President Biden’s deputy protection secretary nominee, Kathleen Hicks, is testifying earlier than the Senate Armed Providers Committee this morning. That started at 9:30 a.m. ET; and you’ll catch the livestream over at C-Span, right here.
In the present day in Washington: Immigration-related EOs within the Oval Workplace. President Biden plans to signal three new govt orders aimed toward “moderniz[ing] our immigration system,” the White Home mentioned in a preview Monday night. The orders will ultimately require all federal “businesses to conduct a top-to-bottom overview of latest laws, insurance policies, and steerage which have arrange limitations to our authorized immigration system.”
Among the many modifications anticipated:
- The creation of a “Process Power to Reunify Households,” following up on a Trump-era coverage of separating migrant youngsters from their mother and father; greater than 660 of whom have been nonetheless separated every week after the election in November.
- Start “implementing a complete three-part plan for protected, lawful, and orderly migration within the area.”
And that three-point plan includes White Home-led efforts to:
- “deal with the underlying causes of migration by a technique to confront the instability, violence, and financial insecurity that at the moment drives migrants from their properties”;
- “collaborate with regional companions, together with overseas governments, worldwide organizations, and nonprofits to shore up different international locations’ capability to supply safety and alternatives to asylum seekers and migrants nearer to residence”;
- “be certain that Central American refugees and asylum seekers have entry to authorized avenues to the US.”
A notice on influence: “Senior administration officers mentioned Monday night time that the majority of Mr. Biden’s directives on Tuesday wouldn’t make fast modifications,” the New York Instances experiences. “Relatively, they’re supposed to present officers on the Division of Homeland Safety, the Justice Division and the State Division time to judge how finest to undo the insurance policies.” The Washington Submit has extra on which Trump-era insurance policies will stay in place, not less than for now, right here.
Additionally right now: Mayorkas’s second? Biden’s Homeland Secretary nominee, Alejandro Mayorkas, may advance in a full senate vote this afternoon after an inclement climate delay Monday. “Mayorkas, who served as DHS deputy secretary through the Obama administration, is a Cuban-born lawyer and one of many chief architects of the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals immigration program,” Politico experiences. The Washington Submit previews the monumental duties forward for Mayorkas, which embrace “restoring the US’ legendary popularity as a welcoming nation,” right here.
From Protection One
Air Power Hunts for Methods to Use Not-Fairly-Prepared Tankers // Marcus Weisgerber: We’re “making lemonade out of lemons,” Air Mobility Command says.
The Boogaloo Bois Have Weapons, Felony Information and Navy Coaching. Now They Wish to Overthrow the Authorities. // A.C. Thompson, Lila Hassan, and Karim Hajj, ProPublica: ProPublica and Frontline have recognized greater than twenty members with ties to the armed forces.
Protection Division 4th Property Will get Amazon Internet-Providers Enhance // Patrick Tucker: New cloud capabilities are coming to businesses like DARPA.
Intel Company Employee Pushed His Personal Drone Firm, Report Particulars // Patrick Tucker: The Nationwide Geospatial-Intelligence Company inspector common discovered one among its staff accessed categorized and proprietary information, making an attempt to cheat opponents.
Find out how to Root Out Extremism within the U.S. Navy // Heather Williams: Begin by determining how pervasive the issue is.
Pressing Job Opening: U.S. Navy Secretary // Brent D. Sadler: The chaos and uncertainty atop the ocean service is undermining nationwide safety.
Welcome to this Tuesday version of The D Temporary from Ben Watson with Bradley Peniston. Ship us ideas out of your group proper right here. And when you’re not already subscribed to The D Temporary, you are able to do that right here. On this present day in 1989, the final column of Soviet armor withdrew from Afghanistan. The ultimate tranche of Soviet troops would comply with two weeks later.
“Frightening an insurrectionary riot in opposition to a Joint Session of Congress after shedding an election.” That’s how Democratic Home lawmakers right now described former President Trump’s conduct main as much as the Jan. 6 failed rebel on the U.S. Capitol. “If frightening an insurrectionary riot in opposition to a Joint Session of Congress after shedding an election will not be an impeachable offense, it’s arduous to think about what could be,” the lawmakers write in a quick unveiled this morning.
And to the query of impeaching after POTUS has left workplace, Democrats insisted, “A president should reply comprehensively for his conduct in workplace from his first day in workplace by his final.” Reuters has a bit extra right here.
