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| | | Good Friday morning. This is Zack Stanton, Playbook’s deputy editor, tapping in to giving Jack a breather after an absolute firehose of a first week on the job. Right now, he’s heading to London to see his family and enjoy the finer things in life, which apparently includes eating beans for breakfast and knowing who Robbie Williams is. Get in touch: zstanton@politico.com.
|  | DRIVING THE DAY | | THE GOLDEN ERA: Having steamrolled his way through the nation’s capital over the last week, Donald Trump today makes his first trip outside Washington since being sworn in. He started the week pointing to the response to the post-Helene devastation in North Carolina and the ongoing wildfires in California as exhibits A and B that the government has failed its citizens. He’ll now end the week with visits to each, touring North Carolina (midday) before jetting to California (planned arrival at roughly 6 p.m. ET). He’ll finish up the evening in Nevada before holding a rally in Vegas on Saturday. The question … especially as he heads to the Golden State, is which Trump will show up: the one who delights in trolling Gov. Gavin Newsom, or the one who looks to marquee media events as rare opportunities to burnish his image and rise above the fray? Hold your fire: I know, I know — your immediate temptation may be to discount the idea that Trump will set aside his pique and serve as a unifying figure. There is, after all, precious little evidence of that from the past decade of his political career. He’s a man with a generational talent for finding bruises on the body politic and pressing them until his opponents squirm. And yet, consider this: Trump invited Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to accompany him on the tour of the devastation out west. Yes, really: When that bit of news came across the Playbook transom last night, we were genuinely surprised. Schiff is not only a man Trump has mocked in exceedingly personal terms (including calling him “scum” from behind the Resolute Desk just hours after being sworn in on Monday), he’s the man whose leadership of Trump’s first impeachment has burrowed under his skin in a lasting way (see: Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday night). Yes, Schiff’s office politely expressed the senator’s “regrets that he’s unable to join the President in Los Angeles due to scheduled nomination votes.” But still: surprising!
|  Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed the fires in Southern California on Gov. Gavin Newsom. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images | On the other hand: Trump has repeatedly and recently blamed the fires on Newsom while calling him “Newscum,” and as of last night, has reportedly yet to coordinate with the governor’s office about the planned tour of wildfire damage in Los Angeles, as Christopher Cadelago writes. All the same … Newsom plans to greet Air Force One on the tarmac when it arrives. “We’re making sure that all the resources he needs for a successful briefing are provided to him,” the governor told reporters yesterday. “There’s no limit to the resources we’ll provide for that briefing.” Do you hear that?: Newsom’s tone on Trump 2.0 is decidedly less #Resistance than it was during Trump 1.0. The gov “has been less adversarial with Trump, according to political observers in both parties,” WSJ’s Eliza Collins writes, and “hasn’t responded in kind to Trump or his allies’ attacks on him.” (“It’s not a binary choice — friend or foe, fighting or embracing,” Bob Salladay, a Newsom adviser, tells Collins. “This is the governor of California doing his job.”) Another way to see the change: Newsom “went streaking in the quad thinking everyone was behind him, and no one was behind him,” Rob Stutzman, a Republican political consultant, tells the L.A. Times’ Taryn Luna. “There’s no resistance to lead this time around.” Yes, but: Trolling is a two-way street. Newsom and Trump have long had a symbiotic relationship, with each using the other as a foil in ways that redound to their mutual political benefit. In this, fighting about the wildfires has been a constant, as Camille von Kaenel writes this morning. But now, Newsom seems to have gone Corinthian, setting aside childish things during this latest crisis. One symbolic but meaningful example of that is that he decided to order the state’s flags to full staff for Trump’s inauguration, rather than tweaking the new president with half-staff banners. It’s the act of someone trying to lower the temperature. Will Trump respond in kind? The stakes today: Depending on how it all plays out, Newsom “could end the day with a presidential example of acting like a level-headed leader capable of putting politics — and personal feelings — aside to help his state,” Luna writes. “Or, Newsom could walk away more vulnerable to criticism that his political gamesmanship and thirst for the national spotlight compromised his ability to deliver for Californians.” For Trump, the stakes are much the same. In North Carolina, Trump will have ample opportunity to craft the scenes he wants to be broadcast, whether that’s comforting the victims of Hurricane Helene or inveighing against President Joe Biden’s handling