Heard on the Hill
DEBANKING POLL: Americans for Free Markets (AFFM) released polling that shows broad bipartisan support for President Donald Trump’s executive order to end government-driven debanking. Among AFFM’s findings are that “91% agree federal regulators should enforce banking laws using objective standards, not political or reputational considerations.”
COTTON VICTORY DINNER: Sources tell us Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and his finance team — led by The Morning Group’s Annie Baker and Mackenzie Dolan — hosted a dinner for major contributors in D.C. to celebrate his 72-point primary victory in the Arkansas primary election. The group discussed Cotton’s plan to help his colleagues across the country and ensure Republicans hold the Senate.
BIPARTISAN MOMENTUM ON HOUSING: Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), the Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, discussed the progress on the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, telling Squawk Box that “when President Trump and Elizabeth Warren and Senate Republicans can all come to the same place on a housing bill, it shows that if you put partisan politics aside and focus on the issues impacting the American people, you can get results.”
CONGRESS VS. CODE PINK: The House Committee on Education and Workforce, led by Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.), is escalating its feud with Code Pink, which the committee Republicans called “half-witted tools being used by America’s adversaries to exploit our kids and push antisemitic foreign propaganda in schools.” The latest flareup stems from a report that “Code Pink, a CCP-backed and foreign-funded activist group, is pushing a summer series to fight ‘Zionist brainwashing.'”
SHE’S RUNNING: Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) immediately announced that she will run to succeed Rep. Kevin Hern (R., Okla.) as Chair of the Republican Policy Committee.
WEST COAST UPDATE: Haley Strack just joined City Journal and published her first piece alongside Chris Rufo spotlighting the “Racialist Slush Fund” in San Francisco.
DISPATCH FROM RWANDA: Last year, President Donald Trump helped secure the Washington Accords peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. But Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, in remarks obtained by the Washington Reporter, laid out at a diplomatic dinner that the DRC is failing to uphold its part of the deal. Rwanda, Kagame explained, now “faces an impossible choice: To either tolerate the continued presence of the FDLR and its growing network of militias, and allow them to grow closer to our border, or to defend ourselves and be condemned for it.”
BIRTHDAY ROUNDUP: The Washington Reporter wishes a happy birthday to several of our readers who turned another year older and wiser in recent days: Monadnock Strategies’s Jesse Hunt, Taxpayer Protection Alliance’s Kara Zupkus, Miller Strategies’s Jeff Miller, Rep. Mike Ezell’s Olivia Fahrmann, and the White House’s Meghan Selip.
SHOWTIME: Comedian Rob Schneider is coming to the Trump Kennedy Center next week alongside journalist Jan Jekielek for a discussion on Jekielek’s new book, Killed to Order, which explores serious questions surrounding organ transplant practices in China and their wider worldwide implications. Tickets are available here for free; advanced registration is, however, required due to security concerns.
