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NEWS THE MORNING
Mayor Invoice needs to be Congressman Invoice:
Former New York Metropolis Mayor Invoice de Blasio (D) introduced this morning that he’s operating for Congress.
De Blasio introduced his candidacy on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’: “The polls present persons are hurting. They need assistance. They need assistance quick, and so they want leaders who can really get them assist now and know how one can do it. I do know how one can do it from years of serving the folks of this metropolis,” he mentioned. Watch his announcement
➤ BY THE WAY — THIS IS A RARE OPEN SEAT:
Districts had been shuffled round on account of redistricting, so there isn’t a incumbent on this seat. Politico’s Erin Durkin and Sally Goldenberg clarify the backstory.
HAPPY FRIDAY, FRIENDS! I’m Cate Martel with a fast recap of the morning and what’s developing. Did somebody ahead this article to you? Enroll right here.
💿Getting traction
What I’ve been listening to all morning:
Singer Harry Types simply launched a brand new album, titled, “Harry’s Home.” It has been the speak of social media this morning.
Take heed to the album: From Billboard
➤ HARRY, MAKING THE ROUNDS:
Types appeared on NPR’s “Morning Version” to debate the brand new album: Take heed to his interview.
📍In South Korea
Would possibly as properly save on the delivery and convey dwelling a couple of Samsung TVs on Air Pressure One:
President Biden toured a Samsung manufacturing facility this morning throughout his cease in South Korea.
Samsung’s plan for extra semiconductors: “Biden cheered Samsung’s plans to construct a brand new $17 billion semiconductor facility in Tyler, Texas, saying it will create 3,000 new jobs in Texas.”
➤TIDBIT FROM BIDEN’S ASISA TRIP — TWO SECRET SERVICE EMPLOYEES WERE SENT HOME:
Two Secret Service workers are being despatched again to the U.S. and positioned on administrative go away, the Secret Service mentioned in a press release Friday, after the workers allegedly bought right into a confrontation with a taxi driver in South Korea whereas they had been apparently intoxicated, by way of The Hill’s Lexi Lonas.
Extra from the AP: “An agent and an armed bodily safety specialist had been concerned within the alcohol-fueled incident that included a heated argument with a taxi driver and led to native legislation enforcement submitting a police report, in response to an individual aware of the matter who was not licensed to remark publicly.”
🧥Within the White Home
The brand new flak jacket is vivid yellow:
Through The New York Instances’s Michael M. Grynbaum, “By longstanding, bipartisan custom, a long time of White Home press secretaries have handed down a cheeky image of their job fielding rat-a-tat inquiries from feisty reporters: a flak jacket.”
The jacket went lacking. So, Jen Psaki discovered a substitute earlier than leaving the job: “[Psaki] discovered herself trawling a Macy’s searching for a substitute jacket. She discovered one, with a contemporary twist. The brand new ‘flak jacket,’ which now hangs in a West Wing workplace, is a girls’s Tommy Hilfiger blazer, measurement 16, in Hello-Liter yellow, with contrasting jetted pockets and elbow patches.”
Psaki advised the Instances: “It’s a girls’s jacket. Nevertheless it’s massive sufficient for any measurement man.”
Learn the complete story behind the flak jacket.
Picture of the brand new jacket
The New York Instances’s Maggie Haberman tweeted: “Wait. It went lacking?”
In Congress
You may have a powerful ‘sure’ from the Senate:
Senators accredited a $40 billion Ukraine assist package deal yesterday.
What the invoice will do: “[It] would replenish U.S. stockpiles of weapons transferred to Ukraine and supply billions of {dollars} to assist the Ukrainian authorities proceed working and for humanitarian help.”
What occurs subsequent?: President Biden is predicted to signal the invoice rapidly.
The vote: 86-11.
The 11 Republicans who voted towards the Ukraine assist
A HOUSE BILL PASSED FOR SYMBOLIC REASONS:
Home Democrats handed a invoice yesterday to fight “price-gouging” on gasoline. https://bit.ly/3MxqxAY
The vote: 217-207. No Republicans voted “sure” and 4 Democrats voted with Republicans.
Why it’s symbolic: This invoice may be very unlikely to move within the Senate.
🍑 On the marketing campaign path
The subsequent huge major to observe — Georgia:
“The stakes are rising increased by the day for former President Trump upfront of Georgia’s GOP primaries on Tuesday.”
Timing: “The elections come on the heels of key contests this week, significantly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, the place Trump-backed candidates met blended fates.”
Fast primer on the race: “Trump has railed towards incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R) repeatedly, backing his primary opponent, former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.). Kemp’s primary sin, in Trump’s eyes, is his refusal to again Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.”
The place the race stands, by way of The Hill’s Niall Stanage
🦠 Newest with COVID
➤ BY THE NUMBERS
Instances so far: 82.8 million
Loss of life toll: 998,512
Present hospitalizations: 19,207
Photographs administered: 583 million
Totally vaccinated: 66.5 p.c of People
⛈ In different information
Colorado goes by it:
Through CNN’s Jennifer Grey, “In lower than 24 hours, Denver may go from having 90-degree climate to a probably historic and harmful snowstorm.”
Yikes: “Snowfall quantities could possibly be as excessive as two to 3 ft within the increased elevations, and as much as eight inches within the metropolis of Denver, in response to the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) workplace in Boulder.” What to anticipate
🐥Notable tweets
Lol, Congress be Congress:
Politico’s Burgess Everett tweeted, “The Senate simply adjourned for 10 seconds, got here again and known as it a brand new day. ‘Good morning,’ says Sen. Stabenow. The Senate is bizarre.”
I can’t argue with this ingenuity:
@Ygrene tweeted, “[guy taking a bite of corn and then immediately taking a bite of hotdog] there must be a greater means.” This tweet has greater than 100,000 likes.
What a nickname!:
@jessohackberry tweeted a screenshot of the Washington, D.C., major poll. The third candidate for mayor is listed as “Trayon ‘Washington DC’ White.” Screenshot
Right here’s the complete pattern poll.
⏱On faucet
The Home and Senate are out. President Biden is in South Korea. Vice President Harris is in Washington, D.C., and attends an occasion in Virginia.
- 7:20 a.m.: Biden left Pyeongtaek, South Korea, and traveled to Seoul.
- 1:45 p.m.: Harris and Environmental Safety Company Administrator Michael S. Regan journey to a faculty in Falls Church, Va.
- 4:05 p.m.: Harris returns to Washington, D.C.
- 6:15 p.m.: Harrisspeaks at AAPI Victory Energy Fund’s first-ever AAPI Victory Celebration.
All occasions Japanese.
📺What to observe
- 6:15 a.m.: President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered remarks. Livestream
- 3:40 p.m.: Vice President Harris delivers remarks on the bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Livestream
🥧 In lighter information
Right this moment is Nationwide Quiche Lorraine Day.
Tidbit — what a cool commencement speaker:
Through The New York Each day Information’ Peter Sblendorio, “Taylor Swift obtained an honorary diploma from New York College on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, and guaranteed the Class of 2022 in an aspirational graduation speech that it’s OK to make errors.” Pictures of Swift on the ceremony — in her cap and robe
And to get your weekend off to an excellent begin, right here’s a canine with a brand new crush.
