House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called President Biden and his team “very professional, very smart, very tough” in negotiations over the debt limit ceiling, according to The New York Times.

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Other recent issues up for debate include:

•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.