带走里克·克莱因
有三个巨大的法案，两个巨大的截止日期和一个巨大的集体遗产需要定义——由一对需要彼此才能实现的资深民主党人来定义。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西正在策划高风险行动来到众议院，作为一个机会来实现“的愿景乔·拜登正如他在周日的“本周”节目中告诉美国广播公司的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯的那样。
本周，这一点和更多的事情岌岌可危，这可能是众议院议长和总统漫长职业生涯中最大的投票。佩洛西和拜登需要一个几乎一致的民主党投出带有不确定收益的风险票，全部或部分失败会带来潜在的灾难。
关键组件的时间表和价格标签已经在下滑，这是不可避免的，总统周日表示，行动应该“利用本周的大部分时间。”
长期承诺的周一对两党基础设施法案的投票很可能会被推迟，鉴于共和党的完全反对，参议院保持政府资金流动的投票几乎肯定会在周一失败。
拜登支持率下滑和不稳定的直接参与仍然是一个因素。佩洛西努力团结的温和派和进步派之间的不信任也是如此。
这里有很多事实:“绝大多数情况下，我们整个核心小组——除了少数我尊重其判断的人——都支持乔·拜登的愿景，”佩洛西在“本周”节目中说
拜登和佩洛西都有处于有利地位在那里他们需要尊重所有民主党人的判断，因为显而易见的选择是如果失败。他们在这里最有力的论点是失败是可能的——这是目前所有民主党人肯定同意的少数事情之一。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
对骑着马似乎在鞭打移民的边境巡逻人员的调查正在进行但是得克萨斯州州长格雷格·艾伯特明确表示支持这些特工。
“如果(拜登)对他们采取任何行动，我已经与那些边境巡逻人员并肩工作，我想让他们知道一些事情。如果他们面临失去总统职位的风险，而总统放弃了保卫边境的职责，你在得克萨斯州有一份工作，”阿博特周日在福克斯新闻频道说。“我会雇佣你来帮助德克萨斯保卫我们的边境。”
在艾伯特发表声明之前，拜登谴责了这些边境巡逻人员采取的行动。
拜登告诉美国广播公司新闻部国会记者雷切尔·斯科特:“我向你保证，这些人会付出代价，这太离谱了。
如果调查确定那些有争议的图片中的执法人员行为不当，雅培的雇用他们的承诺尽管潜在的不当行为会破坏拜登追究他们责任的努力。
这一想法也凸显了警察改革的一个方面，民主党人希望在现已死亡的《乔治·弗洛伊德治安司法法案》中解决这个问题:处理被一个机构训斥或解雇的执法人员，结果却被另一个机构聘用。该立法旨在建立一个国家警察不当行为登记处。
参议院谈判破裂后，这个问题以及警察改革的许多其他方面仍未得到解决。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
此前亚利桑那州的所谓“审计”结果只有增加了拜登2020年的得票率上周六，前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)继续坚持虚假指控，称格鲁吉亚选举也遭受了大规模选民欺诈，从而团结了支持者。
佐治亚州2020年总统选举的有效性得到了几项调查的支持，包括全州范围的人工重新计票、全州范围的投票机重新计票以及该州人口最多的县之一的选民签名审查。尽管如此，前特朗普继续否认证据甚至支持佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格的共和党主要对手、众议员乔迪·希奇，他在国会挑战了11月的选举结果。
特朗普反对历史的强硬态度还包括针对佐治亚州的共和党州长布莱恩·坎普(Brian Kemp)，尽管这位前总统去年施加了压力，但他拒绝参与推翻选举结果。特朗普对坎普的明显迷恋甚至导致他在周六的集会上偏离了信息，这是为了在即将到来的选举中支持支持特朗普的共和党候选人。
相反，特朗普表示，投票权倡导者和可能的民主党州长候选人斯泰西·艾布拉姆斯将成为比坎普更好的高管。“我认为，拥有她可能比拥有你现在的州长更好。这很可能会更好，”特朗普这样评价他的共和党同僚。人们普遍认为，艾布拉姆斯成功地动员了选民，让佐治亚州变蓝了。
Legacy and landscape at stake for Pelosi, Biden: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
There are three mammoth bills, two enormous deadlines and one big collective legacy to be defined – by a pair of veteran Democrats who need each other to make it happen.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is framing thehigh-stakes actioncoming to the House floor as an opportunity to enact “the vision ofJoe Biden,” as he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday.
That and more is at stake this week, in what could be the biggest votes in the long careers of both the House speaker and the president. Pelosi and Biden need anearly unanimous Democratic Partyto cast risky votes that carry uncertain payoffs, with failure on all or part bringing potential calamity.
Already, the timeline and price tag of key components are slipping, as was inevitable, and the president said Sunday that action should “take the better part of the week.”
The long-promised Monday vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill is most likely getting pushed back, and a Senate vote to keep government funding flowing will almost certainly fail on Monday given complete GOP opposition.
Biden’s sliding approval rating and spotty direct involvement continue to be a factor. So does the mistrust between the moderate and progressive wings that Pelosi is struggling to unite.
There’s a lot of truth here: “Overwhelmingly, the entirety of our caucus – except for a few whose judgment I respect – support the vision of Joe Biden,” Pelosi said on “This Week.”
Biden and Pelosi have bothbeen in a positionwhere they need to respect all Democrats’ judgment, because the obvious alternative if failure. Their most potent argument from here is that failure is possible – one of the few things all Democrats definitely agree on at the moment.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
An investigation of border patrol agents on horses appearing to whip migrantsis ongoing, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is making his support for those agents clear.
"If [Biden] takes any action against them whatsoever, I have worked side-by-side with those border patrol agents, I want them to know something. If they are at risk of losing their job at a president who is abandoning his duty to secure the border, you have a job in the state of Texas," said Abbott on Fox News Sunday. "I will hire you to help Texas secure our border."
Abbott's declaration comes after Biden denounced the actions taken by those border patrol agents.
"It's outrageous, I promise you, those people will pay," Biden told ABC News' congressional correspondent, Rachel Scott.
If an investigation determines that the law enforcement officers in those controversial images acted inappropriately, Abbott'scommitment to employ themdespite potential misconduct would undermine Biden's attempt at holding them accountable.
The idea also highlights an aspect of police reform that Democrats hoped to address in the now-dead George Floyd Justice in Policing Act: handling law enforcement officers who are reprimanded or terminated by one agency only to be employed by another. The legislation aimed to create a national police misconduct registry.
The issue, along with so many other aspects of police reform, remains unaddressed after the breakdown of Senate negotiations.
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
After Arizona's so-called "audit" results onlyadded votes to Biden's 2020 winning margin, former President Donald Trump rallied supporters on Saturday by continuing to cling false allegations that Georgia's elections also suffered from mass voter fraud.
The validity of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia has been backed by several investigations, a statewide hand recount, a statewide voting machine recount and a voter signature review in one of the state's most populous counties. Still, former Trump continues todeny the evidenceto the extent of endorsing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's Republican primary opponent, Rep. Jody Hice, who challenged November's election results in Congress.
Trump's adamance to oppose history also includes targeting Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, of Georgia, who refused to get involved in overturning the outcome of the election despite being pressured to do so by the former president last year. Trump's apparent fixation on Kemp even caused him to go off-message at Saturday's rally, which was meant to support pro-Trump Republican candidates in upcoming elections.
Instead, Trump said voting rights advocate and possible Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would make a better executive than Kemp. "Having her, I think, might be better than having your existing governor. It might very well be better," Trump said of his fellow Republican. Abrams is popularly credited with successfully mobilizing voters and turning Georgia blue.
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