Morning Report — Trump heads to Capitol Hill, White House

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In in the present day’s difficulty:

Trump to satisfy with Biden, Congress

New hires: Huckabee, Hegseth, Noem, Ratcliffe

Democrats look to their governors for salvation

Louisiana choose reverses Ten Commandments mandate

President-elect Trump is in Washington in the present day, assembly with Hill Republicans earlier than heading to the White Home for a sit-down with President Biden.

The appointment on Pennsylvania Avenue guarantees to be extremely awkward as Biden welcomes his successor — a person he labeled a hazard to the nation — to his residence, writes The Hill’s Alex Gangitano. The assembly is supposed to underscore the peaceable transition of energy in America, 4 years after Trump contested the outcomes of Biden’s 2020 win and by no means invited him to the White Home, an put up presidential election custom. 

But it additionally guarantees to be a painful day for Biden, his workers and Democrats across the nation, who noticed Trump roll to a decisive victory over Vice President Harris, successful all seven of the important thing swing states and the favored vote. Republicans additionally received majorities within the Home and Senate on Trump’s coattails. 

“It’s very exhausting to think about that President Trump received’t take the second to not less than spike the soccer slightly bit — in spite of everything he did vanquish each President Biden and his hand-picked successor,” stated Stewart Verdery, who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration and is a founding father of Monument Advocacy. “However he additionally is aware of that he’s being handed a collection of abroad crises and the way a lot cooperation he can get throughout the handoff might be a giant think about what the world seems like on Jan. 20.”

Over on Capitol Hill, management fights are in full swing. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), pictured above, who led his convention to a slender victory within the Home elections, faces criticism from conservative hard-liners, who received’t nominate a challenger to Johnson’s bid for the gavel, however nonetheless wish to make their resistance recognized.

The plan B — which members of the Home Freedom Caucus are plotting — would contain forcing a secret, recorded vote on Johnson’s nomination, The Hill’s Mychael Schnell experiences, permitting them to point their degree of disapproval.

It’s not Johnson’s solely problem: Home Republicans are going through one other razor-thin majority within the upcoming Congress, and Trump has already tapped two Home members for positions in his administration. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) might be nominated to function U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) obtained the nod for nationwide safety adviser.

Johnson stated Tuesday that he doesn’t “anticipate” Trump to appoint extra members for administration positions, however not less than a dozen extra Home members have been mentioned as different picks. 

Stefanik and Waltz’s vacancies pose a math downside for Johnson, as they might take months to fill. Determination Desk HQ tasks GOP victories in 219 Home seats and Democratic victories in 210, with six seats nonetheless to be referred to as — three wherein the GOP candidate presently leads, and three wherein a Democrat has the sting.

“President Trump totally understands and appreciates the maths right here, and it’s only a numbers sport,” Johnson stated Tuesday. “We consider we’re going to have a bigger majority than we had final time — it’s too early to handicap it, however we’re optimistic about that. However each single vote will rely, as a result of if somebody will get sick or has a automobile accident or a late flight on their airplane, then it impacts the votes on the ground. So I feel he and the administration are nicely in tune to that.”

▪ The Wall Avenue Journal: Republican euphoria has been punctured by powerful math within the Home.

▪ The Hill: The eight Home Republicans who took a number one position defending Trump throughout his first impeachment trial are reaping the advantages. Two are set to hitch his Cupboard, one is Speaker, one turned Trump’s chief of workers and one other may nonetheless be named to an administration put up. 

In the meantime, Home Democrats returned to the Capitol dejected and licking their wounds, write The Hill’s Mike Lillis and Schnell. Whereas Democrats within the decrease chamber outperformed Harris on the polls, that ethical victory was a dim comfort for a celebration that had hinged its marketing campaign on warnings that Trump posed a fabric menace to America’s foundational democratic traditions. 

“It’s catastrophic,” stated Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a 30-year veteran of the Home who was the primary Democratic lawmaker to name on Biden to step apart. “There have been different challenges prior to now, however that is actually the best one in all my political life.”

Within the Senate, it’s GOP management election day. Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) was considered because the early frontrunner to turn into the subsequent Senate GOP chief, however he’s now underneath a barrage of opposition from Trump allies starting from Elon Musk to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. The intervention of outstanding conservative voices in opposition threatens to shake up the race, writes The Hill’s Alexander Bolton. 

Senate insiders say Thune is underneath strain to win a three-way race with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) within the first spherical of voting to keep away from the likelihood {that a} majority of the GOP convention may coalesce behind one in all his two rivals as soon as the race narrows down to 2 males.

