USAID's Nick Enirch's memo, which @NewsHour obtained, contradicts claims made by Sec of State Rubio, the WH and Musk about lifesaving aid being turned back on

Enrich lays out detailed timeline from Jan 28-Feb 28 and how "waivers" didn't restart flow of critical drugs and food 1/

https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/1896320006474039497

Enrich details Elon Musk's DOGE team's involvement, saying on Feb. 7, agency leaders were told funds couldn't be accessed for contractors bc "financial systems (GLAAS and Phoenix) had been completely turned off by DOGE" creating "a critical impediment" to implement the waiver"

NEW: Nick Enrich, acting asst admin for USAID Global Health, was just placed on administrative admin leave by Trump admin. It comes after he shared a memo with USAID staff, including those on leave/fired saying it’s been impossible to implement Rubio’s waivers for lifesaving aid USAID Global Health official to agency: “Failure to implement lifesaving” aid is result of USAID political leadership, State Dept, DOGE, “who have created & continue to create intentional and/or unintentional obstacles that have wholly prevented implementation”

🧵on my recent reporting on rising violent rhetoric among GOP pols, voters, far-right militia. All the experts in extremism/autocracies/political violence I've interviewed agree signs of coming modern civil war are present & US isn't rebounding from backsliding democracy rating 5 yrs ago Neo-Nazis marched on Charlottesville. @milleridriss, of American U, was in Germany when we spoke, researching how that country confronts right-wing extremists/white supremacists. She connected dots between 2017 Neo-Nazis to Jan 6: : to.pbs.org/3QzbZ5o

.@PressSec says the agreement mentioned by Schumer/Pelosi this morning is a “menu of revenue raisers” but doesn’t provide any more details. “I’m gonna let that play out” .@PressSec just continue to call the pay fors a “range of options” with no details and said admin will continue to have talks about this options with lawmakers

In response to Politico's news re Clyburn calling on Biden to endorse a filibuster carveout, @PressSec says such a "determination about making changes will be made by members of the Senate, not by this president or any president frankly, moving forward"

https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/1413846845479002115

@PressSec A filibuster carveout as described by Clyburn would clearly apply to much more than voting. But as Eli points out the WH describes GOP voting restrictions as an "authoritarian" threat and Dems consider it existential not just for party but democracy

https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1414639847894040578

Immigrant, refugee advocates say the WH reasoning for not raising refugee cap doesn't make sense. Resettlement by ORR does not take a lot of staffing, they say, because most of the actual resettlement work is by the volunteers

https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/1383104330920824832

US Refugee Resettlement program is "strong, private public partnership and the resources from the government are then matched with the time and resources of volunteers" said World Relief's Jenny Yang. NGOs play major role in resettlement and Yang said WH provided "faulty excuse"

New: @WhipClyburn is tired of Biden-FDR comparisons

"Biden's legacy, if he's going to have credibility, must be much closer to Harry Truman than to Franklin Roosevelt...FDR's legacy was not good for Black people”

At helm w/@AlexThomp @theodoricmeyer politi.co/2QmoJlY @WhipClyburn @AlexThomp @theodoricmeyer We turned to historians. None of them refuted Clyburn's central premise that Truman did more on civil rights. But most said that if Biden chose to model his presidency after one of the two -- FDR or Truman -- they'd go with FDR based on sheer consequence of FDR's presidency

Progressive groups, activists, & some in House, wanted WH to push for vote to overrule parliamentarian even tho it was doomed. Saw it as test of Biden's will on $15. Parl ruling may have saved Dems headache on package, but it's going to push progs out of honeymoon phase w/Biden

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1365101601065734144

Earlier this month, Jayapal said getting $15 in first covid package, by any means was "a test for how we use the power of having all three, the House, the Senate and the White House." politico.com/news/2021/02/1…

.@AOC on Instagram live right now calls Jan 6 assault supremacist violence and "racist violence." Says "there were acts of heroism but next to that were acts of betrayal" by police, members @AOC .@AOC talks about fear "to run in Capitol and not know if there is an officer there to help you or hurt you"

Says she didn't trust some of her GOP colleagues to not disclose her location, fearing she'd be kidnapped

‘A Rubicon was crossed today’: Rising number of Democrats call for Trump impeachment

Others call on Pence to invoke 25th, and some want actions taken against their Republican colleagues objecting to electoral count

politi.co/395dcgM w/@hollyotterbein @hollyotterbein "I served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan...I never, in a million years would have thought that I would be in a situation like this as a member of Congress on the House floor in the United States Capitol in 2021.”

