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Democrats, backed by most public polling, have repeated that they will not give Trump wall funding and will not negotiate until the government reopens. Trump’s offer on Saturday was described by various media outlets citing White House sources as an attempt to restart talks.
According to multiple reports, Democrats do have an offer: hundreds of millions of dollars for new immigration judges and improvements to ports of entry ......
Some of what they will find objectionable merits further scrutiny; some could be disabling. On the other hand, it is precisely her differences from the others that make her candidacy interesting and potentially constructive. If she is different from the others in the way that she seems to be, I say: vive la difference!
I would therefore urge everybody who wants to build a Left alternative within the framework of the Democratic Party to check her out.
It’s okay, people lie to congress all the time it’s not a crime to tell your lawyer to lie to congress... I don’t know I’m just trying to figure out how Republicans will cover for him now. THIS IS ALL FINE AND NORMAL IN ORANGE AMERICA.
By Jonah Goldberg @ NationalReview.com, Jan. 17
[....] I’m not taking Pelosi’s side in this as a political or policy matter, but I would love to see it dawn on Congress that the executive branch is not in fact the boss of the legislative branch and that, over the long term, Congress actually has a lot more power over the executive than the other way around. Given the politics of the moment, I think things would have to get a lot worse before GOP congressmen see themselves more as defenders of their institution than their party. But it seems this is the way such a long-overdue awakening could start [....]
Wow, this story is clearly intended sabotage of someone by the "people" who are the sources. Directed towards?
Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin.
By Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier @ BuzzFeedNews.com, January 17, 10:11 p.m. ET
President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.
Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. “Make it happen,” the sources said Trump told Cohen.
And even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, the sources said Trump and his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project. [....]
Part 4 of Axios World Update by Dave Lawler for Jan. 17
[....] Axios Markets Editor Dion Rabouin reports that, so far, investors like what they see.
What they're saying: "He has met or exceeded expectations," said Jim Barrineau, head of emerging markets debt at Schroders. "We were skeptical that he would be able to balance his desire for social programs with a reasonable fiscal policy. So far it seems like he has."
- Mexican Finance Minister Carlos Urzua and a team met with dozens of investors in New York recently. It was called "impressive" and "confidence building" by attendees.
- "We are very pleased," said Jin Zhang, an executive director and portfolio manager at Vontobel Asset Management who oversees $39 billion and says he holds significant investments in Mexican stocks. "We had been watching pretty closely the whole process." [....]
By Michael Erard @ TheAtlantic.com, Jan. 16
Insights into the little-studied realm of last words
Beijing’s action poses global threat, Trudeau minister warns; tensions escalate further in feud over Huawei executive
In case you don't recognize the name, yes it's the going-to-feed-Puerto-Rico-after-the-hurricane chef:
Home to both Microsoft and Amazon, the area is a potent symbol of the housing crisis that has followed the explosive growth of tech hubs. The investment represents the most ambitious effort by a tech company to directly address the inequality in communities transformed by the tech boom.
By Karen Weise @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 16
[.....] Microsoft’s money represents the most ambitious effort by a tech company to directly address the inequality that has spread in areas where the industry is concentrated, particularly on the West Coast. It will fund construction for homes affordable not only to the company’s own non-tech workers, but also for teachers, firefighters and other middle- and low-income residents.
Microsoft’s move comes less than a year after Amazon successfully pushed to block a new tax in Seattle that would have made large businesses pay a per-employee tax to fund homeless services and the construction of affordable housing. The company said the tax created a disincentive to create jobs. Microsoft, which is based in nearby Redmond, Wash., and has few employees who work in the city, did not take a position on the tax [....]