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When your fellow Cap Hill reporter ladies are both blinded ☀️ and almost blinding in their 👗s
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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.”
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Tina Turner dies aged 83
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🚨 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 :
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Politico: Jimmy Carter, 3 months into hospice, is aware of tributes, enjoying ice cream
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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"
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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 axios.com/2023/05/17/hou
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. reached out to Martin Shkreli to ask about his business connections to Vivek Ramaswamy.
Shkreli demanded money from Politico.
Daniel told him we don't pay for interviews.
Shkreli then offered him money to write a positive story about him.
politico.com/news/2023/05/2
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Per a source, “In conference this morning there was an auction to buy McCarthy’s used lip balm. MTG won it with the bid of $100,000!”
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Per a GOP member, “Open mic now. Mostly HFC members saying to hold the line.”
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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.”
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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
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🚨NEW : Top GOP sources tell Brufke & me 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.
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Paris Hilton's Chihuahua Passes Away at 23
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Has anyone suggested Ozempic
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The Democrats in Washington have been addicted to spending for the last two years. It’s time to end their addiction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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…
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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."
via
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Senate Budget Chair makes case for using 14th amendment to bypass debt ceiling
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1. The 14th Amendment says the debt of the United States shall not be questioned; a default questions the debt big time, and so is unconstitutional.
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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.
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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 , & :
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman , like many other members today, wearing a "Free Evan" pin in show of support for our WSJ colleague , who has been in a Russian prison for nearly 7 weeks. #JournalismIsNotACrime #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvanNow
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MTG in Oversight hearing says she will introduce articles of impeachment against Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia
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Scalise on the Senate being out next week: “The Senate needs to start doing their work as well. We did our work.”
DeSantis v Trump on abortion law:
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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."
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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.”
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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.
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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
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SCOOP: Bryan Griffin, press sec for Ron DeSantis’ gov office, is leaving learned
I’m told he’ll next be press secretary for DeSantis’ political operation
Story from me & here:
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What's next: Trump's team is talking to several networks about high-profile interviews — and more town halls.
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"McConnell conceded that the Senate map looked great for the GOP but warned that the party could still 'screw this up.'"
on why #TXSen is worth keeping an eye on:
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Former TX just told us he is looking at another run for president in 2024. He declined to throw his support behind Trump.
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