Subsequent up: Uncomfortable Republicans, the Washington Submit experiences. That’s as a result of Trump’s ever-changing protection workforce is because of start making its public case in opposition to impeachment right now. Meantime, “The [House Democrat’s] effort to current new video proof and witness testimony seems designed to make Republican senators as uncomfortable as attainable as they put together to vote to acquit Trump, as most have indicated they may do.” Nevertheless, the Submit notes, “The rioting left 5 lifeless, together with one member of the U.S. Capitol Police. As well as, two officers, one with the D.C. police Division, have since died by suicide,” and “The prospect of injured law enforcement officials describing the brutality of pro-Trump rioters to Republicans who commonly current themselves as advocates of regulation enforcement may make for a unprecedented, nationally televised scene.” Extra right here.
By the best way: “Not less than six of the 170 folks charged in reference to the Capitol siege have tried to shift not less than a number of the blame onto Trump as they defend themselves in court docket or within the court docket of public opinion,” Reuters experiences right now.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are most cancers for the Republican Celebration and our nation.” That’s what Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell mentioned Monday about Georgia’s conspiracy-embracing freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He by no means truly talked about Greene’s title, however his phrases have been efficient sufficient to attract the connection, The Hill reported.
McConnell continued: “Any individual who’s advised that maybe no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying college shootings have been prestaged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane will not be residing in actuality.”
Greene’s response, through Twitter later within the night: “The true most cancers for the Republican Celebration is weak Republicans who solely know lose gracefully. This is the reason we’re shedding our nation.”
Why this issues: McConnell’s making an attempt to string a needle right here between extra conventional Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney and the get together’s extremist wing, the place Greene options prominently. Meantime, Home GOP leaders have remained quiet as Greene’s previous social media posts have been discovered regardless of efforts to delete them. They embrace “a seemingly countless array of conspiracy theories and violent conduct, together with executing Democratic leaders,” the New York Instances experiences.
Compounding issues for the GOP, Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy is contemplating dropping Rep. Cheney from her No. 3 publish as a message to others within the Home GOP since Cheney voted to question Trump in January. McConnell jumped to Cheney’s protection on Monday, too. Extra on the Instances, right here.
Getting some face time right now: Appearing Navy Secretary Thomas Harker started talking this morning at 10 a.m. for this week’s NDIA’s 2021 Digital Expeditionary Warfare Convention, a two-day occasion that began right now.
U.S. Navy Europe’s Adm. Burke despatched pre-recorded remarks to the Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research, which is internet hosting an internet occasion known as the Maritime Safety Dialogue. Berger’s video went public this morning at 10 a.m. Extra right here.
And later within the morning, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger speaks at NDIA simply earlier than midday. Particulars and registration, right here.
Service returning residence after unplanned 10-month deployment. The Nimitz’s Gulf-region tour was prolonged final month after Pentagon officers tried to ship it residence however modified their thoughts, citing unevidenced threats by Iran in opposition to U.S. officers. Now the Biden administration — which has been making overtures towards a renewed nuclear cope with Iran — says there’s no must preserve it there any longer.
Sporting down. The Nimitz’ prolonged tour was simply a part of a yr that has seen the Navy use its carriers quicker than it could actually preserve them. USNI Information did the mathematics in November.
Talking of the Navy, it’s missing a Secretary — Harker however. Heritage’s Brent Sadler opinions the chaos atop the ocean service of the previous few years, and urges the Biden administration to rush up and appoint a brand new SecNav. Learn, right here.
China simply set out a collection of purple strains it doesn’t need the Biden administration to cross, and people are: “human rights, the coronavirus response and what [Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi] known as U.S. interference in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang,” the Wall Avenue Journal experiences, simply hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China for its lack of COVID-19 transparency and for “undermin[ing] the very commitments it made through the handover of Hong Kong.” For Blinken, although, this isn’t an insurmountable problem as a result of the U.S. has an array of allies that China lacks.
Reminder: China is keen to maneuver on from the antagonism of the Trump period, with Yang saying right now that these insurance policies “plung[ed] the connection into its most troublesome interval because the institution of diplomatic ties.” Extra on the Journal, right here.
Iran continues to be enriching uranium at very regarding ranges, the Worldwide Atomic Power Company mentioned in a report obtained by Reuters right now. The so-called Iranian nuclear deal approved the refinement of “uranium solely at its most important enrichment website — an underground plant at Natanz — with first-generation IR-1 centrifuges,” Reuters experiences. However: “Final yr Iran started enriching there with a cascade, or cluster, of far more environment friendly IR-2m machines and in December mentioned it might set up three extra,” in response to the IAEA. Extra from Reuters right here.
And lastly right now: The way forward for Myanmar continues to be very a lot unclear. The get together of detained chief Aung San Suu Kyi has right now known as not only for her launch, but additionally for the navy junta at the moment in cost to acknowledge Suu Kyi’s election win in November — the exact factor the junta claimed as justification for its coup on Monday. To date the navy has proven little interest in giving up its energy. Reuters has extra right here.