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Tax Reform: The budget resolution that would allow for $1.5 trillion in additional deficits faces a key vote in the House this morning. The GOP Caucus will have to convince disaffected moderates to go along with the budget vote, and some House leaders, worried about local implications to their district, are likely to draw a harder line on a final tax bill if their concerns are not addressed. Despite the dissension of Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Bob Corker (R-TN), the rest of the Republican Party appear to be in lock step with the President. “There is zero appetite for the ‘Never Trump’ movement in the Republican Party of today,” an advisor to a fundraising group told theNYT. “This party is now defined by President Trump and his movement.” And 45 offered the world some random thoughts yesterday in an impromptu statement to news cameras. He went to an Ivy League school, he says he was a nice student and is an intelligent person, he has a very good memory, he talked Hillary Clinton and the dossier, he says he did remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s name when speaking to Myesha Johnson because ya know … let’s keep calling a fallen soldier’s widow a liar. Oh, and he said it’s the press that makes him more uncivil than he is. In other news,Barack Obama golfed with actor Bill Murray on Tuesday at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. #TBT to when 45 used to troll 44 over golf. Finally, find a grassy knoll and get ready to do some reading. After more than 50 years of theories, the JFK files will be released today. Here’s what we’ve got this Thursday...
- Senator Bob Menéndez’s (D-NJ) trial focuses on definition of a bribe.
- Meet the Obama alumna vying to become the first Muslim woman in Congress.
- Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and New Mexico Governor Susana Martínez (R)head to VA.
- Meet the guy who could be Colorado’s first Black member of Congress.
- Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)team up to intro bill to lower drug prices.
- HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson says if you question his qualifications, you’re stupid.
- Massachusetts could make history if this candidate wins a seat in Congress.
- Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Congressmen G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) report back from their tech industry diversity meetings.
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) brings VALOR to vets.
- Lawmakers call for immediate aid to schools in PR and the USVI.
- Filipino WWII veterans finally honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
- A Black prayer on the Senate floor. Check it out below.
- Meet the new comms associate at HUD.
- Vox brings in a new Senior Politics Reporter.
- Nominee to head Customs and Border Protection finally gets his hearing.
- Trump marks the end of a travel ban with another one.
- Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) intros a bill that creates a prize for cleaning the environment.
- Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz question contract to help rebuild PR’s electric grid.
- Congressman Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) introduces a bicameral bill to create a Medicare-type option in the healthcare marketplace.
- Cuba strongly denies it had anything to do with mysterious ailments felling some U.S. diplomats.