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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday as part of her push for greater influence in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s ouster at the hands of American troops.

Trump was expecting a “good and positive discussion” with Machado, who “is really a remarkable and brave voice for many of the people of Venezuela,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

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• Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Heather Conley.
• Republican Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina.
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Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said a “fundamental disagreement” remained after a meeting of top diplomats in Washington, while announcing an agreement to form a high-level working group on Greenland amid threats of a US takeover.

“I’m not saying anything is solved. It’s not solved,” Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting, which he characterized as “frank but constructive.”

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• Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens of Michigan.
• Republican Congressman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin.
• Bully Pulpit International Managing Partner Adam Hodge and Bluestack Strategies Founder Maura Gillespie.
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President Donald Trump has relied on social media posts and Washington interviews in recent weeks to flesh out a more populist economic message that he hopes will help Republicans keep control of Congress.

On Tuesday he’ll make those arguments in a key battleground state.
As voters express mounting frustration over the president’s economic agenda and the cost of living, Trump will visit a factory making Ford Motor Co. F-150 trucks and promote his tariff and manufacturing policies at an event sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club.

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• Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois.
• Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
• Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas.
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President Donald Trump faced rare opposition from key Republican lawmakers after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell accused the Department of Justice of launching a grand jury investigation to pressure and intimidate the central bank.

Senator Thom Tillis, a key Republican on the Banking Committee who isn’t running for reelection, vowed quickly Sunday night to oppose any Trump nominees to the Fed until the matter is resolved.

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• Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell.
• Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino and Stanford University Hoover Institution Fellow Lanhee Chen.
• Rapidan Energy Group President Bob McNally.
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Analysis that Justice Department subpoenas on the Federal Reserve -- similar to President Donald Trump's bid to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook -- is unlikely to succeed led Bloomberg Intelligence's Jan. 12 edition of the Washington Policy Pulse. BI Senior Litigation Analyst Elliott Stein discussed how a criminal conviction, and perhaps even an indictment, is unlikely. We also showed how we think Trump's desire for a 10% cap on credit card interest is unlikely to succeed, but pressure will remain on companies like Capital One, Synchrony, Mastercard and Visa. Finally, we previewed planned crypto Senate markups.

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President Donald Trump is set to outline his vision for rebuilding Venezuela’s battered oil sector Friday in a meeting with representatives from 17 energy companies, including crude producers, refiners and commodity traders.

Industry executives slated to attend the Friday afternoon meeting include both US oil majors — Chevron Corp. Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips — and smaller independent producers, including Continental Resources Inc. and Hilcorp Energy Co., a White House official said.

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• Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence Marc Short.
• Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis and Bellwether Government Affairs CEO Arshi Siddiqui.
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Moderate Republicans are nearing a deal to extend enhanced Obamacare tax credits that they say could pass the House and Senate.

House lawmakers will vote on a three-year clean extension later Thursday after Democrats and a handful of Republicans forced House leaders’ hands through a discharge petition. Senate negotiators expect to modify that bill and say they’re close on the specifics.

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• Bloomberg Deputy Congressional Editor Mike Dorning.
• House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, Congressman from Missouri.
• Bully Pulpit International Managing Director Adam Hodge and Firehouse Strategies Managing Partner Matt Terrill.
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President Donald Trump said he would move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes, part of a push to address housing affordability ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

“People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump said in a social media post Wednesday announcing the effort, adding that he would expound on the plan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month.

The news sent shares of homebuilders, including Toll Brothers Inc., Invitation Homes Inc., KB Home and PulteGroup Inc., down. Shares of Blackstone Inc. — a major investor in single-family homes in the US —fell by as much as 9.3%, though later pared some of those losses.

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• Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Defense Research Analyst Wayne Sanders.
• Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis and Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino.
• Republican Congressman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin.
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