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Do people still do #FollowFriday? Now would be a good time if you don't already to follow Jessie Hellmann Lia DeGroot and me ahead of when we get E&C reconciliation text and next week's big markup 👀

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has reignited an effort in Congress to wrest back power from the executive branch and assert more control over legislative branch agency heads. ow.ly/gj6W50VQneL

Trump taps DOJ Deputy Secretary Todd Blanche as acting head of Library of Congress — ow.ly/bEX350VReH8

As Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger prepares to retire, he’s taking stock of what’s changed since the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol. ow.ly/1Fb050W0b9P

Check out the latest from CQRC's Briana Reilly detailing some of the covert ops Mossad commandos carried out as part of Israel's strikes on Iran. Covert actions key to Israel’s strikes on Iran: Mossad rollcall.com/2025/06/13/cov…

(1/3) As Roll Call celebrates its 70th anniversary this summer, the best way to honor this is for FiscalNote to agree to a fair contract with us that gives us the resources we need to continue Roll Call’s legacy of outstanding journalism🗞️🎂

House subcommittee advances Legislative Branch spending bill ow.ly/eCcl50Wfeta

Fresh off Trump firings, Library of Congress stares down a proposed cut — ow.ly/k3C150Wgt7p

Capitol Police officers who were spread thin in recent weeks amid security concerns, an unpredictable congressional schedule and the July 4 holiday say they’re in danger of missing out on money owed to them as they bump up against pay limits. ow.ly/61Sw50WqT1g

Statehood advocates look to Congress after Trump’s DC police takeover ow.ly/MiGf50WEbkT

#News - President Trump now says he’ll ask Congress to extend his control of DC police beyond 30 days; call’s DC statehood idea “ridiculous,” and says he’ll contract out to fix street potholes here. Insists he’ll make DC clean and beautiful. Washington City Paper

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia have joined D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in introducing a joint resolution that would terminate President Donald Trump’s emergency takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. ow.ly/i25m50WGJrs

#BreakingNews - Under threat of a ruling against it, the Department of Justice today agreed to sharply narrow an order by Atty Gen Pam Bondi taking over the DC police department. It's a win for DC Atty General Brian Schwalb who said President Trump's effort violated federal law.

A vignette from me in The Economist on NoMa: "The YIMBYest Neighbourhood in America"

In the midst of a federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation's capital, the new chief of the Capitol Police says his department's focus is the same: Keeping members of Congress and visitors safe. ow.ly/szem50WHIjA

Among his new criticisms of the Smithsonian... Trump mentions how the Smithsonian focuses on "how bad slavery was"

Asked today what's happening to the homeless in DC and if/where they're being relocated, Vance said "the question betrays a certain misunderstanding of what we’re trying to do and what is the nature of real compassion" and then pivoted and never directly answered

Just now in Columbia Heights: ICE detained a man and said they were taking him an hour away to check his legal status He said his wife had just given birth and couldn’t eat or walk

EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities.

"Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month." nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/…