Article snippet: The former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator-elect chastised the president in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Women are pushing back against presumptions and narratives they might have endured just a few years ago. What started as a rebellion with a potentially devastating effect on Pelosi’s drive to reclaim the House speaker’s post officially fizzled Thursday. President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Thursday on the 13th day of the partial government shutdown, as he continued to dig in his heels over his promised border wall. The new Democratic majority in the House will hold the first hearings on Medicare-for-all legislation, a longtime goal of the party’s left. Elizabeth Warren met with reporters outside her Cambridge home after announcing that she had taken the expected step of forming an exploratory committee. Beacon’s Hill incoming class of lawmakers has already sent reverberations through the Massachusetts political scene with surprising victories and, in some cases, blunt commentary. When officials at the University of Utah invited Joe Biden to speak there in December, Biden’s representatives listed a number of requirements for the appearance. The pay bumps will be the first for the governor’s nine cabinet secretaries since he took office in 2015. It will push their salaries from $161,500 to $170,400 a year. Officials said the impact of the shutdown will eventually become more o... Link to the full article to read more