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10:45 PM ET, January 3, 2019

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator calls on Congress to end shutdown without border deal  —  Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who faces a potentially tough re-election in 2020, says Congress should re-open the federal government, even without a deal on funding President Trump's border wall.
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Washington Post:
House Democrats vote to reopen government, defying Trump's veto threat  —  House Democrats have passed legislation that would provide stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security, reopening the department but denying President Trump the more than $5 billion he's demanding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Washington Post:   Trump proves an enigmatic negotiator as government shutdown continues with no end in sight
Gina Martinez / TIME:
Nancy Pelosi Just Outlined Her Agenda for the Most Diverse Congress Ever  —  Newly-elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday after Democrats officially took control of the legislative body, invoking two Presidents while laying out her leadership agenda.
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New York Times:   116th Congress Updates: House Approves Plan to Reopen Government, but It's Not Likely to Pass Senate
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why the New Democratic Majority Could Work Better Than the Last
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
White House Mulls Jim Webb, Ex-Democratic Senator, as Next Defense Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering Jim Webb, a former Democratic senator and Reagan-era secretary of the Navy, to be the next defense secretary, according to three officials …
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NBC News:   Trump admin wants to send more troops to border to string concertina wire
Martin O'Malley / Des Moines Register:
Here's who I'd like to see run for president.  (Hint: It's not me)  —  Voters want Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders to run in the 2020 Presidential election, a new poll suggests.  Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.  —  Former Democratic candidate makes his pick for 2020
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein's 2020 pick: Joe Biden
Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
Ex-US marine accused of spying in Russia is British citizen  —  Paul Whelan revealed to be dual national after being arrested in Moscow for ‘act of espionage’  —  The former US marine who is being held in Moscow on charges of spying is a British citizen, it has emerged.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
Feds charge powerful Ald.  Edward Burke with attempted extortion  —  Ald.  Edward Burke has been charged with attempted extortion after the FBI raided his City Hall and Southwest Side ward offices.  —  Longtime Ald.  Edward Burke, one of Chicago's most powerful figures and a vestige …
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times and Breitbart
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Chicago Sun Times:
Feds: Burke thought he was 'playing nice with ‘em,’ then came the squeeze
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. investigating whether Zinke lied to inspector general  —  The Justice Department's public integrity section is examining whether newly departed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to his agency's inspector general investigators, according to three people familiar with the matter …
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Mitt Romney supports the status quo.  But for everyone else, it's infuriating  —  Newly-elected Utah senator Mitt Romney kicked off 2019 with an op-ed in the Washington Post that savaged Donald Trump's character and leadership.  Romney's attack and Trump's response Wednesday morning on Twitter …
Discussion: National Review
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Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:   Tucker Carlson For President
Terry Glavin / Macleans.ca:
The terrifying depths of Donald Trump's ignorance, in a single quote  —  It's been two years since a reality-television mogul, billionaire real estate grifter and sleazy beauty-pageant impresario who somehow ended up on the Republican ticket in the 2016 U.S. presidential election …
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Dara Lind / Vox:
How the Border Patrol union became Trump's closest shutdown allies  —  Union officials: it's okay if our agents don't get paid on time, as long as we get the wall.  —  President Donald Trump's hastily called “press conference” on Thursday afternoon — in which neither he nor press secretary …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Undocumented Worker Says Trump Resort Shielded Her From Secret Service  —  A former employee of the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey said that her name was removed from a list of workers to be vetted by the Secret Service after she reminded management that she was unlawfully in the United States …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:   Former Trump club employee says management kept her off Secret Service screening list because she is undocumented
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's reign of corruption will now face real opposition.  Here are three things to watch.  —  Watch live video from washingtonpost on www.twitch.tv  —  We talk a lot about President Trump's corruption these days, but with Democrats set to take over the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon …
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
First On Nancy Pelosi's Agenda: Attacking Free Expression
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Daily Kos
HuffPost:
House Democrats Not Rushing To Get Trump's Tax Returns  —  The delay by the Ways and Means Committee seems like an effort to be civil and statesmanlike ... in the Trump era.  —  WASHINGTON The first thing Democratic lawmakers have to do to obtain copies of President Donald Trump's personal …
Discussion: Vox and Hullabaloo
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Rachel McCleery / The United States Senate Committee …:
Wyden Reintroduces Bill Requiring President Trump to Publicly Release His Tax Returns
Washington Post:
Iran ‘can do what they want’ in Syria: Trump's comments defy the position of his top aides  —  In his first Cabinet meeting of the year, President Trump stuck a dagger in a major initiative advanced by his foreign policy team: Iran's leaders, the president said, “can do what they want” in Syria.
Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
California's Rep. Brad Sherman to introduce impeachment measure … Rep. Brad Sherman plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday, the first day of Democratic control of the House.  —  Sherman (D-Northridge) is reintroducing a measure that he first rolled out in 2017.
Washington Post:
Before you run against Trump, you have to run against Hillary (if you're a woman)  —  Just hours after Elizabeth Warren announced her plans to run for president, a question began surfacing about a possible weakness.  It wasn't derived from opposition research into some facet of her life.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Is ‘Likability’ in Politics Sexist? Yes. It's Also Outdated.
James Stavridis / TIME:
Why Trump's Generals Have Abandoned Ship  —  After a couple of tumultuous years, President Donald Trump seems to have reached the conclusion that he has had quite enough of generals.  Now, as a retired admiral, I have certainly been annoyed over the years by a number of generals.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Rubio, top GOP senators hit back at Trump's Syria pullout with sanctions bill  —  They can't make Trump keep troops in Syria.  They've asked for increased sanctions on Syria instead.  —  WASHINGTON — On the first day of the new Senate, top Republicans are pushing back on President Trump's move …
Discussion: The Week
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
As Democrats take the House, GOP takes a beating along motorcade route  —  As Democrats prepared to take over the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday morning, an anti-Trump political action committee took aim at the GOP with a new billboard along the presidential motorcade route in West Palm Beach.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Abe Greenwald / New York Post:
Louis C.K. — and his critics — are a plague on comedy  —  American comedy is slowly dying, under assault from two opposing forces.  From without, PC scolds seek to silence comics whose edgy material makes them feel “unsafe.”  And from within, a growing number of comedians have come …
John Binder / Breitbart:
DHS Releases Over 2K Border-Crossing Adults, Children into U.S.  —  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing from custody more than 2,000 border-crossing adults and the children they arrived with over the course of a few weeks.  —  A DHS official confirmed to Breitbart News …
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Invites President Trump to Deliver State of the Union Address  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Trump inviting him to deliver a State of the Union address to a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, January 29, 2019.
Discussion: Axios
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Who Killed The Weekly Standard?  —  The Weekly Standard was killed last month, an act that had both a clear culprit and a muddy forensic trail.  For twenty-three years, it was the most influential, and often the most interesting, publication of the American right, championing a less dreary …
travel.state.gov:
China Travel Advisory  —  Exercise increased caution in China due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws as well as special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals.  —  Chinese authorities have asserted broad authority to prohibit U.S. citizens from leaving China by using 'exit bans …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Allies Try to Rig the 2020 GOP Nomination … Trump supporters on the Republican National Committee jumped to argue for changing party rules to aid Trump's renomination prospects in 2020.  In particular, Jevon Williams, national committeeman from the Virgin Islands …
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
 
 
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