NYT: Alina Habba Mildon Loses $50 Million Contract That Enraged Trump The former Trump lawyer had signed the contract with a family company weeks before the president gave the family’s patriarch a pardon.

(WaPo) John Cornyn says he’s looking for a job: “People who retire die” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is approaching the final days of his more than two decades in the Senate. But he’s still got some juice in him. “I’m looking for a job, if you have any ideas,” Cornyn said Tuesday when asked by TMZ about his next steps. “People who retire die.”

NYT: Rubio Says “Major Combat Operations” in Iran Are No Longer Needed Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure campaign against Iran was effective enough that “there’s really no need for major combat operations any longer.”

New results just dropped in the US Senate race for Alaska 🟦Mary Peltola 49.0% 🟥Dan S. Sullivan 47.2% (incumbent) 🟥Gerald Heikes 2.2% 🟥Dan J. Sullivan 1.7% (80% in according to DDHQ)

MS NOW: Chris Van Hollen calls colleagues as Schumer’s leadership faces questions Van Hollen said he is “in the process right now of calling my colleagues” about who should lead them going forward, and that he is “actively listening.”

Huffington Post: Chuck Grassley Ditches Committee Norms To Jam Through Trump Court Picks Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ditched a number of the panel’s standard practices Tuesday to line up votes on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees in an 11th-hour effort to get as many as possible confirmed before Democrats take control of the Senate in January Link to article:

Axios: Incoming House Dems prove unusually willing to defy leaders House Democrats’ incoming freshman class is barely a week old and already threatening to defy party leaders in ways most of their incumbent colleagues wouldn’t dare Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-OH): “My class is huge not because of the Democratic Party and its brand but despite it. Many of us are outsiders who didn’t come up through the machine, don’t buy into the conventions.”