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NEW: House Democratic leaders just told the caucus they will be filing a discharge petition that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for 3 years. House lawmakers can start signing it today. It would require 218 signatures to trigger a vote.

How the Sierra Club — which saw its fundraising and volunteers surge during Trump's first term — entered his second term weakened, distracted and divided. Such a good story from @fahrenthold and @hclaire_brown:

The coat was such a sensation that Max Mara scrambled to put its 2012 design back on the market. “It’s a funny thing because none of it was planned or intentional. I only wore that orange coat because it was clean,” Pelosi told me. “Now, I can barely wear it because it’s a meme.”

Nancy Pelosi — whom Newt Gingrich once said might have been "the strongest speaker in history" — will not run for reelection, @pkcapitol reports. https://t.co/qWt7ua2kFo

An incredibly powerful story.

Democrats have pushed to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the heart of the shutdown fight before Nov. 1, when many Americans who log on to sign up for new health insurance plans will see much higher premiums. Now they're all but out of time. https://t.co/RRNrSrXQuc

Sen. Chris Van Hollen seemed an unlikely candidate to lash out at Dem leaders for not endorsing Mamdani. But the understated policy wonk is giving voice to widespread frustration w the party that's been bubbling up for a while. My profile here:

Trump's nomination of a White House aide for U.S. attorney in Virginia could renew pressure on Senate Republicans to scrap the "blue slip," which lets senators to block Trump's nominees in their states. Republicans refused to get of it so far. https://t.co/681FoiW2lS

This is actually a good statement from Bernie Sanders Worth the watch

Republican senators Trump has attacked publicly since April: Mitch McConnell (over tariffs) Susan Collins (tariffs) Lisa Murkowski (tariffs) Rand Paul (tariffs, tax bill) Thom Tillis (tax bill) Chuck Grassley (blue slips) Josh Hawley (stocking trading ban)

For two decades Congress has whiffed on setting up its war powers. With R and D presidents, R and D majorities on the Hill. Trump stepped into that vacuum in predictable fashion. My column. https://t.co/tvRGmDUFRK

New — The GOP tax bill takes a major step toward all but eliminating the estate tax, which conservatives call the death tax In the 1990s, 2 percent of estates paid Now, it’s about .08 percent — and headed toward 0 Bill would let $15 million (30M for couples) be tax free

Trump's political team commissioned a poll that showed Marjorie Taylor Greene losing against Jon Ossoff by double-digits in Georgia, and Trump communicated the results to her in a bid to keep her out of the race. She fires back against Trump's team here.

There is some conflicting reporting on whether new Pope Leo XIV is a Cubs or White Sox fan. Well, I just spoke with Augustinian friar Joseph Farrell. Last night, Farrell texted to ask. Pope Leo XIV responded — less than 4 hrs after being elected — with one word: “Sox.”

House and Senate Republicans' multiplying red lines — not cutting Medicaid, raising the state and local tax deduction, no new taxes or fees, etc. — are making it even harder to draft Trump's "big, beautiful bill." With @mariannareports:

The government funding showdown last month divided Senate Democrats. Some of them are already concerned about a repeat in September. Democrats need to make clear that "we’re not going to give our votes away for nothing," Sen. Patty Murray said.

Chuck Schumer tells @theodoricmeyer he's gone on a listening tour of sorts since the shutdown fight that enraged many in the Dem base. But he still thinks he was right.

Read @lizcgoodwin's fab dispatch from Bluffton, South Carolina:

Lindsey Graham, the Senate most outspoken foreign policy hawk, is running for reelection — and he's coming around to Trump's isolationist worldview. “I think he has made me reevaluate some of the things I took for granted,” Graham said. “That American interventionism has limits."

News: @brianschatz formally enters race for Senate Dem whip, the No 2 l'ship post. Schatz, 52, offers generational shift to otherwise static team atop caucus. He enjoys mixing it up on Senate floor, like a love of rebounding in hoops. W/ @theodoricmeyer https://t.co/8knPrjxxB6