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Talking the talk — Check!
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© Giphy Via The Hill’s Sylvan Lane, Morgan Chalfant and Amie Parnes, “White House officials are scrambling to show Americans that they’re paying close attention to rising prices after federal data released Wednesday showed inflation rising far above expectations in October.” https://bit.ly/3Cb4xpo How the public is perceiving Biden’s tenure so far: “Biden has presided over growth in the job market, increased consumer spending, greater household savings and rising stocks. But people in polls seem more focused on rising prices, shortages and other setbacks in the recovery.” |
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Dem-on-Dem shade: |
| Former top economic adviser to former President Obama, Larry Summers, accused the Biden administration of being “behind the curve” in interpreting inflation. https://bit.ly/3Db8zzA Summers told CNN: “I think that the policymakers in Washington unfortunately have almost every month been behind the curve. They said it was transitory, it doesn’t look so transitory. They said it was due to a few specific factors, [it] doesn’t look to be a few specific factors. They said when September came and people went back to school, that the labor force would grow, and it didn’t happen.” |
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| INTERESTING READ — ‘BIDEN’S ‘I FEEL YOUR PAIN’ CONUNDRUM’: |
| Via Politico’s Christopher Cadelago and Eugene Daniels, “It’s tripped up the last two Democratic presidents and could trip up Biden too: How to sell a recovery when most voters aren’t feeling it.” More on the balance Biden is struggling to strike: https://politi.co/3wB2KsB |
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| ‘BIDEN HOPES TO TURN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL INTO JOBS QUICKLY’: |
| Yes, but keep in mind: “Infrastructure bills can generally take months or even years to really turn into concrete constructions jobs, and some parts of the current bill will take significant time to implement. https://bit.ly/3c2xlpr |
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| It’s Thursday — Happy Veterans Day! 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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Biden visits Arlington National Cemetery: |
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The Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues: |
| Via The New York Times’s Julie Bosman, “Kyle Rittenhouse sobbed and gulped for air on the witness stand as he was asked to describe the moments before he shot three men in the aftermath of demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis. One of them had aggressively chased him into a parking lot, Mr. Rittenhouse testified. The man had lunged at him, he said.” https://nyti.ms/3wAPRi6 A moment you will keep hearing about: “ ‘I remember his hand on the barrel of my gun,’ he testified at one point, after the judge called a recess to allow Mr. Rittenhouse — whose mother was also weeping audibly from her row in the courtroom gallery — to compose himself enough to speak.” Why yesterday was important: “[Wednesday] was perhaps the most closely watched day of a divisive case: Mr. Rittenhouse, who has been largely silent for months, gave his first detailed, public version of what happened in downtown Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020 … ” |
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| WATCH THE TRIAL LIVE TODAY: |
| Here’s the livestream: https://bit.ly/3wA1VjC |
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| LATEST WITH THE JAN. 6 INVESTIGATION | |
A few more for the chit-chat list: |
| Via CNN’s Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen and Michael Warren, “The House select committee investigating January 6 is interested in gathering information from at least five members of former Vice President Mike Pence's inner circle, according to three sources familiar with the effort.” https://cnn.it/3C18D3v Including: Keith Kellogg, Pence's former national security adviser, who was with former President Trump on Jan. 6 How willing is Pence’s staff being with the investigation?: “According to sources familiar with the discussions, some Pence aides are proving more willing to engage with the committee than previously made public.” What we know: https://cnn.it/3C18D3v |
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I will take this feud to my grave: |
| Via The Hill’s Alexander Bolton, “Former President Trump is refusing to let his feud with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) die, instead amplifying it in what Republican strategists suspect is an effort to rev up the GOP base ahead of a 2024 campaign for president.” https://bit.ly/307ASQF Why this is worth mentioning: “More than anyone else in politics, McConnell, the Senate minority leader, is emblematic of the Republican establishment in Washington, and Trump’s repeated salvos against McConnell appear designed to make it clear to GOP base voters that Trump — despite his four years in the White House — would be the true outsider candidate in a 2024 primary.” You’re either with me or against me: “The former president is framing the 2022 Republican primaries as a choice between his ‘America First’ brand of conservative populism and a party establishment that isn’t entirely in step with its conservative base.” How this could play out: https://bit.ly/307ASQF |
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| LATEST WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | |
‘What We Know So Far About Waning Vaccine Effectiveness’: |
| Via The New York Times’s Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Josh Holder, “a growing body of early global research shows that the vaccines authorized in the United States remain highly protective against the disease’s worst outcomes over time, with some exceptions among older people and those with weakened immune systems.” https://nyti.ms/3c2uyfX What about the decline?: “A number of published studies show that their protection against infection, with or without symptoms, has fallen. Public health experts say this decline does not mean that the vaccines are not working.” What we know about each vaccine: The graphics are pretty helpful: https://nyti.ms/3c2uyfX |
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| ‘HOSPITALS IN WESTERN US UNDER SIEGE AS COVID-19 PACKS ICUS’: |
| Via Bloomberg’s By Jonathan Levin and Vincent Del Giudice: https://bloom.bg/3D9KdWD |
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| CASE NUMBERS: |
| Coronavirus cases in the U.S.: 46,798,462 U.S. death toll: 759,154 Breakdown of the numbers: https://cnn.it/2UAgW3y |
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| VACCINATION NUMBERS: |
| Total number of vaccinations administered in the U.S.: 434 million shots have been given. Seven-day average of doses administered: An average of 1.51 doses For context: The U.S. population is roughly 331 million. Breakdown of the numbers: https://bloom.bg/3iVTPLH |
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I’m actually pretty curious, myself: |
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I love how regularly these launches are happening: |
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| The House and Senate are out. President Biden is in Washington, D.C. Vice President Harris is in Paris, France. 4:55 a.m. EST: Vice President Harris participated in an Armistice Day ceremony. 9 a.m. EST: President Biden hosted veterans and military community members ahead of the Arlington National Cemetery Veterans Day commemoration. 11 a.m. EST: President Biden and first lady Jill Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. 11:05 a.m. EST: Vice President Harris delivered remarks at the Paris Peace Forum. 2:30 p.m. EST: Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff attend a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron. |
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| 11:15 a.m. EST: President Biden delivers remarks at Arlington National Cemetery. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3F6cJcj 8:45 p.m. EST: The SpaceX crew opens the hatch of the International Space Station. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3qBgLFw |
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| Today is National Sundae Day. |
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Getting traction — well played: |
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| And because you made it to the end, here’s a dog who is totally shameless about wanting scratches: https://bit.ly/3c7yvzS |
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