带走里克·克莱因
这些不是新的部门或新的问题，甚至不是新的玩家试图弄清楚它们。
尽管如此，拜登议程的几乎所有其他部分现在都悬而未决，主要是因为民主党人不能同意巨大的碎片应该如何组合在一起。与此同时，可能切断政府融资并迫使美国债务违约的最后期限越来越近。
随着白宫周三称赞总统和国会民主党人之间的“富有成效和坦率的会议”，这一时刻值得注意的是，民主党内部有多少派别仍在公开表示他们不愿意投票支持什么。尽管事实上他们几乎都同意的少数事情之一是什么都不做不是明智的选择为了国家或者他们自己政治前景。
备忘录发送至民主办公室前白宫办公厅主任、长期的政党领袖约翰·波德斯塔(John Podesta)在众议院和参议院的发言直言不讳:“历史趋势表明，民主党人明年11月将面临严重的逆风，但没有什么能保证比民主党人未能通过任何法案更快的政治清算。”
如果乔·拜登总统正处于其政治影响力的顶峰，这一切过去是，现在仍然是足够艰难的。然而，国会山和其他地方的民调数字显示，展示其他东西。
以新的盖洛普民意调查为例，拜登的支持率明显下降，在独立人士中仅占37%。或者以新的得梅因登记在册的爱荷华州民意调查为例，该州是拜登在2020年输掉的，但在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)位居榜首时赢了两次，显示拜登的支持率自夏天开始以来下降了12个百分点。
拜登不想说“不”，以寻求获得大量“是”票。这将取决于他而不是众议院议长南希·佩洛西或参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默假装他们同意。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
乔治·弗洛伊德在一个明尼阿波利斯警察局，两党关于警察改革的谈判已经结束。即使在他的谋杀被点燃后从海岸到海岸的运动，没有任何变化——至少在立法上没有变化。
“我本打算去华盛顿让拜登签署一项法案，但拜登没有签署这项法案，拜登违背了承诺，”布里奇特·弗洛伊德在她哥哥去世周年纪念日当天在明尼阿波利斯的一次集会上说，而她的大部分家人都在白宫会见了拜登。
“我给总统的信息是:让你的人民井然有序，”她补充道。
她要求的命令从未实现而拜登带来警务变革的承诺仍未兑现。
共和党谈判代表参议员蒂姆·斯科特指责民主党放弃会谈。民主党人和拜登本人指责共和党人拒绝政策中概述的关键改革。
拜登在一份声明中说:“我仍然希望签署一项全面和有意义的警察改革法案，以纪念乔治·弗洛伊德的名字和记忆，因为我们需要立法来确保持久和有意义的变革。“但这一刻需要行动，我们不能让那些阻碍进步的人阻止我们响应号召。”
到目前为止，拜登政府允许共和党人阻挠改革，但是时间在流逝。随着中期选举的临近，民主党失去对国会两院微弱控制的可能性也越来越大。没有共和党人的政治意愿要解决这个问题，联邦警察改革的想法可能遥不可及。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
由于担心在明年的中期选举中保住自己的多数席位，围绕投票权的斗争已成为民主党人的最高战斗口号。竞争对手弗吉尼亚州州长竞选进一步增加了该党组织选民投票的紧迫性。
该党最引人注目的面孔之一米歇尔·奥巴马将于周四与活动人士一起参加虚拟选民登记集会，敦促选民和志愿者“在今年秋天和2022年回到投票箱。”据主办此次活动的组织“当我们都投票”的一份声明称，此次集会将是寻求抵制“有害的选民压制策略”的许多活动中的第一个，这些策略“将对美国人的投票自由产生负面影响”。
其他团体也在以同样的方式动员起来——周三，一个非盈利组织“一起重建”支持拜登的议程，宣布通过发起语言正义委员会与几个进步的、拉丁美洲的和亚洲的倡导团体建立伙伴关系。他们共同致力于在投票箱“解决语言障碍”，特别关注拉丁裔、亚裔和美洲原住民选民。
这些团体表达的目标是对以下行动的回应共和党领导人在乔治亚州和德克萨斯州。但民主党人的动员努力也是他们自己的政党在国会就联邦投票权改革所遭遇的斗争的一个暗示。
还有一点
调查1月6日美国国会大厦遇袭事件的众议院委员会可能会发布第一次传票消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，未来几天，可能会针对唐纳德·特朗普总统的几名前高级助手进行记录和信息收集。
Biden confronts diminishing sway as deadlines near: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
These are not new divisions or new questions or even new playerstrying to figure them out.
