Closing summary
Donald Trump has endorsed Jim Jordan, a prominent House conservative, to serve as the chamber’s next speaker. He made the decision public on social media, but only after a congressman’s indiscretion reportedly torpedoed a plan to do so in a far more public fashion. Trump is certainly influential, but the race is far from decided, and at the White House, Joe Biden said he would try to “work with” whoever sits in the speaker’s chair next.
Here’s what else is happening today:
Kevin McCarthy is considering resigning from Congress once the House elects a new speaker, Politico scoops.
Top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called on Republicans to work with his party to reform Congress’s lower chamber, but any such efforts’ prospects are unlikely.
The US economy added far more jobs than expected last month, a sign that the labor market remains robust.
Hunter Biden’s attorney has filed to dismiss the charges against the president’s son, arguing a plea deal that collapsed over the summer remains in effect.
Two far-right Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy also reportedly believe the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is not worth doing.
McCarthy considering resigning after speakership election - report
Politico reports that Kevin McCarthy told House Republicans he may resign after they elect a new speaker.
“I’m going to spend time with my family,” he told GOP lawmakers in a closed-door meeting, according to people familiar with what took place. “I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive.”
However, later, KGET-TV reporter Eytan Wallace said on X – formerly Twitter – that he spoke directly to McCarthy and the congressman denied having any intentions of resigning. In fact, Wallace said McCarthy expressed an intention to run for re-election.
McCarthy represents a California district centered on the city of Bakersfield and extending into the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and out into the Central Valley, where oil and gas and agriculture are major industries. He has been in office since 2007, representing a district considered the most-Republican leaning in the state.
Updated
The Washington Post took a close look at the prospect of some kind of bipartisan coalition filling the power vacuum caused by Kevin McCarthy’s ouster.
Their conclusion: not going to happen.
While there’s only a four-seat difference in the chamber between Democratic and Republican control, existing ill will between the two parties doomed attempts by moderate GOP lawmakers to convince their counterparts on the other side of the aisle to save McCarthy. With many Republicans now furious at Democrats for their role in his ouster and the party’s right wing on the ascent, moderates have few incentives to attempt to build the sort of coalition that could get one of their own into the speaker’s chair, or carry out the sorts of reforms Jeffries envisioned in his op-ed.
Here’s more, from the Post:
As GOP lawmakers ducked in and out of meetings this week, making pitches to one another in initial bids to garner support for the top job, rank-and-file members ruled out the imminent possibility of a bipartisan effort to save them from their latest state of chaos.
“I think the Republican conference will be stronger when we first work with ourselves,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Tex.) said Wednesday on his way to a lunch with the Texas delegation where prospective speakers sounded out potential allies.
Compromise, even among pragmatic members in swing districts, is a tall order in this political environment. Moderate Democrats and Republicans face the constant threat of primaries, and many live in fear of being targeted by powerful conservative media. Even members who represent swing districts fret about being punished by extreme voters in primary elections, a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus said.
House rules adopted in a compromise that allowed McCarthy to win the job in January — after days of strife and 15 ballots — have also empowered individual members with outsize influence over the House GOP conference, exacerbating the party’s partisan polarization. A motion to vacate, for example, is a congressional procedure to remove a presiding officer from a position that can be triggered by just one House member. Once initiated, it takes priority on the House floor ahead of all other business. This week, the motion was moved by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a Trump ally.
Top House Democrat Jeffries calls on GOP to 'reform the highly partisan House rules'
In a column published in the Washington Post, the Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries called on the GOP to work with his party to reform the rules of the House and encourage more bipartisanship:
House Republicans have lashed out at historic public servants and tried to shift blame for the failed Republican strategy of appeasement. But what if they pursued a different path and confronted the extremism that has spread unchecked on the Republican side of the aisle? When that step has been taken in good faith, we can proceed together to reform the rules of the House in a manner that permits us to govern in a pragmatic fashion.
