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Presented by Facebook Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Thursday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 513,091; Tuesday, 514,657; Wednesday, 516,608; Thursday, 518,453. Senate Democrats on Wednesday took a scalpel to President Biden Joe Biden The West needs a more collaborative approach to Taiwan Abbott's medical advisers were not all consulted before he lifted Texas mask mandate House approves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act MORE ’s $1.9 trillion relief bill hoping to surgically ensure enough support from centrists this week to clear the measure, … [Read more...] about The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Lawmakers face Capitol threat as senators line up votes for relief bill

Liberal Democrats are growing more and more worried that the Senate will serve as a legislative graveyard for President Biden Joe Biden The West needs a more collaborative approach to Taiwan Abbott's medical advisers were not all consulted before he lifted Texas mask mandate House approves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act MORE ’s agenda unless he and other centrists rally behind doing away with the filibuster. The tensions for now are mostly under the surface as the party approaches an initial victory under Biden: passage into law of a giant $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. The Senate is expected to pass it this week, and when it becomes law it will serve as an unmistakable victory in Biden’s first 100 days. ADVERTISEMENT Yet this initial victory will cover up for fears among Democrats that big-ticket items passed in the House will die in the Senate unless the party greases the gears for change by ending the filibuster. Senate Majority … [Read more...] about Democrats worry Senate will be graveyard for Biden agenda

Rep. Tom Emmer Thomas (Tom) Earl Emmer House GOP campaign chief: Not helpful for Trump to meddle in primaries House panel spars over GameStop frenzy, trading apps The Hill's Morning Report - Biden on COVID-19: Next year Americans will be 'better off' MORE (R-Minn.), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said Wednesday that is not helpful to the GOP's goal of winning back a majority in the House to have former President Trump Donald Trump House passes voting rights and elections reform bill DEA places agent seen outside Capitol during riot on leave Georgia Gov. Kemp says he'd 'absolutely' back Trump as 2024 nominee MORE targeting incumbents in primary races. Speaking at an event hosted by Politico, Emmer said he has not spoken to Trump directly about staying out of primary races involving the 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach Trump. But he said that he believes Trump will listen to Republican … [Read more...] about House GOP campaign chief: Not helpful for Trump to meddle in primaries

Donald Trump in West Virginia. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images About a decade ago, it became clear to some of us that the Republican and Democratic parties were not at all alike. The two were different, not just in their beliefs but in their methods and political style. The Republican Party was ethnically, economically, and ideologically homogenous. Democrats claimed support from racial minorities along with whites, and unions, consumer advocates, and environmentalists along with business, and moderates as well as liberals, yielding a careful balance of ideas and interests. As a virtually all-white party, whose economic support came exclusively from business and which identified conservatism as its sole legitimate ideological tradition, the Republican Party operated in a very different style. Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination is the most emphatic, but only the most recent, indication that the Republican Party’s internal culture is a total failure. Not long ago, … [Read more...] about The Republican Trump Meltdown and the Fight Over the Democratic Party’s Future

A witness in a Pueblo murder trial was killed in Denver last week, 10th Judicial District Attorney Jeff Chostner said Wednesday, but police do not believe her death is connected to her status as a witness. Roxann Martinez, 31, was shot and killed near East Kenyon Drive and South Wabash Street around 11 p.m. Thursday, according to Denver police and the medical examiner’s office. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner on Tuesday ruled Martinez’s death a homicide. Martinez was a witness who could have testified in the ongoing murder trial of Donthe Lucas, a 28-year-old man charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend, Kelsie Schelling, 21. Schelling disappeared in February 2013 and her body has not been found. “We are aware of (Martinez’s) connection to that trial, but we don’t believe at this time that her death is related,” Denver police spokeswoman Christine Downs said Wednesday. She declined to elaborate. Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,000 reward for … [Read more...] about Witness in Pueblo murder trial killed in Denver, but police don’t see connection