Fun Eli Stokols piece exploring the love-hate relationship between the White House and the New York Times, chock full of wild details politico.com/news/magazine/…

NEW: Biden’s team thinks they’re “entitled” and often “failing” in their coverage.

The NYT says the WH isn’t “being realistic” and has grown frustrated they can’t get an Oval Office interview.

A look at how this relationship deteriorated.

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Part of the Biden strategy on junk fees — encouraging action by the states — is taking shape.

Which makes sense when polling shows this to be among the most popular policies.

BIDEN: “For all the talk about how dysfunctional things are in Washington, when you look over the last three years, we see that time and again on the critical issues we’ve actually come together.”

Approving new Ukraine aid is a “critical moment,” Biden says.

“Imagine if we had failed…all those gains [by Ukraine] would have unraveled, NATO would have been weakened and our national security would have been undermined.”

In a new essay in Foreign Affairs magazine that lays out a foreign policy based on what he calls “progressive realism,” he said Britain needed to focus on rebuilding its security ties with the European Union, which have withered in the aftermath of Brexit.

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Pence urged Democrats and Republicans to “rally around Johnson.”

Unsurprisingly, his post was besieged by commenters calling both Republicans “traitors”; one said it was an example of a “Judas supporting another Judas.”

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Biden statement:

Pentagon arms will reach Ukraine in less than a week once aid bill clears Congress - The Washington Post

The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said. They also noted that the Defense Department initiated the assembly of this

I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track.

Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to

Cheering as Ukraine aid passes the House, chants of “Ukraine”

“Daniel would be 40 years old [this year]. Of course, I don’t go there — I don’t think what he’d be doing, what he’d be like. To me, he’s still 15.” politico.com/newsletters/we…

Enjoyed talking with ⁦Vinson Cunningham⁩ about “Great Expectations” and the process of writing fiction about Obama’s first campaign during the Trump presidency. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Why Katie Glueck is a first-rate reporter: she knows the value of showing up

'As Linda Cromley, 76, walked into a performing arts center at Bloomsburg University on Sunday evening, she expressed irritation with the way Mr. McCormick had portrayed himself'

“What drew you to [RFK]?”

“He reached out. He found me interesting…we went on hikes together.”

Just minutes after the full jury was selected in Donald Trump's New York hush money criminal trial, someone appears to have set themself on fire outside the courthouse, per CNN's Laura Coates.

Today on Inside Politics, an exasperated Rep. Dusty Johnson compares some of his fellow Republicans to 'pyromaniacs who want to burn it down' and says those who refuse to back Speaker Johnson 'give a certain amount of power' to Democrats.