Politics A.M.: A president navigates how to ask for painful sacrifices from Americans for Ukraine
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| | | |  |  | | The most important politics stories today. | | | | | |  (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) Marshaling a collective willingness to sacrifice is tricky — especially for a country that most Americans can't pinpoint on a map and has a capital that many still can't determine how to pronounce. Analysis ● By Matt Viser ● Read more » | | | | Pence's political group is bankrolling $10 million on an emotional and hard-hitting ad that says Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline was a "horrific decision." Analysis ● By Glenn Kessler ● Read more » | | | | The move represents one of the most far-reaching U.S. actions to penalize Moscow since the beginning of the war. By Jeff Stein, Tyler Pager and Anna Phillips ● Read more » | | | | The president, in Texas, discussed his strategy for helping veterans who served near military burn pits. The issue is emotional for Biden, since his son Beau died after serving near burn pits, though the link is not clear. By Seung Min Kim and Matt Viser ● Read more » | | | The decision from Judge Carl Nichols in the case of a Texas man clouds the legal path of more than 270 cases. By Spencer S. Hsu, Tom Jackman and Rachel Weiner ● Read more » | | | | Ban on Russian oil is likely to further spike prices at the pump, creating a potential political headache for Democrats. By Sean Sullivan, Mike DeBonis and Marianna Sotomayor ● Read more » | | | Tarrio was indicted in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. He and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes are the most high-profile individuals charged by the Justice Department in connection with the violent breach of the Capitol. By Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett ● Read more » | | | | President Biden is expected to sign the Postal Service Reform Act, which is a cornerstone of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's controversial 10-year postal restructuring plan. By Jacob Bogage ● Read more » | | | | Republicans versus the "enemy within," a New Hampshire campaign that has nothing to do with the presidential primary, and a Supreme Court ruling with a cliffhanger ending. Analysis ● By David Weigel ● Read more » | | | | Biden was a major NATO promoter in the Senate. Now Russia's invasion is pushing neutral countries to consider joining it. What happens next? Analysis ● By Aaron Blake ● Read more » | | | | The Jan. 6 committee is focusing heavily on fundraising efforts by the Trump campaign, aligned super PACs and other groups to if they were willingly telling lies about the election raise money. It is doing this to determine whether there is a need to tighten campaign finance laws and whether it should make criminal referrals to the Justice Department. By Josh Dawsey, Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger ● Read more » | | | | The House Minority Whip offered an extremely generous assessment of Trump's efforts to leverage Ukraine's need for weapons. Analysis ● By Philip Bump ● Read more » | | | Michigan GOP candidate Robert Regan, who is running for the state's House of Representatives, said he tells his daughters to "lie back and enjoy it" if raped, in comments comparing the 2020 election to sexual assault. By Mariana Alfaro ● Read more » | | | | Abortion rights advocates say the measure is unconstitutional. But it could signal a new strategy by the antiabortion movement to extend influence beyond the conservative states poised to tighten restrictions if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark precedent protecting abortion rights. By Caroline Kitchener ● Read more » | | | | The economics of gas prices are global — though that doesn't mean that banning Russian imports wouldn't have an effect. Analysis ● By Philip Bump ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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