The most important wildcard within the race is Trump, who has but to make an endorsement. Requested if Trump would heed his recommendation to remain out of the race, Thune replied: “Don’t know.”

“We’re simply retaining our heads down, doing the work and leaving it within the arms of the voters,” he stated.

SMART TAKE FROM THE HILL’S BOB CUSACK:

Democrats will most likely be a governor as their subsequent presidential hopeful in 2028.

Since 2000, the Democratic Get together has nominated a senator or former senator for the highest of the ticket. The mixed document is three wins and 4 losses. Former President Obama collected two of these triumphs, and he didn’t full a full time period within the Senate.

Democratic governors who may run in 2028 embody Josh Shapiro (Pa.), Wes Moore (Md.), Gavin Newsom (Calif.), Gretchen Whitmer (Mich.), Andy Beshear (Ky.), JB Pritzker (In poor health.) and Tim Walz (Minn.), amongst others.

Senators have lengthy and complex voting data that can be utilized as fodder for devastating presidential marketing campaign advertisements. Republicans, for instance, used then-Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) voting document on funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2004. Kerry narrowly misplaced. 

Governors don’t have that sort of bags. They name the photographs again residence and might run on their observe data — not on a controversial Senate modification that was debated in the course of the night time. 

After all, the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee should earn the correct to tackle the GOP standard-bearer. And the sector must be monumental. However based mostly on current historical past, Democratic voters ought to take a tough take a look at the pool of gifted governors 4 years from now.  

3 THINGS TO KNOW TODAY: 

▪ The Medicare Half B normal premium will rise subsequent 12 months to $185, up $10.30 from the present charge. The annual deductible will enhance by $17 to $257 in 2025. 

▪ A federal choose on Tuesday sentenced former Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard member Jack Teixeira to fifteen years in jail underneath the Espionage Act after he pleaded responsible to leaking extremely categorised navy paperwork in regards to the battle in Ukraine.

▪ Scientists and conservationists say they succeeded after practically 4 many years in bringing a zebralike mammal again from the useless. It’s referred to as a quagga. Not everyone seems to be impressed with the “much less stripey” outcome

LEADING THE DAY 

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Trump tapped some conservative and TV-savvy allies to serve in his administration.  

The pastor-turned-Fox-personality-turned-diplomat: Trump selected former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel. Huckabee, pictured above, ran for president and is a former pastor who by no means served as an abroad diplomat. He can be the primary non-Jewish ambassador to Israel since 2011. “Mike has been an incredible public servant, governor, and chief in religion for a few years,” Trump stated in a press release. “He loves Israel, and the folks of Israel, and likewise, the folks of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to result in peace within the Center East!” Huckabee is a former Fox Information host and contributor and father of Arkansas’s GOP governor, former White Home press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Protection (towards “woke”): To be Pentagon chief, Trump stunned many on Tuesday along with his announcement he’ll nominate Pete Hegseth, 44, a longtime Fox Information host, writer and Minnesota Military Nationwide Guard veteran. Hegseth final week in a podcast interview summarized his opinions in regards to the Protection Division: “Initially, you’ve obtained to fireside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” he stated, referring to Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. “Any normal, any admiral, no matter,” who was concerned in variety, fairness and inclusion applications or “woke s—” has “obtained to go.” Associated headline: A draft Trump government order would create a “warrior board” of retired senior navy personnel to overview and suggest generals and admirals deemed “unfit” for management and topic to ouster, The Wall Avenue Journal experiences. 

Not her first rodeo: That was the title of one in all South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s memoirs. There’s little doubt she’s aware of Washington as a former tea celebration Home member. Trump desires Noem, 52, to hitch his Cupboard as secretary of the sprawling Homeland Safety Division, with its deal with border points. Noem, whose state has no worldwide borders, left the Home to be governor in 2019. Throughout Trump’s first time period, the division had 5 completely different leaders, solely two of whom had been Senate-confirmed. The division has a $60 billion funds and a whole bunch of hundreds of workers. Noem campaigned with Trump a month in the past in Pennsylvania.

CIA: Trump named John Ratcliffe to be CIA director within the subsequent administration, to succeed Biden appointee William Burns, who has performed a key position in Center East peace negotiations. Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman, served as director of nationwide intelligence in Trump’s first time period after an preliminary try to put in him in that place failed in 2019.

