The White House has not seen any new intelligence to indicate there is an imminent threat of Russia using nuclear weapons, even as President Biden warned that the rhetoric coming from Moscow has put the world at its greatest nuclear risk since the Cuban Missile Crisis. "We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. Jean-Pierre downplayed the severity of Biden's rhetoric, arguing he was reinforcing the administration's consistent message that Russia's threats are "irresponsible" and should be taken seriously. "That's what the president was making very clear," she said. Biden, speaking at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at the New York City home of businessman James Murdoch on Thursday, expressed doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia could use a smaller, tactical nuclear weapon without it leading to "armageddon." "We have not faced the prospect of armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Biden said, citing the 1962 standoff with the Soviet Union. Biden's comments are some of the starkest yet from U.S. officials about the threat of Russia using a nuclear weapon and dramatically escalating its war in Ukraine. Read more here. |
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Welcome to The Hill's Evening Report, catching you up on news from the afternoon and looking at the big stories likely to impact tomorrow. |
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🚨 Uvalde school district suspends entire police force
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The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has suspended its entire police force after months of complaints from the families of victims killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May. |
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🇰🇵 US sanctions target North Korean weapons network
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The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions targeting North Korea's weapons supply network after Pyongyang held a series of provocative missile tests over the past two weeks. |
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✉️ Judge: DeJoy postal changes before 2020 election harmed delivery |
A federal judge has found that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's changes
to the U.S. Postal Service before the 2020 election harmed mail delivery.
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🗽 New York mayor declares state of emergency over influx of migrants
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New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) has announced that the city is entering
a state of emergency as it anticipates a record number of asylum-seekers. |
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🍑 Georgia GOP lieutenant governor blasts Trump over Walker woes
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Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan blamed former President Trump for embattled GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker's campaign as Walker's Senate bid remains engulfed in scandal.
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📱 Musk: Trump's Truth Social 'essentially a rightwing echo chamber'
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Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, who is in the process of purchasing Twitter, knocked former President Trump's rival social media platform
Truth Social, calling it a "rightwing echo chamber." |
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👪 500 kids separated from families under Trump have been reunited
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The Biden administration has reunited 500 migrant children separated from their families under the Trump White House's zero tolerance border policy, an official told The Hill Friday. |
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💰 Abrams outraises Kemp by $8M in last three months
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Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams outraised Republican rival Gov. Brian Kemp (R) by nearly $8 million in the most recent fundraising quarter.
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🔍 House Ethics is investigating Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney |
The House Ethics Committee is investigating outgoing Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the Oversight and Reform Committee, on unspecified allegations.
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🧾 Why defunding IRS auditors won't be easy GOP promise to keep
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Republicans heading into November's midterm elections are talking a big game on the IRS, promising to take back the $80 billion in agency funding provided by Democrats and scuttle plans to hire what the GOP has characterized as an army of new auditors. |
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🌧️ Hurricane Julia expected to form over Caribbean this weekend
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Tropical Storm Julia, which would be the 10th named storm of the season,
will likely become a hurricane over the southern Caribbean this weekend,
the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. |
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🤨 Dwayne Johnson says White House bid 'off the table'
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is no longer cooking up a White House bid, and will confirm in a "CBS Sunday Morning" interview this weekend that presidential aspirations are officially "off the table." |
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When civil war becomes all the rage | "There was a time when Americans had values. It seems those values have disappeared, and many things that used to be unacceptable, even unthinkable, became common," writes William S. Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, a nonpartisan think tank focused on federal energy and climate policies. |
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