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Joe Biden is expected to tell the UN general assembly that he is not looking to start a new cold war with any country in the world.
Joe Biden is expected to tell the UN general assembly that he is not looking to start a new cold war with any country in the world. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

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That’s all for today, thanks for following along. Some key links and developments from the day:

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A Texas doctor who publicly said he had provided an abortion beyond the limit set by the state’s new law is now facing a lawsuit.

The Washington Post reports that Alan Braid, a physician in San Antonio who wrote a column saying he had defied Texas’s extreme new anti-abortion law, is being sued by an Arkansas man who said he wanted to test the constitutionality of the Texas measure. The man bringing the lawsuit is Oscar Stilley, a former lawyer who was convicted of tax fraud in 2012, the Post reported. He is currently on home confinement for his previous conviction, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In his original column, Braid wrote:

I am taking a personal risk. But it’s something I believe in strongly. I have daughters, granddaughters and nieces. I believe abortion is an essential part of healthcare. I have spent the last 50 years treating and helping patients. I can’t just sit back and watch us return to 1972.”

Braid also wrote about what it was like to work in Texas before Roe v Wade, saying, he had begun his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at a hospital in San Antonio in 1972: “At the time, abortion was effectively illegal in Texas – unless a psychologist certified a woman was suicidal. If the woman had money, we’d refer her to clinics in Colorado, California or New York. The rest were on their own. Some traveled across the border to Mexico.”

The Texas law bans abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is around six weeks when most women are not yet aware they are pregnant. The Biden administration has sued over the law. The law allows private citizens to file civil complaints against medical providers and others.

Our original story on Braid:

Another poll out today shows a majority of US residents support abortion rights, with 55% of respondents saying they would oppose the overturning of Roe v Wade.

The Yahoo News/YouGov poll of 1,600 adults found that 76% of Democrats support Roe v Wade, and 51% of Republicans support getting rid of it.

A Monmouth university poll from earlier said that 54% of Americans disagree with the supreme court’s decision to allow the Texas anti-abortion law to go into effect.

Biden to raise refugee cap in October

The Biden administration plans to raise the cap on refugees admitted to the US to 125,000 in the upcoming fiscal year starting in October, the state department said in a statement, according to Reuters.

The announcement is in line with Biden’s campaign promises to reverse the Trump administration’s policies.

The state department said it would consult with the Department of Homeland Security and Congress to raise the cap, which was set at 62,500 for the 2020 fiscal year, Reuters reports.

Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are currently waiting at US military bases seeking resettlement in America. Biden has faced intense pressure from immigrants’ rights groups to allow more refugees into the US.

Senator Richard Durbin said in a statement to the Washington Post:

I applaud the Biden administration for setting a target of 125,000 refugee admissions in the next fiscal year — a target my colleagues and I have been advocating for since April. And while I’m disappointed in the projected number of refugees to be admitted this fiscal year, I acknowledge the challenges the Biden administration inherited with the US Refugee Admissions Program due to the anti-immigrant actions of the previous Administration.”

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Hi all – Sam Levin in Los Angeles taking over our live coverage for the rest of the day.

Covid has now killed roughly as many US residents as the 1918-19 Spanish flu did – approximately 675,000 people. More from the AP:

The US population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right, especially given the incredible advances in scientific knowledge since then and the failure to take maximum advantage of the vaccines available this time.

“Big pockets of American society — and, worse, their leaders — have thrown this away,” medical historian Dr Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said of the opportunity to vaccinate everyone eligible by now.

Like the Spanish flu, the coronavirus may never entirely disappear from our midst. Instead, scientists hope it becomes a mild seasonal bug as human immunity strengthens through vaccination and repeated infection. That could take time.

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Joe Biden will make his first speech to the United Nations as president on Tuesday, seeking to “close the chapter on 20 years of war” and begin an era of intensive diplomacy, our worlds affairs editor Julian Borger writes.

But when he arrives in New York, he will have to “contend with hostility from China, an open rift with France and widespread scepticism among UN member states over his commitment to multilateralism following disagreements over Israel, a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a nuclear submarine deal that took adversaries and allies by surprise.”

