“Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s derailed House business until the fall,” Politico reports. Said Thune: “In some fashion, in some way, he’s going to have to handle it and deal with

“Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is standing in the way of Mike Waltz’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, dealing a serious setback to Trump’s former national security adviser,” Axios reports.

“Roy Cooper is expected to announce his campaign for the North Carolina Senate as soon as Monday,” Politico reports. “The popular, former two-term governor’s entrance into the Senate race — for a seat Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is leaving open with his announcement last month that he won’t seek

“It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files.” — Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), quoted by the New York Times, on Tulsi Gabbard’s release of documents she claimed undermined the conclusion of intelligence agencies that Russia

Eli McKown-Dawson: “For one more presidential cycle — this won’t be true following redistricting in 2032 — Democrats can still technically win the Electoral College through the ‘Blue Wall’ states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. But as we’ve written about, counting on exactly 270 electoral