| | | | | |  | | By Tara Palmeri | | | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | BIF/BBB LATEST — The House adjourned just after 10 p.m. on Thursday night as Speaker NANCY PELOSI and her leadership team struggled to round up votes to pass the twin infrastructure and Build Back Better bills. Democratic leadership announced the House will be back in session at 8 a.m. and votes would happen today. Our Nicholas Wu, Sarah Ferris and Heather Caygle posted a detailed state of play late Thursday night , writing that "senior Democrats privately believed they would have the votes" to pass BBB: "The planned Friday votes come after Pelosi and her leadership team spent a chaotic Thursday hustling to narrow the number of holdouts on the sweeping bill. Democrats made progress in three key areas: They reached a deal on repealing a Trump-era limit on state and local tax deductions, resolved concerns on immigration reform and convinced moderates to back a slightly altered drug pricing deal. "But Democratic leaders are still facing resistance from centrists who've raised procedural concerns, such as the lack of cost analysis, with the push for a vote on the sprawling social policy package this week. Pelosi circulated a letter Thursday night that included budgetary details from White House staff, but several Democrats say they want the details from Congress's independent scorekeepers, not a partisan office." — One reason for Democrats to be optimistic today: "[M]any in the caucus are set to embark on overseas trips ahead of next week's recess." A deadline, in other words, could help push them to act. — One reason for Democrats to be pessimistic: "But party leaders' failure to corral the votes they need on Thursday — after several exhausting weeks spent hashing out many of the same issues — has left some Democrats privately wondering how they'll pull it off on Friday." Even if Pelosi succeeds in getting BBB through the House, Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) is going "to change it anyway," Marianne LeVine and Burgess Everett write. "Manchin is making it clear that he's not paying much attention to what the House is crafting, memorably saying Wednesday that he has 'no idea' what they are doing." Meanwhile, NYT's Emily Cochrane and Jonathan Weisman report that President JOE BIDEN — who left Democratic leaders flabbergasted last week when he declined to press rank-and-file members for an imminent vote — is now fully engaged in the whipping effort. "Biden made personal calls on Thursday, as did PETE BUTTIGIEG, the transportation secretary, who reached out to at least one Democrat facing a tough re-election." | | A message from Facebook: Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations
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The inspiration for "Poolhouse" came after the two founders, then MITT ROMNEY staffers, took a rare weekend off during the 2012 campaign to rent a pool house in Nantucket, where they pledged that one day they would open their own firm. | • | DONALD TRUMP's orbit is anxiously awaiting Pennsylvania Senate candidate SEAN PARNELL's testimony Tuesday in the ugly custody battle with his wife. Trump endorsed Parnell in early September at the urging of DONALD TRUMP JR. But now another candidate is considering entering the race: DAVID MCCORMICK, the husband of former Trump White House official DINA POWELL. (Read POLITICO's scoop on this Thursday night.) McCormick is a financier who runs the massive hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. A veteran of the Gulf War, he also served as a Treasury Department official during the Bush administration. A person close to Trump told me McCormick's entry "would shake things up." While Trump is unlikely to rescind an endorsement, some close to the former president said they could see a scenario in which he endorses two candidates. | • | "The Trump government in exile," as one attendee described it, gathered at Mar-a-Lago for the America First Policy Institute fundraiser Thursday. Guests at the season's first major Mar-a-Lago money-making bash included MARK MEADOWS, former acting A.G. MATT WHITAKER, Rep. LAUREN BOEBERT (R-Colo.) in a "Let's Go Brandon" dress, Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.), LARRY KUDLOW, KELLYANNE CONWAY, SEAN SPICER, Rep. MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.), ANDREW WHEELER, CHAD WOLF and LINDA MCMAHON. Even JARED KUSHNER attended, despite a June report from CNN that he and IVANKA TRUMP had distanced themselves from Trump. | • | While some of the biggest talent at Fox News have skeptical views of Covid-19 vaccines, News Corp. honcho RUPERT MURDOCH is not messing around. At his 90th birthday party last week at Tavern on the Green, guests not only had to show proof of vaccination, they had to get a rapid nose swab test in order to enter. | • | BETO O'ROURKE is close to announcing his entry into the race for Texas governor, something he hinted at in a September interview with the Texas Tribune. A source close to him said he's still firming up who will run the campaign and its finances, but expect an announcement in the coming