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Buttigieg plans to campaign on Monday. 'The Biden campaign has been notably absent.'" -- Sanders's loyal voters could keep him in the race for months. From the Journal: "Sanders's campaign has made it clear that to win the nomination, he would have to pull off an ambitious expansion of the electorate. His campaign says it is banking on turning out a coalition of young, working-class and minority voters. But polls show the Vermont independent's base is more loyal than that of any other 2020 Democrat, and in interviews over the last four months, Mr. Sanders's supporters [have said] that they wouldn't support any other candidate as long as he is running. Those backers—and his massive fundraising—mean that, unlike many of his rivals, Mr. Sanders might not need a marquee win in an early state to stay in the presidential race for months." - Sen. Cory Booker keeps winning praise for his presidential campaign. What he's not winning is much support. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Scherer report: "As he struggles with low-single-digit polling and the prospect of missing the cut for next month's debate, Booker has become a symbol for the harsh reality of this year's nominating process. It is just not enough to win plaudits for performance, as he has after multiple events, or to execute a clear campaign strategy. In the shadow of Trump's potential reelection, Democratic voters have become focused on winning and are unforgiving with their doubts. Booker has sought to answer that concern by preaching the power of empathy. He appeals to white Iowa and New Hampshire voters by talking about the problems of inner cities and poverty. He has confronted Trump by explaining his compassion for his supporters. And unlike other campaigns that have pivoted on message and policy, he has made clear he will not change his strategy to win." Sanders left Washington less than six months ago. Now the former White House press secretary has returned to Arkansas in search for a new political role. From the Times: "'There are two types of people who run for office,' Ms. Sanders said over breakfast tacos at a diner in downtown Little Rock last week. 'People that are called and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I've been called.' ... As the daughter of Mike Huckabee, who served as governor from 1996 to 2007 and twice ran for president, she is seen as political royalty in Arkansas, and Mr. Trump himself EFTA00047183
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urged her to run for governor when she left the West Wing. That job will open in 2023, when Gov. Asa Hutchinson's term is up, and Ms. Sanders is giving every indication that she plans to run. ... "In the 23 months that Ms. Sanders served as Mr. Trump's chief spokeswoman, her battles with the White House press corps were epic. ... Ms. Sanders's relationship with reporters reached a nadir in April after it was revealed that she had admitted under oath to investigators working for the special counsel, S. Mueller III, that her claim at a press briefing that 'countless members of the F.B.I.' told her they had lost confidence in the bureau's director, B. Comey, was a 'slip of the tongue' that was not based on any facts. ... 'I was attacked for everything, not just my performance,' she said of her time in Washington. 'I was called a fat soccer mom, my kids were threatened, my life was threatened. It was a lot. I hate harping on it, but to be in the position I'm in and to have Secret Service, that's not normal.' Ms. Sanders paused. 'I don't like being called a liar,' she said." -- Doctors who previously worked at the White House and those who are currently in touch with the White House said the mysterious and unannounced visit Trump made to the hospital last weekend was highly unusual. From CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta: "Given that the White House had previously given plenty of advance notice about the President's past physical exams, last weekend's visit to Walter Reed reportedly took everyone by surprise, including much of the staff at the hospital itself. Whenever the President is planning a visit to Walter Reed, an institution-wide notice goes out, making staff aware of certain road and corridor closings. According to a person familiar with the matter, that didn't happen last weekend. Also striking: the fact that the president's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, rode with Trump in the presidential motorcade. Typically, the doctor rides separately from the President for security reasons. A former White House doctor [said] it had never happened during their time there. ... "All tests Conley described could've been performed at the White House instead of the hospital. Many blood tests require the patient to fast overnight and are thus performed first thing in the morning -- not in the middle of the afternoon, as apparently happened with the President. And remember, the President had these tests just nine EFTA00047184
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months ago. One of the reasons doctors wait a year to order labs for a routine physical is to better assess the impact of medication and lifestyle changes over a consistent interval of time. There is no benefit to drawing the blood early, unless there is a concern about something. Finally, there is no such thing as a phased physical exam, as Trump had described it in his tweet from last weekend." -- Another health scare: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital on Sunday after going in with chills and a fever. Barnes reports: "The court announced in a news release Saturday evening that the 86-year-old had been seen at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington and then transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where doctors were more familiar with her medical history. She was treated for a possible infection. 'With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, her symptoms have abated,' the court said in the Saturday release. The court provided no other details." SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: The Intelligence chairman reacted to The Post's scoop: The Post's Shane Harris had this reminder after an assertion by Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) on "Fox News Sunday": On Saturday, Rudy Giuliani made this comparison: EFTA00047185
