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Is that Joe Biden setting up his boombox to play ‘All I Do is Win’…?: |
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© Giphy President Biden reached a deal with a bipartisan group of senators on an infrastructure package. https://bit.ly/3h3mVIr Who this is a win for: The political center How so: Biden campaigned on being a dealmaker, but there was significant doubt that he could come to a bipartisan agreement. “Many had predicted the talks would collapse or unravel and had said Biden was wasting time." More on why this is big for Biden, via the Hill’s Jordain Carney: https://bit.ly/3h3mVIr |
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| THE CATCH — THE DEAL COMES WITH AN ‘IF, AND OR BUT’: |
| “President Biden on Thursday said he won’t sign the bipartisan infrastructure deal if Congress doesn’t also pass a reconciliation bill, committing to a dual track system to get both bills passed.” https://bit.ly/3qoTgO1 Biden told reporters: “I expect that in the coming months this summer, before the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, the infrastructure bill, as well as voted on the budget resolution. But if only one comes to me, this is the only one that comes to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem.” |
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| Happy Friday! I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send comments, story ideas and events for our radar to cmartel@thehill.com — and follow along on Twitter @CateMartel and Facebook. Did someone forward this to you? Want your own copy? Sign up here to receive The Hill's 12:30 Report in your inbox daily: http://bit.ly/2kjMNnn |
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From Biden’s announcement yesterday: |
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Interesting throwback: |
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© Twitter The side-by-side photos: https://bit.ly/2U6MikQ And here’s a photo of the pack walking out of the White House with big smiles: https://bit.ly/3h3VgXM |
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| WHO WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATIONS: |
| The Dems: Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Mark Warner (Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), John Tester (Mont.), Chris Coons (Del.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), John Hickenlooper (Colo.) and independent Sen. Angus King (Maine.) The Republicans: Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Rob Portman (Ohio), Bill Cassidy (La.), Mitt Romney (Utah), Richard Burr (N.C.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Lindsay Graham (S.C.), Mike Rounds (S.D.), Todd Young (Ind.) and Jerry Moran (Kansas). Context from USA Today: https://bit.ly/3de7Dzo |
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What happens next for Republicans — they’re really not sure: |
| Via The Hill’s Alexander Bolton, “Senate Republicans are wrestling over their next move on infrastructure after five of their GOP colleagues stood beside President Biden on Thursday to announce a bipartisan deal that is likely to pick up a lot of Democratic support.” https://bit.ly/3gXFaPa Some Republicans already have their concerns: They are worried about “whether the proposed funding sources in the framework will really cover the cost of spending priorities.” |
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The DOJ is suing Georgia: |
| Via The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch, “The Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgie over its controversial law imposing a number of new restrictions on voting, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday.” https://bit.ly/3jio7u3 Back story: “The Georgia law, passed in March along party lines in the span of just a few hours, imposes restrictions that voting rights groups say will fall most heavily on minorities: It sets new voter ID requirements for absentee ballots, limits drop boxes and even bars passing out food and water to those waiting in line to vote. The suit is the first from DOJ to challenge an influx of state laws they say will limit access to the ballot.” |
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To the border and beyond: |
| Vice President Harris is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border today with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. https://bit.ly/3dcIuFl Why this is particularly newsy: “Harris’s seeming reluctance to visit the border has drawn criticism from the right. But if that can be dismissed as predictable politics, her performance has also elicited some muttering from within her own party, even among people who don’t want to go on the record criticizing a sitting vice president.” Interesting take: “A trip earlier this month to Mexico and Guatemala did not go well. A television interview with Lester Holt of NBC News saw Harris retreat into defensiveness. More generally, the question lingers as to why Harris and her team resisted going to the border for so long, allowing the issue to build to a crescendo … To her allies, the criticisms are founded in bad faith … But to others, the border issue reignites questions about Harris’s political skills — questions that previously swirled during her 2020 presidential campaign, which started with high expectations but sputtered.” Read Niall Stanage’s full column: https://bit.ly/3dcIuFl 
