MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS - US Daily Brief 11-01-23

Executive Summary:

• With the intraparty Republican squabble over the speaker’s gavel in the rear-view mirror, focus is turning to the level of obstruction the Republican Party, and its powerful conservative minority, will present to critical negotiations to raise the debt ceiling.
• The foreign and defence ministers of the United States and Japan will meet today in Washington for security talks under the 2+2 format.
• The US House of Representatives yesterday voted to stand up select committees on US-China strategic competition and what they call the Biden Administration’s “weaponization” of the federal government.
• The House Republican Steering Committee will meet today to begin appointing lawmakers to staff the chamber’s most important committees.
• After a week of Republican dysfunction, the GOP has been thrown a lifeline in the form of classified documents found in an office used by President Biden.
• Senator JD Vance (R-OH), one of the few candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump to perform well at the midterm elections, has circulated a letter questioning the levels of aid being provided to Ukraine.
• Poll of the Day: The approval rating of President Joe Biden continues to rise.

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