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This scandal from a decade ago seems so quaint: Bernie Sanders went out dancing: It's almost Thanksgiving, which means a pair of turkeys are having the time of their lives in D.C.: And border officials detained a shipment of illegal cold cuts, which led to this killer lede: VIDEOS OF THE DAY: Taylor Swift broke Jackson's record for winning the most American Music Awards of all time. Jackson won 24. Swift has 29 after last night: (Find the complete list of winners here.) "Saturday Night Live" spoofed last week's Democratic debate: EFTA00047186
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"Weekend Update" pointed out that testimony on impeachment concluded in the House last week and "now the debate will shift to your house for Thanksgiving": "The Daily Show" set out to investigate who will win the black vote in 2020: And Trevor Noah interviewed Hillary and Chelsea Clinton: You received this email because you signed up for The Daily 202 or because it is included in your subscription. Manage my email newsletters and alerts I Unsubscribe from The Daily 202 Privacy Policy I Help ©2019 The Washington Post I 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071 EFTA00047187
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The Daily 202: The budget deal shows how unserious the GOP is about deficits in the Trump era From The Washington Post To M, The Washington Post Date 2019/07,23 10:13 Subject: The Daily 202: The budget deal shows how unserious the GOP is about deficits in the Trump era Attachments: TEXT.htm, Mime.822 If you're having trouble reading this click here. The Daily 202 Share: Listen to The Big Idea The budget deal shows how unserious the GOP is about deficits in the Trump era President Trump, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, visits the Capitol in March for a lunch with the Republican caucus. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) BYE HOHMANN with Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: Mitch McConnell told President Trump privately last month that no politician has ever lost an election for spending more money. That mind-set — caring more about the next election than the next generation — helps explain why the Senate majority leader and the president endorsed a budget deal last night, which still Page 17677 EFTA00047188
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needs to pass Congress, that will raise spending limits by $320 billion while suspending the federal debt ceiling until after both men's 2020 reelection fights. It also illustrates how hollow so much of the rhetoric from McConnell, Trump and other Republicans was during Barack Obama's presidency. Discretionary spending is growing at a faster clip under Trump than Obama. The budget deficit and the national debt are growing at even more distressing rates, however, because the Republican tax cuts have reduced revenue even more starkly than the dire forecasts. The Trump administration estimates the deficit this fiscal year will top $1 trillion, up from $779 billion last year. It was $587 billion in 2016, Obama's last full year in office. The national debt was $19 billion when Trump took power and surpassed $22 trillion this month. Even with rock- bottom interest rates, the federal government will pay out more than $350 billion this year to service that debt. If we're running these kinds of deficits when the economy is supposedly booming, think about how bad they'll become when a recession arrives and revenues inevitably shrivel. "This agreement is a total abdication of fiscal responsibility by Congress and the president," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It may end up being the worst budget agreement in our nation's history, proposed at a time when our fiscal conditions are already precarious." :t Page 17678 EFTA00047189
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I I lel e IS little, II ciiiy, uvitivii4e LI ICU I I uilip personally cares that the federal balance sheet is drowning in red ink. Undoubtedly, many people who work in the White House — led by acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — want spending cuts. And these administration officials insist that Trump has told them he wants to make big cuts in 2021 if he wins a second term. But watch what the president does, not what his aides say. Trump also promised before he took office that he'd balance the budget and pay off the entire national debt by the end of a hypothetical second term. Trump, who has referred to himself as "the king of debt," drove multiple businesses into bankruptcy before becoming the first president in U.S. history with no prior governing or military experience. Earlier in his term, advisers presented him with a chart that projected a hockey stick spike in the national debt unless major changes are made. Trump shrugged. "Yeah, but I won't be here," he reportedly said. Lately, the president has been recounting the advice he got from McConnell about spending money to West Wing aides. Two people with direct knowledge confirmed to my colleagues recently that the Kentucky Republican delivered that message during a private phone call last month. -- Republican leaders are quick to blame Democrats, noting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi negotiated the deal with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. They say they needed to agree to higher spending levels to get support in Page 17679 EFTA00047190