The details would be subject to negotiation, though the principles are no secret: The House should be restructured to promote governance by consensus and facilitate up-or-down votes on bills that have strong bipartisan support. Under the current procedural landscape, a small handful of extreme members on the Rules Committee or in the House Republican conference can prevent common-sense legislation from ever seeing the light of day. That must change — perhaps in a manner consistent with bipartisan recommendations from the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
In short, the rules of the House should reflect the inescapable reality that Republicans are reliant on Democratic support to do the basic work of governing. A small band of extremists should not be capable of obstructing that cooperation.
By all indications, leading House Republicans are furious at Democrats who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy, even though his overthrow was orchestrated by a small number of far-right GOP lawmakers. The acting speaker, Patrick McHenry, ordered Democratic veterans Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer out of their Capitol building offices hours after taking his post, while the two leading contenders to replace McCarthy are majority leader Steve Scalise and judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan, both deeply conservative.
If the GOP is to take Jeffries up on his suggestions, it would probably happen at the behest of the party’s moderates – but unlike the party’s right wing, they have yet to show signs of uniting and making demands of the leadership.
Democrats have scored a win in New Mexico, where a state judge turned down a challenge from Republicans to its congressional map, the Associated Press reports.
The map is friendly to Democrats and will likely allow them to win all of the state’s three districts, as the Cook Political Report makes clear:
New: New Mexico's Supreme Court rules that Democrats' congressional gerrymander isn't so egregious that it violates the state's constitution. It's a win for Dems' bid to preserve a 3D-0R shutout in 2024. pic.twitter.com/AYa3rxe76z
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 6, 2023
Republicans had, in particular, taken issue with Democratic state lawmakers’ decision to split up an oil-producing region that skews conservative, according to the AP.
Earlier in the day, Joe Biden provided more details on why his administration decided to begin building new border wall.
His predecessor Donald Trump had made fortifying the frontier with Mexico a top priority, but Biden repudiated that in his first days in office. Yesterday, it was revealed his administration was building new barriers on the southern border, angering environmentalist, Indigenous rights and other activist groups who characterized the decision as a betrayal.
Biden had previously said federal law obliged him to start the construction and, in response to a request for more details from a reporter today, elaborated on how that happened:
Biden on how he tried to get Congress to reappropriate funds earmarked for border barriers when Dems controlled the House.
— The Recount (@therecount) October 6, 2023
“We tried to ask the Congress to consider changing the law to reappropriate...Give me more border agents...more technical capabilities to detect fentanyl.” pic.twitter.com/OgfncCyDMw
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is scheduled to say soon whether recent intensified bargaining with the Detroit Three automakers has produced enough progress to forestall more walkouts, Reuters writes.
A video address by Fain is scheduled for 2pm ET and will cover substantive bargaining updates, people familiar with the UAW’s plans said earlier.’
That timing is a departure from the previous two Fridays in which Fain addressed union members at about 10am and ordered walkouts at additional factories to start at noon.
Fain kept automakers Ford, GM and Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler and Jeep, guessing on Thursday.
People familiar with the bargaining said talks have heated up this week after days of little movement.
Ford, GM and Stellantis have made new proposals in an effort to end the escalating cycle of walkouts that threaten to undercut profits and cripple smaller suppliers already strained from months of production cuts forced by semiconductor shortages.
The pressure is rising on the three automakers as EV market leader Tesla cut US prices of its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV, ratcheting up its price war and further pressuring profits on all EV models that are forced to match CEO Elon Musk’s aggression.
Deutsche Bank estimated in a research note on Friday that the hit to operating earnings at GM, Ford and Stellantis from lost production has been $408 million, $250 million and $230 million, respectively.
Meanwhile, Republican freshman Senator JD Vance swung by an Ohio picket line, only to get a dry burn from Toledo congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who’s served the district for 40 years.
