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Today, President Biden arrived successful California to sojourn parts of the authorities that person been damaged by floods and landslides. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell joined Biden aboard Marine One for an aerial circuit of the impacted regions. In remarks aft the tour, Biden described the harm of the “drenching rains, almighty winds, floods, [and] landslides.”
“If anybody doubts the clime is changing, they indispensable person been dormant for the past mates of years,” the president said.
The national authorities has deed its indebtedness limit, prompting the Treasury Department to instrumentality “extraordinary measures” successful coming months for the state to support paying its bills, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told lawmakers. The White House has called connected Congress to walk authorities raising the bounds without conditions, but Republicans are insisting connected spending cuts for their support, a posture they person not taken nether GOP presidents. In a associated connection this week, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) urged swift enactment to debar a “disastrous default.”
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This conscionable in: Biden says helium has ‘no regrets’ implicit effect to mishandled documents
President Biden said helium has “no regrets” implicit however his squad has handled the classified documents recovered astatine his Delaware location and the Penn Biden Center successful Washington.
Speaking successful California connected Thursday, Biden again told reporters that his lawyers “found a fistful of documents” that were filed “in the incorrect place.”
“We instantly turned them implicit to the Archives,” Biden said. “We’re afloat cooperating.”
The president said helium was looking guardant “to getting this resolved quickly.”
“I deliberation you’re going to find there’s thing there,” the president said. “I person nary regrets. I’m pursuing what the lawyers person told maine they privation maine to do.”
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President Biden, speaking successful Aptos, Calif., astir betterment and reconstruction efforts successful the aftermath of caller utmost upwind crossed the state, said clime alteration tin nary longer beryllium denied.
“If anybody doubts the clime is changing, they indispensable person been dormant for the past mates of years,” Biden said.
The latest: On statesmanlike records, the rules are clear. The oversight is not.
In the last hours of a president’s term, amid the hubbub of modulation talks, 11th-hour pardons and last-minute enforcement orders, officials from the National Archives and Records Administration softly descend connected the White House to guarantee compliance with the Presidential Records Act.
As Toluse Olorunnipa reports, the process, which has been honed implicit decades and involves intricate readying and coordination, mostly takes spot swiftly and smoothly, according to respective officials who person participated successful it.
On our radar: Sen. Tim Kaine expected to code aboriginal plans Friday
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) volition code his plans for the aboriginal astatine a quality league successful Richmond connected Friday, according to 2 radical acquainted with the senator’s intentions — which could mean helium volition uncover whether helium volition question reelection successful 2024.
As Amy Gardner, Paul Kane and Meagan Flynn report, speculation has swirled successful caller weeks and months implicit whether Kaine, 64, would question a 3rd word successful the Senate. But immoderate his decision, it’s not 1 Kaine would person reached lightly, according to aggregate Democrats connected the Hill and successful Virginia.
Analysis: Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing acquisition successful Florida overmuch further close
There are 28 authorities colleges successful Florida and, connected Wednesday, the presidents of each and each 1 signed a corporate statement: They would enactment to “ensure that each initiatives, instruction, and activities” undertaken astatine their institutions “do not beforehand immoderate ideology that suppresses intelligence and world freedom, state of expression, viewpoint diversity, and the pursuit of information successful teaching and learning.”
As Philip Bump notes, immoderate vagueness inspired by that sweeping declaration was dispelled successful the adjacent sentence:
This conscionable in: McConnell says U.S. volition ‘never’ default connected debt
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said connected Thursday that it is important to retrieve that the state “must ne'er default connected its debt.”
“It ne'er has, it ne'er will,” McConnell told reporters successful Louisville. “We’ll extremity up successful immoderate benignant of dialog with the medication implicit what are the circumstances oregon conditions nether which the indebtedness ceiling tin beryllium raised.”
During the Trump administration, however, McConnell and legislature Republicans voted to rise the indebtedness bounds without asking for spending cuts successful return.
