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SCOOP: Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott are blasting former Defense Sec’y Lloyd Austin for starting a DC consulting firm after earlier saying he wouldn’t be a lobbyist after leaving the government. In a letter today, they slammed him for “cashing in.” politico.com/news/2025/06/3…

SPOTTED: House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith strolling through the Senate. Meredith Lee Hill politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW - Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith leaving Senate floor says he “confident” about July 4 passage “But if it’s not July 4 — as long as we deliver.” I asked about dozens of House Rs pushing to amend the bill or go to conference: “They're still trying to strike a balance,

NEWS: Senate Republicans are circulating updated text for the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy legislation. The new text numbers 887 pages, though it’s not yet final. Read it here ⬇️ subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

A wrinkle for members trying to get back tonight - lots of canceled DC-area flights, per the Flightaware Miserymap

Superb Benjamin Guggenheim Jordain Carney look at how the Senate shaped the megabill in surprising ways... >> House Republicans wanted the Senate to fix their megabill. They ‘miscalculated.’ << politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

NEW - Speaker Johnson and Trump are pushing to pass the GOP megabill by July 4 Their biggest hurdle: dozens of House Rs wary it doesn’t deliver on key promises they’ve made to constituents The weather, Johnson just told me, is “part of the problem” politi.co/4lE6xhb

NEW: Speaker Johnson confirms he’s planning a third GOP reconciliation package for the final quarter of 2026 - as Rs have been eyeing "the plan is to do one in the fall for FY26 budget year and we can also squeeze in a third one for FY27 before this Congress is up,” he says on

SCOOP: Gimenez launches bid for House Homeland chair politico.com/live-updates/2… via POLITICO

Kudos to the entire POLITICO Congress team after covering the megabill from start to finish: K Tully-McManus Jordain Carney Meredith Lee Hill Mia Camille McCarthy Jennifer Scholtes Lisa Kashinsky Benjamin Guggenheim calen razor Hailey Fuchs Cassandra Dumay Ben Jacobs

This story captures perfectly why accountability stories about Congress are few and far in between, as the focus on remaining on good terms (and some more friendly than appropriate) with staffers and lawmakers makes it impossible to do that crucial work politi.co/4eHIHPq

Scoop: Fed Chair Powell responds to Senate Banking Chair Scott and Sen. Warren on building renovations politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

Scoop from Jasper Goodman - A super PAC group funded by cryptocurrency companies will enter the upcoming midterm elections with more than $140 million in the bank — a mammoth sum that now looms large over an effort to pass industry-friendly legislation in the House this week

The House’s “crypto week” has descended into chaos W/ Meredith Lee Hill Mia Camille McCarthy Nicholas Wu politico.com/live-updates/2…

New: House Ways and Means to host a bipartisan roundtable with Dr. Oz on Wednesday, July 23 politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW: Rep. Max Miller will be leading a comprehensive tax overhaul for crypto in the Ways and Means committee, introducing draft legislation in the coming weeks ow.ly/oeqz106fZqV

Republican lawmakers want to pass a drug-pricing overhaul by the end of the year. Dems want to extend ACA subsidies in return -- something that Jason Smith says would be "a big problem" for many GOP members. Benjamin Guggenheim politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

Speaker Mike Johnson says “no one in Congress is blocking Epstein documents” He adds Republicans are leaving early and “refusing to allow” Democrats “to make a mockery of the Rules commitee”

NEWS: Rep. Max Miller outlines details on his sweeping crypto tax overhaul Read here ⬇️ subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…