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10:50 AM ET, February 12, 2018

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Axios:
Trump's real plan for 2018  —  President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that Axios' Jonathan Swan calls “science fiction.”  —  It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump  —  Donald Trump is the least mysterious figure in the history of the American Presidency.  His infantile character, duplicity, cold-heartedness, and self-dealing greed are evident not merely to the majority of the poll-answering electorate but …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNN
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly  —  President Trump is defending Rob Porter even though, privately, he says he's guilty.  —  Behind closed doors: The president has told multiple people that he believes the accusations about Porter, and finds him “sick.”
New York Times:
Abuse Case Exposes Fissures in a White House in Turmoil
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and AOL
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit … President Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts and new spending increases …
Discussion: The Week, Axios and Political Wire
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May ‘Spike’ on Deficit  —  Mulvaney says Trump's economic moves ‘not a sugar high’  —  OMB is adjusting 2018, 2019 budgets after spending bill passed  —  The U.S. will post a larger budget deficit this year and could see a “spike” …
Washington Post:
Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years … President Trump is remaking the Republican economic playbook in his own image, abandoning ideological consistency in ­favor of a debt-busting strategy that will upend how Washington taxes and spends trillions of dollars each year.
Discussion: Reuters
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump to demand tough budget cuts for domestic programs
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and TheBlaze
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea  —  Despite the mutual chilliness between U.S. and North Korean officials in South Korea last week, behind the scenes real progress was made toward a new diplomatic opening that could result in direct talks without preconditions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ‘10-Foot-Tall Baby’
New York Times:
Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns On the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:   Is North Korea really winning the soft power Olympics?
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Exclusive: CIA Ex-Director Brennan's Perjury Peril  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump wanted to ‘lock her up’ for far less … Candidate Donald Trump used, more than any other issue, Hillary Clinton's home email server to argue that she was unfit for office and, moreover, that there were grounds for sending her to jail.  The eerie chants, more common in banana republics …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Which is scarier — that Trump doesn't read his daily intel briefing, or that Jared Kushner does?
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis.  Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.  —  In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm.  A few weeks before the 2016 election …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
First-class travel distinguishes Scott Pruitt's EPA tenure … Just days after helping orchestrate the United States' exit from a global climate accord last June, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt embarked on a whirlwind tour aimed at championing President Trump's agenda at home and abroad.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: PELOSI pulls in nearly 50 million bucks for House Dems in 2017 …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell's immigration gamble  —  Mitch McConnell is taking the reins of an immigration debate that may prompt a fix for “Dreamers” — or quickly spiral out of control.  —  Usually careful with his every move, the Senate majority leader is taking a gamble this week with his pledge for a free …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:   The Daily 202: Freewheeling immigration debate in Senate will test power of conservative outside groups
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:   Nearly Everyone Loses If Immigration Deal Fails
Joel Rose / NPR:   As Congress Debates Immigration, DREAMers Are In Limbo Along With Their Families
Washington Post:
Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe … A week after he won the election, President Trump promised that his administration would round up millions of immigrant gang members and drug dealers.  And after he took office …
Discussion: The Week
USA Today:
Harvey Weinstein forced staff to manage his sexual conquests, civil rights suit says  —  Harvey Weinstein was once at the very top of Hollywood.  As accusations of his sexual predation came to light, it didn't just trigger his downfall.  It ushered in a tidal wave of exposure of sexual impropriety in the film industry.
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Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Harvey Weinstein drivers ‘required to keep condoms and erectile dysfunction injections in the car at all times’: Lawsuit
Discussion: RedState
Fox News Insider:
Doubling Down: Ginsburg Blames ‘Macho Atmosphere’ & ‘Sexism’ for Clinton Loss  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down on comments she made last year that sexism “no doubt” played a role in Hillary Clinton's 2016 election defeat.  —  During a Columbia University Women's Conference event …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
MeToo will have staying power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg insists
Discussion: Axios and AOL
New York Times:
Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice?  —  As public scrutiny exposes deep flaws in the memo from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, about alleged F.B.I. surveillance abuses, the committee's Republicans are increasingly downplaying its significance.
 
 
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
I'm still a Republican, but my party needs to be fumigated: Tom Nichols
Chris Arnold / NPR:
Trump Administration Plans To Defang Consumer Protection Watchdog
Discussion: CNBC
Washington Post:
Trump's big infrastructure plan has a lot of detail on everything but how to pay for it
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Joe Manchin's Growing Peril
Sarah Kleiner / Center for Public Integrity:
Leader of Put Vets First! PAC prioritizing telemarketers, himself
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton, a favorite GOP foil, plans discreet 2018 strategy
Johnny Oleksinski / New York Post:
The woke police have ruined entertainment
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‘Mob’ breaks out at Des Moines International Airport after 14-hour delay
Russell Mokhiber / Common Dreams:
Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members
Discussion: Raw Story
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
GOP candidate and Trump ally faces global backlash for racist attack on Meghan Markle
Discussion: Daily Mail, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Nancy Cook / Politico:
The mysterious oppo researcher working in the White House lawyer's office
Discussion: The Week
 

 
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