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| By Mike Allen ·Sep 29, 2021 |
| Happy Wednesday! Smart Brevity™ count: 1,196 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. 🎬 Axios wins first Emmy. Details @ item 10. 🔮 Join Axios' Bryan Walsh today at 12:30 p.m. ET for a virtual event on AI's Industrial Revolution. Guests include Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and Intel #SmartCities expert Sameer Sharma. Sign up here. |
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| 1 big thing: Biden won't beg |
| An ice-cream truck serves near the Capitol on Monday. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images President Biden has kept a public distance from Hill fights that'll help define his legacy, based on confidence that Dems will ultimately be with him despite bucking and bellyaching. - "He's not gonna beg," said an official with firsthand knowledge of the president's mindset. "His view is: 'You're Democrats, and you're with your president or you're not.'"
The hardball is driven by several factors, according to people who have discussed the negotiations with Biden: - He's from a generation of politicians for whom party loyalty is automatic.
- He's confident Speaker Pelosi will deliver.
- He believes he'll ultimately get a big win.
Backstory: Biden's approach is shaped partly by his 36 years as a senator — and sense that presidents should demand outcomes rather than details, Axios' Margaret Talev reports. - Another twist is Biden's place in the shifting Democratic Party. For decades, he was on the liberal end. But in the 2020 primary field, he was centrist.
- So it'd be politically risky for him to be the tip of the spear on tangling with progressives. His approach: Let Pelosi and Bernie do it.
Biden advisers say he's lobbying LBJ-style: making his case on merits, loyalty, politics — and arm twisting. - Biden met separately at the White House yesterday with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
The president postponed a vaccination-themed trip to Chicago today so he can stay back to lobby. - Besides Biden's meetings, White House aides report 260 "engagements" on the legislation with members and top advisers.
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| 2. Workplace fights over shots |
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| A surge of searchers on the job site Indeed are hunting for roles that don't require COVID vaccination — mostly health-care jobs, Erica Pandey writes for Axios What's Next. - Job postings requiring the shot are on the rise. Expect even more as forthcoming federal rules on vaccines at work become clearer.
Corporate America has become a central vaccine enforcer: United Airlines said yesterday it'll begin terminating 593 employees who are vax refusers. 96% of United's U.S. workers complied. What's next: Companies are raising questions about who'll pay for administration-ordered testing, and how OSHA will determine which businesses must comply. 🥊 In a Gartner survey of 272 legal, compliance and HR executives at companies across the country, 15% of companies said they'd fire workers who refuse the shot. - New vaccination rules may add to the "great resignation": 69% of firms fear increased turnover with vaccine mandates, Gartner found.
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| 3. 🧠 Explainer: "White replacement theory" |
| Some elected Republicans have begun promoting "white replacement theory," a decades-old concept that was invoked by white nationalists in Charlottesville in 2017, Axios' Dan Primack and Russell Contreras report. - Why it matters: This mainstreams what once was the sole provenance of white supremacists.
What it is: "White replacement theory" posits the existence of a plot to change America's racial composition by methodically enacting policies that reduce white Americans' political power. - The current context is anti-immigration.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) last week tweeted an endorsement of "Replacement Theory." Gaetz later tweeted that he doesn't "think of replacement solely on race/ethnicity terms," and blamed "the Left/Media." |
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| A message from Google |
| Google is committing $10 billion to advance cybersecurity |
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| Widespread cyber attacks continue to threaten the private information of people, organizations, and governments around the world. That's why Google is investing $10 billion to expand zero-trust programs, help secure the software supply chain, and enhance open-source security. Learn more. |
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| 4. Pic du jour |
| Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) holds a prop representing Dems' $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, as he speaks to reporters after a Senate GOP lunch at the Capitol yesterday. - The White House says that with pay-fors, the package nets to $0.
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| 5. COVID rage prompts hospital panic buttons |
| Keith Mathis holds a panic button he helped create. Photo: Sara Karnes/Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader via AP Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on workers tripled after the onset of the pandemic, AP reports. - Cox Medical Center in Branson is adding buttons to ID badges for 400 employees in the emergency room and inpatient hospital rooms.
- Pushing the button alerts hospital security and launches a tracking system that will send help.
Context: Delta hit hard in southwestern Missouri. The Branson hospital has been at or near capacity for four months. |
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| 6. 🌐 Richard Haass: Foreign policy "woefully inadequate" |
| Richard Haass — president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "The World: A Brief Introduction" — writes in the Nov./Dec. issue of Foreign Affairs that the new U.S. foreign-policy consensus is "not an across-the-board isolationism — after all, a hawkish approach to China is hardly isolationist — but rather the rejection of ... internationalism." - "The problem with the emerging American approach to the world," Haass writes, "is that the consensus is woefully inadequate, above all in its failure to appreciate just how much developments thousands of miles away affect what happens at home."
- "It is also rife with self-defeating contradictions, especially when it comes to China."
- Keep reading.
🇷🇺 Also in this issue ... "The Kremlin's Strange Victory: How Putin Exploits American Dysfunction and Fuels American Decline," by Fiona Hill, former NSC senior director for Europe and Russia. |
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| 7. Obama: "This day has been a long time coming" |
| Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, former President Obama, Michelle Obama and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot break ground yesterday. Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images The Obama Presidential Center, scheduled to open in 2025, will include a museum, forum building with community space, branch of the Chicago Public Library and an athletic center. - The grounds will include a vegetable garden, sledding hill, playgrounds and open space for community events — farmers' markets, family reunions and picnics, the Obama Foundation said.
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| 8. Astro, your home robot |
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| Photo: Collin Hughes/Amazon via AP |
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| Astro — a $1,000 robot from Amazon that begins shipping later this year — can check if you left the stove on, or send an alert if a stranger enters. - Astro (the name of the Jetsons' dog) uses cameras and sensors to avoid dogs and walls.
Photo: Amazon via AP Snacks or a soda can be placed on its back to be carted to someone across the house, AP reports. |
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| 9. ⚾️ Congress at the bat |
| Cheerleaders for Rs and Ds show their spirit before the Congressional Baseball Game of 1966. Photo: Mickey Senko/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Washington's partisan divide moves to Nats Park tonight for the 86th Congressional Baseball Game, which graduated from C-SPAN to Fox Sports 1 (7 p.m. ET), Axios' Jeff Tracy writes for Axios Sports. The backdrop: The inaugural contest was played in 1909, when former MLB player and then-Pennsylvania congressman John Tener organized a game among his colleagues. - The Democrats beat the Republicans that day, 26-16, but the all-time series couldn't be any tighter, with one tie and 42 wins apiece.
Wild coincidence: When President Biden played as a senator in the 1970s, he wore a Phillies jersey ... No. 46. |
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| 10. 🎬 "Axios on HBO" wins first Emmy |
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| Screenshot from National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |
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| Jonathan Swan and "Axios on HBO" won the News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Edited Interview" for "President Donald J. Trump: An interview." - Congrats and thank you to DCTV's Perri Peltz and Matthew O'Neill — the co-creators, directors, producers, maestros, magicians of "Axios on HBO."
- The show received two other nominations.
"A matter of facts": "Axios on HBO" returns Sunday at 6 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max. |
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