Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by the American Academy of Dermatology: HOUSE LEADERS MEET ON DREAMERS – Paul gets AUMF vote today – TRUMP TO HUDDLE WITH HOUSE MODERATES – GOP torn on Obamacare repeal
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09/13/2017 07:55 AM EDT

By Heather Caygle ([email-masked] or @heatherscope)
 
With an assist from Seung Min Kim and Sarah Ferris 
 
HOUSE LEADERS HUDDLE ON DREAMERS - Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will meet with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this afternoon to talk about legislative options to protect Dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants who could face deportation next year if Congress doesn't intervene. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and leaders of the Congressional Tri-Caucus (the CHC, CBC and CAPAC) are all expected to attend.
 
The meeting comes after the White House indicated Tuesday it wouldn't demand border wall funding as part of a deal to turn the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program into law. Currently, nearly 700,000 Dreamers are enrolled in DACA, which grants work permits and shields them from deportation. President Donald Trump and other top Republicans have indicated they want border tightening measures as part of any bipartisan deal, an idea Democrats are open to as long as it doesn't include the border wall, Seung Min and Andrew Restuccia report.
 
"The speaker has said he wants Congress to address DACA as the president has called for, but he has not endorsed any one measure and has said border security will need to a part of the solution," AshLee Strong, Ryan's spokeswoman, told Huddle. More from your Huddle host: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47630a47a2f180fe18755cbcba6b18a2b239671af1393412cb919ceb0c0ed8bcbc18a5e0a264aab7e13ec802e1ac6bb600 
 
PAUL GETS AUMF VOTE - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), after much protesting, will get a vote today on his amendment to repeal the 2001 and 2002 war resolutions. "A vote is anticipated to table - or kill - Paul's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to repeal the two authorizations for the use of military force, which provided the legal framework for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as military action in a slew of other countries," Connor O'Brien reports. 
 
Strange bedfellows: As CNN's Jeremy Herb points out, the AUMF debate can make for interesting partnerships. Democratic senators including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Iraq War veteran, have already announced they're backing Paul. And in the House earlier this year, GOP appropriators joined with liberal Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to approve her AUMF repeal amendment in committee. House GOP leaders later stripped the language out before the bill passed on the floor. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47abb1b00b85f819d66ac91d8b187a9cd9ed8aad3c33d98ede5cd437c1db2092fd3a460cd2ac83055a65fe4d43777dc4a6 
 
BERNIE'S BIG DAY - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is rolling out his much anticipated Medicare-for-All plan today, with most other liberal senators, including many weighing 2020 bids, already signed on. But, as Elana reports, most of the party's congressional leaders and vulnerable Senate incumbents are steering clear of the single-payer plan. Single-payer on a national level would have "a lot of problems," red-state Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) told Elana. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declined to endorse Sanders' bill, telling reporters Tuesday her priority is continuing to protect Obamacare from GOP repeal efforts. 
 
Red-state stats: So far Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin is the only senator in a Trump-won state to endorse Sanders' bill. And the Senate GOP's campaign arm was quick to hammer her Tuesday for backing "the left's radical plans for government-run health care." Much more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47629c292c61583fad462ebe30531bdc66f3c96f79826ec65493bd702ee5b208f8076f3bc4ebe9424b89741c8ba667eb5b 
 
DEMS CAN'T STICK IT TO TEFLON DON - Bad news for Dems: No matter what attacks Democrats throw at Trump, they just don't work, Edward-Isaac Dovere reports. "Data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a grim picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election," he reports. "Worse news, they worry: Many of the ideas party leaders have latched on to in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters - free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to $15, even Medicare for all - test poorly among voters outside the base." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f479abf5b393b26183cf0036fdac5e8b24a3f391d82fd41d01faff73d4b7e62f6f4c0dff50dbf20d95e77fb97ccdeb5a13a 
 
YEAH, YEAH WE KNOW IT'S WEDNESDAY. Welcome to Sept. 13 and thanks for tuning in to POLITICO's Huddle, the play-by-play guide to all things Capitol Hill. Bring an umbrella - it's rainy out there today. 
 
