MNI POLITICAL RISK - House Completes FY2026 Funding Process

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Executive summary:

• President Donald Trump will sit for a print interview at 13:30 ET 18:30 GMT, sign Executive Orders at 15:00 ET 20:00 GMT, meet with Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano at 16:30 ET 21:30 GMT, and hold a policy event at 17:30 ET 22:30 GMT. All engagements are billed as closed press.
• Vice President JD Vance will deliver the headline speech to the March for Life rally in Minnesota today. A softer tone from the administration on immigration in recent days comes amid polling showing a majority of voters believe that ICE’s tactics have gone too far. 
• A framework deal between the US, NATO, Denmark, and Greenland is taking shape.
• The first US-brokered trilateral talks of the Russia-Ukraine war get underway in Abu Dhabi today.
• The US and China signed off on a deal to keep the US arm of the social media app TikTok operational under a new ownership structure. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping could meet up to four times this year. 
• The Trump administration has ordered a review of federal funding for Democratic states.
• The House passed its final tranche of FY2026 funding bills, a major step towards averting a government shutdown on January 31.
• House Republicans successfully blocked a Venezuela war powers resolution.
• Trump acknowledged the deployment of a flotilla of US military assets to the Middle East and reiterated warnings to Iran.
• Poll of the Day: Democrats lead the generic Congressional ballot. 

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