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THIS IS GOING TO Be AN Accommodating TOUGH DAY for Firm Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY — and to a large caste, it's a self-inflicted predicament.

The House's Jan. half dozen committee makes its debut this morning.

For the first fourth dimension across dozens of high-contour Trump-related oversight hearings, Republican leadership and allies will have no vocalism on the panel. (It's going to be weird for us Hill watchers who are used to Rep. JIM Jordan (R-Ohio) lobbing procedural grenades into proceedings to start fights. More on that from Olivia Beavers … )

McCarthy's rather abrupt decision last week to pull his members from the January. vi committee means that Democrats — and their ii GOP allies on this issue, LIZ CHENEY (Wyo.) and ADAM KINZINGER (Sick.) — will have complimentary rein to fix the narrative. (This is why several folks on McCarthy'due south own leadership team thought that pulling out was a bad thought.)

Here'due south how that narrative is shaping up:

— Uniformed police officers who put their lives on the line to defend Congress on Jan. six will testify near the horrors they endured that twenty-four hours. Rep. BENNIE THOMPSON (D-Miss.), the chair of the console, previews their stories in a WaPo op-ed: "[Metropolitan Constabulary officer MICHAEL] FANONE voluntarily rushed to the Capitol … [then] suffered a traumatic encephalon injury and a centre attack … [MPD officeholder DANIEL] HODGES can be seen existence crushed by the mob every bit he and his boyfriend officers sought to defend a narrow hallway leading to a Capitol entrance … [U.Due south. Capitol Constabulary officer HARRY] DUNN was one of the first officers to speak publicly near … the racial epithets he and others faced. [USCP officer AQUILINO] GONELL, a veteran who had been deployed to Iraq … was beaten with a pole carrying an American flag."

— Their testimony alone is a public relations disaster for Republicans. The GOP likes to avowal that they "back the blue" and are the party of "law and society." But in snuffing out the possibility of a nonpartisan commission to probe the Jan. 6 attacks, McCarthy effectively brushed aside pleas from law enforcement to authorize the investigation. Now, after pulling out from the select committee, Republicans (salve for Cheney and Kinzinger) will be absent equally the officers speak.

— Meanwhile, where will some of the most vocal pro-Trump Business firm Republicans exist instead? Reps. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.), MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.), PAUL GOSAR (R-Ariz.) and LOUIE GOHMERT (R-Texas) volition head to the Justice Department to protest the "treatment of Jan. 6th prisoners." (Notation the language: not "rioters" charged with violent acts; "Jan. sixth prisoners," as if locked upwardly for their political views.) This comes as some of the nearly hardcore Trumpies in the House have sought to bandage the siege every bit a peaceful protestation — a rewriting of history that McCarthy, frankly, has done little to push back on publicly.

— Meanwhile, McCarthy wants to focus attention on Speaker NANCY PELOSI's unprecedented power movement last week to cake two Republican lawmakers from the Jan. 6 committee. House GOP leaders will take a press conference this forenoon before the hearing, no doubt looking to try and frame the twenty-four hours'due south proceedings.

— But ask yourself this: Do you think McCarthy's complaints nearly Pelosi will mollify DONALD TRUMP when he turns on his Goggle box and sees no Republicans on the dais defending him?

What's next for the probe? Kicking off with nonpartisan cops is a politically smart movement for Democrats — who tin argue against police in uniform? — but in that location's already plenty of chatter about where they get from here. Nosotros've heard conflicting things from folks close to the committee virtually whether they'll amendment people like so-White Firm chief of staff MARK MEADOWS or congressional Republicans who spoke with Trump that solar day. But it's hard to imagine this probe could be considered complete until they have.

— "Democrats prep a somber still TV-ready first hearing in Jan. 6 probe," by Nicholas Wu, Heather Caygle and Olivia Beavers: "Democrats want Americans glued to their TVs Tuesday for the first hearing of the January. 6 select commission. They besides don't desire a circus. … The 4 officers will be dressed in their uniforms to testify, despite appearing in a personal capacity. Questions to them will exist limited and interwoven with video footage. And members are restricted to one round of back-and-forth, ensuring the hearing lasts but a few hours."

