Michael Jones

JUST IN: The Paramount/Skydance Merger has been approved.

🚨 New podcast launching today! My first guest is @MrSantosNY in his final interview before he’s scheduled to report on Friday. We cover a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to): fears about migrating facial filler, the time he was married to a woman, accusations…

NEW: House Admin Ranking Member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) will brief members at this morning’s whips meeting on new security enhancements for August recess. Morelle told me the plan doesn’t go as far as he wanted, but it’s a meaningful step forward. “I’m grateful that we’re able to…

Jeffries: “We remain ready, willing and able to have the type of appropriations process that will yield a good result for the American people, but that process must be bipartisan and bicameral in nature.”

Schumer on government funding: “Speaker Johnson shouldn’t be skedaddling out of town. He should be sitting here negotiating with us.”

Big bipartisan vote in the Senate to advance its first 2026 approps bill to final passage.

Last House votes until September tomorrow at 3:30 pm

Elle Duncan on the first half of the W all-star game: “We hope it gets a little bit more competitive because like a girls trip to Cancun, there’s no D.”

*clears throat and straightens back*

It should be noted that Trump doesn't say he wants Congress to cancel the August recess in order to pass government funding bills.

Jeffries and Mamdani met for an hour this morning in East New York, per Jeffries spox. The two discussed affordability, public safety, rising antisemitism, gentrification and the 2026 midterms. The next meeting will be w/ other New York City members of Congress and community…

Run Jasmine, run!