College graduates must begin paying student loans again, coronavirus relief money not spent must be reimbursed to the federal government and more people receiving welfare must find jobs, though this will make more people eligible for government relief, in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 passed by Congress and headed for President Biden’s desk Friday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has praised the Biden team’s acumen in negotiating the debt ceiling bill, and many left-leaning pundits say Democrats came out ahead in this one.

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•Lordy, There Are Tapes – Special Counsel on the Mar-a-Lago classified document cache Jack Smith reportedly has a tape of Donald J. Trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran near the end of his presidency, according to CNN and The New York Times.

•Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wins Runoff – Notching another victory for authoritarianism over liberal democracy?

•Ukraine to Negotiate Peace Without Putin – Ukraine and NATO allies are planning a peace summit without Russia, according to The Wall Street Journal. The summit will be aimed at Kyiv’s terms for ending the war and is to be held ahead of a meeting of NATO nations planned for July. 

•DeSantis Announces on Twitter – And it was not pretty.