of the wreckage. Importantly for Trump, because the N.C. leg of the trip comes first, the footage from it will be playing all day on cable news and seeding coverage heading into the weekend. Whether those looped scenes show a consoler-in-chief or instead evoke tossed paper towel rolls is anyone’s guess. But California has its own allure. “Maybe it’s the [2028] Olympics, maybe it’s Hollywood, maybe it’s the fact that Trump has some friends in the Pacific Palisades who are irate about their houses burning down,” Chris Cadelago told me last night. “There are so many areas where, this being L.A., [he and Newsom] can connect.” That, in turn, could spark coverage of an altogether different type than that which he’s used to — something he pines for. The speech that began Trump’s second term included not just mentions of the ruins of North Carolina and California, but an aspirational goal that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” The Golden State provides a golden opportunity for him to choose to move in that direction. After that … The president will head to Las Vegas, where he’ll stay overnight ahead of a rally on Saturday. Look for him to loudly trumpet his campaign promise to exclude tips from taxes, AP’s Will Weissert and Chris Megerian write. LARGER THAN LIFE: Trump will speak to the 52nd annual March for Life this afternoon via video. It’s the second weekend in a row that deep blue Washington D.C. plays host to big crowds of conservatives from around the nation (though this time, there will be far fewer road closures or drink specials). The rally kicks off at noon by the Washington Monument, and the march to the Supreme Court begins at 1 p.m. In-person speakers include VP JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. This is a bit of a coming-out weekend for Vance, who will also sit for his first interview since taking office (more on that below). More from The Hill
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Read more employee success stories. | | | E-RING READING FOR PETE’S SAKE: Pete Hegseth looks set to cross the finish line tonight, narrowly, with a final confirmation vote on his nomination as Defense secretary expected at 9 p.m. The Senate pushed it forward with a 51-49 procedural vote yesterday, as Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced their opposition to the former Fox News host. (Jordain Carney reports that party leaders are giving the two centrists plenty of latitude.) But to sink Hegseth, two more Republicans would have to surprise by breaking ranks today, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who hadn’t publicly declared his position, was a yes yesterday. Drip, drip: Hegseth’s likely success hasn’t stopped damaging information from continuing to emerge about him. AP’s Tara Copp revealed that the size of his 2017 payout to a sexual assault accuser was $50,000. Hegseth has denied the allegations, and his lawyer Tim Parlatore told CNN that the dollar amount was less than the cost of mounting a defense in court. Meanwhile at the Pentagon: Even before Hegseth’s arrival, there are already significant military policy changes underway. Trump officials are working on a proposal to shutter an office that tries to curb accidental civilian deaths in war, WaPo’s Meg Kelly, Alex Horton and Missy Ryan report. Congress would have to sign off on axing the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which was created in a law two years ago. The bigger picture is that Trump’s early Pentagon moves, NYT’s Helene Cooper writes, are putting the military “back where it has historically not wanted to be: in the middle of political and culture wars.” In other confirmation news … John Ratcliffe sailed to confirmation as CIA director in a 74-25 vote, per John Sakellariadis. … Kash Patel’s Senate Judiciary hearing to become FBI director has been tabbed for Thursday, the same morning as Tulsi Gabbard’s Intel hearing and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HELP hearing. (Read the NYT rundown of Patel’s repeated false and misleading public statements, to which they say spokesperson Erica Knight responded by making more misstatements, and another NYT piece about his views on his conspiracy theories and QAnon.) … At her hearing, Agriculture Secretary-designate Brooke Rollins sought to reassure senators on trade issues, per Marcia Brown and Grace Yarrow, while aligning closely with Trump on immigration, per Roll Call. IMMIGRATION FILES THE WAITING GAME: After a week of repeated false starts and rampant rumors, officials in Chicago are bracing for Trump’s coming immigration raids, unsure if they’ll happen today, tomorrow or if they could just be postponed indefinitely, Chief Playbook Correspondent Eugene Daniels writes in. “It’s not like anyone with the Trump administration is picking up the phone and calling us and saying ‘Here’s the plan,’” an Illinois state official tells him. “They’re looking for a PR stunt.” But if it’s a PR battle, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker seems eager to lean into the media fight. There are two central messaging strategies you’ll see at play in his statements, and may well hear from other big-name Democrats in the days ahead: First: He frames the federal government’s actions