"First time here?" A Kaptur burn for the ages. https://t.co/loNgNqViSK
— Liz Skalka (@lizskalka) October 6, 2023
Why is Joe Biden campaigning for Donald Trump? The US president is helping to build Trump’s border wall. What is he thinking?
The question sounds ludicrous, but how else would you characterize Biden’s latest pronouncement to build 20 new miles of Trump’s border wall along the southern border? This is like throwing red meat to Trump’s base, who will chomp and salivate over what they will portray as an admission of defeat by the Democrats on securing the border.
And why wouldn’t they? Back when he was campaigning for president, Joe Biden promised “not another foot” of Trump’s border wall would be built. He halted construction of the wall on his first day in office with a proclamation stating that “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution. It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.”
Now, the government is poised to spend nearly $200m on 20 miles of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley. The administration says it has been forced into this situation because Congress appropriated $1.375bn for such border barriers in 2019, and the funds that remain must be disbursed by the end of the fiscal year. But Democrats had control over Congress for the first two years of the Biden administration. They could have reallocated those funds. Instead, this Democratic administration is now sounding very Trump-like. “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries,” reads the notice in the Federal Register.
This is a political failure by the Democrats on one of the most important issues of the looming 2024 election. And it’s a massive policy failure as well.
The full op-ed will be published by Guardian US shortly.
The day so far
Donald Trump has endorsed Jim Jordan, a prominent House conservative, to serve as the chamber’s next speaker. He made the decision public on social media, but only after a congressman’s indiscretion reportedly torpedoed a plan to do so in a far more public fashion. Trump is certainly influential, but the race is far from decided, and at the White House, Joe Biden said he would try to “work with” whoever sits in the speaker’s chair next.
Here’s what else is happening today:
The US economy added far more jobs than expected last month, a sign that the labor market remains robust.
Hunter Biden’s attorney has filed to dismiss the charges against the president’s son, arguing a plea deal that collapsed over the summer remains in effect.
Two far-right Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy also reportedly believe the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is not worth doing.
Biden pledges to 'work with' next House speaker
In remarks at the White House, Joe Biden declined to comment on conservative stalwart Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker of the House, but said he would try to find ways to cooperate with whoever is chosen.
“Whomever the House speaker is, I’m going to try to work with,” Biden said. “They control … half the Congress and I’m going to try to work with them. Some people, I imagine, it could be easier to work with than others, but whoever the speaker is I’ll try to work with.”
Donald Trump’s plan to endorse Jim Jordan as speaker of the House was supposed to be done in a far more dramatic fashion, but a congressman’s announcement of the ex-president’s intentions torpedoed that plan, the Messenger reports.
Trump was considering traveling to the Capitol where he would engage in something of a stunt intended to unite the fractious Republican conference around Jordan. That plan is now off, the Messenger reports:
When House Republicans ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this week, Donald Trump began toying with the idea of heading to Washington, D.C. in a high-profile visit, briefly standing as a candidate for the post before dramatically delivering his support and his votes to an ally, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.
Trump outlined the spotlight-grabbing plan in calls to Republicans on Wednesday night, four sources familiar with the discussions tell The Messenger, which first reported Trump’s initial interest in visiting the paralyzed U.S. House.
But Trump had one ask: “Keep this quiet.”
Texas Congressman Troy Nehls either didn’t heed or didn’t hear that Trump request, blabbing about the once-private call on the social media platform X at 9:32 p.m.
“Just had a great conversation with President Trump about the Speaker’s race. He is endorsing Jim Jordan, and I believe Congress should listen to the leader of our party. I fully support Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House,” Nehls wrote.
The Nehls post appeared just as a Trump adviser was discussing the effort with a Messenger reporter about Trump’s idea of flirting with the speakership and then elevating Jordan instead.
“Nehls just totally f—-d this up,” the adviser said, hanging up the phone. The four sources who described Trump’s thinking for this story all spoke with The Messenger on condition of anonymity over the past three days to describe private conversations.
