After some messy setbacks, the House gets closer to a FISA renewal | Semafor semafor.com/article/04/11/…

NEW: “It’s past the trade deadline”

Trump's inner circle does not want MTG to launch another ugly speakership fight 7 mos before the election

They believe Speaker Johnson is as good as they're going to get this Congress.

w/ Juliegrace Brufke

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❗️ Jesse Tyler Ferguson (he/him/his) of “Modern Family” at the Senate today to speak to Schumer.

Says he’s here to talk “the STAGE Act”and “giving funding to nonprofit theaters”

“Donald Trump is lying,” Hakeem Jeffries tells reporters when asked if he believes Trump when he says he won’t sign a national abortion ban.

“This is an individual who has said, along with the other extreme MAGA Republicans, that they are proud to have taken down Roe v. Wade.”

Today in Semafor principals: Big China focus at the White House with U.S., Japan, Philippines planning to announce joint Coast Guard patrols in South China Sea. Japan's Kishida addresses Congress and is expected to mention Ukraine, amid U.S. aid impasse semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

Today in Principals:

FISA vote implodes
Kishida addresses Congress
Biden 🤝 Japan, Philippines leaders
Trump clarifies on abortion
Biden vs the Ballot
GOP tax talk
And one good text w/ Rep. Tom Suozzi who traveled to Ukraine w/ a CODEL

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NEWS w/ Kristen Holmes: Speaker Mike Johnson is making plans to deliver a joint press conference with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, focused on 'election integrity,' per sources.

Plans still fluid, but comes as Johnson is facing a threat to his speakership from MTG.

In audio I obtained, former WH Chief Ron Klain told a crowd 'the president is out there too much talking about bridges. He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge.'

Says the focus should be on prices.

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NEW Rep. Cammack Press Office to me :

She thinks Motion to Vacate will happen next week.

“If I had to put money on it.”

(And she is generally good at reading the House Rules landscape. Betting history, I didn’t ask.)

MTG told me she’s meeting with Mike Johnson today. They haven’t spoken (only texted) since she introduced the motion to vacate

Looking to capitalize on promising polling with Black and Latino voters, the Trump campaign hired a young rising GOP star to run its outreach efforts — then parted ways just as the general election began, Kadia Goba reports.
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Trump chases Black support, but struggles to build an organization | Semafor ⁦Kadia Goba⁩ semafor.com/article/04/10/…

🚨 SCOOP: Biden plans to soon issue an executive order to dramatically limit the number of asylum-seekers who can cross the southern border.

• He'd be taking a page from Trump, who leaned on Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. trib.al/ToTJ7Yd

Today in Principals:

Arizona’s 160-year-old abortion ban
U.S., Japan boost ties
Biden, Kishida face uncertainty
SCOOP: GOP outreach hits a snag
SCOOP: Dems🕵️ RFK’s running mate
Slow walking impeachment articles
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And one good text w/ Rahm Emanuel

SCOOP: Los Angeles Mayor KAREN BASS tells NBC News she's urging President Biden to appoint Rep. BARBARA LEE to be the next HUD secretary, succeeding Marcia Fudge

'I think a perfect person to follow her would be Barbara Lee': Mayor Karen Bass

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Gallego out with a statement on the Arizona ruling on abortion:

I spent much of the winter in Arizona, reporting on the Senate campaigns and the border. For the latest issue of New York Magazine, I wrote about the two oppositional realities that emerged: nymag.com/intelligencer/…