A new CBS News/You Gov poll found that 67% of Americans said that GOP lawmakers shouldn’t interfere with the investigations involving Donald Trump, while 33% said that GOP lawmakers should make an effort to stop law enforcement investigations into Trump.
Red States Could Be Hit Hardest by McCarthy Cuts
The spending-cut proposals unveiled by Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday could fall hardest on people in Republican-leaning states, Reuters reports.
Quote of the Day
“I’ll be blunt. If Speaker McCarthy continues in this direction, we are headed toward a default.”
— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), quoted by Punchbowl News, on the latest proposal by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling.
Paul Gosar Promotes Pro-Hitler Website
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) urged constituents to read a story posted on a Holocaust-denier website that praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” for their support of Ukraine.
The website has praised Hitler as a “great man” and “a man of valor.”
McCarthy Takes Debt Ceiling Plan to Wall Street
Washington Post: “The prospects of a slumping stock market, millions of job losses and a shock to the global financial system loom large as McCarthy tries to sell Wall Street on the GOP’s risky brinkmanship over the debt ceiling. Since assuming a House majority in January, Republicans have pledged to halt the nation’s ability to borrow to pay its bills, seeking to force President Biden to accept steep spending cuts and other policy concessions.”
“So far, the White House has refused to relent in its opposition, and Republicans themselves have splintered at times over how to approach the fight. The standoff only has raised the stakes for McCarthy, as the consequences of congressional inaction — the first-ever government default — could devastate an economy already teetering on the precipice of recession.”
CNBC: McCarthy opens next phase of debt ceiling fight with direct pitch to Wall Street.
GOP to Attack Alvin Bragg on Crime In New York Hearing
“House Republicans are descending on New York on Monday for a hearing that will use the issue of crime as a political cudgel against Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who charged former President Donald Trump with falsifying business records,” the New York Times reports.
“Democrats have dismissed the session as a stunt meant to mislead the public into believing that crime has reached crisis levels because of lax enforcement by liberal officials.”
Associated Press: “C-SPAN has declined to air it on TV.”
House GOP Will Try to Pass a Debt Limit Hike
Punchbowl News: “Republican leaders will attempt to pass this through the House in the next two weeks, if they can. It’ll be a challenge. No Republicans want to vote to lift the debt limit or slash agency budgets without some assurances of the final outcome. And the calendar makes it tougher. The House is in this week and next, and then members go on recess for another week before coming back on May 9. So time is of the essence.”
“The GOP leadership is making the argument that McCarthy’s hand will be strengthened in any upcoming talks with Biden if he can move a bill through the House.”
Playbook: “We heard the House GOP whip team was working the phones over the weekend — and feeling optimistic. The hope is that by unifying behind a plan and passing it in the coming weeks, McCarthy can strengthen his negotiating stance. But it’s still an open question whether 218 Republicans will come aboard; indeed, some moderates are already privately balking at including work requirements for Medicaid recipients.”
Quote of the Day
“If these sons-of-bitches want to try to end-run us, game on.”
— Rep, Chip Roy (R-TX), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, rejecting proposals for the moderate Problem Solvers Caucus to raise the debt limit.
House GOP Races to Ready Debt Ceiling Bill
Washington Post: “House Republicans are finalizing a proposal that would raise the debt ceiling for roughly one year while slashing federal spending and unwinding some of President Biden’s top priorities, including student debt cancellation.”
“The emerging GOP framework could raise the debt ceiling into 2024, covering roughly $2 trillion in spending … That proposal would reduce spending at federal health-care, education, science and labor agencies to levels adopted in the 2022 fiscal year, amounting potentially to a roughly $130 billion cut. Those agencies also would be subject to new spending caps.”
House GOP Charts New Strategy to Pressure Biden
“House Republicans will try to agree on a plan to lift the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and cut government spending when Congress returns this week, after being stymied for months by Democratic President Joe Biden’s demands they do so without conditions,” Reuters reports.
“House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a Monday speech at the New York Stock Exchange will lay out the conditions Republicans want Democrats to agree to in exchange for movement on the debt ceiling.”
McCarthy Prepares His Opening Debt Limit Bid
“Speaker Kevin McCarthy is accelerating the long-stalled push for a unified House GOP strategy in Washington’s high-stakes debt ceiling standoff,” Politico reports.
“But his opening offer on the debt limit is riddled with potential political pitfalls — including an expiration date that would tee up another high-stakes fiscal fight just months before the 2024 presidential election.”
China Sanctions GOP Lawmaker for Taiwan Visit
Associated Press: “The sanctions against Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) include freezing his assets and properties in China, prohibiting any organization or individual in China from conducting transactions or working with him, and denying him a visa to enter the country.”
Cheney Says Greene Should Lose Security Clearance
Former Rep. Liz Cheney said that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should not have a security clearance after Greene defended the Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking a trove of classified documents, NBC News reports.
Said Cheney: “Marjorie Taylor Greene makes clear yet again that she cannot be trusted with America’s national security information and should not have a security clearance of any kind.”
The House GOP Debt Limit Proposal
House Republicans have started to “informally” assemble a bill that would lift the debt limit until May 2024 and accomplish their goal of returning to fiscal year 2022 discretionary spending levels, Punchbowl News reports.
Jeffries Raises $33.3 Million in First Quarter
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raised more than $33 million for House Democrats in the first quarter of 2023 — his first as the party’s leader in the House,” NBC News reports.
Hakeem Jeffries’ Vague Recollection Undermined
CNN: “For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a ‘vague recollection’ of the controversy, saying he couldn’t even recall coverage of it in local press.”
“But a CNN KFile review of material from a 30-year-old college campus incident sharply undermines Jeffries’ claims.”
GOP Seeks To Shield Trump from State Prosecutions
“New legislation from House Republicans aims to prevent local district attorneys from pursuing charges against former presidents,” the HuffPost reports.
“The symbolic bill is yet another show of support for Donald Trump, who faces the possibility of criminal charges in Georgia and was arraigned in Manhattan last week for allegedly violating state law with false business records.”
Jim Jordan Takes His Clown Show on the Road
Dennis Aftergut: “There goes Jim Jordan, the MAGA chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and its ‘weaponization of government’ subcommittee, driving his clown car to a new town.”
“Since February, he has hosted hearings that have flopped harder than a distracted trapeze artist. As Francis Wilkinson wrote in the Nation yesterday, Jordan doesn’t ‘seem able to manufacture a political hit for a new era.'”
Washington Post: The holes in Jim Jordan’s convoluted weaponization theory.
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