Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It is Friday, April 21st, and here are a couple big stories I'm watching.

Today, the Supreme Court's expected to issue a ruling with major implications for reproductive rights and for health care.

On Wednesday, you may recall that Justice Samuel Lillito extended the stay on a lower court's ruling that would have severely restricted Mipiphypristone, which is the most widely used abortion pill in the U.S.

That stay ends tonight at 11.59 p.m., which means that we are likely to get some major insight over the next 12 hours or so, perhaps,

into what the future of abortion rights looks like in a post-row and a post-Dobbs, America.

As we get into the weekend here, parts of Washington are already a buzz about next week

and the days-long sort of button-down bacchanalia of the build-up to

the White House correspondence dinner.

How's that for some alliteration?

But there is actual news happening in Washington next week.

The House is expected to vote on Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy's opening debt limit

proposal, which is aimed to be sort of a

flex of power by the Republican House. One problem for McCarthy is that he doesn't have 218 votes

lined up at least yet. And on the other side of the aisle, there's a problem for Democrats, which is

that a growing number of House

Dems want party leaders to restart negotiations on the debt limit proposal and are quietly,

and in some cases, not so quietly, nudging President Joe Biden to meet with McCarthy.

You can actually read more about that from my colleagues Nick Wu and Adam Cancran,

who wrote about this yesterday evening.

The other thing happening next week that is already driving chatter in official Washington is that President Joe Biden is reportedly eyeing next Tuesday, April 25th, for a sort of soft launch of his re-election campaign, most likely via some sort of online video.

Here to talk with me about that is the one and only Eugene Daniels.

Eugene, what are you hearing?

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