FIRST LOOK: Infrastructure funds could hit chopping block

Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news:

• The Obama administration has again reversed course on end-of-life planning in new health care law. (NYT)

• Republicans say transit and infrastructure spending will not be spared in budget cuts. (WSJ)

• The Census Bureau is flirting with a new definition of poverty. (The Washington Post)

• Today's apocalyptic animal news: Two million dead fish turned up off Maryland's coast. (Baltimore Sun)

• Apparently New York's Christmas blizzard was also no fun for the vilified sanitation workers charged with cleaning it up. (Daily News)

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