Huge thinkers, quick talkers: Trump tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to advise by July 4 the best way to shrink the dimensions of presidency and the federal debt, remove “wasteful” spending, erase “extra rules” and make authorities extra environment friendly. The endeavor started in conversations on the marketing campaign path between Musk and Trump. As a result of there have been many comparable efforts in historical past (examples: Reinventing Authorities in 1993 and the Grace Fee in 1982), consultants level out that recommendation is good, however implementation is essential, particularly in league with Congress.

What about legislation and Justice? Trump has not recognized his option to be lawyer normal. However his ire in regards to the Justice Division’s prosecution of him is nicely understood. Particular Counsel Jack Smith plans to wrap up his staff’s report on its investigation of Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes and retire earlier than January when the president-elect has vowed to fireside him and his colleagues, The New York Occasions experiences. 

Treasury: Trump allies are reportedly urging the president-elect to decide on Scott Bessent, 62, founding father of Key Sq. Group and former Soros Fund Administration investing chief, to steer the Treasury division. Bessent donated about $3 million this cycle to Trump and different Republican causes, calling the GOP nominee and now president-elect “very refined on financial coverage.” Trump’s marketing campaign pledges to chop taxes, elevate tariffs and slash authorities spending to shortly assist working-class Individuals current hurdles for his financial staff and Congress. Billionaire hedge fund supervisor John Paulson, typically talked about on Wall Avenue for the Treasury position, informed The Wall Avenue Journal he was prevented from becoming a member of the administration due to his “complicated monetary obligations.” Paulson stated he desires to stay “actively concerned” with Trump’s staff. 

Turning the web page: The subsequent Schooling secretary might be the final. Trump and his allies pledge to remove the division or shrink its sway over private and non-private colleges to again a college selection motion. All of that requires a prepared Congress. State training superintendents, Home members and even Trump rivals have been floated for the highest division job, which is perennially assailed by conservatives. Listed here are some names within the combine. 

Talking for Trump (and the U.S.): Representing the views and choices of the president to journalists and the general public is a difficult job carried out with combined outcomes. Trump, 78, prefers to talk for himself and nonetheless pays shut consideration to mainstream media and cable TV, at the same time as he turned to widespread podcast hosts and various retailers as a candidate this 12 months. Trump’s assaults on the First Modification, threats to tug broadcast licenses, nods to journalists as targets of violence and resistance to fact-checking resonate along with his supporters at residence and overseas. Listed here are doable candidates to be White Home press secretary: Karoline Leavitt, Steven Cheung, Alina Habba, Scott Jennings and Tucker Carlson. Reminder:Trump spokespeople throughout his tumultuous first time period included Sean Spicer, Sanders, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh McEnany. Anthony Scaramucci served 10 days as Trump’s communications director, a separate position. Trump lately referred to as Scaramucci, now a Trump critic, a “main loser.”

▪ The Hill: To be White Home counsel, Trump picked William McGinley, a former Cupboard secretary in his first time period.

▪ The Hill: Trump’s decisions to steer the State Division and to function his nationwide safety adviser quieted anxiousness amongst some critics. 

▪ The Hill: What to anticipate for synthetic intelligence underneath Trump.

▪ The Washington Submit: Regulate pro-crypto candidates for key federal monetary companies. The trade spent greater than $130 million throughout this election cycle, typically with no apparent fingerprints in advertisements, and it paid off. Trump’s aides have thought of a mixture of present regulators, former federal officers and monetary trade executives, a lot of whom have publicly expressed pro-cryptocurrency views. The president-elect desires the U.S. to be the “crypto capital of the planet.”

WHERE AND WHEN

The Home will meet at 10 a.m. The Senate will convene at midday. 

The president and first girl Jill Biden will handle a Classroom to Profession Summit within the East Room at 10 a.m. Biden will meet with Trump at 11 a.m. as a part of transition protocol. The president will obtain the President’s Each day Transient at 1:15 p.m.

Vice President Harris has no public schedule.

The primary girl will fly to Philadelphia to talk at 5:30 p.m. throughout an occasion for PHILADELPHIA250.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Brussels assembly with NATO and European Union allies about Ukraine’s protection towards Russia’s invasion.

The White Home every day press briefing is scheduled at 12:30 p.m.

ZOOM IN

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The Democratic Get together is limping by way of the political equal of the 5 levels of dying and dying: The primary levels have been denial and anger and by the tip, they’re aiming for acceptance and maybe a remedy. 

