| | | | | |  | | By Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, Eli Okun and Garrett Ross | Presented by Facebook | THE CABINET … DHS, DNI AND JOHN KERRY IS BACK … NYT'S MICHAEL CROWLEY: "Biden Will Nominate First Woman to Lead Intelligence, First Latino to Run Homeland Security": "At an event in Wilmington, Del., [on Tuesday] Mr. Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, his transition office said, and Avril Haines to be his director of national intelligence. He intends to name [John] Kerry as a special presidential envoy on climate. … "If confirmed, Mr. Mayorkas, who served as deputy Homeland Security secretary from 2013 to 2016, would be the first Latino to run the department charged with implementing and managing the nation's immigration policies. "A Cuban-born immigrant whose family fled the Castro revolution, he is a former U.S. attorney in California and began Mr. Obama's first term as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He will have to restore trust in the department after many key Democratic constituencies came to see it as the vessel for some of Mr. Trump's most contentious policies." -- MAYORKAS would be the second Jewish DHS secretary -- MICHAEL CHERTOFF was the first. -- FOR THE FOGGY BOTTOM PRESS CORPS: WHAT'S YOUR OVER/UNDER on KERRY trips to Paris? … KERRY will have a seat on the National Security Council. THE CONGRESSIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CAUCUS has sent a letter to the BIDEN TEAM urging them "to appoint highly qualified Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) candidates to your Cabinet and to ensure that AAPIs account for at least seven percent of cabinet-level and other appointed personnel within the federal workforce." The letter NEW … JOE BIDEN does not want Democrats to pare back their demands in order to reach a Covid relief deal with Republicans in the lame duck. ANDREW BATES sends along this statement: "The President-elect fully supports the Speaker and Leader in their negotiations." -- WHAT THAT MEANS: SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI has said for the last few months that no deal is better than a bad deal. PELOSI has pushed for a roughly $1 trillion package, while Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL has said he supports something closer to $500 billion. BIDEN says he's fully behind PELOSI. -- KNOWING ANDREW BATES: "Meet the Rapid Response director: Top Biden aide on how the 2020 campaign was unlike any other," by Fox News' Brooke Singman: "He's the guy behind the sarcastic tweets and clever comebacks — Andrew Bates — a quick-witted fighter and a key campaign official who helped to send Joe Biden to the White House. His campaign colleagues, including deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield, described him as a 'backbone' of the Biden press shop, and 'one of the best in the business.' … "The 33-year-old was brought into the world of politics more than a quarter-century ago by his dad. … Now, with the campaign behind him, Bates has pivoted to the Biden Transition Team — specifically focused on the confirmation process for key administration appointments." Fox News REEMA DODIN and SHUWANZA GOFF will be deputies on BIDEN'S leg affairs team. DODIN works for Sen. DICK DURBIN (D-Ill.), and GOFF works for House Majority Leader STENY HOYER. Both are very strong picks, which will be met with cheers from serious people on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. More from Megan Cassella Good Monday afternoon. This year's presidential turkeys are named CORN and COB. | | | | A message from Facebook: Facebook supports updated internet regulations
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Read more | | | THE DAM CONTINUES TO BREAK … -- SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas) in Austin this morning, per the Austin American-Statesman's KEN HERMAN (@kherman): "Sen. Cornyn, re pres election after helping out in Food Bank line in Austin this morning: 'Obviously, the outcome is becoming increasingly clear.' Says 'It seems like evidence of a systemic problem with our election seem to be wanting at this point.'" -- SEN. ROB PORTMAN (R-Ohio) in the CINCY ENQUIRER: "No proof of mass fraud that would change election result": "In the meantime, the General Services Administration (GSA) should go ahead and release the funds and provide the infrastructure for an official transition, and the Biden team should receive the requested intelligence briefings and briefings on the coronavirus vaccine distribution plan. This is only prudent. Donald Trump is our president until Jan. 20, 2021, but in the likely event that Joe Biden becomes our next president, it is in the national interest that the transition is seamless and that America is ready on Day One of a new administration for the challenges we face." -- KYLE CHENEY and ZACH MONTELLARO: "President Donald Trump's push to subvert the 2020 election results may be hours away from collapse." POLITICO -- NYT: "Business Leaders, Citing Damage to Country, Urge Trump to Begin Transition," by Kate Kelly and Danny Hakim: "Concerned that President Trump's refusal to accept the election results is hurting the country, more than 100 chief executives plan to ask the administration on Monday to immediately acknowledge Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the winner and begin the transition