Plus: Bullets in vending machines | Wednesday, July 10, 2024
| | | | | | | Presented By Amazon | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Jul 10, 2024 | | Good afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 531 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. 💡 Join me and Axios' Colin Demarest tomorrow at 8:15 a.m. ET in D.C. for an event celebrating the launch of our new weekly Future of Defense newsletter. - We'll speak with former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies Anne Neuberger. Register to join us here.
| | | | | | 1 big thing: Scoop — 3 top Biden aides subpoenaed | | | | President Biden speaks during a meeting of national union leaders at the AFL-CIO today. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images The GOP-led House Oversight Committee subpoenaed three senior White House aides today, demanding they sit for depositions regarding President Biden's health, according to letters obtained by Axios' Alex Thompson. - Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, senior adviser Ashley Williams and First Lady Jill Biden's top aide, Anthony Bernal.
- Comer also cited a recent Axios report about Bernal and Tomasini having access to the first family's residence — a situation that White House residence staff found unusual since political staffers often don't have such access.
🔎 Why it matters: The subpoenas signal Republicans' desire to investigate whether some of Biden's closest aides essentially have hidden the 81-year-old president's true condition — in a probe that could drag through the Nov. 5 election. - In each letter, Comer writes that the committee is "concerned" that each official is "one of several White House staffers who have taken it upon themselves to run the country while the President cannot."
Go deeper. |     | | | | | | 2. 🚘 Used cars get cheaper | | |  Data: Cox Automotive; Chart: Axios Visuals Used vehicle prices are plummeting, Axios Closer co-author Nathan Bomey reports — good news if you're in the market for a ride, bad news if you've got a trade-in. - Why it matters: Used car prices were a major driver of post-pandemic inflation.
📉 By the numbers: Average wholesale prices declined 8.9% in June to $17,934, compared with a year earlier, according to Cox Automotive's Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index. - 🔌 The price declines are hitting EVs the hardest, as choices proliferate and some consumers balk at the chance to go electric.
- Used EV prices are down 16.6% over the last year, and the average price of a 2023 Tesla Model 3 with two-wheel-drive has plunged 40% in a year, according to Manheim.
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- 📺 "It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run," former Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short." Go deeper.
- 🎤 Eight Democrats in Congress have now publicly called for Biden to step down. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🤖 Ammo vending machines | | | | This undated photo provided by American Rounds shows a vending machine that sells ammunition. Similar machines exist across the U.S. Photo: American Rounds via AP Vending machines that sell bullets are now operational in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas. - American Rounds, the Texas-based company that owns the machines, said they use an ID scanner and facial recognition software to verify the buyer's age.
- Gun-control advocates say making ammunition available in grocery stores will lead to more shootings.
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