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• Biden celebrates UConn men's basketball team at White House

  26-05-2023 23:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday celebrated the University of Connecticut (UConn) men's basketball team at the White House following their national championship victory in early April.Biden praised UConn as one of the "premiere" programs in college basketball and offered praise to the team and to head coach Dan Hurley. He also noted that multiple players fasted during the NCAA tournament, which fell during Ramadan.“This team is proof that there’s no quit in UConn, just like there’s no
  
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• DeSantis says he would push to repeal Trump criminal justice reform if elected

  26-05-2023 23:06 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday that if elected president, he would call on Congress to repeal the criminal justice reform bill signed into law by then-President Trump, his latest attack on Trump from the right.DeSantis, appearing on "The Ben Shapiro Show," criticized the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill passed in 2018 that reduced mandatory minimum sentences, expanded credits for well-behaved prisoners looking for shorter sentences and aimed to reduce recidivism.The Florida governor,
  
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• Yellen says US will run out of money by June 5 if debt ceiling not raised

  26-05-2023 22:31 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday notified lawmakers the nation will run out of money to pay its bills by June 5 if they do not raise the debt ceiling.“Based on the most recent available data, we now estimate that Treasury will have insufficient resources to satisfy the government’s obligations if Congress has not raised or suspended the debt limit by June 5,” Yellen told leaders.The update may offer negotiators who were working with an estimated June 1 "X-date" more br
  
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• Congressional Black Caucus launches 'Summer of Action' ahead of 2024 

  26-05-2023 22:01 via thehill.com
  
  The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will launch its "Summer of Action" in South Carolina on Saturday as part of a Black voter education and mobilization effort ahead of the 2024 elections. Beginning Saturday, the “Democracy for the People” event will kick off in Charleston, South Carolina and take place in at least 10 cities around the nation — including cities in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Tennessee. Charleston and places in the South were selected because &l
  
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• Watch live: Biden welcomes University of Connecticut men's basketball team to the White House

  26-05-2023 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will welcome the men’s NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies to the White House on Friday afternoon.The Huskies beat San Diego State 76-59 in April to secure its fifth national title.The White House visit follows a dramatic show of spirit for the champions by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).At an April victory parade for UConn in Hartford, Connecticut, Blumenthal suffered a broken leg, which requir
  
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• White House announces first national plan to end gender-based violence

  26-05-2023 21:03 via thehill.com
  
  The White House has announced the first national plan to end gender-based violence, following up on years of federal legislation to address the issue and provide safety to those affected. The report defines gender-based violence (GBV) as “any harmful threat or act directed at an individual or group based on actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, sex characteristics, or sexual orientation.” It includes areas like sexual violence like rape, sexual assault and sexual har
  
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• LSU forward faints as Biden gives speech honoring championship team

  26-05-2023 21:01 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday welcomed the Louisiana State University (LSU) women's basketball team to the White House to celebrate their recent national championship.The ceremony was briefly interrupted after Sa’Myah Smith, a forward on the team, appeared to pass out while standing on risers on stage in the East Room. Proceedings were delayed for roughly six minutes while medical personnel attended to Smith."She’s OK. It’s happened lots of times," Biden t
  
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• Biden celebrates LSU women's basketball championship team at White House event

  26-05-2023 21:01 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday welcomed the Louisiana State University (LSU) women's basketball team to the White House to celebrate their recent national championship.The ceremony was briefly interrupted after Sa’Myah Smith, a forward on the team, appeared to pass out while standing on risers on stage in the East Room. Proceedings were delayed for roughly six minutes while medical personnel attended to Smith."She’s ok. It’s happened lots of times," Biden t
  
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• GOP debt ceiling negotiator: ‘Hell no!’ to dropping work requirements demand

  26-05-2023 20:44 via thehill.com
  
  A top GOP lawmaker negotiating an elusive debt ceiling deal was adamant Friday that Republicans will not drop their demand for tougher work requirements as part of a final agreement — a major sticking point at the 11th hour of the talks. “Hell no, hell no!,” Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) told reporters outside the Capitol. “Not a chance. Not happening.”The work requirements provision has emerged as perhaps the highest barrier to a deal between Republicans an
  
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• Watch live: Biden welcomes LSU women's basketball team to the White House

  26-05-2023 18:54 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will welcome the NCAA champion Louisiana State University women’s basketball team to the White House Friday afternoon.The visit comes after the controversy surrounding the first lady initially suggesting that Iowa, which lost the championship game to LSU, would also be invited for a White House visit.After receiving criticism that her remarks insulted the mostly Black LSU Tigers team, Biden’s office walked back her suggestion the fo
  
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• Key GOP negotiator: Debt-ceiling leaks won't help get a deal

  26-05-2023 18:39 via thehill.com
  
  A key Republican lawmaker negotiating a debt limit increase denounced recent leaks of details of an emerging deal, suggesting that they are not helpful in locking down an agreement.“Everyone wants a detail of this, everyone wants a tweet, I want an agreement that changes the trajectory of the country,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) told reporters Friday morning while walking into Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) office.“But the tweets, the context, the details and all
  
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• Top Republican launches investigation into delayed Spacecom relocation

  26-05-2023 17:44 via thehill.com
  
  The chairman of the House Armed Services committee has launched an investigation into the delayed relocation of U.S. Space Command (Spacecom) from Colorado to Alabama.Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on Thursday sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Spacecom commander Gen. James Dickinson expressing concern about apparent "changes" to the planned relocation of Space Command's headquarters to Huntsville."These apparently sweeping unilateral changes to policies and posture seem to have b
  
