Will President Biden use Friday’s surprisingly strong jobs report as an argument against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to raise the federal debt ceiling without budget cuts? You can bet on it.
Remember, from the get-go Biden has argued for his big spending programs as a sort of reversal of trickle-down Reaganomics, which itself was a reversal of FDR’s New Deal, a philosophy dear not as much to the Red Hats as to mainstream, traditional conservative Republicans.
Also Up for Discussion: After the House of Representatives removed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Relations Committee Thursday (see left column), Speaker Kevin McCarthy was asked whether he thought a Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt, who was trying to break into the speaker’s office (then Rep. Nancy Pelosi) on January 6th, was doing his job. McCarthy responded; “I think he was doing his job.” Context is that ex-President Trump posted a lengthy screed on his site, Truth Social, strongly disagreeing with McCarthy and accusing police of “murdering” the pro-MAGA rioter (per MSNBC’s Morning Joe).
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•The House Judiciary Committee, under its new chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has begun investigating Biden’s “border crisis.” (Right column.)
•New hope for revival of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act? (Left column.)
•Nikki Haley, former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor is planning to announce a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. (Right column.)
•Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wants to be running mate for the only Republican who has announced his candidacy, so far, Donald J. Trump.
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