This conscionable in: Supreme Court says it cannot find who leaked draught Dobbs opinion
The Supreme Court said Thursday that it cannot place the idiosyncratic who leaked a draught of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the sentiment that overturned Roe v. Wade.
As Robert Barnes reports, the tribunal reported that “it is not imaginable to find the individuality of immoderate idiosyncratic who whitethorn person disclosed the papers oregon however the draught sentiment ended up with Politico. No 1 confessed to publically disclosing the papers and nary of the disposable forensic and different grounds provided a ground for identifying immoderate idiosyncratic arsenic the root of the document.”
Analysis: Under oath, Trump is confronted with his ‘hoax’ hyperbole
In the abstract, erstwhile president Donald Trump’s wide deficiency of credibility connected what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium a hoax is not terribly important. But successful the discourse of a suit centered connected allegations that helium sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll respective decades ago, Carroll’s attorneys recovered it utile to constituent retired that Trump simply says everything is simply a hoax, adjacent erstwhile helium evidently doesn’t deliberation it is.
As erstwhile helium said that astir Carroll’s accusations.
As Philip Bump writes, a information of Trump’s sworn deposition was published Wednesday, offering penetration into the questions being presented to the erstwhile president arsenic helium seeks to support himself against the complaint that helium defamed Carroll successful denying her battle allegations.
The latest: Calif. cleanup to outgo astatine slightest ‘several 100 million’ dollars, FEMA main says
Repairing each areas damaged by the storms that person been slamming California successful caller weeks could outgo “several 100 million” dollars, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told reporters aboard Air Force One connected Thursday.
And those are conscionable the archetypal estimates. “I expect that fig to spell up,” Criswell said.
The storms person been coming successful with “hurricane-strength winds,” she said. “They’re besides making unthinkable … surge-like conditions with the surf. And truthful they felt similar it was being deed by hurricane aft hurricane.”
Noted: Rep. Nancy Mace volition not be Trump’s S.C. run event
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Thursday she volition not look with former president Donald Trump when helium travels to South Carolina aboriginal this period for his archetypal run lawsuit of his reelection bid.
Mace cited Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and erstwhile politician Nikki Haley (R), who some unrecorded successful Mace’s territory and who some person been rumored to beryllium weighing statesmanlike runs successful 2024.
“I americium going to support my pulverization adust until the tract is set,” Mace said, noting that she plans to motorboat a bid of campaigner forums for 2024 statesmanlike hopefuls. “And truthful I volition not beryllium attending that [Trump campaign] event, nor volition I beryllium weighing successful connected the statesmanlike predetermination until the tract is acceptable and we’ve had a accidental to perceive from each the candidates. And I privation to springiness them each a just shake.”
Take a look: Will McCarthy’s deals pb to indebtedness ceiling drama?
This video, produced by The Post’s Michael Cadenhead with investigation from our workfellow Paul Kane, explores what’s astatine involvement for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) amid a showdown with Democrats implicit raising the indebtedness ceiling. As Paul notes, if McCarthy proceeds successful a manner that alienates immoderate Republicans successful his caucus, helium could look a ballot to beryllium removed arsenic speaker.
Republicans are pushing to unit spending cuts successful speech for raising the indebtedness ceiling, portion the White House says determination should beryllium nary conditions connected authorities to conscionable the Treasury Department’s obligations.
Noted: White House highlights that McCarthy voted to rise indebtedness ceiling nether Trump
The White House connected Thursday highlighted that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) voted 3 times during the presidency of Donald Trump to rise the indebtedness ceiling without demanding spending cuts successful return.
“There’s nary crushed that his presumption should change,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Dalton told reporters traveling with President Biden connected Air Force One to California.
Republicans are pressing for concessions, arsenic they past did nether Barack Obama’s presidency, arsenic the White House seeks authorities to rise the indebtedness limit.