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• Gaetz sees 'no serious threat' to McCarthy in bipartisan debt ceiling deal 

  26-05-2023 17:34 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said he sees “no serious threat” to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif) speakership amid the ongoing bipartisan debt ceiling deal. As House Republicans and the White House scramble to come up with a debt ceiling deal, Gaetz predicted on a Twitter Spaces livestream that a bipartisan deal would pass with “about 80-100 Democrat votes and between 140-160 Republican votes.” “I think there is no serious threat to McCarthy’s sp
  
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• Fifth House Democrat calls on Feinstein to resign

  26-05-2023 17:02 via thehill.com
  
  A fifth House Democrat on Friday called for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign her seat after her return to Washington following a prolonged absence due to shingles. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) argued lawmakers should resign if they become "a shadow of your former self.""I think if you're a member, and you become a shadow of your former self, you should resign," Torres told Insider this week, calling for Feinstein to step aside for the first time. "Once you're no longer t
  
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• Debt ceiling: ‘Progress,’ but no deal, as Washington barrels closer to default

  26-05-2023 16:49 via thehill.com
  
  Bipartisan negotiators racing to secure a debt ceiling deal have moved closer to an agreement over the last 48 hours but haven't reached a consensus as Washington heads into the Memorial Day weekend — and the country barrels closer to a potential June 1 default.Deputies for President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are reportedly eyeing a two-year increase in the debt ceiling, to be accompanied by spending caps of the same duration — a timeline that would push t
  
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• Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: 'Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists' 

  26-05-2023 15:58 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said he is “very frustrated” over the state of debt ceiling talks and questioned why President Biden is continuing to negotiate with what the congressman called “economic terrorists” in the Republican party.  “I called on the president to invoke the 14th Amendment and mint a coin and do not negotiate with hostage takers,” Bowman told CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday. “I mean, we don't negotiate with terrorists globally.
  
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• Unorthodox immigration bill catches both parties by surprise 

  26-05-2023 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  A new bipartisan immigration bill is spurring mixed reactions from lawmakers eager to reform the system following an unorthodox rollout that caught many by surprise. The legislation, spearheaded by Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), was unveiled Wednesday, with Republican sponsors wearing blue and some Democratic sponsors in red.The 500-page Dignity Act is seeking to become the first bipartisan immigration bill to gain traction in
  
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• GOP conservatives fume over possible debt ceiling compromises

  26-05-2023 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Hard-line conservatives are fuming over the debt deal compromise being negotiated between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the White House — and they're warning about collapsing GOP support.Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he was “concerned about rumors” he was hearing about a deal that would raise the debt ceiling higher than what House Republicans proposed without getting more concessions in return.He offered a stark prediction of the consequences.“If that were true, th
  
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• GOP conservatives fume over debt ceiling compromises

  26-05-2023 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Hard-line conservatives are fuming over the debt deal compromise being negotiated between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the White House — and they're warning about collapsing GOP support.Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he was “concerned about rumors” he was hearing about a deal that would raise the debt ceiling higher than what House Republicans proposed without getting more concessions in return.He offered a stark prediction of the consequences.“If that were true, tha
  
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• Newt Gingrich 'moderately optimistic' on where debt limit talks sit: 'But it’s not done yet'

  26-05-2023 02:54 via thehill.com
  
  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Thursday that he’s “moderately optimistic” about where the ongoing debt limit negotiations sit.During an appearance on WABC 770 AM's “Cats & Cosby Show,” Gingrich said negotiators on both sides have been meeting nonstop to get a deal done, adding that both President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will not let country default. “Speaker McCarthy had pledged that it would be 72 hours between t
  
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• GOP negotiator says White House ‘refusing to negotiate' on work requirements

  26-05-2023 02:30 via thehill.com
  
  A top Republican negotiating a debt ceiling hike blasted the White House on Thursday over work requirements for social benefits programs, indicating that the thorny issue remains a sticking point as the country inches closer to a government default. Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) argued the Democrats’ staunch opposition to tougher work requirements will threaten the recipients of other federal benefit programs. He characterized overall progress as “slow.” “Their eff
  
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• Susan Rice on gun reform ahead of White House departure: 'I'm not losing hope'

  26-05-2023 01:13 via thehill.com
  
  Outgoing White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice said she's "not losing hope" on Congress initiating more action on gun reform in the country.When asked on Thursday if she has lost hope on possible gun reform legislation in the wake of a recent string of mass shootings across the country and states doubling down on their gun policies, she said "no."“No ... I’m not losing hope because the vast majority of Americans agree on a bipartisan basis that it is ridiculous that we do no
  
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• Lawmakers eye compromise bill to bolster power lines in permitting negotiations

  26-05-2023 00:19 via thehill.com
  
  Lawmakers appear to be considering a compromise bill to bolster the nation’s power lines as part of efforts to tie energy permitting reforms to legislation that would lift the debt ceiling. A source briefed on the issue told The Hill that transmission legislation from Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) was being considered as a tradeoff for some modest changes to a bedrock environmental law that Republicans say drags out environmental reviews for en
  
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• Head of Black Caucus urges Biden to address nation on debt ceiling

  26-05-2023 00:10 via thehill.com
  
  The head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on President Biden to get more aggressive in the debt ceiling talks, suggesting the White House has remained too quiet throughout the debate at the expense of the Democrats’ negotiating position. Democrats have grown increasingly irritated with the White House’s approach to the high-stakes talks, accusing Biden of lying low while Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his deputies have made the media rounds to broadcast
  
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