The president initially stated that he would endorse a candidate in the runoff and ask the other to drop out, though he held off on doing so after Paxton offered to drop out if Cornyn could secure passage of the SAVE America Act, a marquis voter ID bill.
The risk of an explosion or spill has fallen, the authorities said, but residents closest to the plant cannot yet return. Some have begun to ask who should be held accountable.
Data: The Conference Board ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios Consumer confidence soured in early May, according to the Conference Board, though the reading shows a far less bleak economic mood than its peer survey from the University of Michigan, which plumbed new lows Friday. Why it matters: Directionally, the two surveys send the same signal: Consumers are downgrading their economic views as the war-driven energy shock weighs on household budgets. - But whether consumers feel worse about the economy now than at any other point in the past half-century depends on which survey you reference. Driving the news: The Conference Board's monthly consumer confidence index fell 0.7 percentage point in May, to 93.1. But it ticked down to a level…
Data: The Conference Board ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios Consumer confidence soured in early May, according to the Conference Board, though the reading shows a far less bleak economic mood than its peer survey from the University of Michigan, which plumbed new lows Friday. Why it matters: Directionally, the two surveys send the same signal: Consumers are downgrading their economic views as the war-driven energy shock weighs on household budgets. - But whether consumers feel worse about the economy now than at any other point in the past half-century depends on which survey you reference. Driving the news: The Conference Board's monthly consumer confidence index fell 0.7 percentage point in May, to 93.1. But it ticked down to a level…Open