Debt ceiling bill clears first House hurdle as 5 June deadline inches closer – live

The House is now in recess subject to the call of the chair.

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The House will reconvene again at 7:15pm for one hour of debate that will be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats before voting on the bill.

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Donald Trump was captured on tape acknowledging that he kept a classified Pentagon document regarding a potential attack on Iran, CNN reports.

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According to report, federal prosecutors obtained the recording which was made during a meeting in summer 2021 at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that Trump made comments that suggested that he would like to share the information but that he was aware of his post-presidency limitations surrounding classified records.

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The report also cited sources saying that the meeting attendees did not have security clearance. Attendees included two people working on the autobiography of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, in addition to former Trump aides including communications specialist Margo Martin.

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According to sources, the recording is an “important” piece of evidence in a potential case against Trump over his handling over classified documents following his presidency.

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The House of Representatives has started its debate ahead of the chamber’s final vote on the debt ceiling bill.

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We will be bringing you all the latest details.

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced that he is putting together a commission to look into budget cuts in entitlement programs.

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In an interview with Fox News, McCarthy said:

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“I was elected to help lead this nation. So the first thing we did, open the House up. The bills, you get to see them before you ever vote on them and now we’re cutting…

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I’m going to announce a commission coming forward from the speaker from…both sides of the aisle. We only got to look at 11% of the budget to find these cuts. We have to look at the entire budget.”

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When asked why the entire budget was not seen, McCarthy said that president Joe Biden “walled of all the others,” adding, “The majority driver of the budget is mandatory spending. It’s Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt.”

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces he is assembling “a commission” to look at potential cuts in entitlement programs:

“The president walled off all the others. The majority driver of the budget is mandatory spending. It’s Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt.” pic.twitter.com/vm3jUuL6fO

— The Recount (@therecount) May 31, 2023

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A new poll, released a week after Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign announcement, shows Donald Trump with a narrowing lead.

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The Florida governor shouldn’t get too excited, though: Morning Consult puts the former president up by 34 points, 56%-22% and notes that though “Trump’s lead has shrunk … by 10 points … since mid-May, much of that dip came before DeSantis officially began his bid”.

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Mike Pence, yet to announce his bid, took third in the poll, with a less-than-whopping 5% support, one point ahead of Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Tim Scott, another declared contender, was a point further back. Asa Hutchinson, also declared, attracted a princely 1% support. Chris Christie, whose announcement next week was trailed today, must be content with his unknowable share of the 1% who plumped for “Someone else”.

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Other interesting primary findings from Morning Consult, some of them perhaps in the straw-clutching lane of the race:

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• Scott is struggling to get anyone to hear anything about his candidacy, with 56% of respondents saying they’d heard nothing.

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In terms of the general election last year, the poll contains a mild rejoinder for DeSantis, who while channeling his inner Hulk Hogan and claiming to be ready to “destroy leftism in this country” has also said only he can beat Joe Biden.

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“Biden leads DeSantis, 43% to 40%, in a hypothetical general election matchup,” Morning Consult says, “while Trump is tied against the incumbent Democrat. Trump’s standing against Biden has improved five points since the beginning of May, while DeSantis has hovered around the same place.”

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At a rally in Iowa yesterday, the Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis used as his walkout music a song long used for the same purpose by Hulk Hogan, one of the most famous names in wrestling.

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Lyrics to Real American by Rick Derringer include “I am a real American/ Fight for the rights of every man” and “I’ve got something deep inside of me/ Courage is the thing that keeps us free”.

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DeSantis’s recent memoir is called The Courage to be Free. At 44 the Florida governor is a member of Gen X whose childhood coincided with Hogan’s heyday as a star of World Wrestling Entertainment.

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However, further reading suggests DeSantis may be advised to consider changing his tune.

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In March, Abraham Josephine Riesman, author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, discussed with Politico “How Pro Wrestling Explains Today’s GOP”.

