The pick is in. Aaliyah Edwards 🎉 WELCOME TO D.C.!!!!!!

#NY16 Democrat George Latimer, who is challenging incumbent Jamaal Bowman, posts $2.25 million raised in Q1, $529.4K spent, and $3.04 million on hand.

Rep. Jim Jordan says he is opposed to tying foreign aid together in one package.

Jordan said he asked Johnson about his plans during conference, but did not get clarity on the speaker’s intention.

He wouldn’t commit to supporting a rule if it’s all tied together.

⚡️SPECIAL EDITION: INSIDE JOHNSON’S FOREIGN AID PLAY punchbowl.news/archive/specia…

In Q1 of 2024, Bob Menendez:
-raised $1,221, most of it from recurring donations
-spent $600k, most of it on lawyers
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I asked Senate Commerce Chair CANTWELL about Johnson’s plan to include the House-passed TikTok bill in his foreign aid plan. (Cantwell doesn’t like that bill.)

“I think he should count votes,” Cantwell told me. “We need the supplemental, so I would definitely count votes.”

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FWIW -- Johnson got a round of applause after his presentation laying out his foreign aid plan.

Notably, this is not Jeffries repeating his “the only path forward is the Senate supplemental” line

JEFFRIES doesn’t rule out Dems voting for the rule but says he’s still waiting to see Johnson’s final plan:

“We’re not going to come to any conclusion on process until we understand the substance.”

👀 Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid plans include separate votes on Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan, plus a fourth vote on a bill that includes TikTok forced divestiture, REPO, lend-lease & more.

Scooped by Jake Sherman & John Bresnahan

Senators are very eager to hear this as they head into their party leadership meetings now

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS — Speaker Mike Johnson just told me that he will lay out his preferred plan for foreign aid in a closed House Republican Conference meeting shortly.

“We’re making a play call,” Johnson just told me.

NEWS — HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERS are considering adding TIKTOK BAN to the foreign aid bill, according to multiple sources involved in the talks.

Nothing is decided. Nothing is close to done. Conference meeting tonight at 5:30p.

Expect Johnson to run through some options…

🚨 Tax Fact 🚨 - Revenue in 2023 closely matched post-TCJA projections, once you adjust for inflation. Corporate revenue matched it EXACTLY.

Suggestive that CBO’s score was pretty damn good and tax cuts didn’t pay for themselves. crfb.org/blogs/2017-tax…

Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Derrick Van Orden and Austin Scott among Q1 donors to Virginia state Sen. John McGuire's #VA05 primary challenge of Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (who voted to oust McCarthy) docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…

McConnell notes it’s been 2 months since the Senate passed the national security supplemental: “It’s also time for Congress to deliver the urgent investments that our industrial base, our forces, and our partners need... to out-compete the growing and linked threats we face.”

There's a *Very* important House Dem leadership race tomorrow.

#IYKYK

NEW: House Freedom Caucus takes an official position on Ukraine aid — says “under no circumstances” will support Ukraine aid with no offsets, even with emergency situation in Israel to pass foreign aid

WH comes out against stand-alone Israel aid bill, arguing it would delay action. “It would not help Israel and Ukraine,” WH spox Karine Jean-Pierre says of a stand-alone bill, calling instead for House passage of the Senate’s $95B foreign aid package

WH's Kirby says the WH would oppose 'a standalone bill' just for Israel