Last month, House Republicans passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut wasteful government spending. But Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has refused to hold a Senate vote on the bill, while the White House has claimed it will not negotiate on raising the debt limit... Yet here we are. “President Biden hasn’t dropped the microphone; he appears to have lost it. Mr. Biden is turning into a news media evader, and it’s harmful to his presidency and the nation,” the Post wrote. “So far in 2023, Mr. Biden has done zero solo news conferences. He did conduct two ‘joint news conferences’ in which the president and a visiting foreign leader faced the media together.” The Texas Senate voted Monday to approve a new energy bill that would impose new permitting restrictions on renewable energy projects, a measure billed as increasing reliability but that threatens to deter investment and drive up consumers' energy costs. Plus more on today's episode.