Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by the National Network of Abortion Funds: GOP LIVID OVER DEBT LIMIT DEAL – Trump dines with Ryan tonight – TOP PELOSI AIDE LEAVING – Reichert announces retirement
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 05:57:44 -0600
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09/07/2017 07:56 AM EDT

By Heather Caygle ([email-masked] or @heatherscope)
 
THE ART OF THE DEAL - Republicans and some Democrats are seething about the fiscal deal President Donald Trump cut with Democratic leaders Wednesday to raise the debt ceiling into December as part of a Hurricane Harvey aid package. The deal will force Republicans to vote twice on the debt ceiling this year - something GOP leaders had been desperately hoping to avoid - and emboldens Democrats ahead of what's going to be a nasty December funding fight. 
 
"Trump has got to start caring more about his colleagues over here," said one Republican lawmaker allied with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made clear to reporters that this was Trump's deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) - not his and Ryan's - but he said he would support it. Burgess, Rachael and Bres report: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416f4bbe3d10d8bb519c4d5264a2e1e7ec9a8107dc5b46cfc3d84f2d3682b4426e971fafbd50485c9453cd7b9cfdb4a255d 
 
Both sides aren't happy: -On the right: Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus met with Ryan to complain about his leadership, Bob Costa reports for the Washington Post. Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and his ally Steve Bannon (a frequent Ryan foe) "have begun to discuss who could replace Ryan as speaker, should conservatives rebel against him." (Huddle note: Ryan still enjoys broad support in the caucus.)
 
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-On the left: Several Democratic lawmakers and activists are fuming about the plan, saying it undercuts any leverage Democrats had to push for a legislative fix to help Dreamers this month. "Right now there are many Democrats who feel we gave up, not just me," said Rep. Luis Guti&eacute;rrez (D-Ill.). "Democrats just don't seem to want to use their leverage to protect the Dreamers." More from Elana and your Huddle host: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416aeb60379ce02265b04d86f77e5f4a48072b01bc5dee07d1d960ff0b1c960dddf3369e64088cf07ca56b1228f37c497c0 
 
How it all went down: "Republicans left the Oval Office Wednesday stunned," Rachael, Burgess and Josh Dawsey report. "Trump had quickly sided with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase, even overruling his own Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to concur with 'Chuck and Nancy,' as he later called them on Air Force One." More behind the scenes: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416330e7652f8efa8fb462218bd051599801b580dc3aa3f7e5c758a2114627aabf67c29ecae01bf2e22416d4181076fa39d 
 
Next steps: McConnell filed cloture on the Harvey relief package Wednesday night, teeing up the bill for Senate consideration this week. The Senate version nearly doubles Harvey emergency funding to more than $15 billion (half of which is community block grants, Sarah Ferris reports) and would fund the government through Dec. 8. A section-by-section summary: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416dd65933faa36e610c491ab2aad6f24e2e2f5564f96b5ed7e834ac0f9fec18735c2c848399ecc2010a2a10a1173636038 
 
WHAT'S ON THE MENU? Trump and Ryan will dine together at the White House tonight. Trump will also meet with Schumer again today - albeit as part of a larger group of New York and New Jersey lawmakers to discuss the states' shared infrastructure. 
 
TOP PELOSI AIDE LEAVING - Nadeam Elshami, a longtime fixture on Capitol Hill, is leaving his job as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff to join Signal Group, multiple sources told Huddle. Elshami will be replaced by Danny Weiss, a Capitol Hill veteran and former chief of staff for Rep. George Miller, a close Pelosi ally until his retirement in 2015. Elshami has served as Pelosi's chief of staff since 2013 but has worked in her office for the last decade, starting in the California Democrat's press shop when she became House speaker in 2007. His departure and replacement was announced to staff Wednesday afternoon. Elshami initially got his start sorting letters in the Senate
 mailroom twenty-five years ago. 
 
ROLLING RIGHT INTO THURSDAY. Welcome to Sept. 7 and thanks for tuning in to POLITICO's Huddle, the play-by-play guide to all things Capitol Hill. 
 
WEDNESDAY'S MOST CLICKED: Seung Min's story about the bipartisan Senate resolution aimed at forcing Trump to publicly condemn the deadly white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville was the winner. 
 
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2018 - The debt limit deal Trump cut with Democrats doesn't just put Republicans in a bad negotiating spot come December - it also has many in the GOP questioning whether the president will be an asset or an anchor in the 2018 midterms. Further frustrating Republicans, Trump played it nice with Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp during an appearance in North Dakota Wednesday, bringing her up on stage and calling her a "good woman." Heitkamp's seat is a top target for Republicans next year. Dawsey and Burgess with more on 2018 implications: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf41665a13e445dd8e2906b5c6e649d78251b79d60ecb508426c667a40d30965333ea0e77dd470e51cc669447b3722c601026 
 
YESTERDAY IN ONE PHOTO: Schumer and Trump embracing in the Oval Office with the president smiling as legislative liaison Marc Short (a staffer for VP Mike Pence when he was in the House) looks on, via Getty's Alex Wong: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf4161bb7b70db492a6bce6bff923ec4a458238f3ab368af20e3c2d14b6570a1ac7f57eee198a5e6c5916c88fb86c02055f7c  
 
MURPHY ADMITS TO AFFAIR - Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Tim Murphy admitted Wednesday to having an affair just hours after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won a court motion to unseal a related divorce case. Murphy "is not a party to the divorce," Paula Reed Ward reports. "However, the husband in the case, Jesse Sally, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, sought to depose the congressman earlier this year as part of his divorce from Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist." Murphy will be deposed in the case by Sept. 29. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416b21173894bba275f6231eea9e1544f07cc6985921c1da2019ab87318dc07027429471cc73080f6e515f7dc64e353e413 
 
