Zach Warmbrodt

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NEW: Andrew Garbarino to be next House Homeland Security Chair

GOP lawmakers are heading to the White House tomorrow night for a megabill celebration with Trump, per sources WH invited House GOP conference W/ @Reporter_Mia

EPSTEIN CRISIS forces House GOP to scrap votes @meredithllee @Reporter_Mia @cassandra_dumay @calenrazor politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW: House Democrats will force another Epstein vote today. @meredithllee politico.com/live-updates/2…

Really nobody tells a "fun" off-policy story like @Brian_Faler Today's special: how Rs are searching for a cool shorthand for their megabill ... Bessent likes “O Triple B.” Others are going with “OBBB” or “TOBBB” or “OBBBA” or “BBB.” “OB3" has been getting some traction,…

Speaker Mike Johnson confirms House will give WH “space” to produce Epstein info “No” vote on the matter on the floor this week before recess, he says

NEW: House GOP leaders have an understanding with White House officials that they will wait until after the August recess to vote on the Epstein resolution. @meredithllee politico.com/live-updates/2…

Republican lawmakers want to pass a drug-pricing overhaul by the end of the year. Dems want to extend ACA subsidies in return -- something that Jason Smith says would be "a big problem" for many GOP members. @ben_guggenheim politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

NEW ‘Definitely playing favorites:’ Interior permitting memo could strike dire blow to solar & wind, requiring Burgum’s approval for routine activities, likely affecting scores of projects on private land. Even Republicans say it goes too far. W @zcolman politi.co/3GS3W4o

Inside Congress today: - Republicans not thrilled about a second rescissions bill. “OMB is the problem.” - Mike Johnson: “We will see” about Epstein vote - Senate plans first govt funding votes politico.com/newsletters/in…

Rescissions package passes 216-213, Fitzpatrick and Turner join all Dems in voting no

The House GOP endgame on rescissions and Epstein is in sight. The escape hatch is a non-binding resolution calling for the release of Epstein docs. @meredithllee politico.com/live-updates/2…

Speaker is huddling w/ Rules Rs NOW amid Epstein blowup Trump’s rescissions pkg is hung up over GOP fears of Dems forcing more Epstein-related votes “We’ll see” he told me of House being in session tmrw + “We’re scheduled to be here next week” politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

👀 “The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan,” Vought told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday. @ktullymcmanus politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW: House GOP leaders are under fierce internal pressure to send members home for the summer because of anxiety over a possible Epstein vote. “It’s all Epstein, all day,” says one frustrated House Republican. @meredithllee @Reporter_Mia politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris just switched his vote from yes to NO on this stalled crypto procedural measure 10 NO votes now

🚨INSIDE THE ROOM — an intense standoff between hardliners + crypto committee Rs They’re now exploring a deal to add CBDC text to NDAA or another must-pass bill People talking past each other + just trying to get hardliners to stand down on rule. Speaker Mike Johnson trying…

Combining CBDC with CLARITY could kill CLARITY - Fin Services and House Ag Republicans who wrote the bill argue “Even the threat of doing this emergency rules meeting may have already done so,” one House Republican said

Zohran Mamdani briefed House Dems this am on lessons from his win Trahan: “There is no debating that the campaign that he ran was a successful one. His economic message, his ability to cut through and just speak to people's pain points in New York City” politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW w/ @JAscholtes @ktullymcmanus: Senate Republicans are praying Susan Collins decides to seek a sixth term next year. But they aren’t making her life easy right now. Collins: "They’re doing what they think is right. I’m doing what I think is right.” politico.com/news/2025/07/1…