Jen Ellis is using her mittens to raise money for LGBTQ youth and show people the power of generosity.
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The Axios experts help you sort significance from symbolism. Here are the six Day 1 actions by President Biden that matter most.
Driving the news: Today, on his first full day, Biden translates his promise of a stronger federal response to the pandemic into action — starting with 10 executive orders and other directives, Caitlin Owens writes.
Biden’s executive orders on climate change, including rejoining the Paris Agreement and reinstating a raft of environmental regulations, are forcing Washington’s biggest business lobbying groups to the table in a new way, Amy Harder and Ben Geman tell me.
Biden instructed the EPA and the Transportation Department to re-establish stricter fuel efficiency mandates, which President Trump had weakened. Joann Muller says this is part of a broader agenda that calls for widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
Biden’s move to freeze student loan repayments through September — and the suggestion he’ll swiftly place consumer champion Rohit Chopra in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — puts lenders on notice that their actions will be scrutinized.
Big cities rejoice at Biden’s actions on immigration, Jennifer A. Kingson tells me: Revoking Trump’s executive order that excluded undocumented immigrants from the census and congressional apportionment has huge implications for the nation’s big urban centers, which fear that a bungled and incomplete census could lead to a massive loss of federal representation.
Tech companies applauded the president’s action on DACA, as well as his rescission of an executive order that limited diversity training at companies that do business with the federal government, Ina Fried reports from S.F.
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Mike Allen
Joe Biden is the President of the United States of America, and Kamala Harris is Vice-President.
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Former President Obama congratulated President-elect Joe Biden as he prepares to be inaugurated Wednesday.”Congratulations to my friend, President [Joe Biden],” Obama tweeted to his former vice president on Wednesd…
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Dominick Mastrangelo
Joe Biden paces as he dictates long portions of his speeches to aides, spinning out thoughts that quickly pile into six, seven or eight paragraphs of copy, only to later be scrapped.
On the 2020 campaign trail, he’d keep groups of supporters waiting inside while he’d hole up in a black car with aides, refining lines of his prepared remarks.
Revisions go up to crunch time; it isn’t uncommon for a staffer to be scurrying to the teleprompter with a flash drive just before an event is to begin.
For higher-profile remarks, he’d obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory. And at times through the various iterations of outlining remarks, Biden could grow downright ornery.
“I would never say this,” Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. “Where did you get this from?’”
The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.
Such are the hallmarks and unpleasantries that are the sausage-making of speech writing with Biden.
Whether it’s his second stump speech on the same day in Michigan or a nationally televised address, there are few tasks in politics that Biden takes more seriously than speaking. And, perhaps, the struggles he had with speech in his childhood explains why.
On Wednesday, Biden, the boy who grew up talking with a stutter, will deliver an inaugural address that carries more weight than any of the speeches he has obsessed over in the past.
“He is well aware this is the most important inaugural speech since Lincoln,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who is a close Biden ally.
Biden’s address, which is supposed to run between 20 and 30 minutes, is expected to reprise themes he’s hit on since he entered the presidential race in April 2019, including bringing back the “soul of the nation,” and a pledge to be president for all Americans, even those who didn’t vote for him.
But unlike some of those past versions, there is heightened urgency to Wednesday’s address. Confronting multiple crises, including a pandemic and the economic fallout from it, Biden needs bipartisan support to push an ambitious agenda through Congress. A powerful inaugural address is seen as one step toward bringing more naysayers to his side, those close to him say.
Longtime aides and advisers expect the inaugural address to traverse territory that Biden has covered over the course of his nearly 50-year public career, while highlighting an agenda that offers up hope to a country ravaged by disease, economic struggles, and violent political insurrection.
While the process behind developing Biden’s speeches can be grueling (one longtime adviser jokingly suggested creating a support group for Biden speech writers), there is a method to it. Biden has maintained a core team of loyal advisers around him who have grown to learn how to parse when the president-elect is just riffing and when he really wants his thoughts committed to paper.
Biden has grown comfortable with chief speech writer Vinay Reddy and senior adviser Mike Donilon, who have helped him thread his narratives in a simple, grounded way. The president-elect has also leaned on Tony Blinken, his secretary of state designate, to help with the speech writing process. Incoming chief of staff Ron Klain is in the mix as well.
