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It's Thursday, September 23rd. |
CDC Recommends Pfizer Boosters for Many Americans
A day after federal regulators authorized Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster shots for Americans at risk of severe infection from Covid-19, scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended the booster shots for a wide swath of the country, including tens of millions of older Americans and those with certain medical conditions, as the NYT reports. |
Pelosi Says Government Funding Won’t Lapse
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress wouldn’t let government funding expire next week—the first hint that Democratic leaders might decouple the government’s funding from a contentious increase in the debt limit—on the same day that the Biden administration began preparing for a possible partial shutdown, as the WSJ reports. |
Special Envoy to Haiti Resigns
The U.S. special envoy for Haiti has quit his job in a blistering resignation letter saying he could not be associated with the Biden administration’s decision to deport thousands of Haitian migrants to their home country, as The Washington Post reports. |
Executive Education
Register now for CSIS's online course, Evolving Technologies: Innovation, Competition, and Change, to learn about the critical issues leaders must grasp as we move into a global environment increasingly reshaped by automation, connectivity, ubiquitous knowledge, and technological competition. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number
$1 billion
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a $1 billion bill to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, just two days after it was pulled from a government funding package over objections from progressive lawmakers.
Source: Politico |
Critical Quote
“We’ll keep government open. We’ll have the votes to do that and then we’ll go to the Senate again.”
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) |
iDeas Lab
Ryan C. Berg, senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, discussed his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration and International Economic Policy Subcommittee on “An International Response to Ortega’s Destruction of Democracy in Nicaragua” on September 21, 2021.
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Optics
(Photo credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) meets with Senate leadership including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the U.S. Capitol on September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Mr. Johnson made a 24-hour visit to Washington to meet with the president, vice president and congressional leaders, while in the United States to attend the UN General Assembly. |
Recommended Reading
"China Headaches for Iran Deal" by CSIS's Jon B. Alterman. |
This Town Tomorrow
Tomorrow, at 9:30 a.m., join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center for a conversation on how the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted essential health services worldwide.
Later, at 1:30 p.m., the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosts a discussion on the United States' call for world leaders to take action to address the global vaccine crisis, save lives, and prepare for future pandemics during the UN General Assembly.
Last, at 2:00 p.m., the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development will webcast a discussion with expert panelists on how the United States and World Bank can achieve essential global development while addressing manipulation and politicization before the Annual Meetings in October. |
Video
The CSIS Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative earlier today hosted the third session of the Eleventh Annual South China Sea Conference. This monthly webinar series provides opportunities for detailed discussion and analysis of key developments in the South China Sea over the past year and potential paths forward. Watch the full video here. |
Podcasts
In today's episode, Andrew is joined CSIS's Dr. Michael J. Green to discuss the geopolitical implications of the AUKUS security pact, and the fallout with France over it's abandoned submarine deal with Australia.
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
I’ve been posting tracks all week from Bob Dylan’s new bootleg collection, “Springtime in New York,” which focuses on his early to mid-1980s music. Here’s what the studio sessions for “Infidels” looked like, featuring Dylan and a studio band comprised of Mark Knopfler on guitar, Mick Taylor on slide guitar, drummer Sly Dunbar, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, and Alan Clark on keys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6wU11_4Wg |
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