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the House. That's true to some degree, of course, but Republicans were also on their borrowing binge when they had unified control of government during the first two years of the Trump presidency. This will forever taint Paul Ryan's legacy as speaker. To be sure, the Trump administration has proposed steep spending cuts in each of his budget blueprints, and some of the deficit hawks on his staff tried to insist on cuts during this most recent round of negotiations. "Acting budget director Vought sought last week to force Democrats to commit to $150 billion in budget changes in exchange for the new spending, but his demand was rejected. Instead, negotiators agreed to $77 billion in accounting changes that probably wouldn't constrain any future spending," Paletta and Erica Werner report in their story on the deal. "But the deal locked in more spending for the military, something Trump has tried to make a hallmark of his first 30 months as president." But the only thing the president has really gone to the mat for on Capitol Hill — triggering the longest-ever government shutdown — was to get billions in additional spending to build his proposed border wall. When he couldn't get the money that way, he diverted it from the military construction budget — the legality of which continues to be challenged in court. Trump on debt ceiling: 'We can never play with it -- I aarlarc from hnth nartinc tni 'fad nnnrliac thaw not ac Page 17680 EFTA00047191
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they tried to sell their members on the bill. "Democrats have always insisted on parity in increases between defense and non-defense, and we are pleased that our increase in non-defense budget authority exceeds the defense number by $10 billion over the next two years," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement. "It also means Democrats secured an increase of more than $100 billion in funding for domestic priorities since President Trump took office." House Minority Leader McCarthy (R-Calif.) made a contrary claim as he endorsed the deal. "Given that sequestration cut defense spending more than non-defense, we are pleased that the agreement provides $20 billion more for defense than non-defense over two years," he said in a statement. "While this deal is not perfect, compromise is necessary in divided government." McConnell emphasized the new spending he got for Kentucky for military installations in his state, citing Fort Knox, Fort Campbell and the Blue Grass Army Depot. Missing from his statement was any mention of the debt or the deficit. "While the reality of divided government means this is not exactly the deal Republicans would have written on our own, it is what we need to keep building on that progress," he said. -- This new deal, assuming it passes before Congress leaves town for the month-long August recess, will end the Budget Control Act, which Obama signed into law Page 17681 EFTA00047192
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after House Republicans pushed the government to the brink of defaulting on its debt in 2011. "That law, once seen as the Republicans' crowning achievement in the Obama era, set strict spending caps, enforced with automatic spending cuts," the New York Times notes. "But since 2014, a succession of budget deals have waived those caps, and the new deal not only lifts them again but also allows the whole law to expire in 2021. And this time around, the approach of the debt limit hardly caused a ripple of consternation about the rising red ink." • "I've seen no evidence that it's even being discussed," said Sen. Lankford (R-Okla.). "That's the hard part for me." • "It's pretty clear that both houses of Congress and both parties have become big spenders, and Congress is no longer concerned about the extent of the budget deficits or the debt they add," said Club for Growth President McIntosh, a former Republican congressman. -- A few members of the House Freedom Caucus strategized last night about ways to tank this deal, which they see as a betrayal of the tea party principles that they got elected on and warn will "sabotage the fiscal future of our nation." Freshman Rep. Chip Roy (R- Tex.), who was formerly Sen. Ted Cruz's chief of staff, is circulating a letter around Capitol Hill offices to collect signatures before sending it to the White House. "You should veto this bill because it is fiscally irresponsible," the letter says, "indulging our national spending addiction." Page 17682 EFTA00047193
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"Other likely backers include GOP Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Cloud of Texas and Debbie Lesko of Arizona, who, like Roy, are members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus," Politico reports. "Rep. Matt Gaetz (R- FLa.), a top Trump ally on Capitol Hill, is also expected to sign on to the letter." Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman who lost reelection last year after Trump endorsed his primary challenger, suggested last week that the growing debt and government spending would be a centerpiece of the long-shot primary challenge that he's mulling against Trump. -- Other fiscal conservatives who don't need to worry about running for reelection lamented the direction that the GOP has taken under his stewardship. "There are no small government conservatives left in Washington," tweeted Joe Scarborough, who represented the Florida Panhandle in Congress as a Republican from 1995 to 2001 and now hosts a morning show on MSNBC. "If Newt Gingrich agreed to this deal, we would have run him out of DC on the same day. We balanced the budget four years in a row. These Big Government Republicans are bankrupting US. Conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson from Georgia noted that his party demands fiscal discipline only when Democrats are in the White House. "This is a bad deal that puts us many steps closer to bankruptcy," he tweeted. "No Page 17683 EFTA00047194