as a cause of chaos rather than an end to it. “We should have comprehensive immigration reform and not simply a president who is scaring people, forcing them out of their jobs because they’re afraid to go to work,” Pritzker said in a Wednesday press conference. Second: He attempts to claim the high ground on obeying the law. “We follow the law in Illinois; we don't follow unconstitutional orders from the federal government,” Pritzker said yesterday on SiriusXM’s “The Julie Mason Show.” That’s an argument that could be made considerably more persuasive by the president’s assertion that birthright citizenship isn’t protected by the 14th Amendment. Trump’s first loss: Federal judge John Coughenour temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to end birthright citizenship, and the first pause on Trump’s agenda was a stinging one. The Reagan appointee called Trump’s executive order “blatantly unconstitutional,” and said it was the clearest-cut case he’d seen in four decades, per the Seattle Times’ David Gutman. Of course, the Justice Department said it will appeal, maintaining that it has the correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment, and this is likely headed for the Supreme Court. Separately, roughly a dozen Democratic AGs threatened to sue over FBI anti-terrorism task forces being redirected to immigration, per Madison Fernandez. Coughenour’s words for the history books: “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say, ‘Where were the judges, where were the lawyers?’” Undaunted: Trump’s crackdown on legal and illegal immigration is nonetheless proceeding apace. The first in the new wave of troops heading to the southern border arrived last night in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, per AP’s Lolita Baldor. Biden State Department offices that were opened throughout Latin America to help people apply for legal immigration pathways — in a bid to reduce illegal immigration — are being shuttered, CBS’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez scooped. The Justice Department is forcing some legal service providers to stop helping in immigrant courts, ABC’s Laura Romero reports. The backstory: “DOJ focus on ‘sanctuaries’ follows prison threats by Miller’s group,” by WaPo’s Steve Thompson, Emma Uber and Dana Munro Dream on, Mark Kelly: Republican senators aren’t springing for the suggestion from moderate Democrats that they can work together on a bipartisan border security bill, NBC’s Sahil Kapur reports. The GOP wants to focus on passing their priorities through reconciliation on party-line votes. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) literally laughed when asked about it: “That’s a letter we will ignore.”
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After moving from Colombia to the United States, Lina never imagined she would achieve her American dream of owning a home. She recently closed on her first house. Sponsored by Amazon   | | | BEST OF THE REST SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN: With less than two months for Congress to keep the government open, Republican appropriators made their initial bid, Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus report. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) emerged from the “four corners” meeting upbeat, saying it was “honestly very positive,” and that they hoped to set topline numbers by the end of January. Not so fast: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was rather more dour earlier in the day, noting that GOP leaders hadn’t called him, so he assumes Republicans will “avoid a government shutdown on their own” — i.e., without Democrats bailing them out, per Roll Call. But but but: More than a dozen House Dems suggest to Inside Congress this morning that if push comes to shove, they’ll be the “adults in the room” and swallow a debt limit increase tied to wildfire aid rather than let the government shut down or default. Reconcilable differences: Johnson told Meredith Lee Hill that he wants to emerge from next week’s House GOP retreat with a clear blueprint for the reconciliation bill(s). The policy jostling has already begun: Roughly a dozen moderates told House GOP leaders not to make big Obamacare cuts — or risk losing their seats, per Meredith. Chip ahoy: Rachael Bade’s latest “Corridors” column zeroes in on one of the key House Republicans to watch amid this whole debate: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). Roy, she writes, “is talking tougher than ever about the Republican agenda as Johnson and other GOP leaders back away from promised spending cuts and ponder a sprawling debt-and-spending deal with Democrats.” Roy calls that prospect an “unholy deal” that would make it more difficult for him to support a party-line border-and-tax bill that doesn’t also cut budget deficits: “My personal price,” he tells Rachael, “goes up.” Meanwhile in the Senate: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sat down with Eugene for this week’s episode of “Playbook Deep Dive.” They talked about reconciliation, the one-bill-or-two debate, the need for Republicans to deliver on the mandate he says voters entrusted them with in the 2024 election and how he’ll know if and when it’s time to hang up his spurs. Listen now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
