Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) apologized to President Biden after the State of the Union address, RealClearPolitics reports. “Johnson felt he owed Biden an apology. Seated just over the president’s shoulder during the State of the Union address, the speaker couldn’t mask his expressions of exhaustion

“Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s plans to leave the Biden administration and run for California governor are more advanced than previously known — with hiring discussions and spending further developed than he’s letting on,” Politico reports.

Punchbowl News: “House Republicans came into the 118th Congress with big plans. They were going to cut taxes and spending, impeach President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet and use their leverage to force Democrats to accept stringent new border security and immigration policies. In short,

Semafor: “The mother of Hunter Biden’s young child has been quietly shopping a book about her relationship with the president’s son.” “In recent months, Lunden Roberts has met privately with a number of major publishers to discuss the publication of a memoir that would detail how she met Hunter and

President Biden suggested that his uncle might have been eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, Bloomberg reports.