WHITE HOUSE TORN ON TRANSATLANTIC TECH: The Biden administration is increasingly stretched between its effort to defend U.S. tech firms abroad and the need to placate anti-tech progressives at home, as left-leaning groups ratchet up the pressure on Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for her perceived coziness with U.S. tech giants — at least where Europe is involved.

First in MT: More than a dozen progressive groups and advocates are pressing Raimondo to release her calendar, planning documents and meeting agendas for 2021. In a letter sent to Raimondo late on Monday, the groups — which include Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, AccountableTech and The Digital Democracy Project — accused the Commerce head of undercutting the Biden administration’s antitrust agenda with her December claim that the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, which have yet to be fully negotiated, would disproportionately target U.S. tech companies.