Trump may be out of office. But he has shown that he is going to have a heavy hand in directing the future of the GOP — and has tens of millions of dollars to back that up.
Save America, the leadership PAC that Trump created in the aftermath of the election, reported having $31.2M in the bank at the end of 2020.
Trump can't spend the funds directly on any future campaign of his own, but he can use it to wield influence. politi.co/3pDQgMA
An affiliated joint fundraising committee — the Trump Make America Great Again Committee — had nearly $60 million in its own coffers.
Trump’s presidential campaign had a bit over $10.7 million in the bank, with $2.7 million in debt. politi.co/3pDQgMA
The RNC itself reported over $80 million in the bank at the end of the year. It will have to walk a delicate tightrope of striking its own independence while still being financially tied to the former president. politi.co/3pDQgMA
Biden’s campaign does not have much left. The campaign reported just $260,000 in the bank, but his operation is more closely intertwined with the DNC as an incumbent president.
The DNC reported $38.8M in its bank account, with a bit under $3.2M in debt politi.co/3pDQgMA
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants are leaning toward removing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Education panel unless she steps down on her own politico.com/newsletters/pl…
During a two-hour meeting last night with Greene, McCarthy explained to the QAnon supporter that her controversial past statements were coming to a head politico.com/newsletters/pl…
McCarthy tried to give Greene options during last night's meeting:
• denounce QAnon and apologize publicly
• remove herself from the Education panel to spare her colleagues a vote
• face removal from her own GOP peers politico.com/newsletters/pl…
WH press secretary Jen Psaki was asked today if Biden had made any decisions on the future of the Space Force.
“Wow. Space Force. It’s the plane of today,” Psaki responded, seemingly comparing the question to an earlier one about the color scheme of AF1 politi.co/2MS2PFi
Now a top House Republican is calling on Psaki to “immediately apologize” for appearing to poke fun at the Space Force, which was established by Congress in 2019 with support from the Trump administration politico.com/news/2021/02/0…
Rep. Mike Rogers said Psaki diminished the Space Force "as the punchline of a joke, which I’m sure China would find funny."
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Our analysis of the available data suggests the disadvantaged and underserved communities are being bypassed, including in those states that have not yet publicly broken out data by race and ethnicity politi.co/36DllZ8
For diametrically opposite reasons, the fates of GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene will be decided over the next 48 hours politico.com/newsletters/pl…
Both women face a reckoning from fellow Republicans.
Greene, for espousing dangerous conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against Democratic members of Congress. Cheney, for daring to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
So what will McCarthy do?
On Greene, McCarthy’s office is considering possible rebukes. But there’s also wariness of punishing a member for something she said before she got to Congress.
BREAKING: Johnson & Johnson says its vaccine offers strong protection. The U.S. has ordered 100 million does of the one-shot. politico.com/news/2021/01/2…
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In that spirit, here's a bold, ambitious new U.S. strategy toward China, presented anonymously: politi.co/3cgSkWP
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