Today’s notice: Trouble in Republican paradise. A threat to blue states’ SNAP funding. Building a backlog at the NLRB. Plus: Democrats are fighting over TN-07.
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A House divided: Some intraparty frustration is “natural in the body of 200-plus elected officials, but I do think that, you know, there are some factors that have made it more severe than normal,” Rep. Kevin Kiley told NOTUS of the Republican infighting breaking out in the House these days. Our Oriana González and Reese Gorman report that yesterday’s closed-door GOP conference meeting became an airing of grievances.
The focus of the grumbling is Mike Johnson. Some in the meeting scoffed at the speaker’s talking points for his conference, such as his take that Republicans will not only keep their majority but actually expand it in the midterms.
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“And I believed I was going to date the prom queen,” one senior House Republican told NOTUS in response.