memeorandum: Debt ceiling negotiators close to a deal, with IRS funding in the spotlight (CNBC)

12:00 PM ET, May 26, 2023

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Jonathan Martin / Politico:

Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode? — A mission-control breakdown for DeSantis and smooth launch for Scott bode ill for those hoping to thwart the former president. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?

Discussion: The Hill

Platformer:

Inside Twitter's failed Space launch — How a decimated team and shrinking server capacity rained on Ron DeSantis' parade — Programming note: Platformer will be off Monday for Memorial Day. — At around 5PM PT on Wednesday, Elon Musk and David Sacks joined a call with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign manager, Generra Peck.

Discussion: Joe.My.God., New York Times, Media Matters for America, Mediaite and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:

‘Trump has the charisma of a mortician’: Donald Jr confuses dad with DeSantis — In online show, former president's son also accidentally says father's energy ‘makes Jeb Bush look like an Olympian’ — Donald Trump Jr accidentally insulted his father on Thursday night …

Discussion: Insider, Mediaite, UPROXX, The Daily Beast and Rumble

BBC:

Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches — An engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis' US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story, The Information and Just The News

Shelby Talcott / Semafor:

DeSantis, Day One: Trump ‘turned the country over to Fauci’ — The News — MIAMI, FL - If day one of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign showed the country anything, it's that COVID is here to stay. — At least in the Republican primaries. — On his first day in the ring …

Discussion: Washington Press, New York Times, IJR, The Reload, Forbes, Rolling Stone and Mediaite

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:

DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ — The Florida governor's signature comes a day after his 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter … The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting …

Discussion: NBC News, Joe.My.God., UPROXX and Washington Examiner

Charlie Nash / Mediaite:

‘Not a Big Social Media Guy’: DeSantis Tells Newsmax He'd Rather Watch Cable News ‘Than Be on Some App’ After Disastrous Twitter Launch — 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told Newsmax host Eric Bolling that he's “not a big social media guy” and “would rather watch” …

Discussion: Florida Politics and The Gateway Pundit

Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The DeSantis Doctrine — Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right

Discussion: Politico, New Republic, Sun-Sentinel, Raw Story, Le Monde.fr, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Fortune, New York Post and MSNBC

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
DeSantis Campaign Says It Raised $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours

CNN:
DeSantis is going after Trump like never before

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Reuters and Plain Dealer

Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast: Inside the Push to Make an Obscure Congressman Trump's VP Pick

William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Suffers Yet ANOTHER Technical Issue as Newsmax Feed Cuts Out

Discussion: HotAir, The Hill, The Wrap and HuffPost

David Frum / The Atlantic:
DeSantis's Launch Was Not the Only Thing That Crashed

Discussion: New York Times, Fox News, Slate, Florida Politics, Politico, Daily Kos, Washington Post, BizPac Review and Breitbart

Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:

Deal with it: Negotiators may be zeroing in on a debt ceiling agreement — The News — The details aren't final, and the parties are still clashing on a few major issues, but the contours of a potential debt ceiling deal are finally coming into view. — So far, it looks little …

Discussion: National Review, The Guardian, Bloomberg, New York Times and NBC News

CNBC:
Debt ceiling negotiators close to a deal, with IRS funding in the spotlight

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and HuffPost

Punchbowl News:
5/26/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM

Discussion: Washington Examiner, RedState, New York Times, CNN, Raw Story, Roll Call, Talking Points Memo and Forbes

Public Notice:
The (many) perils of a debt default, explained by an economist

Discussion: Associated Press

Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Potential Debt-Ceiling Deal Starts to Take Shape as Deadline Looms

Discussion: PBS NewsHour

NBC News:

Ron DeSantis administration officials solicit campaign cash from lobbyists — The practice raises ethical and legal questions about state employees trying to raise campaign cash from lobbyists who have business currently before the governor. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Officials who work …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Forbes, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, Trending Politics Conservative, Joe.My.God. and The National Pulse+

Politico:

Playbook: Inside the brewing debt limit deal — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — STAT OF THE DAY — As the X-date approaches, the U.S. Treasury's cash balance has now dipped below $49.5 billion. That means “there are 24 individuals …

Discussion: Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Philadelphia Inquirer, HuffPost, Roll Call, The Guardian, Political Wire and Washington Examiner

The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Officials Raise Eyebrows With Campaign Cash Pleas: Report

Discussion: NBC News

The Texas Tribune:

Aide to Ken Paxton calls investigation into attorney general “illegal,” says Paxton can't be impeached for current allegations — Chris Hilton, head of litigation in the attorney general's office, told reporters that lawmakers can't oust Paxton. His comments came as a House committee met behind closed doors …

Discussion: HotAir, Washington Press, Axios, RedState, The Dispatch, Vox, Daily Kos, Breitbart, Joe.My.God., Lawyers, Guns & Money, Reason, Off the Kuff, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, NewsNation and BizPac Review

J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Panel Recommends Impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times, abc7NY, Raw Story and NBC News

Acacia Coronado / Associated Press:
Texas lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton after Republican investigation

Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Furious After House Panel Recommends Impeachment

Discussion: Raw Story, Law & Crime, Dallas Morning News, Alternet.org, Associated Press, National Review, The Daily Beast and FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth

Washington Post:

How Supreme Court's EPA ruling will affect U.S. wetlands, clean water — The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin — Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All are examples of wetlands.

Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Brute force and the reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water

Discussion: Albuquerque Journal and Newsbusters

Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court delivers blow to wetlands protections in win for Idaho landowners

Discussion: Associated Press, NPR, Politico, Missouri Independent, Mother Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Reuters, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Roll Call and One America News Network

Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Samuel Alito's Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh

Discussion: Letters from an American, Lawyers, Guns & Money, New Republic, Heatmap News, Raw Story, Breitbart, Alaska Public Media, HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Insider, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Conservative Brief, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

New York Times:

Mar-a-Lago Worker Provided Prosecutors New Details in Trump Documents Case — A maintenance worker for the former president recounted helping to move boxes into a storage room a day before a Justice Department official came seeking the return of classified material.

Discussion: The Status Kuo, USA Today, The Hill, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, New York Daily News, HuffPost, Insider, CNN and Mediaite

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people

Discussion: Raw Story, CBS News and The Gateway Pundit

John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum Poised to Enter GOP Presidential Race — Wealthy former software entrepreneur is planning a June 7 announcement in Fargo — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is poised to enter the Republican presidential nomination race and is planning a June 7 event in Fargo …

Discussion: Fox News, NBC News, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Joe.My.God. and The Daily Caller

Bob Zeidman / Politico:

How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy — A software forensics expert investigated Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked the 2020 election. He was stunned by what he found. — If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell.

Discussion: Raw Story

Kim Bellware / Washington Post:

Doctor in 10-year-old rape victim's abortion could lose license — Indiana's medical licensing board will determine as soon as Thursday whether to take any disciplinary action against a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim …

Dennis Aftergut / Bulwark+:

Four Messages in the Big Sentence for Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes — A FEDERAL COURT IN WASHINGTON yesterday sent a message to the country: There is a serious price in prison time to be paid for taking the law into your own hands to achieve political ends. — District Court Judge Amit Mehta …

Discussion: Raw Story, Alternet.org, World Socialist Web Site, UPI, Bloomberg, New York Post, CBS News, Associated Press, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Metro.co.uk, Mother Jones, Voice of America, Courthouse News Service, Al Jazeera, Vox and Fox News

Washington Post:

Israeli agents conducted targeted killings in civilian area, killing a child — Videos from a March 16 raid in Jenin show increasingly deadly tactics by Israeli officers — The traffic was barely moving on March 16 in central Jenin, an unusually busy Thursday afternoon in the West Bank.

Lauren Sforza / The Hill:

Bowman on debt ceiling talks with GOP: ‘Why are we gonna negotiate with the economic terrorists’ — Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said he is “very frustrated” over the state of debt ceiling talks and questioned why President Biden is continuing to negotiate with what the congressman called “economic terrorists” in the Republican party.

Discussion: Washington Post, Just The News, WCIA.com and HuffPost

Daniel Lippman / Politico:

Members of a No Labels-allied caucus erupt at No Labels — The group is under fire for its unity presidential bid and for an attack on a Problem Solvers Caucus member. — A group of House Democrats with ties to No Labels is turning on the centrist group after it attacked one of their founding members.

Ben Terris / Washington Post:

Meet the ex-food writer advising Tommy Tuberville on national security — As a former college football coach, Tuberville (R-Ala.) is an improbable power player in Washington. But the story of how his top military adviser got here is even stranger. — When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) …

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

David Kissinger / Washington Post:

My father, Henry Kissinger, is turning 100. This is his guide to longevity. — David Kissinger is president of the television production company Conaco. — On Saturday, my father, Henry Kissinger, celebrates his 100th birthday. This might have an air of inevitability for anyone familiar …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Fox News:

John Durham to testify before House Judiciary Committee after releasing scathing report — House Judiciary Committee public testimony set for June 21 — Special Counsel John Durham will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee about his report in June, a source has told Fox News on Friday.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Washington Times, One America News Network, Trending Politics Conservative, American Greatness, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, NewsNation and The Daily Caller

Timothy Bella / Washington Post:

A Black 11-year-old called 911. Police arrived and shot him, his mom says. — An unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in Mississippi was shot by a police officer after he called 911 to report a domestic disturbance to try to protect his mother, his family's attorney said.