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Morning Report — Dear Congress, your deadline is nigh

In today’s issue: The trouble with lame-duck congressional sessions is that they’re so short and too long. In 10 days, Congress will run out of funds to keep the government operating through the holidays without action or a strategy (preferably both). There was talk last month of extending the deadline again — to March. The...

Mother of Hunter Biden’s daughter defends pardon, says he’s ‘targeted because of who his dad is’

Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden's child, Navy Joan Roberts, said she supports the pardon and believes Biden was "targeted" because of his dad.

Nobel laureates criticize RFK Jr. HHS nomination over ‘lack of credentials,’ vaccine stance

More than 70 Nobel Prize winners have written a letter urging the United States Senate to reject President-elect Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin pushes constitutional amendment for Supreme Court term limits

Sens. Joe Manchin and Peter Welch are proposing a constitutional amendment that would impose term limits on future Supreme Court justices.

Ron who? How Trump allies brought Hegseth back from the brink

Donald Trump's transition team entered a critical week of nomination meetings on Capitol Hill with a new head of steam, emboldened by a swarm...

Biden to tout economic legacy in Tuesday speech

President Biden will deliver remarks Tuesday afternoon touting his economic agenda and making the case that it has been more effective than the kinds of tax cuts likely to be implemented by the incoming Trump administration. Biden will deliver what a White House official described as a “major address on his economic legacy” at the...

Pelosi says she backs generational change on committees, but there are exceptions

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this week that she supports the push for younger Democrats to replace veteran lawmakers at the top of committees — but there is at least one glaring exception to the rule. In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi suggested seniority should not be paramount when it comes to...

Trump claims GOP ‘very open’ to keeping ‘Dreamers’ in US, takes shot at ‘very difficult’ Dems

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to work with Democrats to work out a deal on how to protect some illegal immigrants protected by a 2012 Obama-era order from deportation.

How Biden – and Trump – helped make the pardon go haywire

With new life breathed into it by President Biden breaking his repeated promises not to issue one for Hunter, the pardon debate is spinning entirely out of hand.

Trump FBI director pick Kash Patel ‘instrumental in unraveling’ Russia collusion hoax, former chair says

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, was the chief investigator in the congressional probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion, uncovering government surveillance abuse.

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