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McConnell in the preceding months had resisted such a move, even while Trump pushed for increased payments ahead of the Nov. 3 election. “Donald Trump was itching for that same kind of lifeline in September and October, but McConnell’s idea at the time was different,” Grim said. “That comment that he made in that call with Republican senators was sort of the last data point that you really needed to take your intuition and everything you felt you understood about McConnell’s approach ...

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The Best Dishes We Ate in 2020 Maria Yagoda To make it through this year, weve clung to our comforts. While projects like sourdough bread-making, gardening, and buying obscene amounts of spices certainly helped, it was the food lovingly made by others that so often sustained us on days we couldnt even bear the thought of boiling water. Independent restaurants are barely hanging on, and its going to get worse this winter as indoor dining goes dark and inclement weather foils outd...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects left-wing calls to force Pelosi to hold a Medicare for All vote in exchange for her vote for the Speaker insider@insider.com (Eliza Relman) © SAUL LOEB/Getty Images Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (L) performs a ceremonial swearing-in for US House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, (C) and family at the start of the 116th US Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2019. SAUL LOEB/Getty Images A handful of outspok...

Intercept D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim predicted on Tuesday that President-elect Joe Biden Grim, who reported on leaked audio last week of a meeting Biden had with civil rights leaders, told Hill.TVs "Rising" that the president-elect’s remarks in that meeting affirmed former staff narratives that in private, he strays from his public “affable uncle Joe” demeanor and has more of a temper.  “What this meeting with civil rights leaders shows is that he’s still that same guy, but now he...

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How the Left Came to Love Joe Biden POLITICO 12/11/2020 © POLITICO illustration/Getty Images, AP illustration left QandA.jpg For decades, nobody was harder on Joe Biden than the political left. He was too cozy with Republicans, in bed with credit-card companies, too hawkish on foreign policy and far too quick to embrace law-and-order politics. Then something unexpected happened in November: In one swoop, Biden became president and the left gained a significant foothold in Congress. And sud...

Joe Bidens agriculture appointment is a slap in the face to Black voters Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Whether Joe Biden has a successful presidency depends on the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs more than any other factor. If Democrats sweep both seats, the party will just barely control the Senate, and will theoretically be able to pass at least some laws (especially if they abolish the filibuster and make D.C. and Puerto Rico new states). If they lose ...

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