In a statement on Martin Gruenberg, White House says Biden will soon submit a new nominee for FDIC chair

NEWS: House unveiling long awaited $1.5 trillion farm bill today

Sets up showdown w/ Senate + Dems over the must-pass legislation, according to text of the bill we obtained

More details >
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After top White House aides took the rare step of personally whipping against the bill, vote ends with just over a dozen Dem defections

A whopping 11 Dems, including Schumer, just voted to hand crypto and banks a win by undoing SEC guidance on crypto accounting.

21 House Dems helped approve the resolution last week. It heads next to Biden, who said he will veto it.

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Two voice actors are paid small sums by an anonymous buyer to read scripts they're told will never be made public.

Years later, they discover *by chance* that a tech firm cloned their voices and is using them to raise money and sell AI technology. Great, cool, good stuff

SCOOP: The DOJ plans to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking today that would reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category, according to two Biden administration officials familiar with the decision.

From me and Adam Cancryn:
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The White House withheld a weapons shipment last week to send a clear warning to Israel over Rafah.

But the move has only confused matters back home, forcing Biden officials into a dayslong cleanup effort.

New w Alex Ward Joe Gould Jonathan Lemire: politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

White House officials are directly involved in whipping against this week’s GOP-led Israel bill, a rare step taken to clear up confusion among Dems over its decisionmaking on military aid

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Joe Biden mocked Donald Trump today in Wisconsin while highlighting a new Microsoft center to be built where Trump once promised a $10 billion Foxconn factory that never happened.

He “didn’t build a damn thing,” Biden said. politi.co/4dxCHYj

BREAKING: The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations. Team effort w Lee Hudson Paul McLeary Joe Gould

Joe Biden on Tuesday warned of a “ferocious” surge of antisemitism in America and around the world, in comments that both called out the violent excesses of pro-Palestinian campus protest and reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with Israel.
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The last time I did Biden pool duty in Wilmington, drunken hockey parents caused chaos in the hotel lobby bar. (cc Zolan Kanno-Youngs)

I returned to Wilmo this weekend—only for a comedy of errors to ensue, resulting in two missed motorcades

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NEW: Inside the federal government’s power struggle w/ states to contain the bird flu outbreak

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New: Joe Biden is still waiting on his soft landing.

With inflation running hot, Biden’s shifted how he talks about the economy — replacing big boasts about Bidenomics with a more surgical approach focused on narrower areas where he’s already cut costs
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New: After Biden referred to Japan as “xenophobic,” the Japanese Embassy says it’s raised concerns with the administration over his remarks.

'It is unfortunate that some of the comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan's policies'
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BIG scoop here — Israel has a civilian protection plan for the Rafah invasion that has been shared with the US. politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

There’s no bigger health care company than UnitedHealth Group. It’s grown to be the nation’s largest insurer — and largest employer of physicians. It’s bigger than Google and Microsoft.

Now some lawmakers want to chop it down.

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NEW - Dem leadership: “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”