A man was arrested Tuesday night and accused of assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) in a Capitol Hill office building, the Washington Post reports.
Said Mace: “I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women.”
Wisconsin Files Charges Against Trump Lawyers and Aide
“Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year,” the AP reports.
RFK Jr.’s Secret Push to Prove CIA Killed His Uncle
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes the CIA had a role in assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy — part of RFK Jr.’s motivation for pushing his daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, for deputy CIA director,” Axios reports.
“RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy — his presidential campaign manager, who is married to his son Bobby Kennedy III — would help get to the bottom of the JFK assassination.”
Trump to Ring Opening Bell at New York Stock Exchange
“Donald Trump is slated to ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell on Thursday, presenting a president-elect who has vowed to rejuvenate the US economy a celebratory photo opportunity at an iconic symbol of American capitalism,” Bloomberg reports.
Democratic Governors Quietly Prep Plans to Counter Trump
“Diplomatic and depressed as they have been in public, a small group of Democratic governors are deep into behind-the-scenes preparations and deliberations over how to balance the politics of pushing back on what they are expecting from President-elect Donald Trump’s next turn in the White House,” CNN reports.
“Since long before the election, they’ve been poring through Project 2025 — it’s helpful, several Democratic governors told CNN, to have a blueprint in public. They’ve been studying their own executive powers and state laws. They’ve been collaborating on how to shame any extreme Trump actions in the court of public opinion, rather than debating the principles, as often happened when Democrats took on Trump last time.”
Trump Taps Television for Cabinet
“President-elect Donald Trump bolstered his national profile on NBC’s The Apprentice before first running for the White House. Now he’s turned his second transition into a casting call, pulling from the ranks of entertainment and media to find loyal allies to carry out his agenda,” Bloomberg reports.
“While critics say some of Trump’s picks are short on experience for the agencies they are being tapped to run, they offer to bring a different set of qualities, including telegenic looks or a flair for showmanship that play well on screen. Trump makes clear he values those attributes, given his own political rise has been heavy on theatrics.”
The Conversation Democrats Need to Have
Jon Favreau: “Even if we don’t agree with the views of leftists or liberals or Never Trumpers or MAGA Republicans, we understand them (or at least we think we do). The people whose views we don’t understand tend to be the people who simply don’t follow politics that closely.”
“And yet, that’s most Americans.”
“This majority still votes, but not in every election. They typically vote for the same party, but not always. Their political beliefs can be all over the map: left on some issues, right on others; willing to compromise on some issues, not on others. They tend to be less partisan (which doesn’t mean they’re centrist), less ideological (which doesn’t mean they’re moderate), and less likely to see politics as a black-and-white, life-and-death struggle with clear heroes and villains (which doesn’t mean they don’t care). They’re also less likely to have a four-year college degree, which is now the best predictor of how Americans vote and the central divide in American politics—a divide that continues to grow.”
“The Democratic Party is currently on the wrong side of an unforgiving math problem. Fewer than four in 10 Americans have graduated college, and that number is even smaller in the battleground states that decide the presidency and control of Congress. In each of the past three elections, Trump has picked up millions of new votes from Americans without a degree who had previously supported Democrats. And every time, Democrats have taken comfort in explanations that, although plausible, absolve us from the hard work of winning back these voters.”
Quote of the Day
“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
–Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the Financial Times.
A Hostile Work Environment on the Hill
Andrew Egger: “How are House Republicans taking the news that Donald Trump wants to see their colleagues who served on the January 6th Committee put in jail? For a remarkable number, the response has been somewhere between open and enthusiastic.”
Said Rep. James Comer (R-KY): “With politicians, if you’ve used a congressional committee and you’ve lied and tried to set people up and falsely imprisoned people, then you should be held accountable.”
Said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN): “If they broke the law, then they should be imprisoned. Now we know that they’ve manipulated evidence, so—if that’s the case, then absolutely.”
“A thirst to see one’s colleagues imprisoned does not make for the most congenial of workplaces. One has to imagine that the next session of Congress could turn cantankerous quickly, owing to Trump’s insistence that the lawmakers who investigated him be jailed—and his repeated lies about their conduct.”
Suspect’s Notebook Describes Rationale for CEO Killing
“Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthCare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting,“ the New York Times reports.
Wrote Mangione: “What do you do? You wack the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents.”
Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Back on Track
Asked about Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be Defense Secretary, Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN: “Right now, he’s in pretty good shape… he’s much better off this week than he was last week.”
Meanwhile, Newsmax instructed staff to “lay off” Hegseth “after a segment bashing the pick sparked the ire of Trump himself,” Mediaite reports.
Inflation Accelerated Last Month
“Consumer prices rose at a faster annual pace in November, a reminder that inflation remains an issue both for households and policymakers,” CNBC reports.
“The consumer price index showed a 12-month inflation rate of 2.7% after increasing 0.3% on the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.”
Biden’s Pardon of His Son Is Very Unpopular
Only 22% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such thing, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History
“The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s,” the New York Times reports.
“Annual net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving — averaged 2.4 million people from 2021 to 2023, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed eight million people.”
“That’s a faster pace of arrivals than during any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island traffic, when millions of Europeans came to the United States. Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850.”
RFK Jr. Becomes Latest Troubled Trump Pick
Politico: “At least three closely watched senators are noncommittal about confirming the vaccine critic, who’s being considered to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Those include swing votes like Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, as well as Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician who will chair a committee that could host confirmation hearings for Kennedy.”
Trump Vows Fast Permits for Those Investing $1 Billion
“President-elect Donald Trump said his administration would help expedite permits for any person or company that invested at least $1 billion in the U.S.,” Bloomberg reports.
Americans Distrust Trump and RFK Jr. on Health
A new Axios-Ipsos poll finds Americans are still more trusting of Anthony Fauci than they are of President-elect Donald Trump and his health team when it comes to medical information.
Also interesting: “Only about a third think the government puts the public’s health and well-being first, or that America is adequately prepared to deal with another pandemic.”
Tom Cotton Will Chair Senate Intelligence
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) beat out Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to claim the gavel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, despite suggestions Cornyn should get the position “as a consolation prize after his failed leader bid,” Politico reports.
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