MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS - US Daily Brief 07-11-22

Executive Summary:

• American voters go to the ballot box tomorrow to decide who will represent them in Congress for the next two years.
• The US Department of Defence has announced that the US will send tanks to Ukraine for the first time.
• Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has refused to rule out challenging Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for Republican Senate leadership, if the GOP wins control of the chamber.
• Japan is the latest US ally to jump into an escalating standoff with Washington over the tax credit provisions within the US Congress-passed Inflation Reduction Act.
• The Biden administration is preparing to apply pressure on Japan and the Netherlands to join efforts to restrict the flow of semiconductor technology to China.
• Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has attacked comments from President Biden expressing a desire to shutter US coal plants.
• Poll of the Day: 27% of US voters give the economy an "F".

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