“THE MORNING MEETING” DAYBOOK
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024
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DAYBOOK, all Eastern Time unless otherwise noted
JOE BIDEN
In Delaware.
KAMALA HARRIS
DONALD TRUMP
No known public events at this time.
JD VANCE
No known public events at this time.
CONGRESS
Scott Bessent meets with Senators McConnell, Murkowski, Cruz, Lankford, Bennet, Hassan, and Warren.
FED
2:30pm: Jerome Powell holds a news conference to discuss interest rates and monetary policy actions.
“The Morning Meeting” topics:
* What is in store for Trump and Powell in 2025?
* How will Speaker Johnson navigate in 2025?
* How much power does Elon Musk actually have?
* The media and Joe Biden.
ESSENTIAL READING
Elon Musk, clad in tuxedo and black tie, took the stage at President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort shortly after the election with all the swagger of the winning candidate himself.
“The public has given us a mandate that could not be more clear, the clearest mandate. The people have spoken. The people want change,” Musk told the audience of Trump’s biggest donors, campaign leaders and appointment seekers. “We are going to shake things up. It’s going to be a revolution.”
Musk’s attachment to Trump has created an alliance between America’s most powerful politician and its richest businessman — and roughly the same percentages of Americans have favorable views of each, according to a new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Experts are split on whether that overlap in public opinion is a good or bad thing for Musk’s businesses or for Trump’s politics. But it could have far-reaching effects in both realms.