NEW POLLING ON January. 6 — Beyond all of the political jousting is a public that wants more information about what happened on Jan. half dozen. According to a new Political leader/Forenoon Consult poll, 58% of American voters back up a congressional commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6. But that back up breaks downwards forth political party lines: It'southward supported past 83% of Autonomous voters but only 34% of Republicans (52% outright oppose it).

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IN LIGHTER NEWS — "Michigan lawmaker reports $221 entrada spending at strip club," by the Detroit News' Beth LeBlanc and Craig Mauger: "A Michigan lawmaker reported spending $221 of his entrada money at a strip order in Dearborn for a March 8 'constituent coming together' to discuss 'potential economic projects,' according to a disclosure filed Sunday."

— Line of the mean solar day: "'We accept (to) meet people where they're at some times ... #HOLLA,' [state Rep. JEWELL] JONES said in a text message afterwards the interview. He added that the club had 'great lamb chops.'"

JOE BIDEN'S TUESDAY:

— x:xv a.g.: The president and VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive the President'southward Daily Brief.

— two:20 p.thou.: Biden will speak to the Intelligence Community workforce and leadership at the Office of the Manager of National Intelligence in McLean, Va.

HARRIS' TUESDAY:

— Apex: The VP will speak virtually to the National Bar Clan.

— 4:fifteen p.thou.: The VP will host a conversation along with Interior Secretarial assistant DEB HAALAND focused on voting rights, meeting with tribal and other Alaska Native and American Indian leaders.

Printing secretarial assistant JEN PSAKI volition cursory at 12:30 p.chiliad.

THE House will meet at 10 a.m. The Jan. vi select commission will concur its first hearing at nine:30 a.m.

THE SENATE volition meet at 10:30 a.m. to have upward TODD KIM's nomination as an assistant A.G., with a vote at 11:30 a.m. The chamber will recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:xv p.yard. Haaland will testify before the Free energy and Natural Resources Commission at 10 a.thou. Secretary of Homeland Security ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS will testify before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at 10 a.m. American Federation of Teachers President RANDI WEINGARTEN and New York A.G. TISH JAMES will testify before a Cyberbanking subcommittee hearing on pupil loan borrowers at 3 p.chiliad.

NEVER-ENDING INFRASTRUCTURE Twelvemonth

STATE OF PLAY — "High-stakes infrastructure talks stall out as borderline passes," by Marianne LeVine and Burgess Everett: "Senators capped off a mean solar day of trading blame and stalled efforts on their bipartisan infrastructure proposal with a Monday meeting that chop-chop bankrupt up, signaling a tough path forrad as negotiators missed withal another self-imposed deadline.

"The cadre x senators huddled in the role of Sen. ROB PORTMAN (R-Ohio), the pb Republican negotiator, hoping to get past a rough weekend of fruitless talks. … Portman said he was still optimistic about a bargain despite rejected offers, finger pointing and impasses. He and White House advisor STEVE RICCHETTI will aid finish the deal, negotiators said, with input from the rest of the group. … Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER … warned that more than foot-dragging could require the Senate to stay in over the weekend or cuts to some of the upcoming Baronial recess."

THE WHITE Business firm

MUCK READ — "Brother of summit Biden advisor lobbied Executive Office of the President on behalf of GM," past CNBC's Brian Schwartz: "The report shows that JEFF RICCHETTI, brother of White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, engaged with the NSC for the auto-making giant on 'issues related to China.' The visitor paid Ricchetti $60,000 concluding quarter for his lobbying services.

"Jeff Ricchetti's work to lobby the NSC, which is part of the Executive Office of the President, comes every bit he tries to publicly distance his work from his brother … Jeff Ricchetti said in an e-mail to CNBC that he no longer lobbies the White House Part … He did not respond several other questions, including whom he spoke with at the National Security Council on behalf of GM, and specifically what he was lobbying about with regard to China."

HERE We Go AGAIN — "Biden team weighs return to mask mandates in some states," by Erin Banco, Adam Cancryn and Anita Kumar

CONGRESS

IS IMMIGRATION INFRASTRUCTURE? — On Monday, calls grew for comprehensive immigration reform to be added to the reconciliation package, with both Reps. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD (D-Calif.) and JAMAAL BOWMAN (D-N.Y.) signing on via Twitter — though stopping curt of saying they'd otherwise block the legislation. More on that from Roll Call … Bloomberg'due south Laura Litvan has the readout on what the policy could await like

ALL IN THE FAMILY — "Matt Gaetz'south Futurity Sis-in-Constabulary Says He's a Gaslighting 'Creep,'" by The Daily Animal's Roger Sollenberger

THE PANDEMIC CONGRESS — "Pelosi's new COVID plans," past Axios' Hans Nichols: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is expected to extend proxy voting through the fall — and potentially until the end of the year."

