John Bresnahan

GOP Rep. Warren Davidson says AG Pam Bondi should testify to “please explain” re Epstein files. "We were led to believe there were going to be some prosecutions. If we’re going to prosecute, we assume there’s going to be convictions, and I think that’s really the disconnect.”

🚨BREAKING -- ANDREW GARBARINO of New York is the next chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. House Republican Steering Committee tapped the 40-year-old New Yorker for the slot. Garbarino's predecessor, PETE KING, previously chaired the panel.

Rep. MICHAEL GUEST (R-Miss.) was eliminated on the first ballot of the race to be House Homeland Security chair. Guest is chair of Ethics and has an appropriations seat. Race is now between CLAY HIGGINS, ANDREW GARBARINO and CARLOS GIMENEZ

News: Rep. Mike Flood was unanimously elected as next chair of Main Street Caucus tonight at their internal meeting, per a source familiar.

THE HOUSE GOP STEERING COMMITTEE is underway, beginning the process of selecting the next Homeland Security Committee chair. Candidates are: @RepGarbarino, @RepCarlos, @RepClayHiggins and @RepMichaelGuest Garbarino is a favorite here. Gimenez a close second. But these things…

The concern in the leadership is not only getting a rule out of committee. But they don’t think they can get a rule across the floor.

NEWS — RALPH NORMAN, hardline conservative on the House Rules Committee, says the panel will not report a rule this week for bills, effectively shutting down the house floor. Why? He doesn’t want to vote on Democrats’ Epstein amendments. He says it’s grandstanding.

NEW— More problems in the House Rules Committee. The Republicans put the panel in recess subject to the call of the chair without voting on the rule. This is the same committee that got tied up on Epstein related issues last week. W @bresreports

Multiple sources familiar with the interaction tell me that a "fucking" was inserted somewhere into this sentence :)

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz) was stopped Capitol Hill police on his way into the Senate just now, asked for some ID, to which I believe Gallego responded "are you kidding me"

Thune latest on canceling August recess, per Trump’s request: “We’re thinking about it. We want to get as many noms through the pipeline as we can.” “we're going to be looking at all the options in the next weeks to try and get as many of those across the finish line as we can”

NEW -- CBO has a new cost estimate for OBBB. The law will add $3.4T to the budget deficit over the next 10 years, CBO says. CBO: "That increase in the deficit is estimated to result from a decrease in direct spending of $1.1 trillion and an decrease in revenues of $4.5…

Not scheduled for the House floor this week: - Appropriations bills - The Epstein resolution that Rules reported out last week

.@PunchbowlNews AM today - Congress inches toward August. House ready to leave on Thursday as Trump wants Senate to stay - What to know about the Homeland Security race - What we’re watching - New Texas maps possible this week - NRCC outraises DCCC in Q2 punchbowl.news/archive/72125-…

Global hack: The notification process through nonprofit Center for Internet Security took six hours Saturday night-much longer than it otherwise would have, bc the threat-intelligence and incident-response teams have been cut by 65 percent as CISA slashed funding, Randy Rose said

NEW: Global hack on governments and businesses using Microsoft SharePoint servers hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

The debate over how many chips American companies should be allowed to sell to China is breaking Capitol Hill in two. @Dareasmunhoz with more: punchbowl.news/article/tech/t…

President Donald Trump says his trade feud with Brazil is about the country’s controversial former president, but the tech industry also has lots at stake in this fight. @Dareasmunhoz with more: punchbowl.news/article/tech/w…

Another bipartisan group heading to Canada to try to cool tensions amid trade war. They’ll meet with PM Carney This time it’s 3 Dems (Wyden, Hassan, CCM) and 1 Republican (Murkowski) Murkowski was one of just a few R’s who voted to overturn Trump’s Canada tariffs

NEW: CNN poll results out this morning shows Americans largely oppose Trump’s ramp-up of deportations. @priscialva breaks down the findings with @mkraju and explains why it shows "the public is paying attention." #InsidePolitics