Stevenson’s army, January 1

May your new year be happy.
WaPo notes that OMBs rescission requests will freeze foreign aid accounts for 45 days. Dana Milbank goes further in blasting the OMB director’s record.
Get ready for more of this:  WSJ notes how SecState nominee Blinken made money in the private sector.  WSJ says Treasury nominee Yellen also got rich.
WaPo says China and Germany are teaming up to dominate technical standards.
Cook Political Report has a list of 36 interesting facts about the elections.
And War on the Rocks lists its most-viewed articles in 2020.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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