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Jake Sherman

2 Jul, 8 tweets, 13 min read

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In @PunchbowlNews AM this morning, we took a deeply reported look at who @GOPLeader may appoint to the Jan. 6 committee. He is going to make appointments — unless something unexpected happens.

More in this thread and at bit.ly/3hAJJiy

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader >@Jim_Jordan: he and KM once loathed each other, but Trump brought them together. Jordan has been through Benghazi select committee and impeachment and is generally seen as a “captain” of any Republican team. Jordan has brawled w Schiff/Raskin and he understands how they operate

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan → @RepMikeJohnson is a lawyer -- which McCarthy could use. He has the added benefit of having been through impeachment; Johnson served as one of the former president’s top defenders during Trump’s first Senate trial.

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson → @RepArmstrongND is a former state party chair and is seen internally as a smart political player. He did not object to the 2020 election results, which is also a plus.

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson @RepArmstrongND → @RepJimBanks is Washington’s Most Eager Man. The chair of the once powerful @RepublicanStudy, wants to be prominent and in leadership, and everyone in the Republican Conference knows it. He’s willing to speak publicly and rarely strays from the party’s talking points.

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson @RepArmstrongND @RepJimBanks @RepublicanStudy → @RodneyDavis or @RepBryanSteil both on Admin, which controls the House and half of the Capitol complex. Davis is the better choice here -- he’s more senior, & he really knows his stuff. Plus, Zoe Lofgren is on the cmte, and it would be useful to have him as the R counterweight

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson @RepArmstrongND @RepJimBanks @RepublicanStudy @RodneyDavis @RepBryanSteil → @EliseStefanik or @RepWalorski: McCarthy needs to appoint a woman to the committee, and these are two of the best in his conference. Stefanik is in leadership and Walorski is the top Republican on Ethics. Stefanik has a slight edge just because of her public persona.

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@PunchbowlNews @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson @RepArmstrongND @RepJimBanks @RepublicanStudy @RodneyDavis @RepBryanSteil @EliseStefanik @RepWalorski → @RepRutherfordFL or @SheriffTNehls: Rutherford and Nehls are former sheriffs. This is good because dozens of U.S. Capitol Police officers were injured -- some very seriously -- during the Jan. 6 attack. The GOP messaging on that angle has been poor

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29 Jun

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Morning from a very, very busy Capitol.

In @PunchbowlNews this AM — a lot on infrastructure, which is what all of Washington is focused on at the moment.

We start out at the White House — tons of reporting from 1600 Pennsylvania.

— @RepRonKind/ @SenatorBaldwin to WI w Biden

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@PunchbowlNews @RepRonKind @SenatorBaldwin — Steve Ricchetti will be on the Hill today with Louisa Terrell and Shuwanza Goff talking to lots of lawmakers on the House side.

— WH talked to *every* Dem chief yesterday.

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@PunchbowlNews @RepRonKind @SenatorBaldwin Now let’s shift to the PEOPLE’S HOUSE (cc @jmartNYT)

— We caught up with @AOC who seems quite cool with how the process is going so far. She said she feels “good,” although noted that’s not a great adjective.

She seems open to the bipartisan bill if the Senate passes a budget

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24 Jun

@JoeBiden

We are at beginning of a very long and complicated process when it comes to Biden’s agenda — both on the hard infrastructure & human infrastructure side

will require a tremendous amount of work by @JoeBiden, @WHCOS, Ricchetti, but most importantly, @SpeakerPelosi and @SenSchumer

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@JoeBiden @WHCOS @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer We laid out a lot of this in @PunchbowlNews this morning.

@SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi need to pass a budget — a tall task in and of itself — and the infrastructure package all in july.

Then in aug, sept., oct they need to get the actual human infrastructure leg thru

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@JoeBiden @WHCOS @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer @PunchbowlNews one of the big challenges and opportunities is the linkage.

why? bc progressives are going to be asked to vote for the buget with a promise of a bill later on. that’s tough. especially when so few Rs in the House are going to vote for the hard infra/none will vote for human inf

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21 Jun

@PunchbowlNews

Happy Monday!!!

In @PunchbowlNews this AM: ☀️Inside the W.H.’s infrastructure strategy

This is a massive week for President Joe Biden’s quest to cut a bipartisan infrastructure deal. And we expect the president to lean in and try to move the process along.

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@PunchbowlNews Here’s news we have after relentlessly bugging people on Father’s Day (sorry!):

→ 1st: Tthe WH truly seems to believe a deal with the bipartisan group of 20 senators is doable and perhaps even likely. We can’t tell how much of this is sunny optimism and how much is reality

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@PunchbowlNews → The White House’s main focus this week is to try to figure out the right mix of offsets so the bipartisan group of senators will back off its insistence on hiking the gas tax and instituting a tax on miles driven by electric vehicles.

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Jake Sherman

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17 Jun

@PunchbowlNews

Why Biden shouldn’t take the deal, as we laid out in @PunchbowlNews this AM:

→ 1 tough vote. If Congress jams everything from Biden’s American Jobs and Families plans into one massive, multi-trillion dollar reconciliation package, then lawmakers only have to take one vote.

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@PunchbowlNews → Don’t be cute. In order to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill, Biden will have to corral Ds to simultaneously support a separate reconciliation package filled with more controversial spending provisions for social programs. Don’t you realize how hard that’s going to be?

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@PunchbowlNews → Progressives see a trap -- and they might be right. Say this roughly $1 trillion package passes with Sinema and @Sen_JoeManchin backing it -- or even leading the way, as Sinema is doing. Will they vote for a package that includes big social program spending? Or tax increases?

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Jake Sherman

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17 Jun

@PunchbowlNews

In @PunchbowlNews this AM, we laid out five reasons why @JoeBiden should take this infrastructure deal, and why he shouldn’t — based on reporting from the Capitol and the White House.

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@PunchbowlNews @JoeBiden → Biden should take it because he has a lot of stuff to get done. And the most efficient and best way to get the most stuff done is to get some stuff done all the time, so you have less stuff to do.

Make sense? There’s a deal on the table, or at least the outlines for a deal.

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@PunchbowlNews @JoeBiden → Scratching an itch is fun. Biden wants a bipartisan W worse than we want the cicadas to bury themselves for the next 17 yrs. And guess what, Mr. President: This is your chance. Not many more after this

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