– The administration will propose a 6% cut in domestic spending, despite agreement earlier this year on a higher figure. Pre-release backgrounders brag that foreign aid will be cut 20%. [This is progress: the past 2 years,the administration wanted 30%, which Congress rejected.]
– In what looks like a further effort to privatize veterans programs, the administration wants to deny access to regular military hospitals to retirees and family members.
– David Sanger says North Korea has tripled its internet use,allowing it to escape sanctions via the dark web.
-WaPo reports a story I’ve told in class: how Biden and Republicans tried to amend the 2002 AUMF for Iraq with more restrictive provisions, only to be outmaneuvered by Cong. Dick Gephardt [D-Mo], House Democratic leader, in payback for the 2001 AUMF, when the Sernate forced the House to approve language limiting the authorization to those actually connected to the 9/11 attacks.
– Dan Drezner says the administration’s 5G strategy is confused and not working.
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