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The House GOP goes through growing pains, debt-sealing messaging,

plus what's next for Representative Ilhan Omar.

Here are the big things we're watching on Tuesday, January 31st.

As House Republicans try to boot, Representative Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee,

the Minnesota Democrat is laying the groundwork to maintain her leadership on key international issues.

Today, we're told, Omar will launch a new U.S. Africa policy working group

aimed at organizing bipartisan

briefings with administration officials, NGOs, and other Africa experts who are tackling issues

from agriculture and infrastructure to governance and climate change. And ahead of their meeting on

Wednesday, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had this to say

about the dead ceiling. Biden, when asked by CNN, what his message to McCarthy would be in that

meeting, said it would be, show me your budget, and I'll show you mine. For McCarthy, according to CNN's

Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, and Lauren Fox, the challenge will be in balancing the interests

of House Republicans eager to use their leverage on the debt ceiling to enact priorities

that would otherwise be ignored by the White House and the Senate, but also finding a deal

with Democrats without being seen as caving into their demands.

One month into the House Republican majority, a clear picture is emerging of the problems

Speaker Kevin McCarthy will face managing his slim five-seat majority.

Already, Republicans are scrambling to salvage red meat proposals they've been talking about for months,

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