POLICY CORNER

CLEAR Eyes, EMPTY SHELVES — "From ports to rail yards, global supply lines struggle amid virus outbreaks in the developing world," by WaPo'due south David Lynch: "Fresh coronavirus outbreaks are forcing manufactory shutdowns in countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, aggravating supply concatenation disruptions that could leave some U.S. retailers with empty shelves as consumers begin their back-to-school shopping."

DEEP Swoop — "How Unemployment Insurance Fraud Exploded During the Pandemic," by ProPublica'due south Cezary Podkul: "Bots filing bogus applications in bulk, teams of fraudsters in foreign countries making phony claims, online forums peddling how-to communication on identity theft: Within the infrastructure of peradventure the largest fraud wave in history."

PANDEMIC

IN THE DANGER ZONE — "'What's Covid?' Why People at America's Hardest-Partying Lake Are Non About to Get Vaccinated," past Natasha Korecki in Osage Embankment, Mo.: "A yr ago, Backwater Jack's made national news afterward photos went viral of partiers packed inside the puddle surface area, ignoring guidelines to avoid crowds and go on a distance from others. Today, as revelers express joy and toss back drinks in shallow pool water, some 600,000 deaths later, they aren't just forgoing masks, they are forgoing the vaccine. …

"Interviews with dozens of the clientele frequenting dockside confined, restaurants and resorts in this surface area … revealed an opposition to the vaccine campaign and a disbelief in news around the Delta variant and then intense it bordered on belligerence. No promise, they say, would entice them to voluntarily get vaccinated, not a $1 million bank check, or a plea from a loved i, or the encouragement of Donald Trump himself."

THE NEW WAVE — Equally it becomes ever clearer that a lackluster vaccination rate is imperiling the whole country's ability to extricate itself from the Covid-nineteen pandemic, a flurry of activity Monday showed governments getting impatient with cajoling vaccinations and starting to require them — marking "an abrupt shift in policy for some of the nation'southward largest public employers," as Victoria Colliver writes in her x,000-foot view from Oakland.

— "V.A. Issues Vaccine Mandate for Wellness Care Workers, a First for a Federal Agency," past NYT's Jennifer Steinhauser

— "California government, health workers must show proof of vaccination or exist tested regularly," by L.A. Times' Luke Coin, Emily Alpert Reyes and Taryn Luna

— "NYC to require vaccines or weekly testing for city workers," AP

— The legal underpinning: "Federal constabulary doesn't prohibit Covid-19 vaccine requirements, Justice Section says," CNN

AMERICA AND THE WORLD

MOMMY, WHY DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A Bomb? — "A 2d New Nuclear Missile Base of operations for Cathay, and Many Questions Near Strategy," by NYT'south William Wide and David Sanger: "In the barren desert 1,200 miles due west of Beijing, the Chinese authorities is digging a new field of what appears to be 110 silos for launching nuclear missiles. It is the second such field discovered by analysts studying commercial satellite images in recent weeks.

"It may signify a vast expansion of China's nuclear arsenal — the cravings of an economic and technological superpower to show that, afterwards decades of restraint, it is ready to wield an armory the size of Washington'southward, or Moscow's. Or, it may simply be a artistic, if plush, negotiating ploy. The new silos are clearly being built to be discovered."

POLITICS ROUNDUP

TODAY'S SPECIAL ELECTION — "Susan Wright, Jake Ellzey make final pitches to voters in runoff to replace Ron Wright in Congress," past Dallas Morning time News' Gromer Jeffers Jr.

AND THE Adjacent ONE — "Left goes all-in for Nina Turner in tightening Ohio race," past Marry Mutnick in Cleveland: "Desperate for a victory later centrist candidates prevailed in Virginia, New York Metropolis and Louisiana, [Rep. ALEXANDRIA] OCASIO-CORTEZ and other stars of the left are barnstorming the commune to help [NINA] TURNER in next week's special Democratic master — every bit polls show her once-yawning pb dwindling. …

"While knocking doors last weekend, Turner'due south fame was clearly on display. A few voters were visibly starstruck past her appearance on her doorstep, and two told her the stop had made their day. … But the same outspokenness that made her a breakout star at [BERNIE] SANDERS rallies has besides handed detractors some armament."