Read Julian’s preview of Biden’s speech at the UN general assembly:

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Afternoon summary

  • The US relaxed travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travelers from the UK, EU, China and several other countries. The announcement comes 18 months after the Trump administration imposed the restrictions to stem the spread of the coronavirus, and as the US faced mounting pressure from foreign leaders to lift the ban.
  • The supreme court announced that it would hear oral arguments in a Mississippi abortion case that poses a direct challenge to Roe v Wade. A new national poll found that most Americans do not support overturning the landmark decision.
  • White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that Biden is attempting to speak to French President Emmanuel Macron after a diplomatic spat over the administration’s announcement that the US was forming a new defense alliance with Australia and the UK.
  • Biden announced new rules to protect federal workers from extreme heat, the biggest weather-related killer in the US.
  • House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer announced that they will try to pass a bill to prevent both a government shutdown and a debt-default, as Republicans dig in.

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House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer have announced that legislation to avert a government shutdown will be paired with a measure to avoid a debt default.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has vowed that Republicans will not cooperate with Democrats to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Democrats have argued that the vote should not be a partisan one, as they voted to raise the debt limit by trillions of dollars during Trump’s presidency.

“The legislation to avoid a government shutdown will also include a suspension of the debt limit through December 2022 to once again meet our obligations and protect the full faith and credit of the United States,” they said in a joint statement. “We believe a suspension of the debt limit through December 2022 would provide an amount of time commensurate with the debt incurred as a result of passing last winter’s bipartisan $908bn emergency Covid relief legislation, which was authored by Republican senators Cassidy, Romney, Portman, Collins and others, and ultimately voted for by more than 40 Republicans – including Senator McConnell – and signed into law by the previous president.”

The government is set to run out of money at the end of the month. Separately, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said that the US would likely default on its debt sometime in October if action is not taken. Failure to raise the debt limit would “have absolutely catastrophic economic consequences”, Yellen has warned.

The bill will also include emergency funding requested by the administration to aid states battered by the recent natural disasters as well as funding to help resettle Afghan refugees.

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Manchin told CNN reporter Manu Raju that he doesn’t want to delay a vote on Biden’s $3.5tn reconciliation package until 2022, as Axios reported yesterday. But he does support a “wait and see” approach, he said.

“You know what I said? I said let’s wait and see whatever we need. We need to have a good idea. The main thing is inflation, if it’s transitory or not, you have a better idea, you know, once we get into it a little bit longer, but right now inflation is still high,” Manchin told CNN.

He added that his meeting with Biden last week was “very good”, but wouldn’t say if they were close to a deal. “We’re just still working through everything.”

At the same time, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told CNN that she would vote against the infrastructure package on 27 September unless the House and Senate passed the much larger reconciliation package, a position she said was shared by as many as 45 members of the progressive caucus. That bill will almost certainly not be ready by the 27 September deadline.

“You have a very small destructive group of members who want to hold the entire country’s agenda hostage for an arbitrary date,” she told Raju. “And this is not, it’s not representative of the agenda of the caucus – is not representative of the agenda of the president.”

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Biden announces new plan to protect workers from extreme heat

The Biden administration is putting forward the first federal workplace rules on extreme heat, following a searing summer that has highlighted the dangers of heat, the biggest weather-related killer in the US.

On Monday, the White House said that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), part of the department of labor, will start a new rule-making process to assign a heat standard for American workers, as well as oversee the enforcement of the new requirement. This will likely take the form of increased breaks or complete work shutdowns when the heat reaches certain thresholds.

The White House also said it will look to bolster efforts to improve tree cover in cities and help support cooling centers for people living in places that have to deal with dangerously high temperatures.

Around 1,300 people die in the US from excess heat each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, with outdoor workers, such as people who work in construction, at particular risk from high temperatures. Dangerous conditions are becoming more frequent due to the human-caused climate crisis. This summer was marginally hotter than the record Dust Bowl summer of 1936, federal government scientists confirmed last week.

“My administration will not leave Americans to face this threat alone,” Biden said in a statement. “Today, I am mobilizing an all-of-government effort to protect workers, children, seniors, and at-risk communities from extreme heat.”

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Psaki was pressed repeatedly on the administration’s policy toward Haitian migrants fleeing political instability, natural disaster and poverty.

Biden campaigned on a more humanitarian approach to immigration, but his muscular response to stem the crisis at the border has drawn sharp criticism from members of his own party. Psaki stressed that the deportation of Haitian immigrants are consistent with their enforcement policy.

She said the message from the administration continues to be “now is not the time to come” to the US.

She called the shocking photos and videos depicting mounted border patrol agents using whips and insulting migrants “horrific” though the “full context” is missing.

Asked about the parliamentarian’s ruling that Democrats cannot include provision offering a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants, Psaki said Biden remained “absolutely committed” to enacting immigration reform. She said the administration would work with Congress on new proposals to ensure this gets done.

