Eli Okun

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Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to balance competing demands from both ends of his conference. | Francis Chung/POLITICO RECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES: As the House GOP barrels toward the most pivotal committee markups for its reconciliation megabill, moderate/front-line members are pushing hard today to get their top priorities included — but so are fiscal hawks.

1 week ago | politico.com | Eli Okun

BIG NEWS: President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will stop its intense bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen after almost two months, saying the rebels had told Washington they “don’t want to fight anymore,” per POLITICO’s Jack Detsch. The sudden turn: “We will stop the bombings and they have capitulated,” Trump told reporters at his Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged investors to focus on the U.S. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images TRADING PLACES: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today made the pitch for investing in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, trying to woo the ultra-wealthy at the Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills, California.

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President Donald Trump celebrated a solid jobs report and declared it evidence that his policies are working. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images JOBS DAY: The U.S. added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs last month, showing that the labor market kept humming even as President Donald Trump launched a major protectionist shift, per POLITICO’s Sam Sutton. What slowdown? The unemployment rate remained flat at 4.2 percent, and the number of new jobs was only slightly down from March.

1 week ago | politico.com | Eli Okun

National security adviser Mike Waltz's time may be up imminently. | Alex Brandon/AP MIKE DROP: President Donald Trump intends to oust national security adviser Mike Waltz in the first major shake-up of his second-term White House, POLITICO’s Dasha Burns, Jake Traylor, Felicia Schwartz and Robbie Gramer report. Though it isn’t final — and Trump can always change his mind — the push to boot Waltz has gained recent momentum after he lost the support of other top officials.