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Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, just clarified that is does not actually plan to retire soon.

Where this originated: Politico published an interview with Fauci on Monday, where the 81-year-old said he plans to step down from his position by the end of Biden’s term.

Fauci was asked about this comment at The Hill’s ‘Future of Health Care Summit’ this morning: “I’m not going to retire. No, no, I’m not going to retire. I may step down from my current position at some time,” Fauci explained. 

Fauci elaborated — there’s more he wants to do in his career: “What happens between now and then I have not decided, but the one thing I do know is that I have other things that I want to do in a professional way that I want to have the capability — while I still have the energy and the passion to do them.” 

More on the back and forth, via The Hill’s Joseph Choi 

Watch Fauci’s full response: He addresses retirement right around the 1:17:34-mark.

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Gas prices have hit a two-month low in the U.S., with the average price at $4.495 per gallon. More from Bloomberg’s Alex Longley

Via The Washington Post’s William Booth, “If you want to mark an unnatural, scary, real-world data point for climate change, it is here in Britain, right now, which saw its hottest day on record Tuesday, with temperatures hitting 40.2 Celsius or 104 Fahrenheit at London Heathrow. It’s an extreme-weather episode, a freak peak heat, not seen since modern record keeping began a century and a half ago.” The full story

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Via The Washington Post’s Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell, “House Democrats this week will push Republicans to go on the record starting on Tuesday with votes that would give same-sex and interracial marriages federal protection and repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.” 

Plus: “The House will also vote later in the week on legislation that would protect access to birth control and protect health-care providers from penalties for administering it.”  

Keep in mind: “[I]t’s possible this week’s legislation related to same-sex marriage and interracial marriage, as well as birth control, could become law.” What to expect 

^ Adding onto House votes last week: The House passed two abortion-related bills: One to codify Roe and the other to protect travel to receive an abortion. More from ABC News

Where that effort stands, via The Hill’s Julia Mueller 

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“Angry Senate Democrats have to decide what to do about Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) after he blew up President Biden’s tax reform and climate agenda last week, prompting calls for the maverick senator to lose his committee chairmanship and get kicked out of the party.” 

But Democrats have to keep it to themselves: “[L]awmakers are reluctant to retaliate against their colleague because they still need his vote to pass a scaled-down budget reconciliation bill that would lower prescription drug prices and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans.” 

Oh and then there’s this threat: “There’s the looming threat that Manchin could leave the Democratic Party and caucus as an Independent with Republicans, which would put Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in control.” 

How Democrats are handling their frustrations, via The Hill’s Alexander Bolton

From The Hill’s Emily Brooks 

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who is leading the House investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege, announced this morning that he has tested positive for COVID-19. 

Timing: The committee has planned for a Thursday prime-time hearing, which could potentially be the last hearing of the summer.  

Will Thursday’s hearing still happen?: Yes, according to the committee’s spokesperson. 

The Secret Service had deleted its text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, due to a system migration. The full back and forth

Sarah Matthews, the former deputy press secretary in the Trump administration, will testify on Thursday, according to CNN’s Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen.  

And so will former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger. 

Keep in mind about Sarah Matthews: She resigned hours after the pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. What to know about Matthews 

What is Matthews up to now?: “The 27-year-old is currently the communications director for Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, a position she has held since February 2021.” 

From Time’s Akiko Iwasaki and Albert Ko 

Cases to date: 89.3 million 

Death toll: 1,019,210 

Current hospitalizations: 21,648 

Shots administered: 599 million

Fully vaccinated: 67.1 percent

CDC data here.

NBC News’s Frank Thorp V tweeted, “Heads up: If you need to take a quick trip to Narnia they installed a wardrobe portal in the Senate subway!” Photo of the new installation 

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