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Psaki called the drone strike that mistakenly killed Afghan citizens, including children, a “horrific tragedy” and said Biden supports an swift investigation.

“It’s a tragedy and every loss is a tragedy and he supports the efforts to move this forward as quickly as possible and to have a thorough investigation,” she said, summarizing the president’s response to the failure.

Officials said an internal review revealed that no Islamic State members were killed as a result of the attack, only civilians.

Psaki previewed Biden’s address at the UN tomorrow, as the White House defends the president’s credibility as a global leader following the administration’s frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan and a dust up between the US and France, one of America’s oldest allies.

“The president is going to lay out the case for why the next will determine our future, not just for the United States but for our global community.”

“A central thrust of his remarks will be about “importance of reestablishing our alliances after the last several years,” she said, adding: “Re-establishing alliances doesn’t mean that you won’t have disagreements. ... That is not the bar for having an alliance.”

He’ll also make clear that many of the most pernicious threats facing the global community such as pandemics, climate change, rising authoritarianism, and economic inequality “cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms” and must be addressed through collective global action.

“He will also reaffirm that the United States is not turning inward,” she said, arguing that the president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was not a sign of the US ceding its leadership on the global stage.

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Psaki confirmed that Biden will speak to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in the coming days to “reaffirm our commitment to working with one of our oldest and closest partners on a range of challenges that the global community is facing.”

France recalled its ambassador from the US and Australia last week after Canberra’s surprise decision to cancel an order for French-built submarines and its security pact with Washington and London.

Responding to a question about the deal, she said the US would not back out of the defense agreement with the UK and Australia.

After an FDA panel endorsed booster shots for Americans 65 and older, Psaki said that Biden will get a third shot and the jab will be on camera, but no date has been set yet. The president, who is vaccinated, is regularly tested for Covid-19 and his most recent test was negative, the press secretary said.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on comments by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who described the US-China relationship as “completely dysfunctional”.

“Our relationship with China is one not of conflict but of competition,” Psaki said.

Guterres made the comments during an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders.

At the UN, Biden will make clear “that he is not looking to pursue a future, a new cold war with any country in the world,” she said.

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The Biden administration “strongly supports” a House bill that would protect women’s access to abortion.

In a statement, the administration said a Texas law effectively banning abortion at 6 weeks “blatantly violates existing Supreme Court precedent established under Roe v. Wade nearly half a century ago.”

In light of the law, which the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect, the House is expected to advance legislation designed to stop states from enacting anti-abortion measures like the one in Texas.

The bill is expected to pass the Democratic-controlled House but it faces an uphill battle in the evenly split Senate, where most legislation requires 60 votes. Most Republicans oppose abortion and support calls to overturn Roe v Wade.

“In the wake of Texas’ unprecedented attack, it has never been more important to codify this constitutional right and to strengthen health care access for all women, regardless of where they live,” the administration said.

Supreme court to hear Mississippi abortion law case

The supreme court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case challenging a Mississippi law that bans most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The lawsuit is a direct challenge to Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The case will be argued on 1 December.

Last week, lawyers for Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only licensed abortion facility in Mississippi, asked the court to reject the state’s request to “jettison a half-century of settled precedent” and warned that if the law were upheld, the “fallout would be swift and certain”.

The law, known as the Gestational Age Act, passed in 2018 allows abortion after 15 weeks on in cases involving “medical emergencies or for severe fetal abnormality”. It contains no exception for rape or incest.

Under the law, doctors could have their medical licenses suspended or revoked if they perform abortions that do not comply with the law.

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Will he or won’t he?

After an unsuccessful run for Senate and then president of the United States, former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke may be making a run for governor, according to a new report in Axios.

Though a run is widely expected, O’Rourke has not confirmed his intentions publicly. Nevertheless, the Democratic Governors Association is raising speculation further by fundraising off the anonymously-sourced report that he will challenge the Republican governor Greg Abbott next year.

“No decision has been made,” David Wysong, O’Rourke’s former House chief of staff and a longtime adviser told Axios. “He has been making and receiving calls with people from all over the state.”

Since his presidential run, O’Rourke has become a prominent voting rights advocate and one of the leading opponents to a sweeping new Texas law that dramatically restricts ballot access. The state also recently passed one of the nation’s most extreme anti-abortion laws, which could help galvanize Democrats and independents in the state.