FEINSTEIN FACES GROWING UNREST ON THE LEFT - California progressives are growing tired of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's pragmatic approach to politics, making a primary challenge increasingly likely, Carla Marinucci reports. "Buzz in state political circles increasingly centers on one prospective Democratic challenger, Kevin de Le&oacute;n of Los Angeles, the first Latino to hold the powerful position of state Senate president pro tempore in more than 120 years. ... Many Democrats say that whether it's de Le&oacute;n or another up-and-coming Democrat, Feinstein will almost certainly have a race on her hands." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf4169025472d8bcbd25f3fad3d9fca7e4bd54bbd1a98738a84d25251f5a16e8ed3b1ff12a554bca2afc8b5352085ffca7091 
 
DEALING ON DACA - Republicans have made clear that any bill to codify the DACA program - protecting nearly 800,000 Dreamers from deportation - will also have to contain some tougher immigration measures in return. And Democrats seem ready to deal. "There are some things that are absolutely unacceptable. A 2,200-mile border wall is unacceptable," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-ill.) told Seung Min. But, Durbin added, "If they want to put something on the table, I'll look at it." Next up, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Sept. 13 to address DACA and worker visa programs. SMK with more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf4165415fd9a12a79ecc44cc445343398ed1c26a568ae1a678c3e6c8c64a1717c20976ac37f35b9033a8126ab31578633f11 
 
TRUMP JR. WATCH - Donald Trump Jr. will be on the Hill today, sitting for a closed-door interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee about his controversial meeting with a Kremlin lawyer last year. Darren Samuelsohn with the deets: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf4163511677bf893d85b2958edcc4b45fb4b2211d7d6623ccaeb385ea65f707b6d329b149257bc86d09abd9083bcee2e803a 
 
REICHERT ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT - Republican Rep. Dave Reichert announced Wednesday he won't run for reelection, offering Democrats a pickup opportunity in a district that went for Hillary Clinton last year. "I'd certainly like to see a Republican keep the district. I think it's going to be hard," Reichert told the Seattle Times. "Although he hinted in a news release of pursuing 'new opportunities' in public service, Reichert said he is not in talks for any Trump administration job and has no intention of running for U.S. Senate in 2018 or governor in 2020," Jim Brunner reports. 
 
Quote du jour: Reichert "said he had no health issues prompting his retirement, boasting of his daily, high-impact 'beach body' workouts. 'I'll challenge anybody to push-ups if they want to,' he said." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416efa4d009bdf270f9416582051479c30d1590905093ad5f0dab062eebd7a28c8ca10fb30b4bbda938a9767acd4ded6808 
 
Watch list: As WaPo's Dave Weigel points out, Reichert is the second Republican in a Clinton-won seat to announce they are retiring, with Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) being the other. Twenty-three Republicans are in districts that went for Clinton in 2016. 
 
MEADOWS ENDORSES MOORE - House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) is backing Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate runoff, boosting Moore's conservative cred ahead of the Sept. 26 runoff. Daniel Strauss reports: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=eed7b25dc9acf416943cd48cb7138d9a9bedd8e1627bc377f2fa4c3daddb71ed92d40b8e3ad0e9c7adecffe9f7cfaeaec722c19ea4051bf4 
 
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES - Dave Hoppe, chief of staff to Speaker Paul Ryan until January, starts this week as a senior principal at 38 North Solutions, a tech and energy lobbying firm. 
 
TODAY IN CONGRESS - The House meets at 10 a.m. with first votes at 1:30 p.m. and last votes around 10:30 p.m. The Senate gavels in at 10 a.m. and resumes consideration of the Hurricane Harvey relief package.
 
AROUND THE HILL - House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Scott Perry (R-Pa.) participate in a Bloomberg News discussion at 8 a.m. The New York Times' Jonathan Weisman leads a discussion with Speaker Ryan at the Newseum starting at 8:40 a.m. 
 
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) holds a press conference on E-Verify and immigration at 9:30 a.m. in HVC Studio B. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly press conference at 10:45 a.m. in HVC Studio A. 
 
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) hold an 11:15 a.m. press conference in the House triangle on their amicus brief in the same-sex marriage case pending before the Supreme Court. 
 
Speaker Paul Ryan holds his weekly press conference at 11:30 a.m. in HVC Studio A. Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) hold a press conference on confederate statues at 12 p.m. in the House triangle. 
 
Members of the Texas delegation - Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, Gene Green and Al Green and Republican Reps. Brian Babin and Ted Poe - hold a press conference on Hurricane Harvey disaster aid at 1:15 p.m. in the House triangle. The Congressional Black Caucus holds a discussion its budget ideas at 2 p.m. in H-144. 
 
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) meets with Nasser Bourita, Morocco's minister of foreign affairs, with a photo-op at 3:30 p.m. in 2310 Rayburn.  
 
WEDNESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Logan Ferree was first to correctly guess that Mike McCurry was the aide who worked for Sen. Harrison Williams during the Abscam scandal and later worked for President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
 
Also, shout out to Mike McCurry who correctly guessed himself as Wednesday's trivia answer. 
 
TODAY'S TRIVIA - Logan with today's question: This current member of Congress first ran for the House twenty years earlier, losing in the runoff to an impeached official in a very negative primary. Who is the lawmaker and the person who won the runoff? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next edition of Huddle. Send your best guess my way: [email-masked] 
 
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