weeks. Adviser DAVID WYSONG said: "No decision has been made. He has been making and receiving calls with people from all over the state." | • | It's hard to imagine FX's "Impeachment" series without MONICA LEWINSKY as a driving force behind it, but at one point executive producer RYAN MURPHY considered not bringing her on as a consultant and producer, two sources familiar with the matter told Daniel Lippman and me. One of those sources said Murphy was looking at another script with a less flattering portrayal of Lewinsky that was more focused on her relationship with LINDA TRIPP. But Murphy was persuaded that not bringing Lewinsky on board would look like he was taking advantage of her in the midst of the #MeToo movement. A spox for Murphy told us: "There's only ever been one script. He always wanted Monica and loves her and loved working with her." Despite the much-hyped rollout, the series hasn't done great ratings-wise, which the NYT attributed to a lack of availability on streaming networks. | • | Their families had their differences, but first children CAROLINE KENNEDY and LUCY JOHNSON broke bread at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday night to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the White House Historical Association Gala. While Kennedy told the crowd about how her mother, JACKIE KENNEDY, founded the association, they sat under the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur, which was donated to the museum by Lucy's father, LYNDON B. JOHNSON. First lady JILL BIDEN offered her impressions of living in the White House after FRED RYAN admitted to having read her "Rate My Professor" profile. (He said the reviews were all great.) Also spotted: Adrienne Arsht, Mark Foley, Al Roker, Deborah Roberts, Martin Indyk, Gahl Burt, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Kevin Chaffee and Wilbur and Hilary Ross. | | Happy Friday. Thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza, Tara Palmeri. THE STRATEGISTS WHO MADE THE 'YOUNGKIN REPUBLICAN' — For the first time in 12 years, a Republican won the governorship in Virginia. And it wasn't just any victory — to claim the seat, Youngkin had to beat TERRY MCAULIFFE, former governor and Democratic royalty. Ryan digs into the narrow win with Youngkin campaign strategists JEFF ROE and KRISTIN DAVISON, and the mistakes they think McAuliffe's campaign made. Plus, senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian on the significant places Youngkin gained the most votes. Listen and subscribe to Playbook Deep Dive … More in POLITICO Magazine | 
| | | | |   | | | BIDEN'S FRIDAY: — 9:30 a.m.: The president will receive the President's Daily Brief. — 10:15 a.m.: Biden will deliver remarks on the October jobs report. — 12 p.m.: The Bidens will attend the funeral service for COLIN POWELL at the Washington National Cathedral. — Evening: Biden will depart the White House for Rehoboth Beach, Del. VP KAMALA HARRIS' FRIDAY: The VP will tour the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., at 4:05 p.m. and deliver remarks at 4:45 p.m., where she will announce that she will chair her first meeting of the National Space Council on Dec. 1. The council was revived by Trump in 2017 to craft space policy but has yet to meet during the Biden presidency. She will be joined by NASA Administrator BILL NELSON. Principal deputy press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE will brief at 2:30 p.m. The HOUSE will meet at 9 a.m., with last votes scheduled for 3 p.m. The SENATE is out. | | | | DON'T MISS CONGRESS MINUTES: Need to follow the action on Capitol Hill blow-by-blow? Check out Minutes, POLITICO's new platform that delivers the latest exclusives, twists and much more in real time. Get it on your desktop or download the POLITICO mobile app for iOS or Android. CHECK OUT CONGRESS MINUTES HERE. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | | 
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin shakes Gov. Ralph Northam's hand outside the Executive Mansion in Richmond after a transition meeting Thursday. | Steve Helber/AP Photo | ALL POLITICS NEW RNC FINANCE CHAIR — Alex Isenstadt scoops this morning that TODD RICKETTS is stepping down from his post as RNC finance chair. "Ricketts will be succeeded by DUKE BUCHAN, a Florida-based investor who served as ambassador to Spain under former President Donald Trump. Buchan is set to assume the post in January." Ricketts, part of one of the most prominent GOP donor families, replaced STEVE WYNN in the post in 2018. NOT A GOOD LOOK — Arizona gubernatorial candidate KARI LAKE, who was endorsed by Trump, posed for photographs and videos with Nazi sympathizers and people linked to QAnon, CNN's Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski report. FLORIDA NO LONGER A SWING STATE? — The Democratic Governors Association isn't planning to make a significant financial play to unseat Florida Gov. RON DESANTIS next year, Matt Dixon reports . It's a stark acknowledgment of DeSantis' popularity and Democrats' declining fortunes in the once-perennial swing state, where — just three years after DeSantis won by a margin so narrow that the race went to a recount — Democrats now face a "crisis of confidence." For its part, the DGA is instead focusing its 2022 efforts on shoring up Democratic incumbents in other states. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — After Dems' rough showings in Virginia and New Jersey, The States Project is convening a group of major donors and lawmakers Sunday to discuss a $31 million effort to help Dems craft a message to win statehouses in 2022. We're told the virtual meetup organized by the group — which focuses on building a bigger bench of progressives in state legislatures — was in the works before this week's elections, but kicked into overdrive after the party's poor performance. WHITE HOUSE FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The White House is deploying Jill Biden on a nationwide tour starting Monday to urge parents to vaccinate their kids ages 5-11. She's kicking off the push at a historic site: Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Va., the first school to administer the polio vaccine in 1954. JUDICIARY SQUARE TAKING ON TEXAS — The Department of Justice sued Texas over its restrictive new voting law, signed by Republican Gov. GREG ABBOTT in September, arguing it "would disenfranchise several groups of vulnerable Texans, including voters who do not speak English and those with disabilities," NYT's Reid Epstein, Nick Corasaniti and Katie Benner report. "The department argues that the law violates the Voting Rights Act by limiting the help that poll workers can provide to voters." Abbott responded on Twitter: "Bring it. The Texas election integrity law is legal." He added it was "easier to vote but harder to cheat" in Texas. | | | |   | | | JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH TRUMP LOSES ROUND ON DOCUMENTS FIGHT — A federal judge on Thursday "appeared unwilling to block the release of scores of White House documents from the National Archives sought by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol," a move requested by Trump's legal team. NBC's Pete Williams has more. GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS — Twice in the past week, the House select committee on Jan. 6 has interviewed a rioter with knowledge of "contacts between GOP officials in a key state Trump lost and allies of the former president in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack," Kyle Cheney reports. "The person interviewed was one of the 650-plus defendants charged in the attack, and discussed those contacts in a voluntary interview with congressional investigators." TRUMP CARDS NEW GRAND JURY IN TRUMP ORG CASE, via WaPo's Shayna Jacobs, David Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell : "The Manhattan district attorney has convened a second long-term grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump Organization's financial practices and potentially to vote on criminal charges, according to people with knowledge of the matter. An earlier grand jury returned felony indictments against two Trump companies and Trump's longtime chief financial officer ALLEN WEISSELBERG, charging them with tax evasion." TV TONIGHT — PBS' "Washington Week": Nikole Hannah-Jones, Eva McKend, Kelly O'Donnell and Dave Wasserman. SUNDAY SO FAR … | FOX | "Fox News Sunday": Leon Panetta. Panel: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Panel: Marc Short, Catherine Lucey and Juan Williams. Power Player: Chris Wallace will receive the Panetta Institute's Jefferson-Lincoln Award. | CBS | "Face the Nation": Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) … Fred Smith … Scott Gottlieb. Panel: John Dickerson and Amy Walter. | MSNBC | "The Sunday Show": DNC Chair Jaime Harrison … Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger … David Hogg … Sheryl Lee Ralph … Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Hughes … Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). | NBC | "Meet the Press": New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. Panel: Peter Baker, Sara Fagen, Joshua Johnson and Amna Nawaz. | ABC | "This Week": Panel: Rick Klein, Donna Brazile, Sarah Isgur and Robert Costa. | CNN | "Inside Politics": Panel: Jeff Zeleny, Margaret Talev, Asma Khalid, John Bresnahan and Neil Irwin. | | | | | | BECOME A GLOBAL INSIDER: The world is more connected than ever. It has never been more essential to identify, unpack and analyze important news, trends and decisions shaping our future — and we've got you covered! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Global Insider author Ryan Heath navigates the global news maze and connects you to power players and events changing our world. Don't miss out on this influential global community. Subscribe now. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOKERS | | Nikki Haley said politicians of a certain advanced age should be required to undergo mental health screening. She definitely was referring to Biden. Unclear whether she meant Trump, too. Jeff Bezos "just shelled out $78 million for a massive Hawaiian estate spanning over 14 acres," per the N.Y. Post. But his splurge is reportedly just beginning — and locals are worried. Tucker Carlson said he has a greater understanding of America's opioid epidemic after receiving large doses of painkillers for emergency back surgery. Eric Adams says he'll take his first three paychecks as mayor in bitcoins, in order to demonstrate that "NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry." Kyrsten Sinema took to Insta to post about her upcoming triathlete season: "Here's hoping 2022 has fewer surgeries and injuries and more rad adventures!" A Popeyes on Capitol Hill was shut down after a disgusting TikTok video posted by a guy who delivered chicken to the restaurant went viral. For $10,800, you can have dinner with J.D. Vance and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. AT YOUR SERVICE LADIES: Male members of Congress took shifts guest bartending on Wednesday night at Julie Conway's Value In Electing Women PAC 24th Annual Guest Bartender reception in appreciation of their female colleagues in the House and Senate, including Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). Among those aspiring GOP mixologists: Reps. Tom Emmer (Minn.), Andy Barr (Ky.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Ron Estes (Kan.), Drew Ferguson (Ga.), Andrew Garbarino (N.Y.), David Joyce (Ohio), John Joyce (Pa.), John Katko (N.Y.), Dan Newhouse (Wash.) and Pete Stauber (Minn.). And the GOP ladies who drank it up: Reps. Kat Cammack (Fla.), Ashley Hinson (Iowa), Young Kim (Calif.), Michelle Steel (Calif), Jackie Walorski (Ind.), Julia Letlow (La.), Lisa McClain (Mich.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.), Claudia Tenney (N.Y.), Stephanie Bice (Okla.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Diana Harshbarger (Tenn.), Beth Van Duyne (Texas), Carol Miller (W.Va.) and Yvette Herrell (N.M.). SPOTTED at a party Wednesday night at Pearl Street Warehouse for David Drucker's new book, "In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP" ($14.99): Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Josh Kraushaar, Tom LoBianco, Sam Feist, Colin Reed and Andrea Woods, Ron Bonjean, Matt Lewis and Erin DeLullo, Alex and Caitlin Conant, Ben Jacobs, Lisa Spies, Jeremy Adler, Nihal Krishan, Matt Gorman, Brett O'Donnell and Alex Burgos. (h/t Daniel Lippman) SPOTTED at an annual event for the Italian American Democratic Leadership Council at Festa Italiana on Thursday night honoring Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.), Joseph Paolino, James Rosapepe, Art Gajarsa, John Calvelli, Bob Blancato and John Podesta. MEDIA MOVE — Katharine Schwab is joining BuzzFeed as deputy tech editor. She previously was deputy tech editor at Fast Company. STAFFING UP — Sean Bartlett is now a senior adviser in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs at the State Department. He previously was comms director at the Center for Global Development and is a Senate Foreign Relations Committee alum. TRANSITIONS — Ralph Leslie has been appointed EVP and COO of the Pew Charitable Trusts. He currently is CFO and dean of finance and business operations for the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University. Announcement … Kevin Wu will be domestic policy adviser for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). He previously was a health policy analyst for the Prevention Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. … Virginia Gum Hamisevicz is now VP of government affairs and international programs at the Aluminum Association. She most recently was VP of government affairs at the National Mining Association. … … Brent Johnson and Maya Rao are joining Civic Nation. Johnson will be chief of staff, and most recently was deputy director of advance and operations to second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Rao will be chief partnerships and philanthropy officer, and most recently was development director at the Human Rights Campaign. … Jesse Overton has joined Google as policy marketing manager. He previously was senior comms adviser in the NYC Mayor's Office of Public Engagement, and is a Heidi Heitkamp alum. WEDDING — Eliza Collins, a politics reporter for the WSJ and a POLITICO alum, and Michael Levenson, an account executive at Cross Screen Media, got married Friday in Phoenix. Pic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) … New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu … Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (7-0) … Valerie Biden Owens … John Harwood … NBC's Ken Strickland and Jason Calabretta … Heather Stone … POLITICO's Katy O'Donnell … Justin Muzinich … L.A. Times' Nolan McCaskill … Steve Pfister … Benjamin Wittes of Brookings and Lawfare … Stephen Rubright … WaPo's Kevin Sullivan … Keith Castaldo of Subject Matter … Trudy Vincent … Annie Kelly Kuhle of FP1 Strategies … Steve Caldeira of the Household & Commercial Products Association … Max Eden … Moira Whelan of the National Democratic Institute … Katie Oyama ... Accenture's Matt Nicholson … former Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) … Brian Lawrence … Jane Timken … Autumn VandeHei … Zack Marshall ... 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