Deleted a previous tweet to clarify my reporting:
Fox News, which is hosting the first GOP primary debate, informed the Trump campaign on Monday they will no longer provide credentials to some Trump surrogates to attend the spin room given Trump is not planning on participating Several Trump advisers & top surrogates had been planning to attend both the debate & represent the former president in the spin room despite his absence

Some of Trump’s surrogates are credentialed through outside media groups and will not be impacted

NEW: Fox News, which is hosting the first GOP primary debate, informed the Trump campaign today they will no longer allow surrogates for the former president to attend the debate in Milwaukee given Trump is not planning on participating, 3 sources with direct knowledge tell @CNN Several of Trump’s advisers & top surrogates had been planning to attend the debate & represent Trump in the spin room despite his absence. Kari Lake, Reps. Byron Donalds & Matt Gaetz & other Republicans were slated to attend. Top Trump advisers were also planning to be there

President Biden is expected to meet Tuesday w/ congressional leaders on the debt ceiling limit following “productive” staff-level negotiations over the weekend, two sources familiar w/ the talks told CNN

Story on where the talks stand, with @betsy_klein cnn.com/2023/05/14/pol… Negotiators have been able to pinpoint some areas on which congressional staff & the White House can find common ground, including revising the permitting process, rescinding unspent Covid-19 relief funds and potentially cutting spending, the sources said

McCarthy has granted lawmakers the option to view Capitol footage from January 6 if they request to see it.

@RepMTG told CNN that "any of us can go, you just have to schedule the time with the Speaker's office. … I am scheduled to go and I can take my staff and with me.” Greene told me she doesn’t know "who all's in the room” or if US Capitol Police will be there, but said there are instructions her team has been given, including "how to view the videos, obviously, because there's so many hours.”

News: Comer sent a letter to WH chief of staff Jeff Zients on Tuesday requesting more information about the handling of classified documents found in a private office used by President Joe Biden

Comer said the Oversight committee is "concerned about the lack of transparency" Comer also questions Zients over whether White House staff suppressed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from issuing a public statement regarding Biden’s handling of classified information

Scoop: Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee will release a 1,000-page document on Friday detailing allegations of politicization of the FBI & DOJ Justice Department under the Biden administration

axios.com/2022/11/04/hou… The report, obtained exclusively by @axios, will serve as the basis for one of House Republicans' top oversight investigations if they take back control of the majority in next week's midterms

NEW: GOP leaders, congressional aides & business groups are preparing for a potential "nightmare scenario" next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011 axios.com/2022/09/29/deb… There are serious question marks — & underlying anxiety— surrounding what type of leader McCarthy will be if elected as House speaker. How he handles a debt limit showdown will be a crucial test of his leadership abilities for which key stakeholders are already privately planning

NEW: Kyrsten Sinema is eyeing changes to Democrats' $740 billion reconciliation bill — specifically increasing climate funding and restructuring the tax provisions — as the Senate moves rapidly toward final passage before the August recess axios.com/2022/08/03/sin… Sinema is looking at significantly beefing up the reconciliation bill's funding for droughts and water security in the Southwest

She views the current $369 billion climate and energy portion of the bill as insufficient for addressing threat resiliency funding.

I spoke to Pompeo, Team DeSantis, Sens. Hawley, Cruz, Rubio & Rick Scott

All have major issues with federal bureaucracy

The 1 dissenting voice: MD Gov Larry Hogan

Schedule F could be the blueprint for the next GOP president, even if it's not Trump axios.com/2022/08/03/202… Meanwhile, Democrats are sounding the alarm about the power — and willingness — of a Republican president to reshape government by replacing thousands of civil servants with White House loyalists

NEW: Several possible 2024 Republican presidential candidates tell me they support Trump's plan to radically reshape the federal government by making it easier for the president to fire and replace career civil servants

axios.com/2022/08/03/202… Trump doesn’t need to win his party's nomination — or even run again — for the next GOP president to try to reimpose the executive order known as "Schedule F”

The reporting shows Trump’s 2025 plans serve as a blueprint for Republicans to carry out a similar approach

Two members of Congress from Minnesota — Dean Phillips and Angie Craig — have become the most prominent federally elected Democrats to say they do not want Biden to run for a second term in 2024 Rep. Dean Phillips told a local radio show last week: "I think the country would be well served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up," after replying "no" to the question of whether he would support Biden in 2024

I asked @marcorubio if he’s worried about China’s threats in response to Pelosi’s Taiwan trip.

