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🚨 14 senators, including 7 Republicans, question Trump's reported decision to invite Putin to G-20 in Miami and urge him to reverse course.
GOP signers:
— Wicker
— Armstrong
— Cornyn
— Curtis
— Moran
— Tillis
— McConnell
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Trump-backed Nevada Republican exaggerated Bronze Star award in two campaigns
This is for the open Amodei seat.
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👀 The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence officer said Wednesday the agency is working to integrate the technology into more of its functions and cautioned that anything that slows that process could set the country's national defenses back.
Congressional Defense Reporter @AnthonyAdragna breaks down his conversation with Cameron Stanley, the Defense Department's chief digital and AI officer.
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🚨✈️ FLY OUT DAY: MARTIN HEINRICH
HEINRICH, one of the key negotiators on the permitting reform bill, takes us inside the negotiations over the massive package.
What's inside the package and he thinks the W.H. is bluffing.
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News: The Senate fails to pass an Iran war powers resolution 49-50.
Four Republicans vote yes (Paul, Murkowski, Collins and Tillis) but Fetterman votes no.
Alsobrooks misses the vote.
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War powers locked at 49-47:
Not voting yet: Budd, McCormick, Thune and Alsobrooks.
If all still present, this ties at 50-50 and therefore FAILS.
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This war powers vote is going to come down to @SenBillCassidy
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Endangered incumbent @SenDanSullivan votes no on war powers.
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Senate announces long-anticipated 1:45pm vote TODAY on Rep. Jayapal’s Iran war powers resolution, which cleared the House earlier this summer.
Vote update: There will now be a roll call vote at 1:45pm today.
At 1:45pm, the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on adoption of H.Con.Res.89, War Powers Resolution (Iran).
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BREAKING: Despite the court's order, a POLITICO reporter was barred from entering the White House this morning and had his credentials seized.
The court order was clear about its immediate effect and applied to all WH / USSS officials.
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“You have to convey to us: what are your top priorities? What are you going to try to move back into the base bill?" Coons said. "Because moving tens of billions of dollars of programs across every branch quickly is not easy.”
DOD briefing SASC this AM on the spending outlook.
Senate Democratic defense appropriators said they relayed a clear message to senior Pentagon officials during a closed-door budget briefing Wednesday: get your military funding priorities ready.
@briana_reilly and @AnthonyAdragna have more:
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SCOOP: Inside the tumult of Mary Peltola's Senate campaign in Alaska and her time on Capitol Hill.
Peltola is known publicly as kind and affable. But aides recall angry outbursts, slurs and a shove. (She also required staff to feed a pet chameleon.)
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Spotted in the Senate basement: Hung Cao, Trump’s nominee to lead the Navy.
A formal confirmation hearing has not yet been scheduled.
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Asked about a wave of GOP candidates suddenly calling for an end to the Iran war, @TimSheehyMT says: “Everyone’s entitled to their opinions.”
Does he share their view? “Nope.”
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Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense. joins Punchbowl News Defense Reporter @AnthonyAdragna for a conversation on the news of the day and the intersection of cybersecurity, AI and defense.
Follow along here:
Happening Now – Pop-Up Conversation with @DoWCamStanley nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1kKzDPVRm…
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