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11:50 PM ET, December 20, 2024

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New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: House Approves Stopgap Funding Bill Hours Ahead of Shutdown Deadline  —  The new legislation would keep the government open but did not include the debt ceiling increase that President-elect Donald J. Trump had demanded.  It now goes to the Senate.  —  Here are the latest developments.
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
House Republicans just exposed the limits of Trump's power  —  Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today.  —  This week's installment of the long-running saga, “House Republicans cannot govern,” will soon be forgotten.  Elon Musk's decision to blow …
Axios:
House passes 11th-hour bill to avert government shutdown … - The vote was 366-34.  — The measure also includes a one-year Farm Bill extension and over $100 billion in disaster relief for hurricane-ravaged areas. … - The House failed to pass a bill Thursday that would have also included …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Mike Johnson's magic debt ceiling promise … - Don't ask about Plan C: It lived a short, unhappy life, mostly confined to X.  — Johnson's Plan D survived because Republicans pretended the debt ceiling was in the agreement and Democrats know that it's not.
Politico:
House GOP picks new funding plan that will need wide Democratic support  —  House Republicans have landed on their fourth plan to fund the government: Relying on Democrats to pass a bill that doesn't include a debt limit measure pushed by Donald Trump.  House Republicans voted …
Washington Post:
8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion  —  Research for children's health, a crackdown on junk fees, pay hikes for lawmakers and more were jettisoned from the legislation.  —  The House of Representatives approved legislation Friday to keep the government funded …
Associated Press:
Senate eyes late-night vote on government funding after House approves bill to prevent shutdown  —  Hours clicking toward a midnight government shutdown deadline, the Senate was preparing to give final passage late Friday to a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Musk Shows Trump That He's the New Chaos in Town  —  If you haven't seen the details, the meltdown on Capitol Hill went from bad to worse this evening.  Or awesome to awesomer, depending on your perspective.  Let's review.  Donald Trump wanted a smooth ride to January 20th.
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:
Republicans Own This Government Shutdown S—t Show
Punchbowl News:
12-20-24-A-PREMIUM ONLY Special Edition
Josh Boak / Associated Press:   Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
Elon Killed the Budget Deal. Cancer Research for Kids Was Collateral Damage.
Washington Post:
Senate expected to vote before midnight on bill to avert government shutdown
Nette Nöstlinger / Politico:
Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany's far right  —  Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.  —  “Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday …
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Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk Applauds the German Neo-Nazi Party
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany / Financial Times:
Elon Musk backs Germany's far-right AfD
Discussion: Wonkette and Futurism
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally  —  President Joe Biden secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency Friday, an accomplishment that exceeds his predecessor's total by one after Democrats put extra emphasis on the federal courts following Donald …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate confirms Biden's 235th judge, beating Trump's record  —  It's an important milestone for Joe Biden as he tops his predecessor Donald Trump's total number of judicial nominees confirmed before handing the White House back over to him.  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate confirmed …
Fox News:
2 dead, many injured after man drives into German Christmas market in suspected terror attack: report  —  A festive Christmas market in Eastern Germany erupted into chaos after a car was driven into a group of people in the city of Magdeburg on Friday in a suspected terrorist attack.
CNN:
Party City is going out of business  —  New York CNN —  Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business, CNN has learned.  —  CEO Barry Litwin told corporate employees Friday in a meeting viewed by CNN that Party City is “winding down” …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs Commuting Sentences of Death Row Inmates  —  Amid pleas from religious and civil-rights groups, president is considering whether to convert death sentences to life without parole  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Replace Officials Whom New Presidents Traditionally Leave Alone  —  Congress devised some positions to stay on during changes in administrations.  But Donald Trump has declared his intent to replace at least three.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has moved to install loyalists …
New York Times:
‘It Will Be a More Robust Check on Trump Than the G.O.P. Congress’: Three Legal Experts on Trump 2.0  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Times Opinion columnist David French and Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard and a co-author of …
Pluralistic:
Trumpism's healthcare fracture-lines (permalink)  —  There was never any question as to whether Trump would implement Project 2025, the 900-page brick of terrifying and unhinged policy prescriptions edited by the Heritage Foundation.  He would not implement it, because he could not implement it.
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Newest GOP funding bill includes health extenders, but not PMB reform: Guthrie  —  The latest government funding proposal being assembled by GOP leaders likely will include some must-pass short-term extensions of health policies, even as the legislation drops much of the bipartisan health package negotiated earlier this week.
Associated Press:
Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald's but deems them too dangerous for parole  —  A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot and Wayfair.
NOTUS:
Republicans Are Plotting $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts.  Yes, Including Entitlements.  —  The problem: No one seems to know how they'll do this.  — Copy  —  House Republicans have a new plan for their agenda next year — one that might even satisfy tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Bannon: Kash Patel Will Absolutely Investigate the People Named in His Book  —  DONALD TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR FBI DIRECTOR, Kash Patel, is dead serious when it comes to investigating the political enemies who he listed in his book Government Gangsters, according to Trump's on-again-off-again adviser Steve Bannon.
 
 
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Bonchie / RedState:
Biden Admin Folds Like a Cheap Suit on Transgenderism and Girls' Sports
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Biden abandons mass student debt cancellation plans amid GOP lawsuit
New York Times:
Biden Administration Weighs Putting Up Roadblocks to Trump's Deportation Campaign
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Arizona prosecutors seek access to trove of Trump allies' emails, texts
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
Robert Reich:
The American oligarchy is back, and it's out of control
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
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Allie Griffin / New York Post:
George Mason freshman, 18, busted for plotting attack on Israel's NYC consulate — as he was facing possible deportation
Alexander Hurst / The Guardian:
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state - it's time we reined him in
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US

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Every, which runs an online magazine, released an AI-powered word processor, and advises media companies on using AI, raised $2M from Reid Hoffman and others

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Channel 4 unveils its Creative Investment Fund to invest in production companies as part a move to in-house production; the UK broadcaster has £111M in cash
 
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