MARK YOUR CALENDARS — Senate Majority Chief CHUCK SCHUMER mentioned his chamber will vote Wednesday on a invoice to codify abortion rights into regulation. It’s unlikely to have the help crucial to interrupt a filibuster (and even to cross with out it).
However the high-profile vote might be adopted Might 14 by coordinated marches deliberate for D.C., Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, per Vice’s Elizabeth Landers. Quite a lot of teams, together with the Ladies’s March and Deliberate Parenthood, count on that the protests may draw a whole bunch of 1000’s of demonstrators.
The ripple results of the draft Supreme Courtroom opinion overturning Roe v. Wade are persevering with to surge throughout American politics, coverage and the judiciary.
— The information yielded the very best fundraising day of the 12 months for the Democratic Legislative Marketing campaign Committee, which pulled in $650,000 throughout two days, NYT’s Blake Hounshell studies. Democrats see the event as a possibility to spice up voters’ and donors’ concentrate on key state legislative contests if energy over abortion coverage is devolved to the states. Run for One thing says they’ve seen “a significant spike in candidate recruitment” this week. Michigan is on the prime of Dems’ record for flipping a state legislative chamber in what might be a making an attempt 12 months.
— Regulators and pharmaceutical firms are underneath heightened strain to make over-the-counter contraception a actuality, Lauren Gardner studies. After six years of forwards and backwards, one firm is predicted to ask for OTC approval later this 12 months. “Democratic lawmakers are pressuring the FDA to maneuver shortly as soon as the functions are submitted. … In the meantime, some conservative lawmakers are working to limit entry to contraception.”
— AP’s Jessica Gresko, writing in an outlet not given to hyperbole, opens her story concerning the chief justice thusly: “JOHN ROBERTS is heading a Supreme Courtroom in disaster.” Roberts now presides over a court docket whose invigorated conservative majority doesn’t want him anymore for key votes, a pacesetter who not has as a lot management.
On President JOE BIDEN’s evolution on abortion rights:
— NYT’s Peter Baker has a sweeping look at Biden’s historical past each on the substance of the problem and his consolation in speaking about it. One little bit of historic context that caught our eye: “Biden was first sworn into the Senate in January 1973, simply 17 days earlier than the Supreme Courtroom issued Roe.”
— AP’s Chris Megerian notes that as a freshman senator, Biden hedged on abortion, stating his private opposition to it whilst he opposed overturning Roe. “That’s a tricky place, child,” Sen. ABE RIBICOFF advised him earlier than providing recommendation Biden recalled years later in a memoir: “Decide a facet. You’ll be significantly better off politically.”
DAILY CAWTHORN — A brand new investigation from The Every day Beast’s Roger Sollenberger turns up what he calls “a cut-and-dried ethics violation” in Rep. MADISON CAWTHORN’s (R-N.C.) pay for his chief of employees, BLAKE HARP. The story studies that Harp made greater than he would have been allowed to if he’d been correctly categorised as “senior employees.” “The group additionally seems to have gone out of its technique to try to blur the recipient of some funds, making a shell LLC to obscure that Harp was the one getting the cash. That firm has additionally obtained tens of 1000’s of {dollars} from a PAC belonging to Harp’s mother.”
Good Thursday afternoon. Joyful Cinco de Mayo!
UPDATE ON THE VANCE OPPO BOOK — This morning, we reported on the main points of the 177-page opposition analysis e book on J.D. VANCE that the pro-Vance Tremendous PAC, Shield Ohio Values, produced. The “vulnerability examine” provided a uncommon glimpse into the intently held oppo that campaigns conduct on their very own candidates. (You’ll be able to learn the entire thing right here.)
In a response to Playbook after the merchandise was printed, the Vance marketing campaign mentioned that “most” of the data within the e book “has already been reported by different retailers in the course of the main marketing campaign.”
ALL POLITICS
THE NEW GOP — Arizona could also be a swing state, however its Republicans are breaking exhausting proper, centering their campaigns on lies concerning the 2020 election, NYT’s Jennifer Medina studies from Sierra Vista. Gubernatorial frontrunner KARI LAKE and dozens of different Republicans working for workplace are pushing the false conspiracy theories, fueled by a base that believes them, the broadly ridiculed “audit” of the state’s 2020 vote and DONALD TRUMP’s continued assaults on Gov. DOUG DUCEY. The large query is whether or not the GOP’s extremism will flip off reasonable voters and/or animate sufficient Republican turnout to make up for his or her loss.
THE WHITE HOUSE
TEACH ME HOW TO DOUGIE — Second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF has develop into a prime fundraising draw for Democrats, showing extra typically for the DNC than anybody aside from VP KAMALA HARRIS, McClatchy’s Francesca Chambers studies. Emhoff normally pulls in about $100,000 an occasion, and he’s made himself an affable street warrior on behalf of the administration, making connections with donors and serving as a White Home surrogate as a substitute of taking over a selected coverage focus. “Being a lawyer, being in Hollywood, being a trial lawyer, and getting used to standing up and with the ability to reply questions, all of it seems to be nice expertise for second gentleman,” Emhoff tells her. “But in addition simply being genuine, being myself.”
