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In This Episode
Kevin McCarthy gives away the House to become speaker. Joe Biden takes his first presidential trip to the US-Mexico border. And the first Gen Z member of Congress Maxwell Alejandro Frost stops by the pod.
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Show Notes
- WSJ: The last-minute drama that momentarily derailed McCarthy — again
- AP: McCarthy’s next big task: Win GOP support for House rules
- Punchbowl: The fight over the debt ceiling is already here
- Axios: McCarthy’s fast start: Big Tech is a top target
- CBSNewsPoll: Inflation, cooperation and…investigation? Americans on what the new Congress should — and shouldn’t — deliver
- PoliticoOpinion: The Party of One Becomes the Party of None
- CNN: McCarthy speaker saga shows Trump is far from untouchable ahead of 2024
- Punchbowl: McCarthy’s first test
- Playbook: Speaker McCarthy’s first governing test
- NYT: Biden Visits Southern Border Amid Fresh Crackdown on Migrants
- CNN: Biden makes tightly controlled visit to the southern border, his first as president
- Politico: Migration issues cast long shadow over Biden’s visit to ‘3 Amigos’ summit
- WaPo editorial board: Congress left Biden little choice on the border
- WaPo: the Daily 202: Bipartisan bridge, border tour: Biden starts to hone his 2024 pitch Fox: Biden departs El Paso after brief border visit without seeing most impacted areas, critics say
- White House tweet
- Aaron Rupar tweet
- The Recount tweet
- RNC Research tweet
- Fox: Texas Gov. Abbott greets Biden with scathing letter as president visits border: ‘Emboldened the cartels’
- El Paso Times: Greg Abbott offers handshake, direct letter on border policies to Joe Biden during El Paso visit
- Politico: Texas Republican irritated he wasn’t invited to join Biden at border
- WaPo: Immigration pivot shows Biden facing hard reality of border politics
- The Intercept: Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
- NYT: Biden Announces Major Crackdown on Illegal Border Crossings