Today’s notice: Politicking after an assassination. Honoring Charlie Kirk. Going nuclear in the Senate (and not helping the spending debate). And: The chaos after Trump’s “Gulf of America” announcement.
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Agony of the new normal: “I had to have a talk with my 17-year-old son last night, who asked me not to run again because he’s worried his dad’s going to get killed,” Rep. Randy Fine, a Florida Republican, told the NOTUS Hill team yesterday. “And I can’t, I can’t tell him that that is a crazy perspective.”
Fearing political violence is pervasive in Congress and on the campaign trail. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez canceled a rally scheduled for Sunday in North Carolina. Rep. Nancy Mace also declared that she was canceling all outdoor events for the foreseeable future.
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One idea under consideration is expanding a pilot program offering funding for member security unveiled by Mike Johnson after the June shootings of two state legislators in Minnesota.