For his speeches, Biden receives advice — solicited and unsolicited — from a wide cast of luminaries, which in the past has included historian Jon Meacham. However, two people with knowledge of the preparations said Meacham has not taken part in shaping the inaugural speech.
“I do know there is a lot of attention going toward the speech,” said Democratic National Committee Finance Chair Chris Korge. “He’s going to turn the page and move forward for all Americans.”
The inaugural address will be Biden’s biggest audience since he delivered an acceptance speech on Nov. 7. It will be the most high-stakes speech since the one he delivered at the August Democratic National Convention, when disinformation was raging about his mental acuity. Biden’s team at the time said they were prepared for Republicans — namely President Donald Trump — to seize on any phrase Biden garbled.
“People were nervous,” said a confidant who spoke with Biden in the days before the convention speech, which was delivered from Wilmington, Del. “But Joe had labored over it and at one point, he said, ‘I’m going to make the ancestors proud. I’m going to make mom and dad proud.’”
Cedric Richmond, the Louisiana congressman who just stepped down to take a senior role in the Biden White House, said now, just like in August, people failed to give Biden due credit.
“People have always underestimated his ability to rise to a challenge,” said Richmond. “No matter what, he’s always risen to the occasion.”
Biden will speak at a time when there is a show of force in the nation’s capital, with the center of the district shuttered to the public and thousands of armed troops roaming the streets to stave off the kind of deadly unrest that unfolded inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
But Matt Teper, who worked as a speechwriter for Biden in the Obama White House, predicted Biden would spend little to no time talking about Trump specifically.
“The most important thing tomorrow is probably his tone,” Teper said. “American carnage [the theme of Trump’s inaugural address] keeps coming up in every conversation, but nobody wants to hear that. He needs to give people a sense of looking forward. There’s a president in charge right now. As long as he projects all that, then that’s a success.”
Christopher Cadelago and Marc Caputo contributed to this report.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/joe-biden-inaugural-speech-lincoln-460506
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Natasha Korecki
A dozen members of the National Guard have been removed from the mission to protect the presidential inauguration because of various problems in their pasts, defense officials said Tuesday.
Two of the troops made “inappropriate comments or texts,” prompting their removal from the Capitol, Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said in a news conference. Problems with those two people were raised by the troops’ colleagues and by an anonymous tip.
Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman declined to give more details about whether those comments were political in nature, tied to extremism or directly related to a threat to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
The FBI found problems with an additional 10 troops during vetting, and all were removed from the mission “out of an abundance of caution,” Hokanson said. Hoffman said the vetting process would uncover any sort of issue in a service member’s history, including past criminal activity.
Overall, Hokanson said, he is “not concerned” because officials have identified only 12 potential issues out of the 25,000 National Guardsmen serving in the capital for the inauguration.
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President-elect Joe Biden will have to juggle his own legislative priorities with his predecessor’s impeachment trial.
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Donald Trump’s presidency was always going to be … atypical. But few, if anyone, outside his orbit got as early a taste of what was to come as Brian Mosteller.
Described by colleagues as fastidious almost to the point of obsessiveness, Mosteller served as President Barack Obama’s special assistant and director of Oval Office operations. That meant that on the day of Trump’s inauguration in 2017, he was one of just a handful of aides left there to help with the transition.
On that Jan. 20 morning, Mosteller recalled Trump and Obama, along with a smattering of top political leaders, congregating in the Blue Room of the White House for the ceremonial tea. As the group began filtering out to get into their motorcade for the trip to the Capitol, the incoming and outgoing president lingered in the Grand Foyer. There, Obama quickly briefed Trump on a pending national security matter.
“Trump,” Mosteller recalled, “says, ‘Well what would you do in this situation?’”
To Mosteller it was unnerving; not just because Trump hadn’t given much thought to the issue, but also because “it was evident that he wasn’t really interested in the answer.” He exchanged a glance with Obama’s longtime photographer Pete Souza. “We had this realization that this was really bad,” Mosteller said. “If this is the question taking place discreetly behind closed doors on day one, the country is going to be in rough shape.”
A solitary vignette before a historic ceremony does not foreshadow an entire presidency. But as Trump’s tenure comes to a close this Wednesday, fewer days are as symbolic of his time in office as the first: the jubilation of the fans, the dread of the foes, the bellicosity of the rhetoric, the unorthodoxy of the approach, disruptiveness as a tactic, chaos as a byproduct, and the petty obsessions that colored it all.