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| PAGING OLIVER STONE: The last remaining federal files on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. are due to be made public in the coming months, after Trump signed an executive order yesterday declassifying them. “That’s a big one, huh?” he said. (We sincerely cannot wait.) More from the president’s desk: Trump signed an executive order on AI, paving the way for a reset of U.S. policy after he scrapped Biden’s approach, per Bloomberg. … He also launched a cryptocurrency working group in a major victory for the industry, per Reuters. … And his White House told agencies to announce return-to-office policies by close of business today, with a month for federal workers to comply, per WaPo. MUSICAL CHAIRS: Wisconsin Dem Chair Ben Wikler has landed a big suite of supporters in his bid for DNC chair, ABC’s Brittany Shepherd and Nicholas Kerr scooped: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Also, ahead of next weekend’s election, in which Minnesota Dem Chair Ken Martin is seen as the frontrunner, candidate Martin O’Malley is releasing his donor list and challenging others to follow suit, Elena Schneider reports. TOP TALKER: Last summer, a Mike Johnson aide urged House Republicans not to subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson, WaPo’s Jackie Alemany reports, for fear that doing so could make public “sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors” with Hutchinson. (If you know which members of Congress may have propositioned her: playbook@politico.com) GETTING THE HELL OUT OF DOGE: At first, Bill McGinley was named incoming White House counsel. Then he was switched to legal counsel for the Department of Government Efficiency. Now, just a few days into the administration, he’s departing that too, following Vivek Ramaswamy out the door for the private sector, WSJ’s Brian Schwartz scooped. MORE UPHEAVAL AT DOJ: “Justice Dept. revokes job offers to young lawyers in elite honors program,” by WaPo’s Perry Stein and Ann Marimow: “[It] could demolish one of the Justice Department’s main efforts to recruit top law school graduates into the public sector. The program has operated for more than 60 years.” MUSK READ: Some top Trump officials and allies are livid that Elon Musk stepped on Trump’s toes by pooh-poohing Sam Altman’s OpenAI and SoftBank right after Trump made a big AI infrastructure announcement with them, Dasha Burns and Holly Otterbein report. But not Trump: “Elon, one of the people he happens to hate,” the president said. “I have certain hatreds of people, too." More from CNN QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone was in there with tears [of] laughter because they were hilarious,” a former No. 10 Downing Street official tells our colleague Dan Bloom about hordes of top Brits all gathering round to listen in on phone calls with Trump in his first term. Trump’s unpredictable digressions had the PM’s office in stitches. Boris Johnson is thought to have navigated the conversations better than Theresa May. Dan’s headline: “How to survive a phone call with Donald Trump.” SCOTUS WATCH: “US Supreme Court removes hurdle to anti-money laundering law,” by Reuters’ Nate Raymond: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that forces millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the Treasury Department, though it still will remain on hold and its fate could be decided by President Donald Trump.” RACE RATINGS: The initial gubernatorial ratings for this year and next from The Cook Political Report’s Jessica Taylor and Matthew Klein peg Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin as tossups, while New Jersey leans Dem and Kansas leans toward a GOP flip. One contender to watch: Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who more recently worked in the Biden administration, is weighing a Georgia bid, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein and Riley Bunch report. LOVE IT OR LEAVITT: “Trump’s White House Press Secretary Reveals Her Failed Campaign Spent $200K in Illicit Contributions,” by NOTUS’ Claire Heddles: “Those excessive contributions went unreported for years — until Thursday … ‘An FEC inquiry was prompted by one double filing and the employee involved was dismissed,’ Eric Brown, general counsel at Ax Capital, wrote in a statement” on Karoline Leavitt’s behalf. LIFE ITSELF: The anti-abortion movement landed another victory yesterday from Trump, who issued almost two dozen pardons for protesters who’d been convicted of crimes for blocking access to clinics, Alice Miranda Ollstein reports. Trump called them “peaceful protesters,” though some had been charged with violence. Also yesterday, the House passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, though the Senate version failed the day before, per CNN. One to watch: In other abortion news, a new study highlights a potential abortion-pill alternative to mifepristone, NYT’s Pam Belluck and Emily Bazelon report. But the political ramifications could be complex, because it’s the same ingredient as in a morning-after pill — perhaps inflaming conservative arguments against emergency contraception.
