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Not much backup from Dems today for AOC saying Trump could be impeached over the Iran strikes. “No, no, that’s a big threshold to cross,” says Nancy Pelosi. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

New - Rep. Robert Garcia is the Oversight ranker Garcia 150 Lynch 63

New: Senate Iran briefing will now be on Thursday instead of today, allowing Secs Hegseth and Rubio to attend (they are currently at NATO), according to a person familiar.

Best (informed) guess right now is that means the reconciliation bill's motion to proceed is Friday, after the Iran briefing and the Kaine war powers vote. Could be a Friday night/Saturday vote a rama. Nothing set in stone obviously

Sen. Paul endorses Rep. Massie and says he’s popular in Ky., despite Trump attacks “it'd be sort of unwise to spend a lot of time on trying to take out people who are faithful to the Constitution” “Doesn’t he have another enemies list? Like people who voted for impeachment?”

White House legislative affairs director James Braid just went into the Senate Republican lunch

This got axed in the Byrd Bath

All of the East Coast right now.

Is it possible two or three of your members end up voting against reconciliation? Thune: “could be” “we've got a lot of very independent thinking senators who have reasons and things think that they'd like to have in this bill that would make it stronger”

Schumer says it is “utterly outrageous” to postpone the Iran briefing. “I asked for this briefing last week”

Sometimes being leader requires making your members look good

Schumer says he early voted in the mayor’s race but is keeping his vote to himself. I asked if the Dem primary winner should be the only person on the ballot in November from the primary “Let’s wait and see the results”

Initial SNAP state cost-sharing plan provisions were struck down and the rewritten one has NOT been litigated by the parliamentarian. Dems still have a chance to review and challenge in Byrd bath “Republicans are getting ahead of themselves and the process,” Dem aide says

Things that are not sewed up on the reconciliation bill yet (probably only a partial list) - Medicaid/provider tax/rural hospital fund - SNAP cost share for states - Public land sales - SALT deduction - Effort to stop state-level AI regulation

"Donald Trump’s success in creating peace in Russia-Ukraine depends in large part on his success in the Middle East right now" Shelby Talcott Burgess Everett Morgan Chalfant on the global strategy Trump is defining as he goes: semafor.com/article/06/24/…

McConnell floor speech: DNI Gabbard recorded "a bizarre video message – not as a warning against Tehran’s nuclear ambitions but, presumably, against American or Israeli operations to blunt them. Fortunately, the President rejected the pleas of appeasers and isolationists"