Less than three hours later, at 12:13 a.m., Trump publicly endorsed Jordan on his Truth Social media platform, saying the Ohio Republican, who is the chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, would be “a great speaker of the House and has my complete and total endorsement.”
Now Trump’s congressional travel plans are in doubt.
Trump’s allies are discussing the utility of going at all because, for Trump, the plan revolved around secrecy. He wanted to stoke the coals of speculation about what he would do, thereby heightening the drama and attention, advisers said. His appearance and speech would have made a splash on Capitol Hill and sucked up all the media attention in the presidential primary, where he’s already leading by a forbidding margin.
No travel decision has been made, advisers say, noting it’s up to Trump, who can change his mind on a whim – along with the flight plans for his Trump-branded 757 private aircraft.
But everyone in his orbit agrees about one aspect of Trump’s mind.
“Trump is pretty annoyed at Nehls,” said another Trump adviser.
Mike Pence, the former vice-president who spent more than a decade representing an Indiana district in the House, again condemned the far-right revolt that remove Kevin McCarthy:
2024 GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence condemns House Republicans for ousting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 6, 2023
“Frankly, I'm still scratching my head about last week … To me, it just was unconscionable that eight Republicans partnered with all the Democrats in the Congress.” pic.twitter.com/zSkbWJlXqQ
Jordan responds to Trump's endorsement
Back at the Capitol, here’s Jim Jordan’s reaction to Donald Trump endorsing his candidacy for House speaker:
“I appreciate the president’s endorsement. He’s the leader of the party. He’s gonna be our presidential nominee and I think he’s gonna be our next president — so, I appreciate that.”
— The Recount (@therecount) October 6, 2023
— Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) reacts to Donald Trump endorsing him for House Speaker pic.twitter.com/viVUXXuVYR
Jordan is a conservative stalwart who founded the House freedom caucus, and was one of Trump’s prominent defenders in Congress during his presidency. But while the former president’s endorsement might make him the top choice among the party’s right wing, it’s unclear what the many moderate Republican, some of whom represent districts that voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, will make of him as speaker.
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Joe Biden has more problems than just impeachment. As the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh reports, his administration’s decision to fast-track construction of new walls along the southern border with Mexico has infuriated advocacy groups:
The Biden administration’s decision to waive environmental, public health and cultural protections to speed new border wall construction has enraged environmentalists, Indigenous leaders and community groups in the Rio Grande valley.
“It was disheartening and unexpected,” said Laiken Jordahl, a borderlands campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), amid concerns of the impact on essential corridors for wild cats and endangered plants in the area. “This is a new low, a horrific step backwards for the borderlands.”
This is the first time a Democratic administration has issued such waivers for border wall construction, and for Joe Biden, it’s a marked departure from campaign promises and his efforts to be seen as a climate champion.
“I see the Biden administration playing a strategic game for elections,” said Michelle Serrano, co-director of Voces Unidas RGV, an immigrants rights and community advocacy group based in the Rio Grande valley. The many rural, immigrant and Indigenous communities that live in the region have become “the sacrificial lamb” for politicians looking to score points, she added.
As the climate crisis fuels ecological decline, extreme weather and mass migration, the administration’s move is especially upsetting, she added. “Building a border wall is counterproductive,” she said.
With no speaker, the House is currently paralyzed. But whenever it returns to functionality, Republicans are expected to continue pressing on with their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
But as NBC News reports, two of the far-right lawmakers who orchestrated Kevin McCarthy’s ouster – including Matt Gaetz, who led the motion to vacate – don’t think impeaching the president is a good idea:
Days before Rep. Matt Gaetz led an effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, Gaetz and Rep. Matt Rosendale, a fellow Freedom Caucus member, denounced as a political stunt Republicans’ high-stakes effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a video obtained by NBC News.
At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe.
“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion.
“They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment,” Gaetz said. “And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw.”
