President Biden and his top economic aides brushed aside criticism from Republicans and vowed to forge ahead with the administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package on Friday, saying it was critical for a flagging economic recovery and popular with voters https://t.co/sG3dR9rk1p
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 30, 2021
Democrats are discussing a path to bypass Republicans and approve an aggressive coronavirus relief package on a party-line basis as prospects for bipartisan support for President Biden's top priority diminish. https://t.co/mLZyXPNRlF
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 30, 2021
Biden admin. orders additional 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, a move that could provide enough doses for nearly every American to get fully inoculated by the end of the summer, a senior admin. official says. https://t.co/AJzhLFkoAI
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 30, 2021
Biden’s Covid-19 team spent its first 10 days working through an unsolved mystery: what happened to 20 million vaccine doses, missing somewhere in the distribution pipeline.https://t.co/WTzGNOlsPd via @tylerpager @adamcancryn @JoanneKenen
— Sudeep Reddy (@Reddy) January 30, 2021
President Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 30, 2021
@sahilkapur reports https://t.co/dbOepU67oU
"Trump judges have been put in place specifically to thwart a Democratic agenda. Any talk or hope that the courts will be partners in the restoration of the rule of law is folly." https://t.co/o2pGUuTpz3
— The Nation (@thenation) January 30, 2021
President Joe Biden's moves to fight climate change are aimed at transforming the economy in a way that experts say will eventually change how Americans live. https://t.co/WrHRUPMzlI
— ABC News (@ABC) January 30, 2021
Looking for more? Take a deep dive in our coverage of GameStop, Robinhood and amateur investors’ battle with hedge funds on Wall Street this week: https://t.co/ZdRU0sKm5g
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 30, 2021
.@RudyGiuliani's latest claim is that the insurrection was a false flag operation organized by The Lincoln Project. https://t.co/Sq6V7dvbtc
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 30, 2021
Even Steve Bannon isn’t buying Giuliani’s latest conspiracy that members of the Lincoln Project are to blame for the insurrection. Co-founder of @ProjectLincoln @SteveSchmidtSES says he plans to sue: “it won't be a frivolous lawsuit…what he said was ludicrous & untrue." #velshi pic.twitter.com/DXYndqsez0
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) January 30, 2021
.@RudyGiuliani has relentlessly endangered our democracy in service to a career criminal, traitorous Trump by spreading disinformation & the Big Lie.
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) January 30, 2021
Ukraine stayed quiet during Trump-era pressures. Now it’s sharing some Giuliani tales. https://t.co/qrC4QAZN3X
Marjorie Taylor Greene touts call with Trump amid growing backlash https://t.co/jKCpFiQNBr pic.twitter.com/efGTuLvlRk
— The Hill (@thehill) January 30, 2021
Greene, under fire for her past social media posts, including suggesting the Parkland massacre was a staged event, says she had a supportive phone call with Trump today. pic.twitter.com/OPy5BVmjRN
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 30, 2021
Will take a bit for most to realize it. But with this call Trump has made Greene de facto leader of the House GOP caucus. She speaks for him and he supports her. So she is untouchable. Nominal leaders like McCarthy will fall in line and take her lead because they answer to Trump.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 30, 2021
They are losing moderate voters, and importantly corporate donors. A loss of 20% of either, certainly both, will be catastrophic going into next cycle. Lots of damaging news yet to come out. Econ looking at big rebound 3+4Q.
— Steve Henley (@_Steve_Henley) January 30, 2021
Where @oliverdarcy is I am too. And I would add one thing. Intra-party conflict — including "warfare" among factions — is a familiar story line in political journalism. One party in a two-party system turns anti-democratic is not. There's a tool kit for one, not for the other. pic.twitter.com/gNsOPCfhDe
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 30, 2021
The question for '22 is the other side of the equation: how motivated will Ds be to turn out without Trump in office anymore?
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 29, 2021
Just a reminder that Publix refused to donate to the Parkland victims fund but contributed $100K to @GovRonDeSantis right before he gave Publix the sole rights to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/fgMn817lok
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) January 30, 2021
Oh hey, there…
Confidence is high that a slow moving winter storm will impact much of the Eastern US Saturday afternoon-Tuesday night, but considerable uncertainty remains, especially along the I-95 corridor regarding the rain-snow line and precisely where the heaviest snow will fall. pic.twitter.com/mP9fSdMuOI
— NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) January 30, 2021
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VACCINE ROW JUST ADDS TO UNENDING BREXITSHAMBLES
“Watching a car crash in slow motion” – a quote from an EU diplomat. My latest blog on EU problems with its covid vaccine programme and how the Brexit Deal on Northern Ireland got tangled up in it: https://t.co/gWAyk9LhRu
— Katya Adler (@BBCkatyaadler) January 30, 2021
"Trade officials said the blunder was caused by concerns among EU health officials that Northern Ireland could become a hub for illicit shipments of vaccine to the UK from the EU. However… there aren't stocks of vaccine in Ireland to be shipped anywhere"https://t.co/wRWOfUxSwj
— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) January 30, 2021
Ok, but the main story is actually one of generous cooperation on the part of HMG, which is to be welcomed. https://t.co/yIp19nkFa7
— Daniel Keohane (@KeohaneDan) January 30, 2021
The EU/EC clearly made an error last night, as all political actors sometimes do, and quickly corrected. Suggestions that this adds weight to (n.b. pre-existing) demands to "replace" the NIP (with what?) or for the UK itself to use A16 are entirely bogus. https://t.co/NgJpT2yKN8
— Chris Grey (@chrisgreybrexit) January 30, 2021
Just what we needed, a new strain of nationalism – the vaccine kind https://t.co/frcGpYSgvo
— Alan m frost (@Alanmfrost1) January 30, 2021
The corrosive Brexit effect that has seeped into the pandemic https://t.co/F4x1eTpGeb
— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) January 30, 2021
The kind of story to which most of UK media seems allergic, a news blackout for which government is so grateful …. A Month on From Brexit, U.K. Firms Are Being Slowly Ground Down – Bloomberg https://t.co/aHq5ySqlaH
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) January 30, 2021
UK firms plan to shift across Channel after Brexit chaos https://t.co/aVJtiinA0N
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 30, 2021
UK applies to join trans-Pacific trade group https://t.co/g4ffBmfkNd
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 30, 2021
On the plus side, we’re only 41% stupid and 4.5 years ago we were 52% stupid, so we’re getting better.
— Robert Clark (@rdsclark) January 30, 2021
The Overnight Note 