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MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS - US Daily Brief 29-11-22

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  • The Biden administration is preparing a last-resort, one-year stopgap government funding bill as time runs out to legislate a FY23 omnibus.
  • President Biden has called on Congress to take legislative action of avert a rail strike.
  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is taking a rigid position in his standoff with conservative Republicans.
  • Former President Donald Trump is receiving blowback after dining with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort, in Florida.
  • Russia doesn't believe nuclear talks with with the US will resume this year after postponing plans to conduct the first New START negotiations with the US since COVID-19 mothballed inspections.
  • French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the US today for the first state visit of President Biden’s tenure amid strain in the Franco-US relationship over the establishment of AUKUS and a simmering trade dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is continuing engagements at the NATO foreign ministerial in Bucharest, Romania.
  • US State Department official Geoffrey Pyatt is in Japan this week to launch the Japan-US Energy Security Dialogue as Japan prepares to assume leadership of the G-7.
  • Poll of the Day: Atlanta suburbs are pushing marginal Georgia elections towards Democrats.

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