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The interview focused on the long relationship between Donald Trump and McMahon, the WWE owner, and how it shaped Trump’s political persona. But the piece also contained discussion of how Trump’s primary battle with DeSantis might be thought of in wrestling terms.

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Politico said: “It might be more useful, Riesman suggests, to think in terms of roles: heroes and villains – in industry lingo, faces and heels – and the fluidity of such positioning.”

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Asked “who’s the face and who’s the heel?” in Trump v DeSantis, Riesman said that to Republicans, they were two faces.

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But she also said that in 1990, when DeSantis was 11, “Vince executed a very risky maneuver, which was that he had in his biggest match of the year, the main event at WrestleMania, the two faces going against each other.

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“Hogan and [The Ultimate] Warrior were both faces. And Hogan was the champ and Warrior was an up-and-comer who was very popular. And they were going to have this match. And it was mind-blowing for fans.

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“Hogan and Warrior, right after that, both of them – their careers tanked.”

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Some say DeSantis’s campaign is already tanking, his polling numbers falling while Trump capitalises on unprecedented legal jeopardy to fire up supporters. Trump leads most polling averages by more than 30 points.

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In Clive, Iowa on Tuesday, DeSantis took a tentative jab at Trump over attacks about his handling of Covid, saying: “I’m going to fight back. Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship. Are you kidding me?”

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One attendee told the Associated Press she voted for Trump twice but could switch.

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DeSantis is a “little softer” and “more appealing to the masses”, said Kim Riesberg, 59, adding: “At some point, I would like to see them on the same team.”

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Riesman had a warning for such voters. Hulk v Warrior, she said, “was kind of the last gasp of that era … because it sort of broke the system.

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“Fans had to pick a side. You can’t just cheer for both guys. You have to cheer for one. And that means somebody is getting written out of the story. Someone has to lose. Someone has to look bad in your eyes. And that kind of confusion [can be] very damaging to … both participants.”

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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has urged divided Democratic lawmakers to vote for the debt ceiling bill, a source familiar with the matter told CNN correspondent Manu Raju.

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In closed meeting with WH officials this morning, Hakeem Jeffries strongly urged the divided Democratic caucus to back the debt ceiling bill, according to a person in the room. Dem votes will be needed to pass the bill

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 31, 2023

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Mike Pence is expected to launch his 2024 presidential bid within the next two weeks, The Messenger reports.

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In a screenshot of an email sent by former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to delegates of the Georgia Republican Party, Lake wrote:

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“Vice president Mike Pence was originally slated but has been forced to re-schedule because of a televised national town hall at which he will be making an announcement regarding his future plans.”

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The outlet reports that Pence is scheduled to headline a CNN town hall, in Des Moines, Iowa (a crucial early-voting state) on June 7.

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Former GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who is weighing a 2024 Senate bid, will headline the Georgia GOP convention’s Friday night event. She has refused to concede her narrow election defeat, and she’s become a favorite among Trump supporters. #gapol pic.twitter.com/oSSbfewIeG

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) May 31, 2023

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Four Republicans familiar with the matter told The Messenger that Pence’s team have begun ramping up their outreach two weeks ago and have told supporters that his presidential campaign launch is imminent and is set to take place in mid-June.

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Should Pence join the race, he will be facing off against several Republican heavyweights including his former boss and current chief contender Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

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The debt ceiling bill will become law, Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday ahead of a final House vote later today on the bill which if passed, will move next into Senate.

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“It’s going to become law,” McCarthy told reporters, Reuters reports.

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New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that she plans to vote against the debt limit bill.

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“My red line has already been surpassed … I mean, where do we start? [No] clean debt ceiling. Work requirements. Cuts to programs. I would never – I would never – vote for that,” said Ocasio-Cortez.

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Democratic Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib echoed similar sentiments, telling reporters that she would “absolutely not” support a bill that includes tougher work requirements.