TUESDAY'S MOST CLICKED: This one was easy. The Facebook video of Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) jamming out as only two middle-aged men can do was by far the winner. 
 
TRUMP CONTINUES BIPARTISAN OUTREACH - Trump will meet with a baker's dozen of House moderates this afternoon to talk tax reform, infrastructure and health care. The confab follows last night's bipartisan dinner with a trio of red-state Democrats. The House lawmakers also plan to press the president on backing a legislative fix for Dreamers. Democrats message to Trump: "There's bipartisan support to get something done, let's bring it to the floor to get legislation done, and I think it's what people want on both sides of the aisle," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.)., co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f4779c65804e13791eca7fe919abd36e9d42bffabbfad9d6f4acbf011fbc8b3663bc15f323b1401d901d489ac4a8ff962bf 
 
More tax talk: Conservative lawmakers are worried Trump's two point men on tax reform -Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and adviser Gary Cohn - "don't have the know-how or political credibility" to shepherd a major tax overhaul through Congress and could turn to Democrats in order to secure a win. Nancy Cook and Rachael: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f474222228e72fbedf20b16b17f0ae4ceef4ab794593c1f1f90de5290454bd3b57c262a24943b331a7ccfab5abcb32bd7fe 
 
-- House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and chief deputy whip Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) will lead a GOP conference-wide meeting on tax reform this afternoon starting at 4 p.m., Colin Wilhelm reports for Pros. 
 
REPUBLICANS TORN ON OBAMACARE - Senate Republicans are split over what to do about Obamacare, with one faction pursuing a bipartisan approach to stabilize the law and another group making one last push for a party-line repeal effort. But time is running out. "Key procedural powers for the GOP to repeal the law expire on Sept. 30, and insurance companies desperate for certainty have until Sept. 27 to decide whether to participate in Obamacare markets next year," Burgess and Jen Haberkorn report. 
 
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) are reintroducing their block-grant repeal bill later today but many Senate Republicans are skeptical the proposal could get the 50 votes needed for passage. More on the current state of play: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47b4ce5e44479f770e8cd13876eabfd594c891c4b397472030db34477331438ba6711ff5cf0ec8d61e26b01e59314dd2ec 
 
PUT UP OR SHUT UP - After months of false starts, House Budget Chair Diane Black (R-Tenn.)  told our Sarah Ferris on Tuesday that it's time for Speaker Ryan to hold a vote on the budget blueprint once and for all. Some conservatives insist they're still undecided about the House budget, which contains key tax-writing reconciliation instructions, because they want more tax details first. But Black is confident that die-hard conservatives won't dare vote against it, because otherwise they'd risk taking the blame for choking off tax reform.
 
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says he's not bluffing. Meadows said his members were still prepared to block the budget until they learn more about the GOP's plan for tax rates and other details. "I don't think anything's changed at this point, other than they're whipping a lot harder than they were before," Meadows told POLITICO.
 
PELOSI'S READING LIST - Or at least one book that is not (immediately) on the House Democratic leader's nightstand is Hillary Clinton's new campaign memoir, "What Happened." "I don't know. I just don't know. I'm busy and I have a lot of books on my ... that I promised people I would read. Eventually I will, yes," Pelosi told a small group of reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. "Right now, I'm so heartbroken that she's not president that I avoid any article that isn't positive about her. I don't know if I'm ready to be taken down that path in the book."
 
For his part, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) didn't say whether he was planning on reading Clinton's book when asked at his weekly news press conference.

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TAKING ON (IVANKA) TRUMP - Senate Democrats are looking to challenge Ivanka Trump on one of her signature issues by making affordable child care a key plank of their "Better Deal" agenda, Burgess reports. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will introduce the bill Thursday, "which has been under development for months and will focus on early learning, child care costs and people who administer child care." Trump has met with House and Senate Republicans about childcare and family leave but lawmakers haven't settled on a concrete proposal. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f478cdb95bfd520489ce5f4effa23f9c73e90dfbd692f46c633c258f6a691411b1d292875cb0445273acd2b7a96a9fb45e7 
 
CHARLOTTESVILLE RESOLUTION HEADS TO TRUMP - The House on Tuesday cleared a resolution condemning white supremacists, sending the measure to the White House for Trump's signature. The joint resolution - filed in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville last month - was strategically chosen because it, unlike nonbinding motions, has to be signed into law by Trump, effectively forcing the president to go on record condemning hate groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis. Kyle with more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47d4a20fb902de301f89a4ea49c7f75935715055303eaee3400ac1e0cd6a68fc6746982a40e0245b17e1535fccdb136b2b 
 
Later today, President Trump will meet with South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott at 11:30 a.m. in the Oval Office. Scott, the Senate's only black Republican, questioned Trump's "moral authority" after the president's response to Charlottesville. 
 
