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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New bits on Califf

The WH settled on him after looking at ~ a dozen other candidates, many of whom were ruled out over industry ties.

Didn’t want FDA head to be recused for any company involved in vaccines

w @davidalim @adamcancryn
@owermohle

politico.com/news/2021/11/1…
The WH didn’t start looking at him till around Labor Day

Thought he’d get bipartisan backing Given recent confirmation during Obama years

Wasnt originally on their radar because biden folks were at first looking for someone new.
Manchin comes out in Opposition to Biden FDA pick, citing opioid epidemic
Manchin opposition was expected. Might lose Blumenthal too, @adamcancryn reports.

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10 Nov
NEW: top WH/econ frustrated by the Penn Wharton Budget Model

Manchin takes their findings seriously and right now their analyses are diverging from the WH’s on reconciliation

Klain has dismissed them as conservative
W/ @KateDavidson @TinaSfon

politico.com/newsletters/we…
NEC spokesperson @JesseLee46: “The Penn Wharton Budget Model is simply wrong on its math, and didn't even evaluate the policies actually in the bill”

PWBM head Kent Smetters said the WH was “the standard ‘not our bill’ and ‘version control’ redirects.” Image
So the WH has to convince Manchin the Penn numbers—which say the WH framework would adding $500 billion the the deficit—are wrong

Or wait for the CBO of the actual text which will take weeks and may not mirror their projections either
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29 Oct
Is Biden weak or savvy?
The president’s legislative strategy has relied on carrots, patience, communication, assuming best intentions
Most members of Congress like him but few, if any, fear him
Will it work? Our look at the distinct Biden congress strategy
politico.com/newsletters/we…
Former Schumer aide Matt House: “I think [Biden’s] entire approach to this is entirely senatorial..it may not be the style the 24-hour news and Twitter is used to, but it is the style that he came of age in and that might just work.”
Antonia Ferrier, a former top aide to Mitch McConnell, says:
“I’ve never seen a legislative process — and I use that word loosely — like this. It’s just chaotic policy-making. This [reconciliation] bill — if we can even call it that — tries to be all things to all people.”
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16 Oct
NEW: Dozens of immigration advocates walked out (virtually) on top Biden officials Saturday in protest of the administration’s decision to continue border policies enacted during the Trump admin

“I cannot stand one more meeting of them pretending”
politico.com/news/2021/10/1…
“They give us accolades on the outside, but on the inside, we're having to take out the metaphoric knives from our back," said Ariana Saludares of Colores United.

“We have sadly reached a turning point,” the activists told the Biden team this morning
The meeting and the subsequent walk out was prompted by the administration’s plans to reinstate “Remain in Mexico”
But that was just the catalyst. Tensions have been increasing for months. this was just a turning point, per ppl in the meeting.
Read 6 tweets
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4 Oct
Scoop: Harold Koh, a sr. adviser & sole political appointee on State’s legal team, is leaving current post & sent a memo calling Biden's use of Title 42 “illegal,” “inhumane,” & “not worthy of this Administration that I so strongly support.”
w/ @alexbward
politico.com/news/2021/10/0…
Koh’s letter has been circulating across the administration over the past 48 hours.
It concludes with a section: "Is this who we are?"

"we all came into this Administration to give the
American people a government as good as our national values."
Koh on why he wrote this: "I believe this Administration’s current implementation of the Title 42 authority continues to violate our legal obligation not to expel or return (“refouler”) individuals who fear persecution, death, or torture, especially migrants fleeing from Haiti"
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4 Oct
News w/ @burgessev: McConnell sends a letter to the WH on the debt ceiling.

“I respectfully submit that it is time for you to engage directly with congressional Democrats on this matter.”

politico.com/news/2021/10/0…
McConnell cites Biden's votes against the debt ceiling increases during the W. Bush admin.
More McConnell: "Republicans’ position is simple. We have no list of demands. For two and a half months, we have simply warned that since your party wishes to
govern alone, it must handle the debt limit alone as well."
Biden set to give remarks at 11:15
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30 Sep
NEWS: Kamala Harris' office is doing damage control today w/ pro-Israel Democrats after not pushing back on a student who, in asking her a question, accused Israel of “ethnic genocide.”

w/ @samstein
politico.com/news/2021/09/3…
Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel, said Harris' senior staff reached out today "to confirm what we already knew: Her ‘commitment to Israel’s security is unwavering,' and she 'strongly disagrees with the George Mason student’s characterization of Israel.'”
A senior adviser to Harris also reached out to Rep. Ted Deutch, the co-chair of the Bipartisan Anti‐Semitism Taskforce, along w/ Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
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