his campaign.”
AD WARS – “Biden is Trump on the coronavirus in a new advertising bombardment that wooes the elderly,” through Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser and Madeleine Rivera: “Biden’s crusade says they’ll spend more than $14.5 million to broadcast television and virtual ads in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin… And the Biden crusade says it’s expanding the acquisition of classified ads classified in Nevada… Classified ads, first shared with Fox News, target the president for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox… TV commercials … virtual advertising
THE CROWN CAMPAIGN … MICHAEL KRUSE: “The summer of Trump’s love is a remote memory now: can the president win in November the rallies that drove his supporters crazy four years ago?”
VALLEY TALK – “Jeff Bezos plays a role he never wanted: the Amazon Defender in DC,” through NYT’s David McCabe and Karen Weise: “He took the opportunity to present himself as a stateman, the savior of the Washington Post, who has the court among the country’s elite. At the same time, it has moved away from everyday paintings on strengthening Amazon’s influence on policy makers.
“But that fits On Wednesday, when Mr. Bezos first tested before Congress. He will be joined by the CEOs of Alphabet, Apple and Facebook in lawmakers’ investigations into the strength of the world’s largest generation companies. faces a wave of criticism. Nyt
– TONY ROMM OF WAPO: “Congress fought against airlines, banks, tobacco and baseball. He is now in a position to face the great technologies.”
– TRAVERS THE’TANG: “The EU’s effort to tax tech giants is weakening under pressure from the United States,” through Melissa Heikkil and Elisa Braun: “Extremist tax supporters, such as France, have agreed to suspend their implementation under the risk of US sanctions. But it’s not the first time the The lukewarm proponents of an EU-level agreement, such as Germany, have been pleased to rely on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for a comprehensive agreement that would possibly never materialize.
“The fact that the European virtual tax has gone from being a hot topic, followed enthusiastically across France and most EU countries, to a quasi-taboo in two years is a warning about the limits of Europe’s ability to impose its technological sovereignty through taxes. ” Politico
BOOK CLUB – “The Bottom of The Political Trial: A Tangle of Principles, Politics and Personalities: Norm Eisen, who served as a Democratic lawyer in political trial, gives a privileged account of Trump’s political trial effort,” through Kyle Cheney
MEDIAWATCH – Jyoti Thottam, DEPUTY Editor of NYT. Ad… Katherine Landergan will be the leader of the POLITICO office. Array in New Jersey. Clint Smith joins The Atlantic as editor-in-chief. Ad
TRANSITIONS: Heather Swift is now Vice President of Risk Management and Reputation at Syneos Health Communications. She is a former spokesperson for DHS and the Interior.Array.. Rich Ashooh is now Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Lam Research. More recently, he was Undersecretary of Commerce for the Export Administration.