to a new administration. "As a way of gaining leverage over the G.O.P., some of the executives have also discussed withholding campaign donations from the two Republican Senate candidates in Georgia unless party leaders agree to push for a presidential transition." NYT -- AXIOS: "Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman says Trump lost," by Hans Nichols and Jonathan Swan SHIFT IN THE TECH WORLD … THE INFORMATION: "Tech CEOs Are Saying Goodbye to San Francisco," by Cory Weinberg, Kate Clark and Zoë Bernard: "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Splunk CEO Douglas Merritt both recently bought homes in Austin, with plans to make the Texas capital their permanent residences, they have told people at their firms. Brex's 20-something co-founders, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, have decamped to Los Angeles and don't plan to renew the company's San Francisco office lease next year, they told The Information. None of the moves has been previously reported." SIREN -- WAPO'S WILLIAM WAN: "[W]hen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently asked young adults if they had thought about killing themselves in the past 30 days, 1 of 4 said they had. America's system for monitoring suicides is so broken and slow that experts won't know until roughly two years after the pandemic whether suicides have risen nationally. But coroners and medical examiners are already seeing troubling signs." WaPo PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION -- WAPO'S @DavidNakamura: "DC Mayor @MurielBowser reducing outdoor gathering size max from 50 to 25 people starting Wednesday. Indoor gatherings limited to 10 people. Reducing indoor restaurant capacity to 25 percent on Dec. 14, houses of worship reduced 100 to 50 people max. Indoor gym classes suspended." | | | | TRACK THE TRANSITION : President-elect Biden has named his chief of staff and several other key White House positions. What's next? Treasury secretary? Secretary of State? These and other crucial staffing decisions made in the coming days send clear-cut signals about President-elect Biden's administration agenda and priorities. Transition Playbook is the definitive guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history. Written for political insiders, it tracks the appointments, people, and the emerging power centers of the new administration. Track the transition. Subscribe today. | | | | | YIKES -- "White House planning holiday parties indoors despite pandemic warnings," by ABC's Ben Gittleson: "While first lady Melania Trump's spokeswoman and chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement Sunday that the White House parties will take place in 'the safest environment possible' and noted a series of planned precautions, the gatherings contradict government warnings on events staged even partially indoors. … "ABC News obtained an invitation to a holiday reception scheduled for Nov. 30. … The first lady is scheduled to receive the official White House Christmas tree on Monday, and the building already has been bedecked with wreaths. This year's events will take place at least partly indoors, on the State Floor, according to Grisham, who added that there are 'smaller guest lists' and that 'masks will be required and available,' with social distancing measures encouraged and hand sanitizer stations posted throughout." ABC HOW TO DISTRIBUTE A VACCINE … "Now comes the hardest part: Getting a coronavirus vaccine from loading dock to upper arm," by WaPo's Lena Sun and Frances Stead Sellers: "The vaccines need to be distributed across 50 states, plus U.S. territories, that have different demographics and shifting needs. The two leading products must be stored at different temperatures and have different minimum orders, with each requiring two doses but at different intervals. "Complicating matters: A final decision on who is eligible to get the early doses must wait for a federal advisory group's recommendations. That can't happen until regulators authorize the new vaccines. And once set in motion, the distribution — from loading dock to upper arm — has to be accomplished equitably and with as few handoffs as possible because it's all being done amid a pandemic." … AND HOW TO SELL IT: "Ad Council's Challenge: Persuade Skeptics to Believe in Covid Vaccines," by NYT's Tiffany Hsu: "[A] marketing push is underway to persuade skeptical Americans to immunize themselves once vaccines are ready. The federal government, which has sent mixed messages about a pandemic that has caused more than 250,000 deaths nationwide, is not leading the charge. Instead, the private sector is backing a planned $50 million campaign to persuade people to protect themselves … "The Ad Council, a nonprofit advertising group, led a similar effort in the 1950s, when it urged Americans to get vaccinated against polio. Its Covid-19 vaccination push will be one of the largest public education crusades in history, the group said. On Monday, the Ad Council will announce the new campaign and start testing messaging. It will start rolling out public service announcements across airwaves, publications and social media next year, when vaccines are expected to be approved and made available to the public." NYT THE NEW COLD WAR -- "White House Weighs New Action Against Beijing," by WSJ's Bob Davis: "Senior Trump administration officials say