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Debt limit battle set to dominate 2023 fiscal agenda

WASHINGTON — Lifting the statutory debt ceiling is set to dominate this year’s budget agenda. Republicans first need to agree among themselves on what to ask for in exchange.

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House Republicans united on border policy focus

WASHINGTON — Despite Republican Conference divisions laid bare by a dayslong internal battle for speaker, the party has emerged united on plans to focus this year on immigration issues and oversight of the Biden administration’s border policies.

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Legal woes grow for George Santos as another watchdog files FEC complaint

WASHINGTON — The troubles keep piling up for serial prevaricator George Santos, the freshman representative whose alleged misuse of campaign funds now has another government accountability group asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate.

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Biden to deliver State of the Union on Feb. 7 after accepting McCarthy’s ‘kind invitation’ - Roll Call

It will be President Joe Biden’s first address with Republicans in control of either chamber of Congress.

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Special counsel appointed to probe Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents

The US attorney general has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s home and at an unsecured office in Washington.

Evening Standard

Ilhan Omar To Be Booted From House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kevin McCarthy Says

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is expected to removed Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from her committee assignment.

Zenger

The myth of the "moderate Republican"

During last week's House fiasco, the media rediscovered "moderate" Republicans. But they're rarer than Bigfoot

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House Republicans united on border policy focus - Roll Call

Republicans appear united on plans to focus this year on immigration issues and oversight of the Biden administration’s border policies.

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George Skelton: Newsom is the luckiest California governor ever. But is his good fortune running out?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is arguably the luckiest California governor ever. But some of that luck will run out with the Republican takeover of the U.S. House.

Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: Republicans want to cut Medicare. Here's how real leaders would handle the deficit

Our population was getting older and broker.

Los Angeles Times

Legal woes grow for George Santos as another watchdog files complaint

The troubles keep piling up for serial prevaricator George Santos, including new allegations filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Roll Call

Debt limit battle set to dominate 2023 fiscal agenda - Roll Call

Lifting the debt ceiling is set to dominate this year's budget agenda. Republicans first need to agree on what to ask for in exchange.

Roll Call

Gaetz claims McCarthy bartered J6 tapes

Republican lawmakers have been demanding the release of this footage for almost a year

Salon

Speaker McCarthy's tidy 1st week disguises trouble ahead

Republican Kevin McCarthy wrapped his first full week as House speaker in the most outwardly orderly way

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Former Speaker Paul Ryan brands Trump a ‘proven loser’

Former Speaker takes shot at ex-president in CNN interview

Axios

All the GOP lawmakers who have called for George Santos' ouster

More than a dozen House and Senate Republicans have said Santos should resign or be expelled.

Chicago Sun-Times

There’s no sanitizing the toxic Marjorie Taylor Greene

This is not a case of a politician who misspeaks or commits a gaffe and must make amends. She is the poison that courses through the veins of parts of the right — the vicious, reality-challenged right.

Reason

To Win the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy Had To Promise To Cut Spending. Good.

While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.

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How Do We Solve a Problem Like George Santos?

The slippery slope of political fabulism, from the "Jew-ish" freshman representative to the president of the United States.

WEKU

With a debt ceiling fight expected, McCarthy suggests a possible deal with Democrats

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he hopes to speak with President Biden "early" to avoid a potential default on the nation's debt this summer. He raised a bipartisan 2019 deal as a potential model.

Tribune News Service

McCarthy says Republicans won't risk default in fight over debt ceiling

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to negotiate spending cuts in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling, but he said Thursday that Republicans wouldn’t risk the government not being able to pay its bills.

Roll Call

House GOP holds back bill aimed at progressive local prosecutors - Roll Call

A Republican-backed House bill aimed at progressive district attorneys ran into trouble this week amid concerns from conservative lawmakers.

Roll Call

Special counsel to probe Biden storage of classified documents - Roll Call

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland named a special counsel to probe storage of classified documents where President Joe Biden worked.

Salon

Two years after Jan. 6: Is reality gone?

Joe Biden's reality-based presidency now faces a Congress run by cosplay insurrectionists. It won't be fun

The Conversation

US Congress investigates presidents, the military, baseball and whatever it wants – a brief modern history of oversight

After regaining a slim majority in the House of Representatives in the November 2022 midterm elections, Republicans unveiled their plans for a series of investigations into the Biden administration.

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