Eli Stokols
@EliStokols
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White House + foreign policy correspondent @politico. Priors: West Wing Playbook co-author, @latimes @wsj alum.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2009
Washington (or at the very least deputy secretary Landau) asks European nations to choose between NATO and EU. American protection at the cost of dismantling the EU’s collective power in trade and regulation.
My recent trip to Brussels for the @NATO Ministerial meeting left me with one overriding impression: the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these
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As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a
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NEW: Too much MAGA is starting to become a problem for Gianni Infantino, as the third-term FIFA president faces internal opposition for his over-the-top courtship of Trump.
politico.com
Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wanted language on China "softened" on two major White House and Pentagon strategy documents, leading to weeks of edits and rewrites, according t multiple sources. w/ @nahaltoosi
https://t.co/SDqxYiYSM3
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Two key documents laying out the administration's strategic national security priorities are now expected to be released this month.
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THIS about the secret U.S. pressure on Europe in the high-stakes €165 billion frozen assets battle... and an overall very insightful story on "how Belgium became Russia's most valuable asset:" https://t.co/7ql6Z17Dox
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‼️Friedrich Merz will embark on an emergency trip to Belgium tomorrow evening to convince Bart de Wever over dinner to drop his opposition to the €165 billion frozen assets loan for Ukraine. Merz skips a planned trip to Norway for this, showing the seriousness of the issue.
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Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future https://t.co/RK95QH2O1r via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
A small group of G.O.P. women have been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. https://t.co/2ghuD2IdEy
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This is a pretty bleak assessment a senior House Republican sent Punchbowl today. If only this member of the US House majority knew someone with power, influence and a public platform
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So to sum up: - Plan leaks - US confirms plan real - (Some) senators condemn plan - Senators say Rubio calls them, denies it’s real plan - White House denies that denial - Rubio says yes it is real starting plan
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@alexbward @tggrove Some unanswered questions this brings up here: -Why did US let this proposal stand for four days? -Who first sent the proposal? -Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? -If so, why were Europeans and Ukrainians (and even some US officials) caught so off-guard?
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BREAKING: After talking to @SecRubio, @SenatorRounds announces that the 28 point plan was a Russian document, not a US document. Full @SenatorRounds: "@SecRubio did make a phone call to us this afternoon. I think he made it very clear to us that we are the recipients of a
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This Trump/Mamdani meeting really makes Jeffries and Schumer look like fools.
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GOP Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, rips the Trump admin’s “so-called” peace proposal for Ukraine, saying it would “reward [Putin]’s malign behavior” & won’t actually achieve peace. Snippet from Wicker’s statement: “Ukraine should not be forced to
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President Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to give up more territory, to cut its Army by more than half, to never join NATO nor let foreign troops in its territory is an abomination. Freedom loving Americans must tell the President that we reject the worst appeasement seen since
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Reporter: Stefanik has campaigned on calling Mamdani a jihadist. Do you think you’re standing next to a jihadist? Trump: No… but she's out there campaigning. You say things sometimes in a campaign. You’d have to ask her about that. I met with a man who is a rational person.
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Asked to clarify if he thinks Trump is a fascist, before Mamdani can answer, Trump intervenes and laughs it off, saying, “That’s ok. You can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining.”
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“Significant, deliberate, and sustained armed attack”—so a slicing and dicing of aggression won’t trigger that guarantee.
FULL TEXT OF THE U.S. DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR A UKRAINE SECURITY GUARANTEE: 🚨This Framework establishes the conditions for an armistice between Ukraine and the Russian Federation and provides a security assurance modeled on the principles of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty,
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Zelensky: We are facing one of the most dangerous periods in Ukrainian history, a choice between losing our dignity and freedom and losing US support. We choose dignity. My answer is my oath of office. I did not betray Ukraine in Feb 2022 and we won’t betray in now.
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