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Keep these families in your prayers: |
| More than 150 people are unaccounted for after a Miami condo building collapsed on Thursday morning. https://cbsn.ws/3zXDHRE Four people have been confirmed dead, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (D). https://bit.ly/3dbQ7vw Photos of the condo building: Ugh, this is horrific: https://cnn.it/3h5H68v |
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| EARLY THIS MORNING — BIDEN APPROVES AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION: |
| “President Biden on Friday approved an emergency declaration for Florida and ordered federal aid to assist response efforts after a building collapse in Miami left at least 4 people dead and about 100 others unaccounted for.” https://bit.ly/3gZcDZK |
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| EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THE BUILDING COLLAPSE: |
| Via The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3dgt4Qf |
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Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
Interesting read — how Israel is doing: |
| Via The New York Times’s Patrick Kingsley, “Israel has been a trailblazer in the post-pandemic world, largely returning to normal in May following one of the world’s fastest vaccination drives.” https://nyti.ms/3xWi9TB New cases: “But dozens of new cases recently emerged at schools in two cities, Modiin and Binyamina, leading to hundreds of people being quarantined. Israel has made 12- to 15-year-olds eligible for vaccination, but many have yet to get shots.” Yes, but (!): “Despite the new outbreak, the country’s current death rate remains close to zero, and only 26 of 729 active coronavirus patients were hospitalized, according to data released by the Health Ministry.” More on what this means: https://nyti.ms/3xWi9TB |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 33,591,670 U.S. death toll: 603,187 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 321 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 816,831 million doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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*Give me a tune* — ‘The senators on the bus go chat, chat, chat, yap, yap, yap, chat, chat, chat’: |
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| The House is in. The Senate left for a two-week recess. President Biden is in Washington, D.C. Vice President Harris is in El Paso, Texas, today. 6 a.m. EDT: Vice President Harris left for El Paso, Texas. Photo of her departure: https://bit.ly/3wY0QS6 9:50 a.m. EDT: President Biden received the President’s Daily Brief. 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. EDT: First and last votes in the House. The House’s full agenda today: https://bit.ly/3zZFEwY 10:35 a.m. EDT: Vice President Harris toured the El Paso Border Patrol Station. 12:25 p.m. EDT: Vice President Harris meets with advocates from faith-based NGOs. 1:35 p.m. EDT: Vice President Harris delivers remarks at the El Paso International Airport. 2:30 p.m. EDT: Vice President Harris leaves El Paso, Texas, and flies to Los Angeles. 3:30 p.m. EDT: President Biden meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation in the White House. 5:10 p.m. EDT: President Biden leaves for Camp David. Monday, July 12: When the Senate next meets. |
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| 12:15 p.m. EDT: White House press secretary Jen Psaki is holding a press briefing. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3vWxx18 1:30 p.m. EDT: President Biden signs H.R. 49 to designate the National Pulse Memorial into law. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3xTxPaw 2 p.m. EDT: President Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg deliver remarks for LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3dgjrku 2:30 p.m. EDT: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will be sentenced after being found guilty in the death of George Floyd. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3vTRPbt |
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| NOW FOR THE FUN STUFF...: | |
| Today is National Strawberry Parfait Day and National Catfish Day. For planning purposes, tomorrow is National Chocolate Pudding Day and Sunday is National Orange Blossom Day. |
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Did anyone catch the cool moon last night?: |
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© Twitter Photo of the moon over the Bay Bridge: Via photographer Jeff Norman: https://bit.ly/3zS0MW5 ^ You may see the large, colorful moon for one or two more nights! Here’s what we know: https://cnn.it/3x2wRJ2 |
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| And to get your weekend off to the right start, meet Frank. Frank is particularly annoyed by the human distractions today: 
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