As they fielded questions from high-dollar conservative donors, Gaetz and Rosendale were just days away from moving to end McCarthy’s speakership — and tipping the Republican caucus into its own protracted battle over who will lead the conference.
And in even more Donald Trump-related legal news, the Associated Press reports the former president ended – for now – a lawsuit against his ex-fixer Michael Cohen:
Donald Trump has dropped his $500m lawsuit against Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who is now a key witness in a criminal case against him, Cohen and a Trump spokesperson said on Thursday night.
But the former president did not waive his right to sue again. Trump had accused Cohen of “spreading falsehoods” “with malicious intent” and causing “vast reputational harm” for talking publicly about hush-money payments made to women during Trump’s 2016 campaign.
These are at the heart of criminal charges he faces in New York. Trump has also accused Cohen of breaking a confidentiality agreement that he signed as a condition of his employment.
The decision by the former US president and GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination came days before he was set to give a deposition in the suit, brought in April in Florida. That testimony was originally set for 3 October, but Trump rescheduled so he could attend the first three days of a separate New York civil fraud trial. Cohen is likely to testify in that trial next week.
Hunter Biden moves to dismiss federal indictment - report
An attorney for Hunter Biden has filed to dismiss the charges brought against the president’s son, NBC News reports.
Earlier this week, Biden pleaded not guilty to three charges related to purchasing and possessing a gun while using drugs. In a filing, his lawyer Abbe Lowell argued that a plea deal negotiated with prosecutors over the summer that then suddenly collapsed is still valid.
Here’s more from NBC on the motion:
The president’s son “maintains” that the original plea deal, or diversion agreement, “remains in force,” Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, wrote in the filing on Thursday.
“He will seek to dismiss the Indictment against him pursuant to the immunity provisions of that Agreement,” Lowell said.
Under the terms of the original agreement, the younger Biden would have pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges over his failure to pay income taxes, and prosecutors had agreed to a related agreement that could have resulted in the gun charges being dismissed.
But the deal collapsed in federal court on the day of his arraignment in July and he wound up pleading not guilty on the tax charges.
David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney in Delaware and a Trump nominee, became special counsel overseeing the case in August. Hunter Biden was indicted in mid-September on three federal gun charges. Two counts accused him of falsely completing a form indicating he was not using illegal drugs when he bought a firearm in October 2018. The third count alleges he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic.
The indictment details that Hunter Biden “knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement, intended and likely to deceive” a firearms dealer when on or about Oct. 12, 2018, he was acquiring a gun, a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver.
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Beyond weighing in on the House speaker’s race, Donald Trump is also trying to get federal charges brought against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election dismissed, the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports:
Lawyers for Donald Trump have urged a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, advancing a sweeping interpretation of executive power that contends that former presidents are immune from prosecution for conduct related to their duties while in office.
The request to throw out the indictment, handed up earlier this year by a federal grand jury in Washington, amounts to the most consequential court filing in the case to date and is almost certain to precipitate a legal battle that could end up before the US supreme court.
In their 52-page submission to the presiding US district judge, Tanya Chutkan, Trump’s lawyers essentially argued that Trump enjoyed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution because the charged conduct fell within the so-called “outer perimeter” of his duties as president.
The filing contended that all of Trump’s attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat in the indictment, from pressuring his vice-president, Mike Pence, to stop the congressional certification to organizing fake slates of electors, were in his capacity as president and therefore protected.
Whether Trump’s motion to dismiss succeeds remains uncertain: it raises novel legal issues, such as whether the outer perimeter test applies to criminal cases, and whether Trump’s charged conduct even falls within a president’s duties.
Prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, could counter that Trump cannot make either argument. The outer perimeter test is widely seen as applying to only civil cases, for instance, and Trump is alleged as having acted not in his capacity as a president, but as a candidate.
