Jake Sherman

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🚨✈️ FLY OUT DAY: Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair @RepCasar

-- Texas
-- working with Trump
-- Progressive priorities in the 120th Congress
-- AI
-- His future

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News in Midday: Incoming Minority Leader Jim Jordan noncommittal on how he'll handle waiver requests.

"We’ll have a discussion in the steering committee at that time."

Chairs Rogers (HASC), Thompson (Ag) and Calvert (HACD) all want waivers.

https://t.co/m7cbwxbgJq

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NEWS: LUTNICK Republican fallout keeps getting worse

BANKS: “I would like for Secretary LUTNICK ASAP to come testify before the Senate Banking Committee because we have a lot of bipartisan questions and concerns about what’s happened over the last year”

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

I sat down with Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) to discuss his bid to be chair of the House Financial Services Committee. Read how he's making his case to the Democratic Caucus: https://t.co/bnXTObcLSb

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

Hakeem JEFFRIES on Jensen Huang's resignation:

"It was the right thing to do. Now we have to get other the bottom of whether America’s national security has been compromised"

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[Ben Brody @BenBrodyDC]

SCOOP from me, @LauraEWeiss16: OpenAI has told Hill offices it backs Chip Security, Match and Overwatch.

OAI has been quieter than Anthropic but started calling export controls crucial to national security.

Bills getting momentum over Jensen situation

Subscribers had first

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House Democrats tell us that they are likely to put in place term limits for chairs this year -- taking effect in 2028.

https://t.co/XwBdpLXPx5

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15th and P is a very active residential neighborhood in D.C.

[DC Police Department @DCPoliceDept]

CRITICAL ALERT: MPD is on the scene of an ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest. MPD’s Emergency Response Team is on scene.

AVOID THE AREA.

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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS:

THE NAVY has removed BRIAN MONAHAN, the attending physician of the Capitol, amid an investigation for alleged misconduct, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

MONAHAN has served in the role since 2009. he is a rear admiral. Office serves lawmakers, staff and SCOTUS.

IG report expected to be public later this week.

reporting with @allymutnick @bresreports @briana_reilly

(@punchbowlnews text subscribers had it first)

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@MichaelRCaputo We have that in common!!! That and the Grateful Dead.

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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS:

THE NAVY has removed BRIAN MONAHAN, the attending physician of the Capitol, amid an investigation for alleged misconduct, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

MONAHAN has served in the role since 2009. he is a rear admiral. Office serves lawmakers, staff and SCOTUS.

IG report expected to be public later this week.

reporting with @allymutnick @bresreports @briana_reilly

(@punchbowlnews text subscribers had it first)

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

INSIDE the room at tonight’s event for new Dem members:

DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene shouted out Raymond Smith (D), who beat Rep Greg Murphy (R) in a race called today

Smith will “forever be known as Mr. 260”

Dems think #NC03 will get them to 260 seats once all races are called

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AP has called Mississippi for Scott Colom. Mississippi has its first Democratic senator in four decades.

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House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES will be at the "What's Next" conference in Denver this weekend.

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HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK's office sent out this note to members about the TCAVA vote:

"After publicly announcing a recorded vote on TCAVA, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections. While RM Takano and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within minutes — depriving RM Takano of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history."

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some confusion here about what exactly happened. but this is another black eye for Democrats. two in two days.

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Why did no one demand a record vote on this???

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JORDAN and THUNE huddling today.

[Luisa Clausen @LuisaClausen]

THUNE on what he’s planning to discuss with JORDAN on their upcoming meeting this afternoon:

“I’m sure we’ll cover the gamut.”

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NEW: Sen. RAND PAUL says he’ll take over as top R on HELP

This means HSGAC will get a new ranking member

Huge move for health watchers

Here’s Paul’s statement:

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JEFFRIES on this letter:

“The White House has been used to a Republican Congress that's been nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda. A Democratic Congress is going to be a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch in the face of unprecedented corruption that they've unleashed on the American people. And if they don't like it, consult the Constitution.”

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🚨BREAKING NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM

The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior.

It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress.

The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years.

Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to “harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.”

https://t.co/ESk17EKjwc

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

Rep Greg Murphy concedes in #NC03 (Trump +14)

Dems have now:
>> flipped FIVE seats in NC

>> held Dem Rep Don Davis's seat

>> a narrow lead in #NC05 (Virginia Foxx)

Overall Dems still on track to hit 260 seats in the House next year