He said: “I think they'll do some things in the short term that you'll see. But I suspect that the majority of the actions ... are going to be after she her trip is over" (1/4) “I think you're gonna see an increased military presence, there's all kinds of options that are available to them, including legal options trying to exercise their sovereignty over islands surrounding Taiwan," Rubio said

Trump didn't click with businessman Jim Lamon after they met in person at Mar-a-Lago

Trump thought Lamon, who pushed his business bonafides, talked about himself too much, one of the sources said. He felt Lamon's attempts to compare himself to Trump were "off-putting"

https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1532520032382623749

Meanwhile, Trump felt Brnovich was "weak" on claims of 2020 election fraud as attorney general — and made those feelings known in his endorsement message, calling him "such a disappointment." (Lamon was not mentioned in the endorsement)

Scoop: Former President Trump and his allies, in conjunction with top House GOP leadership & conservative groups, have begun pulling documents & coordinating a behind-the-scenes effort to counterprogram the Jan. 6 committee's televised hearings this month axios.com/2022/06/03/tru… Trump and his inner circle will rely heavily on members of Congress — from Kevin McCarth to Jim Jordan, Jim Banks &Elise Stefanik — to drive their messaging

Trump himself has not ruled out making some sort of an appearance

NEW: McCarthy says he met with Cawthorn over his recent comments about members participating in orgies and doing cocaine.

McCarthy tells me & others he told Cawthorn: “he's lost my trust is gonna have to earn it back. And I laid out to everything that I find is unbecoming” McCarthy tells me “there very well could be” more action he takes against Cawthorn beyond his stern warning and tense meeting

SCOOP: Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders squabbled behind closed doors Wednesday, with Manchin using a raised-fist goose egg to tell his colleague he can live without any of President Biden's social spending plan

W/ @HansNichols axios.com/manchin-sander… Manchin's comfort level with zero as a final number — and his willingness to threaten Sanders with it publicly at Wednesday's lunch for Senate committee chairs — reveals a stark reality for Democratic negotiators: Manchin can control the final dollar amount

NEWS: Merrick Garland will tell the House Judiciary Committee that federal prosecutors "are doing exactly what they are expected to do" in seeking accountability for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, according to a copy of his opening stmt obtained by @axios axios.com/garland-justic… In his 12-page opening statement, Garland writes, "The violence we witnessed [on Jan. 6] was an intolerable assault, not only on the Capitol and the brave law enforcement personnel who sought to protect it, but also on a fundamental element of our democracy"

Terry McAuliffe may be trouncing Glenn Youngkin in fundraising, but when it comes to dollars from donors in Virginia, Youngkin has the edge

w/ @lachlan axios.com/virginia-gover… Youngkin, a former Carlyle Group co-CEO & multimillionaire, has donated $16.5 million to his campaign

Setting aside his personal loans to his campaign, he's outraised McAuliffe in Virginia in raw cash contributions by over $549,000 — $14.2 million to $13.6 million, respectively

While Nick Burns is an experienced diplomat with support on both sides of the aisle, lawmakers want to use his confirmation hearing to force the administration into some tough positions on China

w/ @zacharybasu axios.com/the-china-whis… Both Republicans and Democrats have called on the president to shore up support for Taiwan following a record number of Chinese military flybys. Some want an explicit commitment to come to the island's defense should China invade

House Democrats on Wednesday passed a bill, 219-212, to suspend the debt limit through December 2022, sending it to the Senate where it is expected to fail

axios.com/house-democrat… Democrats are trying to exhaust all options in order to pass the debt limit on the floor w/o forcing it to go through the partisan budget reconciliation process—something Schumer calls a "a drawn-out, unpredictable process"—but Republicans vow to continue obstructing that effort

.@RepRoKhanna lambasted Sinema on Tuesday, telling CEOs "it's insane" that "one senator" is blocking attempts to settle on a palatable figure for Biden's proposed $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package

w/ @jonathanvswan & @sarahmucha

axios.com/progressives-s… Khanna's remarks reflect broader dissatisfaction among House progressives with Sinema and her fellow holdout, Sen. Joe Manchin