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.@RepMalinowski tells me: "The president encouraged a violent attack on the United states Capitol to prevent Congress from exercising our constitutional duties. That’s about as impeachable an act as I can think of."

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1346963368389849089

@RepMalinowski More Malinowksi: "I would want to make sure if we move forward that we do it swiftly and in a bipartisan way.”

"Right now there is a profoundly solemn sense that this can’t be allowed to stand."

.@JoeBiden: "At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault. Unlike anything we've seen in modern times...An assault on the people's representatives." @JoeBiden @JoeBiden: "Let me be very clear the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America"

"What we're seeing are a small number of extremists. This is not dissent, it's disorder, it's chaos. It borders on sedition."

NEW: More than half of Covid-19 case data is still missing info on race and ethnicity, veiling the damage to Black, Latino, & Native American communities

Without that data “we are going to let Covid-19 bake in a whole new generation of disparities.”

politi.co/30G3VZW Data holes also weaken pandemic response for minorities, who've been disproportionately ravaged

“There's no doubt moving forward that our more marginalized communities will be affected the hardest by any spike that we see," Dr Weston Mke County health dir politi.co/30G3VZW

Took @MsLaToshaBrown 3hrs to vote today in GA. Then Brown drove over to predominantly white polling site in Atl suburbs

“I come over to this side of town, and white folks are strolling in. On my side of town, we brought stadium chairs.”

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W/@ZachMontellaro @MsLaToshaBrown @ZachMontellaro Brown was near tears when we spoke. Saying her nephew had to wait 6hrs to vote on Friday during early voting.

"We have got to stop making voting a traumatic damn experience for black voters," said Brown.

politi.co/3dMjQcI

NEW: My look at how historic distrust of health system among black ppl & Latinos -- a product of generations of racial inequities gone unchecked -- and a lack of culturally competent outreach informing about virus is having consequences as covid-19 rages

politi.co/3aprSWz A black man in his 60s was having trouble breathing due to coronavirus. Dr. Uché Blackstock told him he needed to go to a hospital.

"I’m not going to go there and die,” he said to her.

Blackstock's heard that again and again from her black & Latino patients in Brooklyn

New: Bloomberg's online tactics are testing the boundary between edgy campaign fare and disinformation. And his use of influencers was never contemplated by election law, say nonpartisan tech experts tracking the 2020 candidates’ online efforts.

politi.co/32HzJg1 “This is absolutely dangerous for the fair functioning of our political process,” said Dipayan Ghosh co-director of digital platforms and the Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, said of the edited debate video and fake Sander's quotes tweeted by Bloomberg.

New: POLITICO has heard from multiple Democrats, campaigns on the ground that there is a shortage of volunteers at caucus sites

Story is developing...

1/ NSDP party officials are telling campaign representatives that there’s a deficit of volunteers across the state, and so they are asking representatives of campaigns to act as precinct chairs, per multiple sources on ground

NEW: @NVDems sent an email to precinct chairs in rural areas last night asking them to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for a stipend, according to a copy of the email and NDA obtained by POLITICO

1/ @nvdems Email to rural site volunteers offers $50 stipend to precinct chairs and $90 to those who serve as a “site lead & temporary precinct chair."

“We will just need to collect some information from you and have you sign a volunteer agreement,” email from an organizing dir reads.

2/

NEW: Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing well with Latinos, either

Latinos from DC to NV and CA say outreach is non-existent.

“I don’t know who is working for him, who is supporting him or where they exist in our ecosystem.”

politi.co/2QUC5Ek w/@ec_schneider Buttigieg is in low-to-mid single digits across polls of Latino voters, he hasn’t reached out to @BOLDDems for a meeting (unlike other candidates).

Buttigieg’s CM admitted they need to “level up and expand” outreach. Will unveil a “holistic” plan focused on Latinos nxt month