Joe Biden mocked Donald Trump today in Wisconsin while highlighting a new Microsoft center to be built where Trump once promised a $10 billion Foxconn factory that never happened.

He “didn’t build a damn thing,” Biden said. politi.co/4dxCHYj

BREAKING: The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations. Team effort w Lee Hudson Paul McLeary Joe Gould…

Joe Biden on Tuesday warned of a “ferocious” surge of antisemitism in America and around the world, in comments that both called out the violent excesses of pro-Palestinian campus protest and reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with Israel.
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The last time I did Biden pool duty in Wilmington, drunken hockey parents caused chaos in the hotel lobby bar. (cc Zolan Kanno-Youngs)

I returned to Wilmo this weekend—only for a comedy of errors to ensue, resulting in two missed motorcades

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NEW: Inside the federal government’s power struggle w/ states to contain the bird flu outbreak

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New: Joe Biden is still waiting on his soft landing.

With inflation running hot, Biden’s shifted how he talks about the economy — replacing big boasts about Bidenomics with a more surgical approach focused on narrower areas where he’s already cut costs
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New: After Biden referred to Japan as “xenophobic,” the Japanese Embassy says it’s raised concerns with the administration over his remarks.

'It is unfortunate that some of the comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan's policies'
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BIG scoop here — Israel has a civilian protection plan for the Rafah invasion that has been shared with the US. politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

There’s no bigger health care company than UnitedHealth Group. It’s grown to be the nation’s largest insurer — and largest employer of physicians. It’s bigger than Google and Microsoft.

Now some lawmakers want to chop it down.

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NEW - Dem leadership: “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.”

In a town of the image conscious, this economic policy wonk actually dances like no one’s watching.

Sometimes for two straight hours with WH staffers.

And once in an East Room dance-off with Usher.

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Biden's decision to delay the menthol ban rather than fully abandon it means he could revive the rule if reelected.
But after two years of work, there's little expectation now it'll be released during his first term, as health officials initially planned.
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SCOOP: A manufacturing issue with certain avian influenza tests was discovered earlier this week, but the CDC says no tests are inaccurate or need to be repeated.

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The Biden admin is getting torched by some of its close allies for further delaying a menthol cigarette ban

President Joe Biden is delaying an FDA plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a move that could effectively kill any chance the rule will be released before the election in November.

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Washingtonian is hosting a Women in Journalism party tonight honoring
Kara Swisher Meridith McGraw @carolleonnig Rachel Scott.

NOT invited: The women journalists who work at Washingtonian. But we’re here anyway fighting for fair pay and parental leave!

“White House officials declined to directly address Abbott’s actions in Texas, and have offered little insight into how the administration is managing the demonstrations nationwide.”

Insights from Adam Cancryn and Eugene Daniels

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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff spoke with two Jewish leaders at Columbia earlier this week, in private calls focused on antisemitism.

It’s the most extensive outreach to date from a WH reluctant to weigh in on the campus protest movement

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