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Schumer, Johnson agree on spending deal . . . Congressional leaders have clinched a deal on overall budget totals that could pave the way for a broader government funding compromise in the coming weeks — further enraging Speaker Mike Johnson’s right flank. The long-stalled agreement, announced Sunday afternoon, establishes funding limits for the military and domestic programs for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1, allowing House and Senate appropriators to begin hashing out their differences between a dozen annual spending bills. A partial government shutdown looms 12 days away. Politico

How is this different from McCarthy?

Conservatives are furious . . . News of Johnson's deal on Sunday sparked immediate conservative outrage, with the House Freedom Caucus blasting the agreement as a "total failure." While Johnson, in the letter to his Congressional colleagues, said the topline spending total was roughly $1.59 trillion, Democrats and critics noted that the true figure was higher. The House Freedom Caucus, which opposes the agreement, said the "true total programmatic spending level is $1.658 trillion — not $1.59 trillion." "To call this 'unsustainable' is an understatement," the caucus said in a statement. Newsweek

DOJ to target nonviolent Jan. 6 protestors . . . The Justice Department says its prosecutors are planning to target “thousands” of Jan. 6 protesters who gathered in “restricted” areas around the Capitol three years ago, regardless of whether they participated in violent acts or entered the Capitol building. “If a person knowingly entered a restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime," said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves. Washington Times

This will be sad for those protestors by great for Trump, since it buttresses his case that the prosecutions are political lawfare. Who ever gets prosecuted by the DOJ for trespassing?

Obama worried about Biden's campaign . . . Barack Obama has raised questions about the structure of President Biden’s reelection campaign, discussing the matter directly with Biden and telling the president’s aides and allies the campaign needs to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House, according to three people familiar with the conversations. Obama grew “animated” in discussing the 2024 election and former president Donald Trump’s potential return to power, one of the people said. Washington Post

ALL HANDS ON DECK!

Clyburn concerned that Biden not getting black support . . . Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said he is “very concerned” about President Joe Biden’s ability to garner support from black voters heading into the 2024 election, and he said Biden has a messaging problem. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on State of the Union, Clyburn expressed his frustration regarding what he painted as Biden’s successful record and the lack of support he has received for it. Washington Examiner

Dems leery of Biden debating Trump . . . Democratic lawmakers are leery about the prospect of President Biden debating former President Trump, fearing that putting the two on stage together would only elevate the likely GOP nominee. “I would think twice about it,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) about the prospect of Biden debating Trump. The Hill

Jill lends a hand

How Biden put race at the center of government spending . . .A program, Justice40, which the White House describes as a "whole of government effort," decreed that 40 percent of the beneficiaries of federal climate and environmental programs must come from "underserved communities." The White House stops short of saying that those communities are defined by race, and that benefits like federal infrastructure grants are likely to be doled out on the basis of a community’s racial composition rather than a community’s needs. But others are saying the quiet part out loud. Washington Free Beacon

CNN's Christiane Amanpour accuses Trump of "Nazi talk"

Fury grows after Austin goes AWOL . . . The House Armed Services Committee, joining statements from across the political and defense spectrums, stated their “concerns” in a press release Sunday over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s delayed health “disclosure” to government officials as he reportedly remains in the hospital. The committee has “concerns” with how Austin’s “condition was handled.” The congressmen additionally noted there are still “several questions” that “remain unanswered,” emphasizing the secretary’s “current health status.” Daily Caller

Biden will be under pressure, both from within and outside his administration, to dump Austin, who has an easy face saver, "health concerns." Otherwise, this puts a hole in Biden's only argument for reelection, that he is the enemy of chaos. And he can't possibly claim he has "confidence" in Austin when the guy simply disappeared on him. Austin goes.

Trump demands that Austin resign

China space warfare plan includes killer robot satellites . . . China’s plans for space warfare include cyberattacks and electronic jamming to disrupt and disable U.S. satellite systems and, in the future, small robot satellites to grab or crush U.S. military space sensors, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official report. China’s three types of anti-satellite missiles capable of blasting satellites at all orbits are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party Central Military Commission, headed by President Xi Jinping. Washington Times

International

Israel has wrapped up major combat in North Gaza . . . The Israeli military signaled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure there, as the war against the militant group entered its fourth month Sunday. In recent weeks, Israel had already been scaling back its military assault in northern Gaza and pressing its offensive in the territory’s south. Politico

Money

Credit card crisis growing . . . The number of Americans struggling under the weight of owing money has significantly increased in the past two years, with an estimated 56 million credit cardholders in the country having been in debt for at least a year. Bankrate found that nearly half of credit cardholders (49 percent) carry a balance month to month, up from 39 percent in 2021. Newsweek

Buying home and auto insurance becomes a nightmare . . . For many Americans, getting insurance for both their cars and homes has gone from a routine, generally manageable expense to a do-or-die ordeal that can strain household budgets. Insurers are coming off some of their worst years in history. Catastrophic damage from storms and wildfires is one big reason. The past decade of global natural catastrophes has been the costliest ever. Warmer temperatures have made storms worse and contributed to droughts that have elevated wildfire risk. Too many new homes were built in areas at risk of fire. Wall Street Journal

Culture

Reparations starts to go mainstream . . . A growing number of states and local municipalities are launching task forces and programs to examine possible reparations for Black American descendants of enslavement and Jim Crow-era discrimination — a once-fringe idea that's increasingly going mainstream. "This is no longer a niche conversation. This is something that we have to do," New York State Rep. Michaelle C. Solages (D) said. Axios

The latest "once-fringe idea" to go mainstream will amount to a new welfare program costing taxpayers billions.

Yonkers boots high school girls basketball coach after antisemitic outrage . . . Yonkers canned a high school girls basketball coach and booted a player off the team after an ugly antisemitic incident at a recent game against a Jewish high school, city officials said Sunday. The Thursday night game between The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, ended early after some kids from Roosevelt shot antisemitic slurs at their opponents — including one who allegedly said “I support Hamas, you f–king Jew.” Security guards had to escort Leffell School players off the court following the hostile contest. New York Post

Warning signal on Alaska Airlines jet was not addressed . . . The Alaska Airlines plane that lost a piece of its fuselage in midair on Friday was not being used in long flights over water because a pressurization warning light had gone off during three recent flights, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday. Jennifer Homendy, the board’s chairwoman, said it was too soon to say whether the issue had played a role in the Friday incident. She said Alaska Airlines maintenance workers had been instructed to determine why the warning light had repeatedly gone off, but the work was not done before the flight on Friday. Instead workers reset the system and the plane was put back into service. New York Times

Migrant mob grabs $5,300 in designer sunglasses from Blomingdales . . . A mob of sticky-fingered migrants stormed into Manhattan’s Bloomingdale’s and tried to swipe a trove of Versace, Dior and Prada designer sunglasses totaling $5,300 — before all but one of them escaped, police sources said Sunday. About 15 asylum-seekers swarmed the high-end Midtown retailer shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday and grabbed more than a dozen pairs of the pricey sunglasses before making a run for it, sources said. New York Post

It's winter. Why are they stealing sunglasses? Why aren't they in the ski mask section? That way they could stay warm and rob banks too.

Polar blast bringing deep chill to the US . . . An Arctic blast may bring temperatures of -50 degrees to swathes of the West and Midwest next week. The polar vortex could sweep across the Pacific Northwest and roll into the Central and Midwest of the country over the next five to ten days, meteorologist Ryan Maue said. The cold shock would bring temperatures more than 78 degrees below normal for this time of the year. Daily Mail

Because, global warming

Man crashes car into store, jumps naked into its aquarium . . .