But the growing humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border has motivated conservatives in a state where Republicans still dominate even as changing demographics pave the way for a political shift.

Most Americans do not want the supreme court to overturn Roe v Wade, a Monmouth University poll found.

The survey also found that a majority of Americans disagree with the court’s decision to allow a Texas law severely restricting abortion access to go into effect, though there are clear ideological divisions.

Top line figures from the poll include:

  • 62% of Americans say the supreme court should leave the 1973 Roe v Wade decision in place, while 31% want to see it revisited.
  • 54% of Americans disagree with the supreme court decision allowing the Texas law to go into effect while 39% agree.
  • 70% of Americans disapprove of a provision of the Texas law allowing private citizens to use lawsuits to enforce the abortion mandate.
  • 81% of Americans disapprove of a provision that would award $10,000 to private citizens who successfully file lawsuits against those who perform or assist a woman with getting an abortion.

“The American public is largely pro-choice, although many would accept some limitations on abortion access,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. “This Texas law goes way too far for most people. The ‘bounty’ aspect in particular seems objectionable.”

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Senator Kyrsten Sinema plays hardball Photograph: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

So much focus and attention is directed at Joe Manchin, the mercurial Senate Democrat who seems to hold the fate of Biden’s entire domestic agenda in his hands. But there’s another key player in this legislative drama: the Arizona senator, Kyrsten Sinema.

According to Politico, Sinema drove a hard bargain during her meeting with Biden last week, telling the president that she would not support his massive social policy bill if the House delays – or tanks – a vote on the infrastructure bill, scheduled for 27 September. Sinema, a first-term Senator who considers the late John McCain a political influence, played a central role in writing and building partisan support for the infrastructure bill.

Her position is shared by at least one moderate Democrat in the House, Oregon congressman Kurt Schrader, who told Politico: “If they delay the vote – or it goes down – then I think you can kiss reconciliation goodbye. Reconciliation would be dead.”

This is all part of the very complex legislative dance happening publicly and privately on Capitol Hill this week as Democrats try to steer Biden’s sprawling, two-part economic agenda through both chambers of Congress.

Bracketing the terms of debate is an agreement House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck with moderates. In exchange for their support advancing a budget blueprint for the reconciliation bill, she promised a vote on the Senate-passed, bipartisan infrastructure bill on 27 September. But progressives say they have the votes to block that bill unless its paired with the larger spending bill. That bill, which is being negotiated with Senate Democrats as part of the special reconciliation process, almost certainly won’t be ready by next week.

So what happens? Does Pelosi delay the 27 September vote, as Majority Whip Jim Clyburn suggested is possible, and hope moderates blink? Does she bring the bill to the floor and hope that enough progressives take the “something is better than nothing” approach and vote for it?

All of this is happening as Congress faces a host of other legislative and fiscal deadlines that, if not met, could lead to a government shutdown and/or a debt default.

Updated

A state department official denied that the change in policy was an attempt to mollify Europe following the falling out between the US and France over the Australian submarine deal, which Washington negotiated without Paris’s knowledge, according to a fresh report from our world affairs editor, Julian Borger.

“This is really driven by the science of COVID and as more people are being vaccinated around the world, we of course want people to be able to travel more freely,” said Erica Barks-Ruggles, a senior official in the bureau of international organization affairs. “We’re really always being driven by the science, and we continue to do that.”

Barks-Ruggles made the remark during a briefing call with reporters on the coming week’s diplomacy at UN general assembly.

The news that the US was lifting travel restrictions for foreign travelers reportedly took British Prime Minister Boris Johnson by surprise.

Biden is due to meet with Johnson at the White House tomorrow, after the president’s appearance at the UN General Assembly. As part of their meeting, he was expected to push Biden to lift the travel ban, first implemented 18 months ago by the Trump administration to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

But on the plane yesterday, Johnson tempered expectations, telling reporters: “I’ve got to warn you, I don’t think this is going to be necessarily fixed this week.”

Responding on Twitter, Johnson said he was “delighted” by the announcement.

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US to relax travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international passengers

The US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions to allow fully vaccinated passengers from the UK, EU, China, Brazil and several other countries to enter the country from November, the Biden administration announced on Monday.

The decision from the White House will mark the end of a travel ban imposed by Donald Trump more than 18 months ago in the early stages of the pandemic.

Under the current policy, only US citizens, members of their immediate families, green card holders and those with national interest exemptions (NIE) can travel into the US if they have been in the UK or EU in the previous two weeks.

