Wednesday, December 10 | By Cate Martel |
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It's Wednesday. Christmas Eve is two weeks from today! 🎄 |
Today's big Fed decision Major defense policy bill hits the House floor Trump admits to old 's---hole countries' remark GOP secretly engineers Crockett Senate push Elon gives his DOGE rating
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Drop them, drop them low: |
The Federal Reserve is deciding today whether it will cut interest rates for the final time this year. What we expect will happen: Fed watchers think interest rates will be cut today, marking the third consecutive cut of the year. 💻 Watch the 2:30 p.m. announcement live But it's tricky: Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) officials "were deeply divided over a potential December rate cut at their last meeting in October, caught between a job market losing steam and inflation lingering well above the Fed's target range. Even so, Fed analysts and traders predict the bank will err on the side of supporting the economy with another tumultuous year ahead." Another upcoming Fed announcement for your radar: Trump says he will announce his replacement for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell soon. Powell's term doesn't end until May, but Trump has been eager to replace him. Read Sylvan Lane's reporting on today's upcoming announcement: 'Federal Reserve poised to cut rates as Trump plots new course for bank' 💬 Follow today's live blog |
~The whole House was looking at it. It hits the floor ... next thing you know~: |
The House is taking its first votes on the annual must-pass Defense policy bill today. Republicans are grumbling about it: Conservative lawmakers in the House are not happy about the final version of the bill. They're angry about an $8 billion increase in funding authorization, omission of a cryptocurrency provision and other compromises with Democrats. Read more of why conservatives don't like the bill, via The Hill's Emily Brooks. |
He admitted it … 7 years later: |
Do you remember the controversy in 2018 over whether President Trump described Haiti and African countries as "s---hole countries?" At the time, Trump fiercely denied using that slur. Well, at his rally on Tuesday night, he admitted that he did, in fact, use that term to describe certain countries. In Trump's words on Tuesday: "We had a meeting and I said, 'Why is it we only take people from s---hole countries,' right? 'Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden?'" Trump said at his rally. "But we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster. Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime." Read more on Trump's past dismissal and the blowback. |
➤ SPOTTED AT TRUMP'S RALLY: |
Judge Emil Bove was spotted at Trump's Pennsylvania event on Tuesday. Bove is a federal judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. A journalist from MS NOW asked Bove why he was there. "Just here as a citizen coming to watch the president speak," he responded. 📸 Photos |
To quote the social media sound: 'I hope you're hungry … for nothing': |
The Senate will hold votes on Thursday on competing health care proposals. First, there's Democrats' proposal: Senators will vote on whether to extend the expiring ObamaCare subsidies — the same subsidies that Democrats fought for during the 43-day government shutdown. Second, Republicans will get their own vote: Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Tuesday that senators will also vote on a GOP alternative to end the health care subsidies and instead put that money into health savings accounts for some ObamaCare plans. Keep in mind: Neither proposal is expected to pass. |
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➤ SPOTTED ON CAPITOL HILL: |
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), whose prison sentence was recently commuted by Trump, held a holiday party. Fake heiress and convicted con artist Anna Delvey and "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli were spotted in attendance. 📸 Photos |
The Senate race in Texas got a major shake-up this week. Former Rep. Colin Allred (D) dropped out of the race, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) quickly jumped in. Well, NOTUS's Reese Gorman reports that national Republicans were pushing for Crockett's entrance into the race, viewing her as a more desirable general election opponent. This included pushing for her name to be included in polling. The effort didn't stop there: "There were several recruitment phone calls and text messages that went out to Democrats and high-propensity voters across the state that would urge voters to contact and advocate for Crockett to join the race, the source said." Read Gorman's reporting: 'An 'AstroTurf Recruitment Process': National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a Senate Run' | ➤ DEMS ARE SCRAMBLING AFTER THE SWITCHEROO: |
The Hill's Julia Mueller reports that Crockett's last-minute decision to enter the Texas Senate race has turned the primary upside down. Why this is a big deal: "Democrats see the contest as integral to their efforts to flip the Senate next year, which they already acknowledge will be a challenge. And some fear the move by Crockett, a popular but controversial figure within her party, could make the task even harder in a state President Trump won by double digits last fall." Read Mueller's reporting: 'Crockett leaves Democrats scrambling with Texas Senate bid' |
So, would Elon rate it as an A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus?: |
Tech billionaire Elon Musk described the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his controversial effort to shrink the federal government, as "somewhat successful." "We're a little bit successful, we were somewhat successful. I mean, we stopped a lot of funding for — that really just made no sense, that was just entirely wasteful," Musk said on a Tuesday episode of "The Katie Miller Podcast," hosted by the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. For context: "Musk left the White House earlier this year without much progress on his cost-cutting push and multiple frustrations from time spent as a part of the Trump administration." |
MTG's boyfriend is in an awkward spot: |
The Washington Post's Kara Voght reports that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) pro-Trump reporter boyfriend has been caught in an awkward position. How so?: "Brian Glenn is trying not to get caught in the middle of the breakup between his partner and his president." Excerpt: "Earlier this year, Glenn and Greene looked like a power couple uniquely suited to thrive in Trump's Washington. Now, she's leaving town. So where does that leave Glenn? 'I'm like the little divorced kid in the middle!' he told me after Greene announced her resignation. And he really, really doesn't want to have to choose sides." Read Voght's reporting: 'Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend has had a weird month' |
The "6-7" trend is not going away soon among kids and teens. In-N-Out Burger is removing the number "67" from its ordering system because of the trend, per People. Apparently, kids were lining up to hear the number. Oh, and Vice President Vance posted a funny tidbit. "Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating 'six seven' like 10 times," Vance posted. "And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever." 😂 If you don't know what the trend is: Adolescents are obsessed with the numbers "6-7." It doesn't have much of a meaning, but it makes kids smirk or repeat it when they hear it. It seemingly comes from a song. It's so big that it was even Dictionary.com's word of the year. Here's an explainer on the "6-7" trend |
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The House and Senate are in. President Trump is in Washington. (All times EST) |
1:30 p.m. First House votes. 📆 Today's agenda 2 p.m. Trump participates in a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room. 2:30 p.m. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a news conference. 💻 Livestream 4 p.m. Last House votes. 5 p.m. Trump greets pastors in the Oval Office. |
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