McCarthy's choice: His job or yours

Plus, new SCOTUS ethics crisis [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023 THE LATEST [Alternate text] [Kevin McCarthy can't pin a debt ceiling fiasco on Biden]( By Hayes Brown Here's a periodic reminder: There is, as of now, still no plan to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, leaving open the chance of a potentially catastrophic blow to the global economy as soon as June. In a letter to the White House on Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tried to pin the lack of progress on President Joe Biden. From McCarthy's point of view, Biden is "putting an already fragile economy in jeopardy" by refusing to link raising the debt ceiling to negotiations over federal spending. He claimed that "House Republicans are united" in their view that the only way to stave off disaster is through a deal that would "Limit Spending, Save Taxpayer Money, and Grow the Economy." It's a nice slogan and the closest McCarthy has come to laying out terms for a potential deal. This is a preview of Hayes Brown's latest article. [Read the full column here](.     TOP STORIES [Alternate text] [A photo of Rasheem Carter]( [BEN CRUMP]( Rasheem Carter was lynched in Mississippi. The DOJ can't look away.]( Carter, whose family I now represent, went missing after twice reporting to police that he was being hunted by a group of white men.Read more.]( [A still from Nashville police body cam footage]( [JOY-ANN REID]( [Why Americans need to watch the Nashville bodycam footage]( No other country does this to their children, forcing little kids to live — and die — like this. [Read more.]( [A photo of Sen. Josh Hawley]( [STEVE BENEN]( [Sen. Josh Hawley plays his own victim card two years after lone 'no' vote on anti-AAPI hate law]( I'm eager to hear the senator explain the evolution of his perspective on hate crimes, because at this point, his principles appear quite malleable. [Read more.]( [A photo of David Pecker]( [LISA RUBIN]( [The Manhattan DA's hush money case could come down to this one witness]( As far as the public knows, there has been no grand jury vote on a Trump indictment. So what gives? Read more.]( TOP VIDEOS [Alternate text] [A photo of Ginni and Clarence Thomas]( THE LAST WORD]( [Lawrence: Secret funds of Ginni Thomas group may be worst SCOTUS ethics crisis ever]( [A split photo of Bernie Sanders and Howard Schultz]( ALL IN]( [Sen. Sanders: Starbucks broke the law and thinks it can get away with it]( [A photo of Fox CEO Suzanne Scott]( [ALL IN]( [New Fox emails: CEO says Trump fact-checks are 'bad for business']( [A photo of Charlotte Clymer]( [THE REIDOUT]( [Trans activist slams GOP for 'trying to weaponize' Nashville shooting 'for the ballot box']( [MORE FROM MSNBC]( [Alternate text] www.peacocktv.com/morningjoe Morning Joe is now streaming live on Peacock every weekday from 6-10 a.m. ET. You can find Joe, Mika, and Willie on their own channel as part of the Peacock Morning News Live offering. [For more information, click here](.   MSNBC legal contributors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord, two of the most well-respected prosecutors in the country, are teaming up to share their expertise on MSNBC's newest podcast mini-series "Prosecuting Donald Trump." How do you build a legal case when the defendant is… a former president? The legal duo will tell us how a prosecutor — from Alvin Bragg to Fani Willis to Jack Smith — might think about this process. [Listen now, in The Beat's podcast feed.](   [Image] [Image] 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily) [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily)