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| GEORGE WASHINGTON Gentleman Planter, General & First President |
A "must read" for Donald Trump
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Republican
candidate for governor John Cox was
in the news for after decade-old statements were revealed in which he linked
gay rights with pedophilia and bigamy. [Los Angeles Times Essential Politics, February 14, 2018]
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Peanut gallery: As expected, congressional Democrats largely panned the
blueprint as a giveaway to Wall Street at the expense of cash-strapped states
and localities. Liberal activists even staged a protest in downtown Washington
Monday where they planned to set up a life-sized "Trump toll" outside
the president's eponymous hotel. Another area of critique? Limiting the direct
federal spending to $200 billion, which Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called "a drop in the bucket compared to the
$1.5 trillion Republicans in Congress just spent to slash taxes for
multinational corporations and the donor class." Expect that to come up a
lot in the next few months, since Dems have argued that reopening the tax code
was the best shot to inject millions - or more - into U.S. infrastructure
needs. [POLITICO's Morning Transportation, February 13, 2018]
Show me the money: House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster laid down some markers of his own in a statement: "An
infrastructure bill needs to be bipartisan, fiscally responsible, and make real
long-term investments in our nation. By addressing the long-term sustainability
of the Highway Trust Fund, exploring new ways to invest, and ensuring the fast
delivery of projects, we can rebuild and improve our highways, water
infrastructure, public buildings, rail transportation, and other
infrastructure." The million-dollar question, of course, is this: How do
lawmakers expect to cover the costs that effort will entail? And how, exactly,
would the fund be "addressed"? A gas tax hike is largely considered
DOA, though some members are itching to have that debate out in the open
(related: a coalition of nearly 30 fiscally conservative groups sent a letter to
lawmakers Monday registering their opposition to a gas tax increase). And
Congress is infamous at this point for raiding other accounts across government
to cover the Highway Trust Fund's shortfall. How involved are tax-writers going
to be in this debate? [POLITICO's Morning Transportation, February 13, 2018]
COME FLY WITH ME: The infrastructure plan looks to curb the FAA's
oversight role when it comes to things at airports that aren't "critical
airfield infrastructure." Think access road buildings and hangars. It also
calls for changes to an existing pilot program for airport privatization to
essentially make it easier to qualify in some instances. [POLITICO's Morning
Transportation, February 13, 2018]
THAT DREADED 'S' WORD: Morning Money's Ben White talked to economists about the
Trump administration's infrastructure push, and survey says: Now may not be the
time to infuse that kind of money into the U.S. economy. He writes :
"Typically, big infrastructure initiatives are targeted for moments when
the economy is struggling and the unemployment rate is high. The concern with
Trump's $1.5 trillion plan is that any new infrastructure projects it creates
will just move workers from current projects into different ones rather than
creating new jobs." Republicans have long said they don't want an
infrastructure bill to take on the trappings of the 2009 stimulus passed early
in the Obama administration. [POLITICO's Morning Transportation, February 13,
2018]
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| DEMOCRATIC PARTY |
STAFFING UP - Democratic strategist Martha
McKenna to run DSCC's IE: Per a press
release: "The DSCC announced today that Martha McKenna will run the
committee's independent expenditure for the 2018 midterm elections. Martha is a
campaign veteran who worked as the DSCC political director for the 2008 and
2010 cycles and then as the IE director for the 2012 and 2014 cycles. Her vast
experience and work as a top-notch ad-maker for her firm McKenna Media will be
key to the IE's work supporting Democratic Senate candidates across the
country." Even as Republicans struggle with bitter primaries, lackluster
fundraising and a health care agenda that is deeply unpopular with American
voters, we know each of these races will be a fight to the finish and that is
why we are thrilled to have Martha's strategic insight and talent," said
DSCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen. "Martha's leadership will be essential to
our work to elect Senate Democrats." [POLITICO's Morning Score, February
13, 2018]
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