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| | TALK OF THE TOWN | | Kamala Harris’ entity for whatever her political future holds is a newly formed LLC called Pioneer49, Eugene reports. Michael Bloomberg is once again backfilling for Donald Trump in providing climate funding to the U.N. that the U.S. has withdrawn. Andy Ogles introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution so Trump — but not, say, Barack Obama or George W. Bush — can run for a third term as president. (Any chance that this becomes a MAGA litmus test?) Ken Paxton is no longer facing a lawsuit from the Texas State Bar for trying to overturn the 2020 election, eliminating the possibility of sanctions. IN MEMORIAM — “Susan Wood, FDA official who resigned over Plan B ruling, dies at 66,” by WaPo’s Emily Langer: “A champion of women’s health, she stepped down to protest what she saw as the agency’s politically motivated delay in expanding access to emergency contraception.” PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION — In the end, Elon Musk did not submit a bid for the Line hotel, per Washingtonian. PLAYBOOK ZOOLOGY SECTION — Starting today, the general public will be able to see giant pandas at the National Zoo again. WaPo has the rundown of what to expect. STAFFING UP — Daniel Guarnera will be tapped to head the FTC’s Bureau of Competition and Chris Mufarrige to lead consumer protection, Bloomberg’s Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco report. Guarnera is currently a top antitrust attorney at the Justice Department, indicating the Trump FTC may retain the Biden administration’s sharp enforcement. … Susan Monarez has been picked as acting CDC director, Sophie Gardner reports for Pros. She currently is deputy director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. MEDIA MOVE — Ursula Perano is joining NOTUS as a political reporter covering Senate leadership. She most recently has covered the Senate at POLITICO. TRANSITIONS — Speaker Mike Johnson has added to his political staff for the 2026 cycle: Billy Constangy as executive director, Hunter Mullis as deputy executive director, Sam Spencer as political director, Coleman Covington as finance director, Greg Steele as comms director, Chase Davis as deputy political director, Jordan Bell as deputy operations director, Caroline Reynolds as deputy finance director, Sarah Grace Prestwood as regional finance director and Haley Lively as regional finance director. … Ginger Gibson is now VP for media relations at the Retail Industry Leaders Association. She most recently was senior Washington editor at NBC News. … Tara Rountree is now lead director of government affairs at CVS Health. She previously was chief of staff for Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.). … … Lauren Hodge is now chief of staff for Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.). She previously was chief of staff for Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.). … Colin Diersing will be comms director for Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas). He previously was on the Harris campaign comms team. … Walter Smoloski is now comms director for Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.). He previously was an account executive at Athos PR and is an Andy Harris alum. WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Gina Drioane, VP at Waxman Strategies, and Jon Varian, branch head for radiation shielding at Naval Reactors, welcomed Lorenzo Varian on Tuesday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), John Garamendi (D-Calif.) (8-0), Lou Correa (D-Calif.) and Jake Ellzey (R-Texas) … Eric Schultz … Alex Wong … State’s Christina Kanmaz … Jenny Ament … Elliott Abrams … former OMB Director Shaun Donovan … Courtney Rowe … The American Leader’s David Hawkings … WSJ’s Gerry Baker … AP’s Byron Tau … Natalie Lawton … Protect Democracy’s Ian Bassin … Monica Popp of Marshall & Popp ... Nathanson + Hauck’s Meg Hauck Marshall … former Reps. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) and Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.) … Bernie Merritt … Edelman’s Melanie Trottman ... Shane Hand … David Bader … Albert Fujii of Rep. Morgan McGarvey’s (D-Ky.) office … James Davis of the House Democratic Caucus Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@politico.com or text us at 202-556-3307. Playbook couldn’t happen without our deputy editor Zack Stanton and Playbook Daily Briefing producer Callan Tansill-Suddath. Corrections: Yesterday’s Playbook misspelled Robbie Gramer’s name and misstated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s title.
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