“Jesus that day sucked,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s longtime adviser, who was with him that day.
For the Obama team, it was all somber. Many of those who were at the White House that day were finishing up eight-year stints. Some had slept on their office floors overnight for fear that the security clampdown in the city would make it impossible to get to work on time. Aides recall an intense exhaustion that mixed oddly with the depression they felt — the mind jolting the body to remind it that things had gone awry.
“I was worn out after doing that job for eight years and was looking forward to being done with the job,” Souza said. “At the same time, I was concerned for the country really, who we were turning the keys over to. It was just a weird set of dual emotions playing out that day.”
The day was not without its routines. When Obama came down from his residence to the Oval Office, he was handed his morning briefing book with a schedule memo for the day. It was thinner than usual. And all of his personal stuff was gone from the room save roughly 30 or so photos on the Resolute Desk.
At some point, Obama took a handwritten letter he’d composed for Trump out of the desk, put it in an envelope and placed it back in the drawer. He then went back up to the residence and had a ceremony in the State Dining Room with the ushers’ office. They presented him with the flag that had flown atop the White House that day.
“He was spiritually in the right space. He was ready to walk away,” said a former aide with him that day. “It was a rite of passage, he emphasized. That’s just how it goes.”
Shortly thereafter, the incoming president arrived and the mood tensed. There was an awkward moment when Trump left Melania behind as he walked up the steps to greet Obama. It was followed quickly by another when Melania brought a gift, which — while well intentioned — violated the explicit instructions for there not to be any exchange of such kind.
Inside the White House, the Obama aides still there were almost overwhelmed by Trump’s bravado. Mosteller recalled Trump as acting as if he’d “just won an award.” Souza was more merciless. “I just felt I was in the presence of the mafia,” he said. “It’s kind of hard to explain. He has this way about him that just reeks of narcissism.”
The group had their ceremonial tea before jumping into the motorcade to head to the Hill. Riding in a separate vehicle from the outgoing and incoming presidents, Souza looked around. “There is nobody in the parade stands,” he thought to himself. “That’s kind of odd.”
When they got to the Capitol, Trump and Obama went to separate holding rooms. In his, Obama signed his last official bill and his staff gave him a joking applause. Then they moved to the hall — stuffed with people — waiting to be called out to the podium. At that precise moment eight years earlier, Obama had paused and closed his eyes before heading out to his inaugural crowd. And not just a quick blink either. “He closed them for several seconds,” Souza said. “It was clear to me that he was saying a prayer.”
Before heading out this time, there was no apparent attempt to summon the divinities.
“I don’t remember him closing his eyes,” Souza said. “Maybe he should have.”
Hoping to get a good shot, Souza defied orders and snuck out onto the platform as well. When Trump finally came out, the two men were just five feet apart. The soon-to-be-sworn-in president took a pause of his own, however brief, and raised his fist in triumph.
“My heart just sank,” Souza said. “I was sick to my stomach.”
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From the vantage point of the Trump team, the day was, naturally, quite different. Few if any had expected to win the election. So the actual act of assuming control of the White House had a surrealist vibe to it. “It was like looking over your shoulder waiting for someone to tell you ‘Stop, no you can’t do that,’” recalled a staffer for Mike Pence, who had driven up to the North Portico through the White House front gates that morning. A person involved in the inauguration described Trump’s mood as “absolutely jubilant and euphoric.”
But even by that point, it was evident that Trump’s presidency would be unconventional. His daughter Ivanka had to persuade him not to stay in his own hotel down the street from the White House the night before, and instead keep with tradition by sleeping at Blair House on the other side of Lafayette Square. His ex-wives, Marla Maples and Ivana Trump, had both asked to attend the inauguration. So Trump gave “clear instructions” to put them on opposite sides of the platform, in sections toward the back. “They had to be in the same row and same chair in case one saw the other,” said one of the people involved in the inauguration.
And fear of punctuality was profound enough that Trump’s staff stressed to him that the vice president could theoretically become the acting president for a few minutes if he was late to take the oath of office.
“[H]e loved the number 45, and we said if you’re late, you could in fact be the 46th president,” said the person involved, “and of course he didn’t like that at all so he said he wouldn’t be late.”
