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特朗普第三次竞选的第一个月可能会因为前总统唐纳德·特朗普本人不见踪影而被人们记住，但这是在如何将99美元变成前总统从眼中射出激光的动画的“重大宣布”之前。
有多次法律上的挫折，在Mar-a-Lago的一次臭名昭著的晚宴，在格鲁吉亚的另一次指责，以及要求“终止”宪法以使他重新执政的呼声。还有一系列新的民调显示，认为特朗普是共和党提名的领先者并不太准确，尽管他仍然是2024年唯一宣布的主要候选人。
现在是各种各样的早期重置。特朗普提出了关于“言论自由”的新政策提案，并正在与犹太领导人和著名的LGBTQ共和党团体华尔街日报召开会议据报告的他的竞选团队计划在未来几个月举行小规模的活动。
任何一个记忆可以追溯到2015年的人都可能会想起特朗普是如何被低估的——以及一大批共和党候选人可能会如何发挥一个拥有强大忠诚并且不怕冲突的候选人的优势。
但这一次的早期声明并没有吓倒竞争对手，也没有以任何可衡量的方式提高特朗普的地位。未来的道路为更多的重置留下了空间——但也为特朗普的漏洞留下了更多的展示空间。
在两党投票中，众议院通过了一项立法，允许波多黎各人就该岛屿领土的政治未来进行投票。
16名共和党人和民主党人投票支持《波多黎各地位法案》，该法案将允许该岛300多万居民在“与美国自由联系”的情况下，就州地位、独立或主权进行投票。
即将离任的众议院议长南希·佩洛西在一份声明中说:“一个多世纪以来，波多黎各一直在外部势力强加的政治制度下治理，而不是由自己的人民建立的。”
她说，目前的结构使该岛“容易受到不平等待遇”，理由是特朗普政府对飓风玛丽亚和伊尔玛的拙劣应对。
白宫发表声明，呼吁国会通过立法，“迅速将波多黎各政治地位的未来交到波多黎各人手中，这是理所应当的。”
离参议院今年休会只有几天了，该法案不太可能在众议院通过，因为需要60票，民主党的优势很小。
共和党人担心，州地位可能意味着更多民主党议员的当选可能足以保持共和党的广泛支持。此外，一旦新一届国会召开，即将在众议院获得多数席位的共和党人很可能会扼杀将这项立法重新提上日程的努力。
围绕几个州政府拒绝抖音的浪潮周四到达美国参议院，一致通过了一项法案，禁止该应用程序在联邦发行的设备上使用。在过去的两周内，至少有九名州长禁止在州政府机构发放的设备上使用抖音。
与阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州、爱达荷州、马里兰州、内布拉斯加州、南卡罗来纳州、南达科他州、德克萨斯州和犹他州的行政人员制定的立法类似，参议院法案为政策标准的制定留下了时间表。根据该法案，政府将有60天时间“为行政机构制定标准和指导方针，要求从信息技术中删除任何覆盖的应用程序。”
这项立法是由参议员乔希·霍利(Josh Hawley)提出的，他长期以来一直批评围绕中国人拥有的应用程序的网络安全问题。
“在美国的抖音和中国之间需要有一道防火墙。如果没有防火墙，那么它需要在美国被完全禁止，”霍利在接受福克斯新闻频道采访时说。
该法案现在提交给众议院，共和党领袖凯文·麦卡锡表示支持立即就该法案进行投票。与此同时，即将离任的议长佩洛西没有承诺将它带到地板上。
“我们今天将离开这里，进行议程上的事情，现在。我不知道这是否会被列入下周的议程。但是让我们看看，这非常非常重要，”佩洛西说。
Early Trump 'reset' highlights distance from 2016 to 2024: The Note
The TAKE with Rick Klein
The first month of the third Trump campaign might be remembered for how former President Donald Trump himself was nowhere to be seen but everywhere to be found -- and that was before the "major announcement" of how to turn $99 into animations of the former president shooting lasers from his eyes.
There have been multiple legal setbacks, an infamous dinner at Mar-a-Lago, another rebuke in Georgia and a call for the "termination" of the Constitution to bring him back into office. There's also been a raft of new polling suggesting it's not quite accurate to think of Trump as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, even though he's still the only major declared candidate for 2024.
Now comes an early reset of sorts. Trump is out with new policy proposals on "free speech," and is convening meetings with Jewish leaders and a prominent LGBTQ Republican group, The Wall Street Journal reported, as his campaign plans smaller-scale events in the months to come.
Anyone with a memory that extends back to 2015 might recall how Trump has been underestimated -- and how a large field of Republican candidates might play to the strengths of a candidate who draws strong loyalties and isn't afraid of conflict.
But the early announcement this time has not intimidated rivals or enhanced Trump's standing in any measurable way. The road ahead leaves room for more resets -- but also more space for Trump's vulnerabilities to stay on display.
In a bipartisan vote, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow Puerto Ricans to vote on the political future of the island territory.
Sixteen Republicans voted with Democrats in favor of the Puerto Rico Status Act, which would permit the more than 3 million residents of the island to vote on either statehood, independence or sovereignty "in free association with the United States."
"For more than a century, Puerto Rico has been governed under a political system imposed by outside forces rather than established by its own people," outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
She said the current structure left the island "vulnerable to unequal treatment," citing the Trump administration's bungled response to hurricanes Maria and Irma.
The White House issued a statement calling for Congress to pass the legislation "swiftly to put the future of Puerto Rico's political status in the hands of Puerto Ricans, where it belongs."
With only a few days until the Senate adjourns for the year, it is unlikely the legislation would pass in the chamber where 60 votes are needed and Democratic margins are slim.
Republican fears that statehood could mean the election of more Democratic lawmakers could be enough to keep broad GOP support at bay. Plus, the incoming Republican majority in the House will likely stifle such efforts to bring this legislation back up once the new Congress convenes.
The groundswell surrounding the rejection of TikTok across several state governments reached the U.S. Senate Thursday with the unanimous passage of a bill that will ban the app from being used on federally-issued devices. The move follows a pattern of at least nine governors prohibiting the use of TikTok on state agency-issued devices in the past two weeks.
Similar to the legislation laid out by executives in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Utah, the Senate bill left a timeline for the development of policy standards. According to the bill, there will be 60 days for the government to "develop standards and guidelines for executive agencies requiring the removal of any covered application from information technology."
The legislation was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, who has long criticized the cybersecurity concerns surrounding the Chinese-owned app.
"There needs to be a firewall between TikTok in the United States and Beijing. And if there isn't a firewall, then it needs to be banned in the United States completely," Hawley said in an interview with Fox News.
The bill now heads to the House, where Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has indicated support for an immediate vote on the legislation. Meanwhile, outgoing Speaker Pelosi did not commit to bringing it to the floor.
"We will leave here today for what's on the agenda, now. I don't know if that will be on the agenda next week. But let's see, it's very, very important," Pelosi said.
