HISTORIC HOUSING ANNOUNCEMENT: JPMorganChase announced the intent to deploy over $750 billion over the next decade to build more houses and support largely first-time homeowners. The announcement by the nation’s largest bank comes after the Republican-led passing of the ROAD To Housing Act, which the firm supported.
DSA ON THE RISE: The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) scored win after win in Michigan last night, winning in open primaries and succeeding in ousting Rep. Shri Thanedar (D., Mich.) in the Democratic primary. In the night’s marquee race, Abdul El-Sayed beat Rep. Haley Stevens (D., Mich.), but in other key races, Democrats nominated a DSA member to run against Rep. Tom Barrett (R., Mich.), and Abbas Alawieh, the founder of the anti-Israel Uncommitted movement, won a primary for a Dearborn-based state Senate seat.
BACKUP FROM ACROSS THE POND: Reps. Laurel Lee (R., Fla.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) won praise for their Defiance Act from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who said that the bipartisan bill would “create a civil right of action for survivors of nonconsensual deepfakes.”
FOLLOW THE [FOREIGN] MONEY: Americans for Public Trust (APT) released a new tool to help Americans track the billions of dollars of foreign money that other countries are spending to attempt to influence American politics; the tool has already logged over $5 billion in foreign spending.
IT’S ALL RELATIVE: The Washington Reporter’s Matthew Foldi caught up with Troy Jackson in Washington, D.C., shortly after the Maine Democrat won his party’s coronation to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) after Graham Platner withdrew from the race. Foldi asked Jackson for advice on good dating spots in Maine, shortly after reports surfaced in the Maine Wire that Jackson has two children with his second cousin.
COOPER ON NOTICE: Former Gov. Roy Cooper (D., N.C.) is under renewed scrutiny for his decisions as governor to release thousands of violent criminals. Senate Leadership Fund is out with a new ad featuring Ronald Hayes discussing his son Shemar’s murder; in the ad, Hayes discusses how Cooper’s decision to release criminals from jail early gave violent criminals a second chance that his son will never have.
GIRL BOSS ALERT: Grace Carnathan, Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R., Wis.) communications director, has added comms director for the Senate Budget Committee as her boss assumes his new role as Chairman.
FIVE YEARS AND BEYOND!: Victoria Garrastacho and Grace Newton, two mainstays of D.C. in the Trump era, moved to the area five years ago this week. The nation’s capital has been thankful for them every day since.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS: This is a tremendous week for birthdays, and the Washington Reporter wants to wish a happy birthday to our editor-in-chief, Matthew Foldi, as well as to Tom Brady, Ainsley Bice, Nick Ballas, Logan Luse, Hunter Pollack, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Vice President JD Vance, and former President Barack Obama.
