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6 Dec

@rubycramer

NEW: Kamala Harris has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk.
So, she insists on using wired ones, 3 fmr campaign aides told @rubycramer and me.
That Bluetooth phobia remains (if you look closely, you'll see the clump of wires in hand)
politico.com/newsletters/we…

Doug, however, is pro-Bluetooth.

Former aides say that VP has long been careful about security — w/ some describing it as prudent & others suggesting it’s a bit paranoid.
A former aide from AG days said when a person arrived for a meeting, staff were instructed not to allow them to wait in Harris' office alone.

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12 Nov

@davidalim

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

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10 Nov

@KateDavidson

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…

@JesseLee46

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.”

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.

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4 Oct

@alexbward

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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