McCarthy on Fox Business says “the market should not react at all because they've got cash flow coming in every day- they can they can pay their debt.”
🚨 Exclusive:
House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul is demanding information from State about its reported decision to block "competitive actions" aimed at curbing the Chinese Communist Party.
Per a letter first obtained by
INBOX: Meeks' statement on the Afghanistan dissent cable says it "reaffirmed that the Department received the dissenters’ concerns and responded to the policy issues the cable raised" and "should satisfy the Chairman’s subpoena and finally put to rest his threats of contempt"
New: Foreign Affairs Chair McCaul and Ranking Member Meeks will view the Afghanistan dissent cable at the State Department today at 2:30pm, per a source familiar https://axios.com/2023/05/17/house-foreign-affairs-access-afghanistan-cable…
Per a source in the room, Rep. Chip Roy “complained that we aren’t winning” and that it “shouldn’t be about a deal it should be about saving the country.”
Hakeem Jeffries & Katherine Clark said they plan to begin reaching out to "a handful" of House Republicans about signing onto a discharge petition that can be used as a vehicle to bypass House GOP leadership and force a vote to raise the debt ceiling
is reconsidering jumping into '24 GOP presidential race after earlier demurring
>>SEES A LANE...We're told he'd likely wait till after Va. legislative elections in Nov.
New: Sen. Tim Scott is launching a $6 million ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire. The ads — airing statewide on broadcast TV, cable, satellite, and radio — are scheduled to run through the first GOP presidential debate, in August.
Scoop: Caitlin Legacki, senior adviser to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, is set to leave the department at the end of May, sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.
Smashing lede >>
HIROSHIMA, Japan — As the leaders of the Group of Seven gather for their annual summit in Japan this week, three world-changing conflicts — past, present and potential — will converge.
The source close to the Pelosi family told me the relationship btw the two families has been “kept under wraps & very, very closely held.”
“It’s very tricky…because they want her to stay” in the Senate, said the person. “If DiFi stays as long as possible, it helps Schiff.”
Pelosi has endorsed @RepAdamSchiff for Senate — and according to a source close the family, they know his best shot at getting the job is if DiFi stays in her seat as long as possible … twitter.com/rachaelmbade/s…
SCOOP:
Naysa Woomer, communications director to embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY), has resigned earlier this evening.
WOOMER TO SANTOS:
"Unfortunately, you never took one point of professional advice given."
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Biden says he cut deficit by $1.7T/2yrs
That’s a really odd measure given that the debt grew by about $4T in those two years.
This is like adding $100K to your credit card debt in one year, adding $50K the next year, $25K the 3rd year and saying you cut by $125K/2years.
New: Republicans are taking an early victory lap after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got the White House to the table on the debt ceiling.
A look inside negotiations from the rare triple byline(!) team of
Asked about Trump's comment that anti-abortion rights groups think DeSantis' 6 week abortion ban went too far, DeSantis said "as a Florida resident, [Trump] didn't give an answer" on whether he'd sign it
"I was proud to do it. He will not answer whether he would sign it or not."
That’s one way to hedge your bets
“I’m endorsing both,” she said in a telephone interview. “DeSantis has a lot of promise for the future, and Trump is great now.”
News: Behind-the-scenes on the Biden split w/ Eric Adams
Biden's incoming campaign manager has been point person on the Adams relationship as it’s deteriorated.
She privately has fumed about his rhetoric and public critiques of the White House.
Scoop: White House principal deputy communications director Kate Berner has told colleagues she expects to leave in the coming weeks, two people familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
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Oh man. Someone attacked staffers with a baseball bat at Rep. Connolly’s Fairfax office this morning after asking where the congressman was.
The staffers are in the hospital with non life threatening injuries and the suspect is in custody