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Meanwhile, an aide to a progressive lawmaker in the Congressional Progressive Caucus told Axios anonymously, “My boss is leaning no and we think a good number of [CPC] members will follow suit.”

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The House is set to convene today to hold a final vote on the debt ceiling bill amid opposition from far-right lawmakers, including members of the House Freedom Caucus who have vowed to vote against the bill (some Freedom Caucus members previously opposed House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid in January).

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The tentative deal reached by McCarthy and President Joe Biden would raise the debt ceiling until 2025 and includes measures such as rescinding Internal Revenue Service funding and expanded work requirements.

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With the House scheduled to convene at 2pm today, the first round of votes is expected at 3.30pm and the last round of votes is expected at 8.30pm.

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Over 20 Republicans have vowed to vote against the bill, with Pennsylvania Scott Perry, chair of the Freedom Caucus saying on Tuesday, “We had the time to act, and this deal fails – fails completely … We will do everything in our power to stop it and end it now.”

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Texas representative and Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy called the deal a “turd sandwich” as it did not include spending cuts demanded by far-right lawmakers.

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North Carolina representative and Freedom Caucus member Dan Bishop predicted that the majority of House Republicans will oppose the bill, saying, “This is a career-defining vote for every Republican … This bill, if it passes, must pass with less than half of the Republican conference.”

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Meanwhile, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries emphasized the importance of Republicans providing the majority of the 218 votes required to approve the bill.

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“This is an agreement that, at their insistence, they negotiated with the administration,” Jeffries said. “It’s our full and complete expectation that they are going to produce at least 150 votes,” he said.

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Should the bill pass, it will move on to the Senate where lawmakers will have only a few days to approve it before the 5 June default deadline.

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Good morning, US politics readers. The House is expected to hold a final vote on the debt ceiling bill as opposition from far-right Republicans continue to grow.

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Last weekend, talks spearheaded by House speaker Kevin McCarthy and president Joe Biden culminated in a tentative deal to raise the $31.4tn US debt ceiling.

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Speaking to reporters, McCarthy said that the bill was “the most conservative deal we’ve ever had”, referring to the two-year agreement which includes spending freezes and slashing Internal Revue Service funding.

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As the deal heads into a chamber vote in the Republican-led House today, more than 20 Republicans have vowed to vote against the deal. On Tuesday, Texas representative Chip Roy, a member of the powerful House rules committee which met to review the deal, told Fox News, “This is not the deal that we should be taking.”

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The House will convene at 2pm today, with the first round of votes expected at 3.30pm, and the last round of votes expected at 8.30pm.

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Here are other developments in US politics:

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• Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is expected to announce his presidential bid next Tuesday in new Hampshire, Axios reports.

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• Former president Donald Trump has repeated his pledge to strip birthright US citizenship if he becomes president again.

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• President Joe Biden will meet with leaders of his federal emergency preparedness and response team today to receive annual briefing on extreme weather preparedness.

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Donald Trump has promised to strip away birthright US citizenship if he gets elected into office again.

In a video posted onto social media yesterday, Trump said if he becomes president, he will sign an executive order that will make sure children of undocumented migrants “will not receive automatic US citizenship.”

He added that his order “will “choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go.”

Trump’s reiteration of birthright removal comes 125 years after the supreme court settled the issue.

During his first presidential run he condemned the right by inaccurately saying, “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States … with all of those benefits. It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end,” as over 30 countries currently offer birthright citizenship.

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The House is now in recess subject to the call of the chair.

The House will reconvene again at 7:15pm for one hour of debate that will be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats before voting on the bill.

The special counsel investigating former president Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results is looking into Trump’s firing of a cybersecurity official whose office called the election “the most secure in American history,” according to the New York Times.

Reuters reports:

The US special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat is examining his firing of a cybersecurity official whose office said the vote was secure, the New York Times said.

