A quick heads up: The Senate will try to pass a supplemental spending bill today. Republicans are concerned Dems will vote against it because they want more funding for Puerto Rico. More in Playbook:
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“Senator Cory Booker hit John’s Grill in San Francisco Friday for a lunch fundraiser where about 50 showed up — including former Mayor Willie Brown’s daughter, Sydney, 17 — to meet, greet and pick up campaign checks. On the way out the door, he asked to go through the kitchen, ‘and took a selfie with every one of the cook staff,’ publicity guru Lee Houskeeper tells POLITICO.Rep.
“Democratic lawmakers and other supporters of foreign aid to Central America fumed over the weekend following President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that he will cut hundreds of millions in assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Rep. Joaquín Castro , chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called the move ‘short-sighted and flawed,’ and cautioned that it could inflame what he called a humanitarian crisis at the border.
“It took six months of partisan delays — and several railroad accidents — before Democrats let the Senate confirm a federal railroad administrator, even though none of them actually voted against the nominee in the end.for the president’s nominee to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Two-hundred eighty-seven days and counting for the under secretary of state for management.
“Twenty months before voters head to the polls, Graham is starting his campaign for a fourth Senate term early — and doing everything he can to link himself to the president. For Graham, the full embrace of Trump is, in part, an effort to stave off primary challengers, particularly someone who could be tempted to run against him as a Trump-style insurgent.”
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