🚨🚨The Biden administration was surprised by the Israeli announcement about the resumption of negotiations on the Gaza hostage deal.
🚨🚨A U.S. source familiar with the details of the Paris meeting said that progress was made in the talks between CIA director Burns, the

Just your typical triple-city dateline on this item in Punchbowl News Midday — a newsy update on the names being floated (and actively vetted) at the WH & on the Hill to replace Gruenberg as FDIC chair.

Brendan Pedersen Jake Sherman

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*BIDEN TO HOST KANSAS CITY CHIEFS TEAM AT WHITE HOUSE MAY 31

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- Leader Look for Summer 2024: The heat is on for Johnson, Schumer, Jeffries & McConnell
- How crypto spent its way into political power
- Congresswoman Erin Houchin discusses AI, Johnson & House GOP prospects
- NBA launching Kenya partnership

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NEWS — Speaker Mike Johnson just said at an Israeli embassy event that Congress will host a Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו for a speech to a joint session. First time he’s said it definitively. No date set yet.

SCOOP: Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang is NOT interested in replacing Martin Gruenberg as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a person familiar with her thinking.

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Bob Menendez just filed a campaign finance report.

On April 1, he cut a $2 million check to Paul Hastings, a law firm.

He still has $3.5m on hand.

NEWS on Speaker Mike Johnson — He has a new tax counsel. Big, big news for our core audience.

Here are the 52 House Democrats who voted with Republicans on a bill to prohibit non-citizens from voting in D.C. elections

Sinema slamming Dem leaders for “staged political event” with vote on border bill: “Today, yet again, the Senate has chosen politics. But my state is still suffering... We don’t have time for your political games... This is not a Senate interested in solving those challenges.”

52 democrats join with all republicans present to prohibit non-citizens from voting in dc elections.

Lawler's video for the Albany Legislative Correspondents Association Dinner

The Louisiana GOP has endorsed Garret Graves to run in his own district, another entity that's looking to head off a Graves-Letlow primary

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The House Appropriations Cmte is currently voting on subcmte allocations for FY2025. This will pass on a nearly party-line vote.

The panel will then mark up the MilCon-VA bill. This is the first of the 12 annual bills to get a full cmte vote

For this first time this Congress, Mike Johnson has boxed in Chuck Schumer

Johnson, seeking to use Israel to divide Dems, is putting Schumer in an uncomfortable spot in his caucus w/ the Bibi invitation

Speech likely before August recess

w/Jake Sherman
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NEWS — Steve Scalise told us that if Rs control all of Washington, he wants to do reconciliation / renew all Trump tax cuts in first 100 days. He’s presenting the plan around town

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ALSO: As we noted in the AM edition, Speaker Mike Johnson will be speaking at the Israeli Embassy's 76th anniversary event tonight.