The change of direction comes at the start of the UN General Assembly in New York and marks the culmination of weeks of intense diplomacy between Washington, London and Brussels. It also comes days after France recalled its ambassador to the US and Australia in protest over the administration’s decision to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.

The travel restrictions were increasingly a source of tension between the US and European leaders in particular, after the EU opened its doors to Americans months ago.

The Lincoln Project has questioned if the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, used political influence to pull a TV ad criticising his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to a statement issued on Sunday, the group, formed by anti-Trump Republicans, was told the ad, Abbott’s Wall, was being pulled just 10 minutes before it was due to air on ESPN during a nationally televised football game between the University of Texas and Rice University on Saturday night.

The 60-second slot, which the Lincoln Project said cost $25,000 and was approved by ESPN lawyers, blames the Republican governor for more than 60,000 Covid deaths in the state, against a backdrop of images of the US southern border wall.

“If Governor Abbott wants to build a new wall, tell him to stop building this one,” the message says, showing a wall constructed from coffins.

Wood from caskets of all the Covid-19 victims in Texas would stretch 85 miles, the ad claims. It remains watchable on YouTube.

“We were told it was a ‘university-made decision’” to pull the ad, the Lincoln Project said in a press release. “Did Greg Abbott or his allies assert political influence to ensure the advertisement was not broadcast?”

Abbott and the University of Texas did not immediately comment.

NBC News reports that nearly 900 state legislators from 45 states have filed a brief with the supreme court, asking it to reject a 15-week abortion ban enacted by Mississippi and thereby uphold Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling guaranteeing the right to an abortion.

The issue is front and centre at the moment, after the court allowed to stand a Texas law which outlaws abortion after six weeks and allows private citizens to sue providers and those who help them.

The court is now dominated 6-3 by conservatives, and whatever justices from either side of the aisle (Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer) ritualistically claim to the contrary, that imbalance is shaping its view of abortion rights. For progressives, not to the good.

Of the 897 state legislators who signed the brief, NBC reported, 895 were Democrats and two independents. The only states not to provide at least one signatory were Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Wyoming.

Here’s more, on a remarkable and moving intervention in the abortion debate this weekend – from a doctor in Texas:

In news sure to be welcomed by parents across the US, Pfizer and BioNTech said this morning children aged five to 11 are on track to receive the two companies’ Covid-19 vaccination by Halloween.

Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer, hailed “the first results from a pivotal trial of a Covid-19 vaccine in this age group”.

If the regulatory process proceeds as it has for older age groups, authorisation for use would be expected by the end of October. Earlier this month, FDA chief, Dr Peter Marks, told the Associated Press that once Pfizer turned over results, his agency would evaluate the data “hopefully in a matter of weeks”.

Pfizer and BioNTech said European and British authorities would also be asked for emergency authorisation.

Good morning…

…and welcome to our coverage of the day in US politics.

It might not be a very good day for Democrats in Washington, from Joe Biden in the White House down to leaders, at least, in the House and the Senate. It will at least be a very busy one.

On Sunday night, the Senate parliamentarian delivered a blow to progressives in the party when she said they could not include a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants in the gargantuan spending bill they are hoping to pass via reconciliation, meaning by majority alone in the Senate. Majority leader Chuck Schumer indicated he would have another think.

Furthermore, efforts to keep the party together on that $3.5tn spending package, difficult at the best of times, seem to be fraying quite badly. Senior party figures have indicated a promised House vote on a bipartisan infrastructure deal meant to be paired with the spending bill might be delayed. That would anger progressives, while moderates continue to feel queasy about the bigger spending package.

In the Senate, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, two key moderates in a chamber split 50-50, have doubts about the spending bill and have reportedly voiced them, Manchin to constituents and Sinema to Biden, in the Oval Office.

On top of all that, there are 10 days left to sort out government funding and avoid a shutdown, while in the Senate the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is refusing to play ball on raising the debt limit, which the US must soon do. That’s rather unprecedented but McConnell is gonna McConnell – the author of a memoir called The Long Game has his eye on the midterms in 2022, as well as beating back/appeasing the Trumpist wave in his own party and keeping hold of the reins.

In the midst of all this, Joe Biden is due to fly to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, with questions about the rise of China, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and of course much more buzzing around the big modern building on the banks of the rolling East River.

Expect a busy day. Here to set you up is Lauren Gambino’s excellent primer on what all the machinations in Congress might mean for Biden’s legacy and the Democrats’ hold on power:

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