Jack Smith, who is also investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents, has subpoenaed former Trump White House staffers as well as Christopher Krebs, who oversaw the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) under Trump, the Times said, citing unnamed sources.

Trump fired Krebs in November 2020, days after Cisa issued a statement calling the 3 November election “the most secure in American history”, as the then-president made his unsupported accusations that the vote was rigged.

Cisa, part of the Department of Homeland Security, works to protect US elections. Krebs told associates at the time he expected to be fired.

Representatives for Smith declined to comment on the Times report. Representatives for Krebs and Trump could not be reached for comment.

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The debt ceiling bill has passed the first procedural hurdle in the House, with 52 Democrats bailing out the Republican lawmakers.

In addition to 52 Democrats voting yes for the rule governing debate in the chamber, 189 Republicans voted yes. Voting no were 158 Democrats and 29 Republicans.

One more hour of debate is left before the final voting round commences later tonight.

Donald Trump was captured on tape acknowledging that he kept a classified Pentagon document regarding a potential attack on Iran, CNN reports.

According to report, federal prosecutors obtained the recording which was made during a meeting in summer 2021 at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that Trump made comments that suggested that he would like to share the information but that he was aware of his post-presidency limitations surrounding classified records.

The report also cited sources saying that the meeting attendees did not have security clearance. Attendees included two people working on the autobiography of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, in addition to former Trump aides including communications specialist Margo Martin.

According to sources, the recording is an “important” piece of evidence in a potential case against Trump over his handling over classified documents following his presidency.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell echoed similar sentiments alongside Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, saying that he will support the debt ceiling bill once it reaches the Senate chamber.

“House Republicans’ unity gave them the upper hand, they used it to secure a much needed step in the right direction. When this agreement reaches the Senate, I’ll be proud to support it without delay,” said McConnell.

Texas governor Greg Abbott has declared John Scott as the state’s temporary attorney general following the state House’s vote to impeach Republican attorney general Ken Paxton.

The decision to impeach Paxton comes as a result of years of allegations including corruption, bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust.

According to the Texas Tribune, investigators testified at the state House general investigating committee, saying that they believed Paxton wrongly used official funds and abused his authority to assist a friend and financial backer.

In response to the impeachment, Paxton said it was an attempt to “overthrow the will of the people and disenfranchise the voters of our state” and that the charges are based on “hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims,” the Associated Press reports.

Meanwhile, Abbott, who has largely been silent during the whole ordeal, said in a statement, “John Scott has the background and experience needed to step in as a short-term interim Attorney General during the time the Attorney General has been suspended from duty,” the Associated Press added.

New York Republican representative Marcus Molinaro hailed the tentative bill, calling it “an agreement [that] will move this nation forward.”

“The Fiscal Responsibility Act takes important action, not at all to punish our most vulnerable. In fact, it takes real steps to ensure those most vulnerable among us are protected and served and have access to the support that they deserve, and by the way, find their way to work.

This bill hold states like New York and others accountable for waving restrictions, expanding access, not to help the most vulnerable, but to bloat and to grow and to increase state government. Because of action states have taken, the most vulnerable are left to fend for themselves…

States like New York increased their infrastructure, their government and leveraged federal taxpayer dollars, not to benefit those who need the help the most but to benefit state government. And this bill starts a very important step of holding states accountable…

We have an opportunity here to make a measurable difference in the lives of those who struggle the most. And this is an effort to ensure that that happens.”

Texas Republican representative Chip Roy lashed out against Democrats over the tentative bill during the House debate, saying:

“I don’t wanna hear a whole hell of a lot about what we’re doing to devastate American families with rampant inflation, because we keep spending money we don’t have.

To my colleagues on this side of the aisle, my beef isn’t that I don’t understand the struggle with the negotiators against that kind of reasoning. My beef is that you cut a deal that shouldn’t have been cut…”

The House of Representatives has started its debate ahead of the chamber’s final vote on the debt ceiling bill.

We will be bringing you all the latest details.