Shifting back to the tumultuous scene in the House, here’s the Guardian’s Joanna Walters with a look at what Donald Trump’s endorsement in the speaker’s race means:
Donald Trump is officially backing the brash, longtime loyalist and founding member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, the Ohio congressman Jim Jordan, to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House speaker when voting takes place next week.
“Congressman Jim Jordan has been a STAR long before making his very successful journey to Washington, DC, representing Ohio’s 4th Congressional District,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social social media platform, with his some of his signature inflammatory flourishes, early on Friday.
He added: “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House & has my Complete & Total Endorsement!”
The announcement came hours after the Texas congressman Troy Nehls said on Thursday night that the former US president had decided to back Jordan’s bid and after Trump said he would be open to serving as interim leader himself if Republicans could not settle on a successor following McCarthy’s stunning ouster.
Trump, the current Republican presidential frontrunner for the 2024 election, has used the leadership vacuum on Capitol Hill to further demonstrate his control over his party and drag it further to the right.
Here’s more from the Guardian’s Callum Jones on the latest US unemployment data, and what it tells us about the state of the world’s largest economy:
The US workforce added 336,000 jobs last month, much more than expected, as the world’s largest economy remained resilient in the face of higher interest rates.
The sharp acceleration in hiring saw non-farm payrolls rise during September by almost twice as much as economists had anticipated. Readings for July and August were also revised higher, with 236,000 and 227,000 jobs added, respectively.
Employment growth had been fading in recent months, according to official data, but remained largely resilient while the Federal Reserve battled to get inflation under control. This bolstered hopes that the central bank will manage to guide the US economy to a so-called “soft landing”, where price growth normalizes and recession is avoided.
US saw surprisingly robust employment growth in September - data
Employers in the United States added many more jobs than expected in September, government data released a few minutes ago confirms, underscoring the labor market’s resiliences even as polls indicate voters are dissatisfied with Joe Biden’s economic policies.
The bureau of labor statistics reports that employment grew by 336,000 positions last month but the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%. That was nonetheless more job growth than economists had expected, and an acceleration from recent months:
The president has put the economy at the center of his re-election campaign, embracing the slogan “Bidenomics” and publicly promoting legislative achievements from the past two years, such as the Inflation Reduction Act to fight climate change and lower prescription drug prices, and a bipartisan bill to fund infrastructure improvements.
But while hiring has remained resilient and a much-forecasted recession has yet to arrive, Americans remain scarred by high levels of inflation experienced since Biden took office, and recent polls, including this one from the Washington Post and ABC News, have shown voters are not happy with Biden’s handling of the economy.
We’ll hear more from the president about this at 11.30am, when he is scheduled to speak about the jobs data, as well as to mark National Manufacturing Day.
Trump endorses Jim Jordan for House speaker, but race remains wide open
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Just after midnight, Donald Trump weighed in on the race for speaker of the House of Representatives, endorsing prominent conservative Jim Jordan to fill the role. It’s a significant development considering that Trump is the far-and-away frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination next year, but it, alone, is not expected to decide who next sits in the chair Kevin McCarthy was shockingly booted from earlier this week.
Majority leader Steve Scalise remains in the race, and seen by some as the frontrunner, given his position as the party’s number-two in the House. And we still may see new candidates emerge, such as Kevin Hern, chair of the large and influential Republican Study Committee. But the fact remains that the House GOP is currently riven with differences over how best to run the chamber, and while they may be planning an election for speaker next Wednesday, few believe the race will actually be resolved by then.
Here’s what else we are watching today:
Joe Biden will at 11.30am eastern time speak about the latest employment data and American manufacturing. Recent polls have shown Americans are not satisfied with his handling of the economy.
In Wisconsin, a man sought out Democratic governor Tony Evers yesterday at the capital while illegally carrying a handgun. He was arrested and released after posting bail, only to return with an assault rifle, the Associated Press reports.
Environmentalists, among others, are furious over the Biden administration’s decision to allow new border wall construction.
