Hints and tips:
...McCarthy defenders have vowed to fight on. “There is no plan B here. The plan is to get McCarthy elected as Speaker,” David Valadao, the Republican congressman from California, told CNN this week....
...Additional help from Monique Mulima, Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...But a draft bill has not been circulated, and this week Johnson declined a meeting with UK foreign minister David Cameron, who flew in to pressure him on the issue....
...After reaching a deal on the US debt ceiling with President Joe Biden over the weekend, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy now has to quell a revolt from the Republican party....
...Asked whether anyone could get enough votes this week to become Speaker, California Republican David Valadao replied: “That’s a good question. I don’t know.”...
...Several Republicans, led by David Joyce of Georgia, have suggested changing the rules so that McHenry can preside over lawmaking, allowing the House to function in effect without a permanent Speaker....
...Biden expressed optimism about the talks on Friday evening before leaving for Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where he is following the final stretch of the negotiations....
...David Streitfeld’s New York Times profile of UAW leader Shawn Fain should be required reading for all one per centers....
...McCarthy alleges that the president “lied to the American people” about his knowledge of his son’s business deals....
...Jim Jordan, the House judiciary committee’s Republican chair, said that by naming David Weiss — the US attorney in Delaware — as special counsel to oversee cases involving Hunter Biden, Garland had “picked...
...Biden was at his Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, while McCarthy had remained in Washington to oversee the negotiations....
...McCarthy said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter....
...McCarthy told reporters....
...He is proudest of his (free-to-enter) museum, however, and particularly that its architect David Chipperfield was in May this year awarded a Pritzker prize, his profession’s most prestigious honour....
...He replaces Kevin Lansberry, who took over from longtime finance chief Christine McCarthy on an interim basis in June....
...He also argued that David Weiss, a Trump appointee who had been investigating Hunter Biden for years, and who was appointed special counsel in the case on Friday, should not bring any new criminal charges...
...McCarthy told Fox News: “I believe we will follow this all the way to the end, and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry.”...
...Before leaving for Camp David on Friday evening, Biden told reporters that he was optimistic about the potential for an imminent agreement....
...Speaker Kevin McCarthy had told reporters that a deal might be possible by the end of the week, but cautioned there was “a lot of work to do in a short amount of time”....
...(We still never see the moment in Bird and Sherwin’s book where, sharing a lift with McCarthy himself, Oppenheimer gave the senator a wink.)...
...And that is what we should be doing,” McCarthy told CNBC on Wednesday. Many Democrats disagree....
...Earlier on Monday, David Hunt, chief executive of PGIM, told the Milken Institute’s annual gathering in Los Angeles that the $1.2tn asset manager was spending more time working with clients on debt ceiling...
...Israel-Hamas war: The Jewish state is in a nightmare, writes award-winning Israeli author David Grossman. What will it be when it rises from the ashes?...
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