If there’s any early consensus about what’s wanted for the way forward for the celebration, it’s a brand new chief. One within the wings is Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro, pictured above, who was a risk to be Vice President Harris’s working mate however is probably glad he was as a substitute a less-prominent cheerleader for the ticket, which wound up dropping in his state (and in each swing state).

Many in his celebration say Shapiro’s recognition and historical past of successful statewide put him middle stage heading towards 2026 and 2028. “Any path for a Democrat to win the White Home in 2028 doubtless additionally entails Pennsylvania,” stated J.J. Balaban, a Democratic advert maker based mostly within the state. “And somebody who’s uniquely widespread in Pennsylvania goes to get loads of consideration and that is smart.” 

▪ The Hill: Lindy Li, anoutspoken Democratic donor and Harris-Walz supporter-turned-campaign-critic, spoke with NewsNation (which, like The Hill, is owned by Nexstar).

▪ The Hill: Progressives search to push Democrats to the left to help America’s working class within the aftermath of Trump’s resounding win.

▪ The Hill: With Trump’s pending nomination of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of State, the thought of a vacant Senate seat has sparked conjecture a couple of momentary successor, together with hypothesis that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who’s term-limited, or his spouse, Casey DeSantis, is perhaps themselves. 

ELSEWHERE

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TEN COMMANDMENTS: A federal choose on Tuesday blocked a Louisiana legislation requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public college school rooms. The Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious dad and mom’ coalition argued the legislation “considerably interferes with and burdens” their First Modification proper to boost their youngsters with no matter non secular doctrine they need (The Hill). 

The Wall Avenue Journal: Justice Samuel Alito, 74, has no plans to retire from the bench amid hypothesis Trump may wish to set up a youthful choose to an growing older court docket.

HUSH MONEY: Manhattan Decide Juan Merchan on Tuesday delayed a call on whether or not to scrap Trump’s conviction within the hush cash case till Nov. 19, on the request of Trump’s legal professionals. Merchan had been set to rule on an earlier request to throw out Trump’s conviction due to a Supreme Court docket ruling this summer season on presidential immunity. Trump’s sentencing, which might be the primary of any former president, is scheduled for Nov. 26. He was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data in reference to a hush cash cost made to porn actor Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election (The Hill).

▪ The Hill: The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday rejected a push to maneuver to federal court docket a Georgia state legal election interference case towards former Trump White Home chief of workers Mark Meadows.

▪ The Hill: The Supreme Court docket stated Tuesday it won’t take into account a problem to a misdemeanor cost used towards scores of Jan. 6, 2021, rioters for unlawfully “parading” within the Capitol.

▪ The Related Press: ​​A U.S. jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to a few former detainees of Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib jail, holding a Virginia-based navy contractor accountable for contributing to their torture and mistreatment 20 years in the past.

INTERNATIONAL

AID FOR GAZA: The State Division on Tuesday stated that Israel is just not in violation of U.S. legislation associated to the supply and entry of humanitarian help in Gaza, regardless of pushback from assist teams and the United Nations, who stated Israel has failed to enhance the dire situations for Palestinians’ entry to meals, medical care and shelter. 

The evaluation got here on the finish of a 30-day timeline firstly of which U.S. officers issued a warning to the Israeli authorities that concrete steps wanted to be taken to extend humanitarian help deliveries or threat triggering a block on U.S. weapons deliveries (The Hill and CNN).

The New York Occasions: Israel stated its forces had returned to northern Gaza to struggle a Hamas resurgence. That has introduced a brand new spherical of struggling for residents.

OPINION 

■ Decoding the Trump trades, by Jessica Karl, columnist, Bloomberg Opinion.

■ Trump’s ‘January Seventh Take a look at’ of loyalty, by Karen Tumulty, columnist, The Washington Submit.

THE CLOSER

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And at last … 🎶 Schoolhouse rock: Music is a language faculty and college college students converse, know and examine. As pop superstars take the world by storm, academia has observed. Yale is now providing a course on Beyoncé’s affect and legacy. In 2022, New York College held a course on Taylor Swift, and the singer herself spoke at NYU’s graduation that 12 months. 

Different artists — together with Britney Spears, Drake and Harry Types — have been the topic of educational examine at schools and universities internationally. 

That’s a superb factor, stated affiliate professor A.D. Carson, who teaches about hip-hop on the College of Virginia Faculty of Music. In an op-ed for Inside Greater Schooling, 

Hip-hop and rap courses, even minors, have been round for years.

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