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leaders in Washington want to restore any fiscal sanity. Why is it always only a [Democrat] in the White House and [Republicans] in Congress that get us fiscal sanity, i.e. [Bill] Clinton balanced budget & sequestration under Obama?" -- Social media buzzed about the deal: Nancy Pelosi was spotted negotiating while sitting on a delayed flight: CONTENT FROM AT&T BUSINESS A More Secure Foundation for a 5G World Learn how businesses can help safeguard their data in a 5G-connected future An editor for the Bulwark, a conservative publication, noted how Trump has changed his tune entirely on the debt ceiling: Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) criticized the deal by sharing a GIF of the Joker lighting a pile of money on fire from the 2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight." In the scene, the Joker says: "All you care about is money. This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it to them." Page 17684 EFTA00047195
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Cruz, who has already abandoned in the Trump era several of what he used to call his core principles, refused to talk about the deal when approached by CNN: There was also criticism from the left: Subscribe on Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and other podcast players. Welcome to the Daily 202, PowerPost's morning briefing for decision-makers. Sign up to receive the newsletter. WHILE YOU WERE IN YOUR MORNING MEETINGS: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who is trying to kick millions off food stamps, arrives at the White House in May to watch Trump announce billions in bailouts for farmers in red states who are suffering because of the president's trade wars. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed new Page 17685 EFTA00047196
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rules this morning to limit access to food stamps for households with savings and other assets, a measure that officials said would cut benefits to about 3 million people. Reiley reports: "In a telephone call with reporters, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Acting Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps said the proposed new rules for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) were aimed at ending automatic eligibility for those who were already receiving federal and state assistance. Forty-three states now grant automatic eligibility to low-income people already receiving other government benefits, without undergoing income or asset tests. Lipps said the proposal would result in an annual budgetary savings of $2.5 billion." Putting the numbers in perspective: "Current rules give states latitude to raise SNAP income eligibility limits so that low-income families with housing and child care costs that consume a sizable share of their income can continue to receive help affording adequate food. This option also allows states to adopt less restrictive asset tests so that families, seniors and people with a disability can have modest savings or own their own home without losing SNAP benefits. ... To be eligible for SNAP, a household's gross income must be below 130 percent of the federal poverty line. In 2019, that works out to $32,640 a year for a family of four. Democrats pointed out that the benefit amounts to $1.40 per person per meal." Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on Page 17686 EFTA00047197
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the Senate Agriculture Committee, says Trump is making an end run around Congress, which blocked his earlier proposals to slash food stamps in the farm bill. "This rule would take food away from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder for states to administer food assistance," she said. Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in an electrical workers union hall in Las Vegas. (John Locher/AP) -- Another huge flip-flop: After spending half a century advocating for capital punishment, former vice president Joe Biden this morning proposed abolishing the death penalty at the federal level and offering incentives for states to follow suit. It's one of several ideas in a new criminal justice plan that are at odds with the 1994 crime bill he quarterbacked. "Convicted criminals who would face execution under current law would instead be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole," Sean Sullivan reports."Biden's plan also would decriminalize marijuana and expunge past cannabis-related convictions; end the disparity between sentences for powder and crack cocaine; and do away with all incarceration for drug use alone. ... Biden's proposal also calls for ending cash bail and terminating the federal government's use of private prisons. ... The plan would invest $1 billion annually in juvenile justice reform. It also would seek to give states incentives to stop incarcerating minors." Page 17687 EFTA00047198
