BACKSTORY -- How Sheehy resurrected Isaacman's nomination to lead NASA. -After months of pushing White House to prioritize NASA, in September Sheehy put a HOLD on Sergio Gor, Trump's India ambassador nominee. It got Trump admin's attention immediately -"all of a sudden, phones

News: Caesar, the former Syrian military photographer whose work drove Congress to enact sanctions in his name, will return to the Hill next week to tell lawmakers to repeal them, I’m told. He’s slated to testify Thursday before the Helsinki Commission:

Federal employee paychecks will go out beginning Saturday, with aims to complete list of payments by Nov. 19, per memo reviewed by @ShelbyTalcott. Paychecks for employees at Energy, HHS, and Veterans Affairs, as well as Army and non-Army civilian employees are projected to be

Press will no longer be brought into tonight’s private dinner at the White House. Some guests include, Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, and Marc Rowan.

New: Trump has raised a number of proposals that aim to give money directly to Americans, from tariff checks and direct health insurance payments. He’s spent years raising ideas that involve cutting checks for Americans - during private policy meetings as he weighed a 2014 NY

Trump has been pitching his aides on cutting Americans checks since *2014*, when he was eyeing a NY gov run. More from @ShelbyTalcott on the president’s fixation with trying to pay people directly (inflation and implementation risks be damned) https://t.co/5wn0hDLFxA

Here's some service journalism for federal workers from @ShelbyTalcott, who got a copy of the administration's full employee back pay plan after the shutdown ends: https://t.co/S01m8Ccmy5

The White House has put a lot of stock in this discharge petition for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. The Senate has to pass it -- who knows if that will happen. The president has to sign it -- he won't. And if he vetoes, Congress almost certainly would not be able to

Flashback: Massie told @burgessev back on Sept. 24 that Republican leaders were putting serious pressure on the 4 GOP Epstein discharge petition signers. "They actually threatened them politically, not physically." https://t.co/qmCKVJJGJG

NEW: Republicans are kicking off post-shutdown health care talks with disparate timelines (Senate vote next month, no House vote yet) that could make it harder for them to resolve an intensifying debate over whether to prioritize enhanced ACA subsidies or more structural reforms.

News: In written answers to senator Qs obtained by @Semafor, Trump’s FDIC nom says offices created last year to address rampant misconduct at the agency — which he called “the biggest piece of the cultural transformation” in his hearing — are staffed at 40% under his leadership.

Don't want to alarm anybody but Dems may be in disarray

.@IngrahamAngle presses Trump on Americans' dour outlook on the economy. Trump argues the polls are fake: "Why are people saying they are anxious about the economy? Why are they saying that?" Trump: "I don't know that they are saying that. I think polls are fake. We have the

🟡 "People need to sort through what they think about all this," Schatz told @burgessev of the party's agita post-shutdown deal. Except... they don't have a lot of time to get past this before the next challenge. Much more, w @daveweigel: https://t.co/HFv6VpulbQ

Senate Finance Republicans as of now are planning to meet later today today to discuss expiring enhanced ACA tax credits issue

Mast, whose signoff is needed to include the repeal in NDAA, told Semafor he “will not negotiate in the media” but “my concerns with a clean repeal of Caesar sanctions should be obvious to everybody.” Meanwhile, Barrack is personally calling lawmakers and White House and State

JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to stop — by 9:30 tonight — the court orders requiring payment of full November SNAP benefits.

Interesting tidbit in @daveweigel's interview w/Shapiro -- some praise for @SenTedCruz. "I don’t share a lot in common ideologically or on the issues with" him, Shapiro said, but Cruz “did the right thing by speaking out against Fuentes and Carlson..." https://t.co/R53VNxagGT

Republicans are openly nudging Trump for less foreign trips and more domestic economic focus... Sen. Cornyn: "I’m glad the president’s had some very good success internationally, but that’s not what motivates voters." https://t.co/6eHHPLk9HC

Midterm pivot requested-- Republicans want Trump/WH to focus on domestic economy after year of foreign policy. Election debacle was a "real warning sign" for midterms, Cruz says: “It’s a powerful record to run on. But it’s incumbent on us to lay this out to the voters; they’re