they are pushing for new hard-line measures against Beijing, even as President Trump winds down his final two months in office. The most ambitious effort would create an informal alliance of Western nations to jointly retaliate when China uses its trading power to coerce countries, administration officials say. "They say the plan was sparked by Chinese economic pressure on Australia after that country called for an investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. … The administration is also looking to broaden its ban on imports from China's Xinjiang region that are made with forced labor, and add companies to a Commerce Department blacklist, including Chinese chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp." WSJ | | | | DON'T MISS THE MILKEN INSTITUTE FUTURE OF HEALTH SUMMIT 2020: POLITICO will feature a special edition Future Pulse newsletter at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit. The newsletter takes readers inside one of the most influential gatherings of global health industry leaders and innovators determined to confront and conquer the most significant health challenges. Covid-19 has exposed weaknesses across our health systems, particularly in the treatment of our most vulnerable communities, driving the focus of the 2020 conference on the converging crises of public health, economic insecurity, and social justice. Sign up today to receive exclusive coverage from December 7–9. | | | | | HMM … "A major Trump donor's company got a 3 percent government-backed pandemic loan. It sells title loans at a 350 percent annual rate," by WaPo's Todd Frankel: "A company owned by a major donor to President Trump that operates auto-title loan stores with names such as LoanStar and Moneymax secured a $25 million low-interest loan from a government pandemic aid program, using what consumer advocates describe as a loophole to a rule designed to prevent most lenders from getting this federal help. "The cash infusion to Wellshire Financial Services — part of a multi-state title loan empire run by Atlanta businessman Rod Aycox — came from the Federal Reserve's $600 billion Main Street Lending program for small- and medium-size businesses." WaPo ALL EYES ON GEORGIA -- "Georgia Is a Purple State, but Don't Expect Centrist Politicians," by NYT's Astead Herndon and Nick Corasaniti in Perry, Ga.: "The Republican Senate candidates in Georgia are spending tens of millions of dollars on an almost entirely negative advertising campaign, embracing a strategy of riling up the conservative base instead of reaching out to a cross-section of voters in hopes of generating enough turnout to win two critical runoff elections that will decide control of the Senate. … "There is no run to the center, despite Georgia's voting for a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time in decades and proving itself to be a true battleground state. … At campaign events and debates, as well as on airwaves with more than 27 different ads currently appearing, the candidates are racing furiously to motivate their own bases instead of catering to swing voters. Both parties have bet the house on turnout, not persuasion." NYT REALITY CHECK -- "Conservatives grumbling about censorship say they're flocking to Parler. They told us so on Twitter," by WaPo's Drew Harwell and Rachel Lerman: "The pro-Trump Internet can't stop talking about their exodus from Big Tech. But very few of them have actually abandoned their long-time social media homes." THIS TOWN -- "Washington's establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again," by WaPo's Roxanne Roberts: "At the heart of this optimism is the belief that politicians on both sides of the aisle get more accomplished when they like each other. And the other business of Washington — the cultural institutions, the diplomatic corps, the gala fundraisers, the hundreds of historical traditions — need bipartisanship to really thrive. They struggled during the Trump administration, when everything became a test of loyalty and the notion that good people could disagree without being disagreeable was laughable. … "Back to normal will mean more state dinners, a prestigious and glamorous way of reestablishing global ties. And it means that Washington events traditionally attended by the president and first lady for the better part of five decades -- the Honors, the Alfalfa dinner, the Gridiron, Ford's Theatre gala and the correspondents' dinner -- will likely return to their former glory." WaPo TRANSITIONS -- Debra DeShong will be EVP of public affairs at PhRMA. She most recently was SVP of global corporate comms and industry affairs at MGM Resorts International. … Jordan LaPier will be senior comms manager for the Partnership for Public Service's Service to America Medals. He previously was associate director for media relations at the Bipartisan Policy Center. WEEKEND WEDDING -- Jake Morabito, program coordinator at Software.org: the BSA Foundation and a Darrell Issa alum, and Jessica Miller, a lecturer in criminality and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, got married Saturday in a small ceremony at the Morrison House in Old Town Alexandria with family and friends. | | | |   | | | | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our politics and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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