* SEC Rule Would Make Firms Reveal Climate Toll - NYT - The Biden administration is pushing its climate agenda through financial regulators because they don't have the votes to pass it in Congress.

* Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney bemoaned the Biden Presidency on NBC's 'Meet the Press', telling host Chuck Todd that things were "not going well. Rejecting James Carville's earlier analysis that Biden had a "bad week," Romney insisted, "As a matter of fact, he has had a bad year.