UP IN THE AIR — The brand new presidential helicopter is years delayed, however the White Home Navy Workplace is now lastly conducting critiques of the VH-92 choppers earlier than commissioning them into service, Bloomberg’s Anthony Capaccio studies. The forthcoming Marine Ones from Lockheed Martin now have sufficient employees and tools from the Marines to maneuver ahead. However, however, however: Some issues nonetheless stay, together with this eye-popping one: “the helicopter’s tendency to scorch the White Home garden when touchdown underneath sure circumstances.”
THE ECONOMY
PRE-JOBS REPORT READING — One of many squeezes on the labor market via the pandemic has been a wave of early retirements by older staff. However new information reveals lots of them lastly rising from retirement to reenter the workforce — about 1.5 million up to now 12 months, WaPo’s Abha Bhattarai studies. “Many retirees are being pulled again to jobs by a mix of diminishing covid issues and extra versatile work preparations at a time when employers are determined for staff. In some circumstances, staff say rising prices — and the shortcoming to maintain up whereas on a hard and fast revenue — are factoring closely into their choices as properly.”
POLICY CORNER
LEND ME A HAND — The Biden administration at this time is rolling out adjustments to guidelines for banks’ lending in low-income areas, following their transfer in December to trash a Trump-era coverage change, WSJ’s Andrew Ackerman studies. The proposal “goals to make sure lending to lower-income people and small companies is distributed extra evenly the place banks do enterprise.”
PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION — Boeing is planning to announce as quickly as subsequent week that it’ll transfer its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va., “a shift that will place the aerospace firm’s senior executives nearer to key authorities resolution makers,” scoop WSJ’s Andrew Tangel and Doug Cameron.
WAR IN UKRAINE
MAJOR INVESTIGATION — From three weeks of reporting, Reuters’ Mari Saito is out with a blockbuster new story indicating the Russian navy items and individuals who had been in Bucha, the positioning of horrific doable struggle crimes. “Amongst them: An elite paramilitary pressure that studies as much as a former bodyguard of President VLADIMIR PUTIN. A paratroop division embellished for its position in Moscow’s lengthy secret struggle in east Ukraine. Chechen troops linked to the strongman chief of the Russian area. And a paratrooper who was traced due to a love letter discovered within the ruins.”
LATEST FROM THE U.S. …
— First girl JILL BIDEN will go to the Ukraine border with Slovakia as a part of her Japanese Europe Mom’s Day swing, NBC’s Mike Memoli studies. “Biden will survey a checkpoint the place Ukrainian refugees obtain fundamental help from humanitarian and Slovakian authorities staff.” She’ll additionally meet with Ukrainian refugees and Slovaks elsewhere within the nation. The primary girl’s journey will take her to Romania as properly.
— Biden had a half-hour name with German Chancellor OLAF SCHOLZ this morning, the White Home mentioned.
— The U.S. and Fiji seized a Russian oligarch’s large yacht, valued at greater than $300 million, per CBS. Notable remark from NBC’s Ken Dilanian: “What’s so attention-grabbing about all these seizures is that they don’t seem to be based mostly on new regulation. Solely … one factor has modified: political will.”
LATEST ON THE GROUND …
— Azovstal’s final stand: Russia has reportedly breached the ultimate Ukrainian defenses on the sprawling metal plant in Mariupol. Extra from NBC
— For the primary time in a month, Russian assaults hit residential areas within the metropolis of Kramatorsk, reportedly injuring dozens. Extra from CNN
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED: Barbadian PM Mia Mottley at Jackie American Bistro in Navy Yard on Wednesday night time for a dinner that includes Barbadian cooks, mixologists and delicacies. The menu
OUT AND ABOUT — The John W. Foley Legacy Basis gave out its annual Freedom Awards on the Nationwide Press Membership on Wednesday night time. Hosted by Abby Phillip, the night honored reporters and members of the family of hostages overseas. Awards went to Mohamed Soltan, Eliza Griswold and Dexter Filkins, and greater than a dozen legislators and staffers who helped cross the Robert A. Levinson Hostage Restoration and Hostage Accountability Act obtained the inaugural Excellence in Authorities Service Award. SPOTTED: Diane and John Foley, Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), Kyra Phillips, John Roberts, David Bradley, Andrew Keller, Bethany Poulos, Jason Rezaian, Sarah (Levinson) Moriarty, Amy Coyne and Marcus Richardson.
MEDIA MOVE — Nick Baumann might be deputy Washington bureau chief for enterprise on the L.A. Occasions. He presently is politics editor at The Atlantic. Announcement
WHITE HOUSE ARRIVAL LOUNGE — Lindsey Zuluaga is now particular adviser for international financial points to VP Kamala Harris. She comes from the State Division, the place she’s been a international service officer for nearly 14 years.
WHITE HOUSE DEPARTURE LOUNGE — Kartik Sheth has returned to NASA to be a program scientist within the science mission directorate. He most just lately was assistant director for analysis infrastructures and science fairness on the White Home Workplace of Science and Expertise Coverage.
TRANSITION — Claire Bienvenu is now govt assistant on the Cystic Fibrosis Basis. She most just lately was scheduler for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.).
BONUS BIRTHDAY: White Home’s Terry Moynihan