WHAT THE LEFT IS READING — "What the Congressional Black Conclave Lost When It Won Power," by Due north.Y. Mag's Zak Cheney-Rice

QUITE A READ — "Kathy Barnette's futile chase for voter fraud outside Philadelphia — and what it says about the GOP," by Philly Inquirer'southward Andrew Seidman: "[As KATHY] BARNETTE energized the deprival move with her futile hunt for voter fraud on Philadelphia's Principal Line, which hasn't been previously reported, the movement elevated her. She'southward now running in Pennsylvania'southward critical 2022 Senate race, raising more money than better-known opponents."

BEG, BORROW AND THIEL — "A political apparition of Silicon Valley," by Axios' Lachlan Markay: "Tech billionaire PETER THIEL is injecting huge sums into some crucial 2022 midterm contests — and drawing fire from Republicans eager to necktie their rivals to the GOP'southward Silicon Valley bogeymen. … JOSH MANDEL hit [J.D.] VANCE for positioning himself confronting Big Tech while he has 'a guy who is on the lath of Facebook as his biggest political funder.' … Text messages reviewed past Axios show Mandel flagged his candidacy announcement for Thiel and followed up to request meetings with him in February and March. Thiel does non appear to have responded."

BEYOND THE BELTWAY

THE SHADOW 2024 Forepart-RUNNER — "'Sellout': Anti-vax conservatives come for DeSantis," by Matt Dixon in Tallahassee: "Florida'due south Covid crisis has wedged Gov. RON DESANTIS betwixt ii competing forces: public wellness experts who urge him to do more and anti-vaxxers who want him to do less. … [A]s Covid infections swell beyond the state, DeSantis' major achievement has the potential to backlash on him ahead of his 2022 reelection campaign and potential 2024 presidential bid."

THE NEW VOTING RESTRICTIONS — "The Texas Election Bill Contains a New Obstacle to Voting That Almost No 1 Is Talking Almost," by Votebeat's Jessica Huseman in Texas Monthly: "[Yard]ost lawmakers have apparently overlooked a provision that would force counties to automatically reject some mail-in ballot applications. … ane.ix million voters — about xi per centum of the full — have only one of the 2 [required] numbers on file with the state."

THE Nearly VALUABLE Make it POLITICS — "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets all-important endorsement from Donald Trump over swain Republican George P. Bush," past Texas Tribune'south Patrick Svitek

SCARY NEWS — "Onetime California Sen. Barbara Boxer robbed, assaulted in Oakland," by the San Francisco Chronicle's Emma Talley

TRUMP CARDS

BARRACK'Due south ROW — "Tom Banter Pleads Non Guilty to Foreign Agent Charges," Variety

CLASSY — "Michael Flynn Totes Rifle And Jokes 'Maybe I'll Detect Somebody in Washington, D.C.,'" Newsweek

VALLEY TALK

THE THREAT Within — "Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database," past Reuters' Elizabeth Culliford: "A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared betwixt firms in a fundamental database, aiming to crack downwards on cloth from white supremacists and far-right militias …

"Until at present, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a Un list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such equally Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban."

LADIES' NIGHT FOR GOP WOMEN — It's been eight months since Election Mean solar day, but House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (Due north.Y.) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) are hosting a footling party tonight at the Capitol Hill Club to gloat the historic number of Republican women elected to Congress concluding fall. (Nosotros at Playbook fully endorse parties of all sorts, even a quarter-twelvemonth late!) We hear RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel will attend, too. For context, read Rachael's story from concluding fall well-nigh the very diverse — and Female! — freshman class

DCCC COVID SCARE — Two fully vaccinated DCCC staffers have tested positive for the coronavirus following a happy hour concluding calendar week, we're told by two sources familiar. The DCCC confirmed the cases to Playbook, and said "staff and event attendees were … notified." "The part is optionally open to fully vaccinated individuals and fully in compliance with CDC guidelines," the committee said. Information technology'south a reminder that while life returns to something similar normal, we're still in the throes of a historic pandemic. Be safe.

