Today’s notice: Everybody’s working for the weekend, or more accurately, the Thursday before the weekend when they can leave for a month. New developments in the MoonPay crypto story we uncovered. The DNC’s new rural hospital messaging. And: What it sounded like in government geography circles when Trump first floated “Gulf of America.”
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You don’t have to stir the pot at home, but you can’t stay here: On the one hand, there’s going home for a month and letting Capitol Hill become a distant memory as you dial for reelection dollars.
On the other: “This is about whether there’s an elite and powerful group of people who are above the law or whether they answer to the law,” Rep. Thomas Massie told our Hill team Monday.
This week is all about whether House lawmakers can skedaddle before an awkward vote on the whole Epstein thing, and what it means politically when they inevitably do.