We all decided "TICK-ja" wasn't a thing, right? We can do the same here.

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The Democratic Party is currently riven with questions about promoting a new generation of leaders. Into the void steps... 76-year-old Kweisi Mfume Read Nicholas Wu Hailey Fuchs Ben Jacobs on a '90s up-and-comer looking for one more big job. politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

MEGABILL LATEST from Meredith Lee Hill Jordain Carney Benjamin Guggenheim: Talk of July 4 deadline slipping as House-Senate tensions emerge on endgame -- with exclu comments from Speaker Mike Johnson politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

Rand Paul's rescinded invite is maybe the biggest White House Picnic drama since Rep. Chris Collins did literal insider trading while in attendance in 2017

Mike Crapo to House GOP: Drop Dead Benjamin Guggenheim Jordain Carney politico.com/live-updates/2…

House Oversight zeroing in on the real issues: Sox fan pope

This ain't the House where the majority just censures members all the time for doing things they don't like. It's 2/3ds in the Senate. Shirts-v-skins stuff ain't gonna do it over there.

Continue to think this is the wrong takeaway. The consistent signal is that they'll get the votes they need to get--no more, no less, absolutely no style points.

You're heard of the TACO Trade. Now meet the TACO Caucus. Three GOP hard-liners who have made noises about opposing the megabill now sound ready to deal. Jordain Carney politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

Already miss this guy. Sucks to lose him to, sigh, the bar. But he's in for great things!

NEW w/ Meredith Lee Hill: A one-time leadership foe has cropped up in reconciliation talks: Mark Meadows He met recently w/ conservatives, who said he was helping facilitate ideas/convos and wants to get to a deal. They view him as having line to Trump/WH: politico.com/news/2025/06/1…

Scooplet in IC: Hospital associations in 13 states sent a letter to Thune and Crapo urging them to "move forward" with the House's "carefully negotiated" provider tax language Comes as Finance will release text today politico.com/newsletters/in… Full letter: politico.com/f/?id=00000197…

Extremely interesting list of state hospital assns attached here

Not gonna sit well with this squad... politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

new - Jeffries and Morelle are asking Speaker Johnson to increase the member MRA to support additional safety and security members in lawmaker offices in aftermath of Minnesota shooting, per letter obtained by POLITICO w/ K Tully-McManus politico.com/live-updates/2…

Tina Smith says she confronted Mike Lee over his tweets on his personal account: politico.com/live-updates/2… The two were spotted chatting near where GOP senators are meeting to discuss reconciliation.