By the time Trump stepped to the crowd and gave that fist pump that left Souza so dispirited, the tensions that would pervade American politics for the next four years were already apparent. One aide who worked on the inauguration recalled rushing home as the crowds swelled to change coats, only to be confronted by protesters because of the badge she was wearing. “I put my credentials away and didn’t advertise where I worked,” she said.
Dozens of Democrats, meanwhile, had refused to come in protest — a slight not lost on the incoming president’s team. Nor was it lost on them that they’d been snubbed by A-List celebrities. Elton John had tentatively committed to performing at the inauguration, an aide said. But after financier Anthony Scaramucci, then a vocal Trump fan, inadvertently leaked it too early, he had pulled out. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli had dropped out after he started getting death threats. Instead, the committee booked Jackie Evancho, a runner-up on “America’s Got Talent,” to perform the national anthem.
The new president’s speech only inflamed matters. It was an address with designs for shock, not sweeping oratory. David Shulkin, who was Trump’s nominee to be Veterans Affairs secretary, watched the now president describe an era of “American carnage” and was taken aback by the brimstone.
“That became a precursor of what we saw throughout the administration, which was that there were many many of those missed opportunities to bring the country together,” Shulkin said.
Looking back, the Trump team argues that the more uplifting themes of the speech—the invocation of the forgotten man and women—were overshadowed by the carnage line. But when it was done, the crowd seemed at once confused and unnerved, wondering (not for the last time) whether there was some greater meaning or purpose that they’d missed. “Well, that was some weird shit,” George W. Bush reportedly said to Hillary Clinton, the most aggrieved attendee of all.
“I’ve been in a similar position for every inauguration going back to 2001,” recalled Jon Karl, ABC’s White House correspondent, “and it’s usually quite a celebration, and there’s a lot of palling around, they’re all getting together, and this is the one time partisanship is put aside and everybody’s all smiles. Not this time. It was grim.”
At the ceremonial luncheon after the speech was over, the mood seemed to lighten. Trump signed formal nomination papers and took what one person there described as a child-like delight in trying to hand out pens to congressional leaders. The parade down Pennsylvania Avenue had no notable drama or surprises. In fact, one aide to Trump said the president had no real understanding of how sparsely attended (relative to other inaugurations) his ceremony had been. The infamous press conference in which press secretary Sean Spicer would declare it “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” would actually come on Day 2; ordered up only after Trump watched news coverage of his crowds that morning.
But, as would quickly become the norm, the periods of calm were just a short reprieve from the chaos. Back at the White House, newly arrived aides scrambled to figure out where to go and how to make the office—quite literally—work. Phones would ring with no one sure who was to pick them up.
Trump had instructed staff that he wanted to make a show of moving swiftly. And by the afternoon, the press corps was summoned into the Oval Office to document his first official acts. At 7:31 p.m. a pool report was filed declaring that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that had been on display during the Obama years was no longer there. In fact, it was merely obscured by a curtain and a Secret Service agent. Zeke Miller, the reporter responsible for the erroneous report, tweeted out a correction within an hour. But by then, condemnation had been pouring in and Trump was livid.
“I spent six hours tamping down racial flames,” one staffer remembered. Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway described the moment as a harbinger for four years of frosty media relations. “So much of that day was a metaphor for what happened next,” she said. “The press came into the office looking for trouble.”
Outside the White House, everyone else was getting adjusted to the tectonic shift in power dynamics that had just occurred. One former White House official recalled attending the inaugural balls, where “a lot of random people” kept shoving their business cards at him asking for jobs.
“There were so many people who didn’t support Donald Trump and were worried about it, from members of Congress and donors, to Bush cabinet and administration people who called,” said Conway. “They’d say, ‘Oh, I was a little rough on Trump and I want to support him now.’ There were many calls like that.”
Souza and Mosteller by that point were on a plane ride with Obama. They kept the TVs off—unable or, perhaps, just unwilling to watch coverage of the balls. There was relief, Souza said, that the job was ending. “But all the while, I was just holding my breath, wondering what was going to happen during the next few months and the next four years.”
And then, a different reality set in. Heading for Palm Springs, the aircraft was unable to land because of terrible fog. It would descend and then take off again.
“A couple of people were freaking out a bit,” recalled the former Obama aide, who was on the flight as well. It was so bad that the now former president came back to tell the others that they would likely have to re-route and find a landing spot elsewhere. Eventually, they did. Once there, the Obamas quickly took off in a motorcade for their vacation destination.
