We’re hosting a town hall on bridging the racial economic divide – and we want your stories to help shape that conversation politi.co/32zUsDv
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We especially want to hear from Black business owners, entrepreneurs and workers about their experiences.
If you submit a video, we may feature it in our town hall and invite you to join our private Zoom discussion afterward to continue the conversation politi.co/2UaBK0G
P.S. This is part of our series of virtual town halls about systemic racial inequality in America.
In past months, we've talked about education and health care. This month, it’s the economy. Next on the list: housing. politi.co/32zUsDv
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Kayleigh McEnany says President Trump will break his post-election silence "at the right moment."
“Right now he’s letting this litigation play out,” she she said this morning, referring to the Trump campaign’s election-related legal challenges. politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
McEnany said Trump was "letting his lawyers take the lead on this while he stays hard at work for the American people on Covid and other matters" politi.co/3kpVuIm
When asked about this weekend's MAGA events in D.C. McEnany said she expected the turnout to be "quite large."
"He has 72 million people who love him, who want to show up and support him. His base is strong," she said. politi.co/3kpVuIm
Now that President-elect Joe Biden has selected Ron Klain as his chief of staff, here are some names you should keep an eye on for big roles in Biden's White House world 👇 politico.com/newsletters/pl…
• Shuwanza Goff, Steny Hoyer's director of legislative affairs, is in the mix for leg affairs director
• Louisa Terrell, the former executive director of the Biden Foundation, is also in the mix politico.com/newsletters/pl…
• Shalanda Young, is the Dem staff director for House Appropriations. Keep an eye on her for OMB director.
• Jamie Fleet, a longtime aide to the House Administration Committee, could be in the mix for a senior leg affairs job, or W.H. Cabinet secretary. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
There are two different ways of looking at how change happens in American politics. Some people put the emphasis on “top down,” while others think the better way to ponder long-term trends in government is “bottom up.” politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
One reason it will take a good long time to make sense of the 2020 election is that the results look very different — almost contradictory — when viewed from top-down versus bottom-up. politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
We assembled our reporters who cover politics from a bottom-up perspective — that is, with a special focus on the states — for an election postmortem. They give us a look at the people and the trends to watch in the next decade 👇 politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Some conservative Supreme Court justices signaled today that they’re unlikely to tear down Obamacare as oral arguments began in a Republican-backed lawsuit challenging the landmark health care law politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
This latest case, which is the third major challenge to the law heard by the court, centers around Congress’ decision in 2017 to eliminate the law’s penalty for not having health insurance — without removing the coverage requirement itself politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
A group of Republican states led by Texas and supported by the Trump administration argued that move made the so-called individual mandate unconstitutional, so the rest of the law should fall politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Pentagon's top policy official James Anderson resigned this morning after clashing with the White House. This comes one day after Trump terminated Esper. politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
Anderson's departure potentially paves the way for Anthony Tata, President Trump’s controversial nominee for the top policy job who was pulled from contention due to Islamophobic tweets, to take over the policy shop politico.com/news/2020/11/1…
As one of the most senior officials in the Pentagon, the undersecretary of defense for policy is the principal adviser to the defense secretary on formulating national security and defense policy across a range of high-profile issues politico.com/news/2020/11/1…