Still, virtually all of the rest of the Biden agenda now hangs in the balance primarily because Democratscan't agreeon how the vast pieces should fit together. Meanwhile, deadlines that could cut off government funding and force a default on U.S. debt are drawing closer.
With the White House praising "productive and candid meetings" between the president and congressional Democrats Wednesday, what's notable about this moment is how many factions inside the Democratic Party are still stating publicly what they are not willing to vote for. That's despite the fact that one of the few things they virtually all can agree on is that doing nothing isnot a smart optionfor the country or their ownpolitical prospects.
The memo sent toDemocratic officesin the House and Senate by John Podesta, the former White House chief of staff and longtime party guru, is blunt: "The historical trend makes it clear that Democrats will face severe headwinds next November, but nothing will guarantee a political reckoning faster than if the Democrats fail to pass anything."
It all was and would still be tough enough if President Joe Biden was at the peak of his political sway. The polling numbers making the rounds on Capitol Hill and beyond, though,show something else.
Take the new Gallup poll, which has Biden's approval rating clearly underwater and at just 37% among independents. Or take the new Des Moines Register poll of Iowa -- a state Biden lost in 2020, but won twice when former President Barack Obama was atop the ticket -- showing Biden's approval rating down 12 points there just since the start of summer.
Biden hasn't wanted to say "no" in a quest to get to plenty of "yes" votes.It will be up to him-- not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer -- to make sure Democratsact like they agree.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
More than a year after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of aMinneapolis police office, bipartisan negotiations on police reform are over. Even after his killing igniteda movement from coast to coast,nothing -- legislatively at least -- has changed.
"I was going to D.C. for Biden to sign a bill, Biden has not signed that bill, Biden broke a promise," said Bridgett Floyd during a rally in Minneapolis on the anniversary of her brother's death, while much of her family met with Biden at the White House.
"My message to the president: get your people in order," she added.
The order she called fornever materializedand Biden's promise to bring transformative change in policing remains unfulfilled.
Republican negotiator Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., blamed Democrats forabandoning talks. Democrats and Biden himself blamed Republicans for rejecting key reforms outlined in the policy.
"I still hope to sign into law a comprehensive and meaningful police reform bill that honors the name and memory of George Floyd, because we need legislation to ensure lasting and meaningful change," said Biden in a statement. "But this moment demands action, and we cannot allow those who stand in the way of progress to prevent us from answering the call."
So far, the Biden administration has allowed Republican obstruction to block reform, but theclock is ticking. As the midterms loom, so does the possibility that Democrats lose their narrow grip on both chambers of Congress. Without thepolitical will from Republicansto engage on the issue, the notion of federal police reform could be beyond reach.
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
The battle over voting rights has become a top rallying cry for Democrats amid concerns of retaining their majority in next year's midterm elections. The competitivegubernatorial race in Virginiais further adding urgency to the party's efforts to organize voters to the polls.
One of the party's most high-profile faces, Michelle Obama, will join activists in a virtual voter registration rally on Thursday to urge voters and volunteers "to head back to the ballot box this fall and in 2022." The rally will be the first of many events seeking to counteract "harmful voter suppression tactics" that "will negatively impact Americans' freedom to vote," according to a statement from When We All Vote, the group hosting the event.
Other groups are mobilizing in the same vein -- on Wednesday, Building Back Together, a nonprofit group thatbacks Biden's agenda, announced a partnership with several progressive, Latino and Asian advocacy groups by launching the Language Justice Committee. Together they aim to "tackle the language access barriers" at the ballot box, with a specific focus on Latino, Asian and Native American voters.
The goals expressed by these groups are a response to the actions byRepublican leadersin states like Georgia and Texas. But Democrats' mobilization efforts are also a tacit indication of the struggles their own party is encountering in Congress over federal voting rights reform.
ONE MORE THING
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could issue itsfirst subpoenasin the coming days, possibly targeting several former high-level aides to President Donald Trump for records and information, sources told ABC News.https://abcn.ws/3nUphhL