McCAIN CONTINUES CANCER TREATMENT NEAR D.C. - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will continue receiving radiation and chemotherapy to treat brain cancer, his office said in a statement Tuesday. The decision came after McCain received an MRI Monday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. The Senate Armed Services chairman will keep up his regular Senate schedule while receiving treatment locally at NIH. 
 
CHIP DEAL IN THE WORKS - "The Senate Finance Committee has agreed to a five-year funding extension for the Children's Health Insurance Program, the tax-writing panel's top Republican and Democrat announced Tuesday evening," Rachana Pradhan reports. Congress is supposed to reauthorize the program by the end of this month. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47b0674b1da9c5fe1adee258e531913a2e8a58776bcd1e90cce02793d814992611d1fca92337ced3871321af7828e7a700 
 
ARRIVAL LOUNGE - Evan Walker started this week as the senior digital strategist for the House Republican Conference. Walker comes from from the White House where he worked in the Office of Digital Strategy. Jeff Sobotko is joining Sen. Angus King's (I-Maine) office as press secretary and director of digital media. Jack Faherty has been named Maine press secretary for King. 
 
TODAY IN CONGRESS - The House gavels in at 10 a.m. with first votes around 1:30 p.m. and last votes around 5 p.m. Today's agenda: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e0dae71f0a6f5f47d32efe639f19325d0a232c1efece80a391f48ca5e6b61710ca1cd8be5db69b282218fb205844c91d600c89a7b612a4d5 The Senate meets at 10 a.m. to continue consideration of the NDAA with a vote related to Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) AUMF amendment likely.
 
AROUND THE HILL - Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) will hold a summit on issues impacting rural America from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in 902 Hart. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Revolution CEO Steve Case (co-founder of AOL) will also attend. 
 
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) holds a press conference on the Dream Act at 9 a.m. in the House triangle. 
 
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Calif.), Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) take questions from reporters in HC-8 starting at 10 a.m. 
 
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Vice Chair Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) take questions from reporters after the Democratic Caucus meeting, starting at 10:30 a.m. in HVC Studio A. 
 
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduce their Obamacare repeal bill at 11:30 a.m. in 236 Russell.  Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) will also attend.
 
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) holds a press conference on wildfires raging in the western part of the U.S. at 11:30 a.m. in the Senate swamp.
 
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), John Delaney (D-Md.), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) hold a press conference on legislation to expand the earned income tax credit at 12:30 p.m. in the House triangle. 
 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will introduce his Medicare-for-All bill at 2 p.m. in 216 Hart. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will also attend. 
 
TUESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Brad Fitch was the first to guess that Richard Nixon is the last presidential candidate to run for a different position after losing the race for the White House. Nixon ran for governor of California in 1962, losing to Pat Brown, two years after he lost the presidential election to JFK. 
 
TODAY'S TRIVIA - Brad with today's question: In 1970 Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Some historians have suggested Nixon's decision to launch the incursion into Cambodia was influenced by a movie released that year which he repeatedly watched. Name that movie. Send your best guess my way: [email-masked]. The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next edition of Huddle. 
 
IF THE DREAM ACT DOESN'T HAPPEN, "you have a catastrophe." Cecilia Mu&ntilde;oz has some advice for Democrats in Congress: Forget about broader immigration reform and just pass the Dream Act. In the latest episode of the Women Rule podcast, POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown talks to Mu&ntilde;oz, the chief domestic policy adviser in the Obama White House and architect of his immigration strategy, about DACA, what's next for her party and immigration, and the professional challenges that come from being "the Latina in the room." Tune in HERE.
 
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