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Via The Hill’s Morgan Chalfant, President Biden is holding meetings to address the baby formula shortage. 

From a White House official: "This afternoon, President Biden will speak with retailers and infant formula manufacturers to receive an update on efforts to make infant formula supply more available.”

Via NPR’s Joe Hernandez: https://n.pr/39cf230

Via The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson: https://bit.ly/3ssHHI0 

The gist: “Bacteria, a virus, [and] trade policy”  

IT'S THURSDAY. I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here.

Following the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Democrats forced a vote to codify federal abortion rights Wednesday. 

The vote unsurprisingly failed: Democrats would have needed at least 60 votes to pass the measure. Senate Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted no. What happens now 

Watch Manchin announce his ‘no’ vote to reporters: Via CBS News’s Alan He 

Tidbit from House Democratic women: “House Democratic women walking to Senate ahead of the abortion vote, yelling ‘My decision, my body.’” Video from The Huffington Post’s Igor Bobic

Via The Hill’s Reid Wilson, “If Republicans in Congress have any qualms about announcing new abortion restrictions in the event Roe v. Wade is overturned, they are not shared by their state-level counterparts.” 

How so — they are hitting the gas on abortion restrictions: “GOP governors and state legislators are planning to hold special legislative sessions later this spring and summer to consider new measures to remove or restrict abortion rights, after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is expected to reverse the landmark decision half a century ago guaranteeing those rights.” How this could play out

Yesterday, President Biden sarcastically labeled former President Trump the “great MAGA king.”  

Biden said at an event in Chicago: “Under my predecessor — the great MAGA king — the deficit increased every single year he was president. The first year of my presidency, the first year, I reduced the deficit, literally reduced the deficit by $350 billion, first year.” More of Biden’s comments toward Republicans

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Via The Hill’s Jordain Carney, “Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is embracing his newfound role as one of President Biden’s chief GOP antagonists.” 

How so: “Scott, who has a reputation in the Senate as somewhat of a loner, is widely seen as having White House ambitions if former President Trump doesn’t run for office. And he’s not shying away from his push for Biden to debate him over inflation — a setup that, if the president accepted it, would likely draw comparisons to presidential election debates.” How Scott has embraced his new role as chief instigator

What’s going on in the race to be the next leader of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), via The Hill’s Emily Brooks 

Via Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman, “[Former Vice President Mike Pence] will come to Capitol Hill June 21 to meet with the Republican Study Committee. Pence is a former chair of the RSC. The caucus’ chair is [Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)].” https://bit.ly/3M3phVT

The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., has been sold to CGI Merchant Group for $375 million. 

What will the hotel become: A Waldorf Astoria hotel, according to The Washington Post’s Jonathan O’Connell.  

Here’s a primer on the controversies surrounding this property. 

That was fast — workers immediately took down the Trump sign: Here’s video of the sign being removed last night, via ABC News’s Oren Oppenheim.  

^ More photos of the sign removal last night, via Axios’s Cuneyt Dil 

Throwback: The Washington Post’s Dave Jorgenson tweeted a photo of a “coming soon” sign that he took in 2015. 

President Biden called for flags to fly at half-staff to honor the nearly 1 million Americans who have died from COVID-19.  

Also happening today: Biden is holding his second global COVID-19 summit. Livestream 

Keep in mind about the numbers: “Various COVID-19 trackers have different totals for the number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus. NBC News has compiled data showing more than 1 million Americans have already been lost to COVID-19, while Johns Hopkins University’s tracker has the number at slightly above 998,000.”  

Cases to date: 81.9 million 

Death toll: 995,747 

Current hospitalizations: 14,720 

Shots administered: 580 million

Fully vaccinated: 66.3 percent

CDC data here.

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The Department of Labor’s chief of staff, Dan Koh, tweeted a photo of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh posing outside of a Dunkin’ in South Korea. “Korea has a way of making @SecMartyWalsh feel right at home,” Koh tweeted. Photo

The Smithsonian tweeted, “This is the first-ever image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. At 27,000 light-years away, Sagittarius A* would look from Earth to be the size of a donut on the Moon. A global network of telescopes and 300 researchers, many from @CenterForAstro, captured this image.” Actual photo of the black hole 

The House and Senate are in. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in Washington, D.C.

• 10:15 a.m. EDT: Biden and Harris received the Presidents’ Daily Brief.
• 2 ­– 4 p.m. EDT: First and last votes in the House. The House’s agenda
• 5:30 p.m. EDT: Biden welcomes leaders of the ASEAN countries to the White House and hosts a dinner.

• 10:45 a.m. EDT: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) held a press conference. Livestream

• 2:30 p.m. EDT: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing. Livestream

Today is National Nutty Fudge Day. 

In an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” actress and comedian Ali Wentworth, who is married to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, described what it was like growing up surrounded by Washington, D.C., politics. It’s pretty entertaining.

And because you read this far, here’s another dog getting itself into another pickle.