A Democratic National Committee official is putting together a campaign infrastructure in anticipation of a potential primary bid against Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Credible intra-party challenges to congressional incumbents are rare, but Phillips has rankled many in the Democratic establishment with his musings about a primary challenge against President Biden.
Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) suspended his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday and endorsed former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination.
Why it matters: Hurd, an outspoken critic of former President Trump, called for the need to consolidate "our party around one person to defeat both [Trump] and President Biden" in his announcement.
The confirmation hearing for President Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, will begin on Oct. 18, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced Monday.
State of play:Tom Nides, the former ambassador who departed from the role in July, told NBC News the Senate needed to confirm the former treasury secretary "immediately" due to the fighting between Israel and Hamas that's killed at least 900 Israelis and 687 Palestinians.
Members of Congress from across the country are trying to help extract constituents caught up in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Why it matters: Several Americans have been killed by Hamas, according to Israeli officials, with major airlines scaling back flights in and out of the region due to the violence.
A bipartisan delegation of senators led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday as part of an effort to stabilize the fragile relations between the U.S. and China.
Why it matters: The lawmakers are the latest senior U.S. officials to travel to Beijing in recent months to try to smooth ties between the two countries — and the trip comes ahead of a possible meeting between President Biden and Xi next month.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Mondayat Philadelphia's Independence Mall that he is dropping his longshot Democratic primary bid and instead will run as anindependent presidential candidate in 2024.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday expressed openness to efforts by his allies to try to restore him to the House speakership.
Why it matters: Some GOP lawmakers have voiced concerns that no speaker candidate can get the necessary votes and that the House could be facing a state of extended paralysis as war breaks out in Israel.
Claudia Goldin, a Harvard economics professor whose work focuses on women in the workforce and the gender pay gap, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday.
Why it matters: Goldin "advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its announcement of the prize. She is the first woman to win the prestigious award solo, and the thirdwoman overall to receive the honor.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden on Sunday that Israel does not have any choice but to unleash a ground operation in Gaza. "We have to go in," the Israeli leader said, according to three Israeli and U.S. sources briefed on the call.
Why it matters: Netanyahu's messagesignals what his country's response to Hamas' attack will look like in the days and weeks ahead in what the Israeli prime minister has said will be a "long and difficult war."
Split-screen crises on Capitol Hill and Wall Street are threatening to create more financial pain for a rising number of Americans.
Why it matters: Washington's feuding — combined with inflation — is making it costlier for the government to borrow. That will trickle down to cash-strapped consumers in ways both obvious and invisible.
Retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley said in an interview aired Sunday evening that Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces would be "long and hard and very bloody" and take a "considerable length of time."
Yes, but: He warned in the interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" that there would be major consequences if the U.S. were to cut aid to Ukraine.