SPOTTED at the 20th anniversary of the First Tee "Politics and Pros" clemency golf event Monday at TPC Avenel, where Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), Lyndon Drunkard and Baker Elmore got "spirit awards": Reps. Rick Allen (R-Ga.), Blake Moore (R-Utah), Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) and Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Matt Kuchar, Doug Ghim, Billy Hurley 3, Gary Hallberg, Shasta Averyhardt, Jan Stephenson, Ken Harvey, Marty Russo, Bryan Anderson, Mike Johnson, Jesse McCollum, Steve Ubl, Kathryn Kennedy, Robert Fisher, Tony Kavanagh, Michael Hutton, P.C. Koch, Gerry Harrington, Jake Perry, Josh Brown, Tony Russo, Dontai Smalls, Yong Choe, Robbie Aiken, Bryan Jacobs, Rick Lombardo, David Culver, Clint Sanchez, Katie Casper and Will Lowery.

Kickoff IN PLAYBOOK — The America First Policy Found is announcing Ken Blackwell and Hogan Gidley as the chair and director of their center for election integrity. Blackwell is a former Ohio secretary of state, and Gidley was deputy press secretary in the Trump White House.

— Nicole Lewis is joining Slate as senior editor for the jurisprudence department. She nigh recently has been a staff writer at The Marshall Project, and is a WaPo alum.

MEDIA MOVES — The NYT is shuffling David Halbfinger to be politics editor (virtually recently Jerusalem bureau master) and Manny Fernandez to be deputy politics editor (currently Los Angeles bureau master). Declaration

TRANSITIONS — Keaghan Ames is now director of government affairs at the Plant of International Bankers. He most recently was head of regulatory policy at Credit Suisse. … Bethany Torstenson is joining Harris Media LLC as a senior account executive. She previously was deputy campaign manager for Amanda Makki'due south Florida congressional bid.

ENGAGED — Mike Carroll proposed to Mallory Quigley, VP of comms at Susan B. Anthony Listing, on Friday evening at the National Basilica in the Our Lady of Guadalupe chapel. They both grew upwards in Gaithersburg and had many friends in common, but never met until they matched on Swivel in the early days of the pandemic. Motion picture

— Tim Churchill, federal legislative affairs director at the NRA, and Victoria Snitsar, Virginia field coordinator at American Bulk and American Majority Activity and an Iowa Trump Victory alum, got engaged Saturday exterior the U.Southward. Capitol building post-obit dinner at Fogo de Chão. They originally met when she was in D.C. for a briefing in 2017 and he led her group on a Capitol tour. Pic

WEEKEND Nuptials — Zeke Miller, an AP White House reporter, and Jessie Crystal, a second class instructor at the Sheridan School, got married Sunday at her family unit dwelling in Westhampton Embankment, North.Y. They were introduced in 2017 by Jessie'due south sister and brother-in-law, Lara Crystal and Rob Saliterman. Pic

HAPPY Altogether: Rep. Glenn "Yard.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) … Sean Savett … sometime Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) … Priscilla Painton of Simon & Schuster … Katie Wheelbarger … Alex Wirth of Quorum … Andy Spahn … BuzzFeed's Paul McLeod … Cecilia Muñoz of New America … Berin Szóka … U.Due south. Southern Command's Adm. Craig Faller … RNC's Johanna Persing … Jeremy Adler of Rep. Liz Cheney'due south (R-Wyo.) office … Prime Policy Group's Stefan Bailey (45) … John Connell of Sen. Todd Young's (R-Ind.) office (38) … Linda Feldmann … Gaurav Parikh of Smart Policy Group and Pregnant Consulting … Jason Lindsay … Bobby Cunningham of VH Strategies … Live Action's Lila Rose … Bobby Saparow … Jeremy Deutsch of Capitol Venture … Anna McCormack of Rep. David Rouzer's (R-N.C.) function … MSNBC'south Denis Horgan … Juan Mejia … Ashley Howard of Sen. Rob Portman'due south (R-Ohio) office … Paul Dranginis … Andrew Grossman … onetime Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) … Lauren Aratani … erstwhile Commerce Secretary Don Evans … Susan Durrwachter … quondam CIA Director John One thousand. Deutch … PJ Wenzel

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