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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. You’re probably still getting used to writing 2021 on your checks, but if you are closely watching Congress this week, it feels an awful lot like the start of…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. If you want to know what the next two years in Washington will be like, watch the next two days in Georgia. Tomorrow, voters in Georgia will decide if…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Jill Biden is about to inherit a new title: FLOTUS, or First Lady of the United States. But the one she’d rather hold onto is one that came in…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Democratic politics lost a legend this week, but you’ve probably never heard of him. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler led the party during Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election…

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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Dropping much of the let’s-all-come-together comity from recent weeks, President-elect Joe Biden showed just how out-of-patience he has become with his predecessor and his allies. Where Biden initially treated…

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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The cookies were plated, but the welcome mat was performative. At least at first. To understand the dynamics of the incoming White House, it’s worth stopping for a minute…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The news had finally started to leak. CNN this week had contacted Joe Biden’s transition team for comment on a forthcoming report that federal prosecutors in Delaware were pursuing…

That seismic shake in Washington last night was Pelosi and Schumer slamming the door on the White House’s latest COVID-19 relief offer

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. When Vice President-elect Joe Biden introduces his health team today, he’ll be bringing back to the fore the former Surgeon General from the Barack Obama era, along with the…

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. For months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held the line against a pared-down stimulus plan to prop up the coronavirus-hobbled economy. She insisted that Democrats needed to go big or…