NEW: White House claims McCarthy’s “MAGA Default on America Act” is threatening border security

@AndrewJBates46 says Republicans are holding the economy “hostage unless they are allowed to lay off thousands of border patrol agents…” BATES: “The extreme MAGA Default on America Act would impose these damaging cuts for our national security in order to make room for deficit-increasing tax giveaways to rich special interests, including billionaires and multinational corporations…”

SCOOP: The White House is prepping a new line of attack against @SpeakerMcCarthy’s debt limit plan and will claim GOPers voting “yay” are in violation of Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge," a mainstay of conservative politics dating back 4 decades

Story to come… @SpeakerMcCarthy .@mkikukawa46: "Every House Republican who votes for McCarthy’s bill is voting to raise taxes on working families when they buy efficient appliances, electric vehicles, and other products that would lower utility bills..."

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NEW: White House comms director @BenLaBolt46 accuses @SpeakerMcCarthy of cutting a deal with the most extreme MAGA elements of his party" on his debt limit package @BenLaBolt46 @SpeakerMcCarthy LABOLT: Proposal will "accelerate taking food assistance from hundreds of thousands of older Americans and to carve out one industry from his draconian cuts without making a single change to provisions that will strip away health care services for veterans..."

No questions for @POTUS upon his return to the White House from Camp David — I'll be in the 1:30pm briefing with @PressSec and @GeneSperling46 ... what do you want to see me ask them?

@POTUS @PressSec @GeneSperling46 Briefing has been pushed to 2:00pm, per pooler @katierogers

EXCLUSIVE: I sat down for a lengthy, on-camera interview with Rudy Giuliani in New York. To say the least, it was a wild ride

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A thread of the highlights... Giuliani says that he will have released direct evidence within 10 days of the election to totally sink Biden’s campaign. He did not commit to ever releasing the hard drive in full.

BREAKING: we’ve just been locked in the briefing room and Secret Service moves POTUS back into West Wing. We’re on lockdown Camera crews and producers moved off Pebble Beach. Reports of shots fired. This is all developing