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Lawmakers return to Washington next week to ongoing spending debates and a reinvigorated effort to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from the House.

The Hill’s Emily Brooks noted “Republicans left town on a low note” last week after a group of GOP lawmakers “torpedoed a procedural vote on a full-year spending bill for the third time in two weeks.”

Where things stand:

The House has passed seven of 12 annual appropriations bills.

The Senate will also resume work on appropriations bills. It’s passed three so far, packaged as a “minibus.”

Negotiations between chambers on the bills will also be necessary, as the House, Senate and president must all sign off on the same bills.

The House will also likely vote on whether to take the rare step of expelling a member after the Ethics Committee released a scathing report on Santos.

The panel’s report followed Santos’s indictments containing 23 criminal counts on allegations that he misled donors, lied on House financial disclosures, charged his donors’ credit cards without authorization and more.

Efforts to expel Santos have failed in the past, but several lawmakers who opposed the move before have changed their tune.

Another major item on the House agenda: what comes after the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Read more on what’s ahead here.

President Biden reflected on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination, writing that “the unfulfilled promise of his presidency” is “an enduring call to action to each do all we can for our country.”

The nonprofit ReFED estimates Americans will waste 312 million pounds of food this Thanksgiving.

“This waste is unthinkable, especially as millions across the country are not sitting down to a hot meal tomorrow,” Congressional Food Recovery Caucus co-founder and co-chair Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) told Evening Report.

Pingree and caucus co-chair Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) shared some tips for making use of Thanksgiving leftovers.

💡 “In addition to saving food for delicious leftovers, you can do things like saving your turkey bones to make broth, collecting your food scraps to compost, or freezing leftover herbs into ice cubes with olive oil, which can be used at a later date,” Pingree suggested.

💡 “While it is easy to overbuy for the holiday, this Thanksgiving, check to see if there are any local foodbanks that will accept your unused food items. It is also worth checking for community organizations that are accepting holiday leftovers for those that may be in need,” Newhouse offered.

💨 Your Evening Report author is currently looking up instructions for frozen herb cubes…

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On Thursday, fighting between Israel and Hamas is set to cease for four days, allowing for transfer of 50 women and children Hamas is holding hostage and for humanitarian aid to enter the ravaged Gaza Strip.

One-hundred-fifty Palestinian women and other detainees under age 19 held in Israeli jails may also be released as part of the deal.

The pause and hostage release are significant developments in the war. Hamas has only released four hostages up to this point. And several nations including the U.S. have urged Israel to pause military operations in Gaza as the humanitarian situation has worsened and the death toll has climbed. 

The Israeli government said it’ll agree to one additional cease-fire day for every additional 10 hostages released. More than 200 people are believed to have been kidnapped during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

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🧯 SAFETY: According to the National Fire Protection Association, Thanksgiving is the day of the year with the most home cooking fires. Check out some safety tips here, along with a National Park Service page highlighting dangers specific to deep-frying turkeys.

⛈ WEATHER: Rain, wind and snow are in the East Coast forecast for Wednesday, likely affecting travel plans.

☮ SOCIAL: 6 in 10 want to table the talking points this Thanksgiving, while 3 in 10 are looking forward to discussing politics with friends and family.

😷 HEALTH: Those looking to stay healthy amid holiday gatherings may want to check in on where flu, RSV and COVID have been on the rise lately.

🏈 CAMPAIGNBALL: Football fans in Michigan and Wisconsin will get a helping of politics alongside the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers game Thursday, as the Biden campaign runs a pair of ads in the Detroit and Milwaukee markets.

On Saturday, former President Trump will attend the Clemson University versus University of South Carolina football game in Columbia, South Carolina. 

It’s not the first time the campaigns have leaned into football. See more from The Hill’s Elizabeth Crisp here.

“To make health care cheaper, make it more expensive”

“We cannot wait for climate action — climate change will not wait for us” 

8 days until the Ron DeSantis-Gavin Newsom debate on Fox News

Monday: Celebration-of-life events begin for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Rosalynn Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex at Georgia Southwestern State University. 

“Today, the legacy of slavery impacts 57 percent of Black Americans, according to Pew Research Center,” The Hill’s Cheyanne M. Daniels said.

“For some, they say it’s past time America addressed these harms with reparations. But for others, the idea is so controversial, so incomprehensible, that it’s an impossible task.”

Daniels delves into the topic of reparations in the latest episode of The Switch Up podcast. Listen here.

The podcast “explores the intersection of race and politics through intimate conversations with leading scholars, advocates and legislators from communities of color.”

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