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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the debt ceiling agreement is just "the first step" of the GOP's broader agenda.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy holds a news conference in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol on May 31, 2023, in Washington, D.C., after the House passed The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images After securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for hundreds of thousands of poor adults, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear Wednesday that Republicans are not finished targeting the nation's safety net programs - and signaled a coming effort by the GOP to slash Social Security and Medicare.

That includes Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), a longtime Trump ally who - as of now - will only say that "I've endorsed his policies.""An official endorsement, I have not.I've been pretty clear I'd like to see someone articulate for the Republican Party what we're going to do policy-wise," added Braun, who's running for governor of his bright-red state.

Former President Donald Trump once backed raising the retirement age to 70 and called for privatizing Social Security which he called a Ponzi scheme two positions he has hammered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for supporting as a former member of Congress and congressional candidate.Trump made the comments in 2000 in a book he authored called The America We Deserve, when he was considering a third-party run for president as a member of the Reform Party.

PALM BEACH, Fla.If you plan to dine at a hot spot in Palm Beach this season, pack clothing so bright that it might be radioactive.Why? Sartorial armor is practically required in any exclusive enclave.And Palm Beach is all about fitting in and showing you belong.The peer pressure is intensifying.During the early years of the pandemic, there was a 20 percent increase in New Yorkers moving to Florida compared with the average of the previous eight years, according to I.R.S. immigration data.

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(CNN)Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah told GOP Rep. George Santos of New York: "You don't belong here," according to a member who witnessed the tense exchange in the House of Representatives chamber Tuesday night.Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, made the remarks as he walked into the chamber for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

Scores of members of Congress have criticized the golf mega-merger, warning that it would help consolidate the Saudi government's U.S. influence despite deep bipartisan concerns about its human rights record."If the three major auto companies in America decided to merge, the Department of Justice would be all over it.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's financial disclosure report shows the former US ambassador to the United Nations was paid between $100,001 and $1 million each for 12 speaking engagements in 2022 and 2023.The payments were made for speeches Haley delivered in Singapore, Canada and Australia, as well as within the United States in cities like Chicago, New York and Dallas, according to the financial disclosure filed to the Federal Elections Commission.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin ratcheted up demands for Chief Justice John Roberts to police the actions of Clarence Thomas in the wake of a new ProPublica report showing a GOP megadonor paying school tuition for a close relative of the conservative justice.But Durbin told CNN he can't move forward with a new ethics bill to impose a code of conduct on the justices until Sen. Dianne Feinstein returns from her illness since Republicans would have the votes to block any such legislation in his committee.

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* At Least 193 Homeless People Died in Multnomah County in 2021
It's the highest number of houseless deaths ever recorded in a single year in Multnomah County since data collection began in 2011.

It's not just House representatives that want the federal government to ban TikTok.A bipartisan alliance of senators has introduced a bill that would give the Commerce Secretary the authority to ban TikTok and other foreign technology perceived as a national security threat.The would-be law would be limited to tech emerging from China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.

If President Biden sometimes sounded a lot like Donald Trump during his State of the Union address, boasting about a record of economic nationalism, the imitation may soon run the other way.Biden's attacks on congressional Republicans for being allegedly eager to cut Medicare and Social Security were a clear preview of how he hopes to run against the G.O.P. in 2024.

Obama looking to position himself well in case government shutdown threatened Marco Rubio tries to turn tables on Obama, laying blame at his feet Republicans will likely use their recess to figure out how far to go with this fight Republicans are right in saying President Barack Obama's new economy road show is a rerun full of policy proposals and political attacks the country, and the GOP, have heard before.