Senate conservatives are lending their voices to scrutiny of Department of Defense accounting errors allowing the U.S. to send another $6.2 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It's the latest effort by GOP lawmakers to question the calculation as NATO countries meet in Lithuania this week for a summit that will focus heavily on the war in Ukraine.
Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum is promising $20 gift cards to 50,000 people who donate $1 to his campaign, he announced Monday.
Why it matters: It's an unprecedented move by a presidential candidate and underscores the extreme efforts long-shot candidates are taking to qualify for the August debate stage.
Why it matters: Reynolds has committed to staying neutral, a move that is in line with previous governors of the first-in-nation caucuses, but it's sparked frustration from the former president.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announced a fundraising scheme on Monday that will give supporters a 10% cut of the total money they raise for his campaign.
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio-area Democrat, is launching a bid for the U.S. Senate on Monday, with the hope of challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.
The big picture: Gutierrez gained attention during the last legislative session for his push for gun restrictions following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he's prone to yelling.
Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.
An attorney for the three remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors said Sunday they'll appeal an Oklahoma judge's decision to reject a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 atrocity, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
Driving the news: Judge Caroline Wall dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice on Friday, preventing Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102, from refiling in the Oklahoma district court their lawsuit against the City of Tulsa and others, but the survivors can still appeal the decision to a higher court.
President Biden said it'd be "premature" for Ukraine to begin the NATO membership process during a war, but he told Turkey's president Sunday he wants Sweden to join the alliance as soon as possible.
Driving the news: Biden told CNN in an interview broadcast Sunday ahead of attending this week's NATO summit in Lithuania that Russia's war on Ukraine must end before Kyiv can join the alliance.
While Democrats hold a fighting chance to win back the House majority in 2024, the emergence of problematic candidates and messy primaries in several key races could complicate their path.
Why it matters: The Democrats' House campaign committee doesn't plan on getting involved in contested primaries, according to officials familiar with its strategy. That runs the risk that weaker candidates could emerge in must-win races — a dynamic that Republicans are very familiar with.
It pays — literally — to channel voter anger against one's opposition more than it does to draw support to one's own campaign message, based on an early tally of top fundraisers last quarter.
Why it matters: The roster of top political fundraisers capitalized on caricaturing the opposition as uniquely evil to raise gobs of money for their campaigns.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday signaled plans to move forward on more than a dozen pieces of legislation this month ranging from government funding to cannabis banking to artificial intelligence.
Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who made a splash as "Anonymous," writes in a book out July 18 that President Trump wanted to "tap the phones" of White House aides suspected of leaks.
Taylor — a national-security and tech-policy expert who was Homeland Security chief of staff — writes in "Blowback" that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "quickly nixed the suggestion, knowing it would be illegal."
