 Beltway NewslettersPunchbowl News: Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, met with President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday to push him on making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, which the House’s budget resolution can’t currently do. “At the end of the meeting, the president said ‘I support this,’” Daines said. Playbook: Trump’s team was presented with a $25 billion proposal to use private military contractors for deporting undocumented immigrants before he was inaugurated. WaPo: Progressive groups are launching a campaign to push back on the GOP tax plans that is “aimed just as much at helping Democrats not ‘lose spine.’” Axios: Trump advisers are privately complaining that the media is too fixated on Trump’s misstatement about who started the Ukraine war and should be focused more on how the West “antagonized” Russian President Vladimir Putin in the years before the Russian invasion. White House- President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron made nice during their White House meeting on Monday, but the divide between the US and Europe is wide. The same day, the US sided with Russia against a resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine.
- OPM told federal agencies they can ignore Elon Musk’s demand that employees justify their work or be fired. — WaPo
Congress Craig Hudson/Reuters- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, is hosting a forum this afternoon to shine a light on the Trump administration’s targeting of the CFPB. The event will feature Americans who have benefited from the CFPB’s work (Warren’s office says she also extended an invitation to Elon Musk to appear).
Outside the BeltwayBusiness- Starbucks is planning about a thousand layoffs on its corporate team.
- The fabric store chain Joann is shutting down.
Economy- The European Union is drawing up broader plans to target the US with retaliatory tariffs if President Trump makes good on his threat to impose steel and aluminum duties. — Bloomberg
- Trump said he would move forward with tariffs on Canada and Mexico next month.
CourtsForeign Policy- President Trump rescinded a Biden-era directive meant to ensure US allies do not commit violations of international humanitarian law with US-made weaponry. — WaPo
Technology- Apple committed to spending $500 billion in the US over four years, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports (though it’s unclear how much of that is actually new spending).
Media- Lester Holt is leaving NBC Nightly News.
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