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9:35 AM ET, December 16, 2024

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Mitch McConnell / Foreign Affairs:
The Price of American Retreat  —  Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy  —  Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell is a Senator from Kentucky and served as U.S. Senate Republican Leader from 2007 through 2024.  —  When he begins his second term as president …
Discussion: The Independent and Semafor
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Politico:
Playbook: What the GOP's new Big 3 discussed this weekend  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TOP-ED — “The Price of American Retreat,” by Mitch McConnell for Foreign Affairs: “To pretend that the United States can focus on just one threat at a time …
Discussion: HuffPost and New York Magazine
Joshua Keating / Vox:
How China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot  —  TAIPEI, Taiwan — When most people imagine what war in the Taiwan Strait might look like, scenes out of eastern Ukraine in 2022 or even Normandy in 1944 tend to come to mind.  —  Picture transport ships from China facing …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:   Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration
David Enrich / New York Times:
Trump and His Picks Threaten More Lawsuits Over Critical Coverage
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, SoftBank CEO to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S.  —  The president-elect is set to appear with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Mar-a-Lago on Monday  —  PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are set to jointly announce on Monday that the company …
Discussion: CNBC
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Fear Watered Down Deportation Efforts
Discussion: NOTUS and RedState
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:   Will Trump Be Called On His Inflation Lie?
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Adviser Collapses On Stage At New York Young Republican Gala  —  The president-elect called into the event and addressed the incident, saying Alex Bruesewitz is “a very special guy.”  —  LOADING  —  Alex Bruesewitz, a consultant who helped President-elect Donald Trump cut through to young …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Wall Street Journal:
RFK Jr. Has a Battle Plan to Get Senate Confirmation  —  Health secretary nominee, after meeting resistance in some corners, plans to play down vaccine skepticism, pro-abortion stances  —  WASHINGTON—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s attempt to win over Capitol Hill starts this week with a strategy …
Discussion: The Independent
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Musk Doesn't Have Access to SpaceX's Biggest Government Secrets  —  Executives haven't sought higher security clearance for the CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials; the answers might no longer matter  —  The payloads SpaceX launches into the heavens …
Curt Devine / CNN:
Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers  —  President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to do everything in his power to benefit American workers.  “We will build American, buy American and hire American,” he said during a rally in August.
Ben T.N. Mause / NOTUS:
Republicans Who Shot Down Biden's Cabinet Wish Democrats Would Support Trump's  —  “Let him have their own team,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who voted against 15 of Biden's nominees, said.  — Copy  —  When President Joe Biden took office, Republican senators didn't do Democrats any favors.
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Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims  —  A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.  —  For years, worker advocates and some government officials …
Popular Information:
Zuckerberg, once a champion for the undocumented, embraces Trump  —  Donald Trump campaigned for a second term on a pledge to carry out the “largest deportation effort in American history” starting on his first day in office.  He has promised to declare a national emergency …
Discussion: El País
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Is Already Claiming Trump Can Run Again in 2028  —  WHO'S GONNA STOP ME?  —  The political strategist says the Constitution doesn't count in this case.
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Maybe Democrats Didn't Do So Badly After All  —  The party's debate about reinventing itself after the election has gotten more complicated.  —  Five days after last month's election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party's performance.  “That was a cataclysm,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on X.
Discussion: New Republic
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
How Pam Bondi boosted Trump's election fraud claims in a key swing state  —  In Pennsylvania in 2020, Trump's pick for attorney general pushed baseless claims of widespread voting fraud  —  On the morning of Nov. 4, 2020, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi drove northeast from Washington …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Attacks on Biden's CARES Act commutations are misguided, on many fronts  —  Like clockwork, any criticism of action is used by supporters of the status quo to derail efforts to fix our criminal legal system.  Also, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.  —  ∙ Paid
Discussion: PJ Media
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kamala Harris' digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’  —  Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty turned his attention to sports.  —  The campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Cuts Take Lead Over Deficit Worries in GOP's Internal Fight  —  Republicans embrace the contentious idea that some of their tax cuts would largely pay for themselves  —  WASHINGTON—Tax cutters are beating deficit hawks in the early phases of the Republican Party's fiscal tug of war.
Pilar Arias / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders believes Hunter Biden pardon sets a ‘dangerous’ precedent  —  Sanders discusses Biden's legacy, one way he will work with President-elect Trump  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had two thoughts about President Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden after previously saying he would not …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says Biden should ‘very seriously’ consider preemptive pardons
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
 
 
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Trump claims a ‘massive’ mandate, but presidents often overread their victories
Discussion: Raw Story
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Senate Republicans Could Still Deny Trump His Worst Picks
Discussion: Alternet.org
Sam Sutton / Politico:
How the debt could topple Trump's growth agenda
The Hill:
Speaker Johnson faces ‘complicated’ decision on crucial Rules Committee chair
 Earlier Items: 
Los Angeles Times:
Industrial and business groups send Trump a deregulatory wish list
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Greta Reich / Politico:
Hegseth to release sexual misconduct accuser from non-disclosure agreement, Lindsey Graham says
New York Times:
His Family Voted to Support Trump's Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
McConnell has the chutzpah to complain about Trump's ‘America First’
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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