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-- In a profile for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Biden says that the general election will be a "referendum" on Trump and his fitness for office. Steinberger reports: "I asked if he thought he would have beaten Trump in 2016. 'I don't know,' he said. 'Everybody says that. But look, I don't know. You've got to be in the game. I thought Hillary would have made a good president.' ... Biden prefers to talk about next year's face-off with Trump — 'a battle for the soul of America' — in place of the ongoing fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. ... When I caught up with him in New Hampshire this month, he dismissed claims of a rift between hard-line progressives and less strident ones as an 'artificial division.' He also spoke admiringly of [Rep. Alexandria] Ocasio- Cortez, describing her as 'smart as the devil.'" Boris speaks in London. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News) -- Boris is the next British prime minister. William Booth and Karla report from London: "The bombastic, Latin-quoting, Oxford classicist with the mop of intentionally mussed yellow hair, who made his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels and then as London mayor and galvanized the successful Brexit campaign in 2016, will likely walk through the black enameled door of 10 Downing Street on Wednesday — fulfilling what his biographers describe as his relentless a., f.,11.,... ...a.. Page 17688 EFTA00047199
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LAUI IU 1:11 1 11)111OI I 11.) 1O1IOVV I lib ICI U, VV II IbRil I IUI Ul 1111, MIL.) the top spot. ... On Wednesday, Theresa May will deliver her last remarks at a question-and-answer session in the House of Commons and then she will travel to Buckingham Palace to resign. will follow her to the palace, where Queen Elizabeth II will name him prime minister and ask him to form a new government. will be 14th prime minister during the queen's long reign. ... "Writing in Monday's Telegraph, said, `it is time this country recovered some its can-do spirit.' He said that if the Americans could land men on the moon 50 years ago using hand-sewn bits of computer code, then 21st century Britain could imagine a way to provide for frictionless trade across the Northern Irish border, which has been one of the stumbling blocks of the Brexit deal. 'Things are really about to kick off again in a massive way because the irresistible force of Boris ego is about to meet the immovable force of the House of Commons,' said Rob Ford, a politics professor at the University of Manchester." Black Hawk helicopters carry U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul/AP) GET SMART FAST: 1. The Army revealed that it is conducting a secret mission that requires Black Hawk helicopters to fly around the D.C. area. The classified operation was disclosed when the Pentagon asked Congress for •r, Page 17689 EFTA00047200
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approval to sniTT Tunas To provide more aircraft maintenance. (Bloomberg News) 2. As homophobic and transphobic sentiments proliferate under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, LGBT people are taking personal defense into their own hands. Many members of the LGBT community are joining self-defense courses because they don't feel as safe as they did in the past. (Terrence McCoy) 3. Thousands of California women and teenagers seeking free or discounted reproductive health services through a federal program could find themselves in clinics that focus on abstinence and natural family planning as methods of birth control. Operated by the California-based Obria Group, the centers encourage young clients to use online apps developed with funding from religious conservatives. Some of these centers participating in the federal family planning program, known as Title X, also offer "abortion pill reversal," which experts say is not supported by scientific research. (Ariana Eunjung Cha) 4. Centrist Democrats are worried that Medicare-for- all will imperil their chance to keep control of the House. The current debate over the health-care proposal that's playing out in the 2020 field shows how tricky it is to find a balance between exciting voters and reassuring them. (Sean Sullivan and Emily Davies) Page 17690 EFTA00047201
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5. Swimmer Katie Ledecky withdrew from two races at the FINA world championship, citing unspecified medical issues. The announcement that the Olympic gold medalist, who is now studying at Stanford, was pulling out of the race came 90 minutes before she was scheduled to hit the pool. (Rick Maese) 6. Hong Kong police have faced protester anger for weeks. But some officers would rather be on the other side of the picket fence. Once respected as "Asia's Finest," members of the Hong Kong Police Force are thinking of quitting after being caught between the government's pro-Beijing stance and the fury of the people they swore to protect. (Shibani Mahtani and Tiffany Liang) 7. The Vatican appointed a new bishop to lead a West Virginia diocese rocked by allegations of sexual harassment and financial abuse under its previous bishop. Bishop Mark Brennan will take over the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston 10 months after Bishop Bransfield retired in the face of serious allegations of wrongdoing. (Chico Harlan) 8. A woman bled to death in Utah after her family was told that her open-heart surgery was a success. The 62-year-old patient, who was getting a metal heart device removed, was in "severe distress" after the surgery because surgeons failed to notice that the blood 4.1.sn+ "inn esirs.-4 rs I • r-N, krse f I em • ,; rse-• Page 17691 EFTA00047202