“There was no grand goodbye,” Mosteller said. They knew they’d see each other again.
“It was like going on a great vacation and then getting in the car ride back from the airport,” the aide recalled. “It was sobering and quiet and we knew it was just never going to be the same.”
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/19/trump-2017-inauguration-presidency-460248
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Their remarks Tuesday evening come on the eve of their inauguration as president and vice president.
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The Empire State Building will be among several buildings across the country to light up on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in honor of the Americans who died due to COVID-1…
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Police and National Guard troops stood sentry at newly fortified statehouses Sunday ahead of demonstrations planned for the leadup to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, as authorities worked to deter a repeat of the recent riot that overran the U.S. Capitol. A few protesters were starting to gather in some cities, but streets in many others remained empty.
About two dozen people, several carrying long guns, protested outside the Ohio Statehouse, observed by several of the dozens of state troopers positioned around the building. Several dozen people — some carrying American flags — gathered at South Carolina’s Statehouse. And at Michigan’s Capitol, a small group of demonstrators, some armed, stood near a chain-link fence surrounding the building as state police walked the grounds and National Guard vehicles were parked nearby.
Tall fencing also now surrounds the U.S. Capitol, the National Mall is closed to the general public, and the District of Columbia’s mayor asked people not to visit. Some 25,000 National Guard troops from around the country were due in the city in the coming days.
The stepped-up security measures were intended to safeguard seats of government from the type of violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when a supporters of President Donald Trump swarmed the building while Congress was certifying the Electoral College vote.
The FBI has warned of the potential for armed protests at the nation’s Capitol and all 50 state capitol buildings beginning this weekend. Some social media messages had targeted Sunday for demonstrations, though it remained unclear how many people might show up.
Authorities in some states said they had no specific indication that demonstrations would occur, much less turn violent. Yet many state officials vowed to be prepared, just in case. They said they did not want a repeat of the mob’s assault, which left left a Capitol Police officer and four others dead. In recent days, more than 125 people have been arrested on charges related to the insurrection.
In some locations, a small number of people showed up intending to counter protests, even in places where they had not yet materialized.
One counter-protester came early to greet any demonstrators at the Pennsylvania Capitol, saying he had heard about the possibility of a meet-up of a far-right militant group. But no one else was there.
“I’m fundamentally against the potential protesters coming here to delegitimize the election, and I don’t want to be passive in expressing my disapproval of them coming into this city,” Stephen Rzonca said.
Wisconsin National Guard troops armed with rifles, shields and body armor arrived near the state Capitol on Sunday morning. A man who drove a vehicle up the steps of the Capitol building was arrested overnight for driving while intoxicated.
More than a third of governors had called out the National Guard to help protect their state capitols and aid local law enforcement officers. Several governors issued states of emergency, and others closed their capitols to the public until after Biden’s inauguration day.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement Sunday that law enforcement officers “will protect the rights of peaceful demonstrators but will also vigorously resist any violence.”
Some state legislatures also canceled sessions or pared back their work for the coming week, citing security precautions.
Even before the violence at the U.S. Capitol, some statehouses had been the target of vandals and angry protesters during the past year.
Last spring, armed protesters entered the Michigan Capitol to object to coronavirus-related lockdowns and were confronted by police. People angered over the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes, vandalized capitols in several states, including Colorado, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.
And just last month, crowds in Oregon forced their way into the state Capitol in Salem to protest its closure to the public during a special legislative session on coronavirus measures.
Anticipating the potential for violence in the coming week, the building’s first floor windows were boarded up and the National Guard has been deployed. The Legislature was scheduled to begin its 2021 session on Tuesday, but much of its initial work has been delayed for at least two days because of warnings about potential violence.
’The state Capitol has become a fortress,” said Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, a Democrat. “I never thought I’d see that; it breaks my heart.”
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She displayed “a round metallic object later identified as a Military Police Challenge Coin” and said she was part of law enforcement, police said.
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Multiple guests appeared on the Sunday morning political talk shows to discuss President-elect Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday amid fears of violence in Washington, D.C. and in state capitols across the country.The historic House vote las…
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The National Park Service (NPS) announced that it is temporarily closing most parts of the National Mall beginning Friday through at least the day after President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week. …
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