Isa Domínguez
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Doralzuelan reporting with @POLITICO's energy team 🇻🇪 | Hablo español | Send me tips at [email protected]
Joined February 2025
I’m among today’s Washington Post layoffs. It was an absolute dream to cover everything — from immigration, to Venezuela to politics to national breaking news — over the past 5 years. If you’re hiring or know of someone who is: mpaulrangel(at)gmail(dot)com
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Hey folks we don't have a lot of jobs open right now but here are a few: Tax policy editor, audio/video producer, video producer. https://t.co/PhRJme6SO7
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And here is a GoFundMe for the more serious needs of those who have been laid off.
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On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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I was laid off today from The Washington Post. It was the honor of a lifetime to begin my career here. I am proud of the work I have done & endlessly grateful to the people who trusted me to tell their stories. If you're hiring or want to reach out: emmauber02(@)gmail(dot)com
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New in ME this morning: Treasury is working on a number of specific licenses for additional companies to return or expand their operations in Venezuela, including Chevron, Spanish oil giant Repsol and Harry Sargeant's Global Oil Management Group.
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Scoop in ME: @HouseCommerce Committee will announce a Feb. 3 hearing w/ all five FERC’s commissioners. It will be the 1st time they testify before House this Congress, and it comes as Winter Storm Fern is stressing the power grid. Chair Guthrie will focus on pipeline permitting
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ICYMI: Trump suffers major court losses in his offshore wind war. What it means going forward. “Trump is getting his butt kicked again. The question is whether he learns from that,” Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.). W/ @kelseytam, @lesleyclark, @niina_h_farah
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The administration’s arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts.
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Background here, including an expected fight on whether the Biden mining withdrawal constitutes a “rule” subject to the CRA
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Rep. Pete Stauber plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution Friday that would nix the Biden-era withdrawal.
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New in ME: Sens. Whitehouse & Heinrich, top Dems of EPW & ENR, told me they're relieved Revolution Wind can restart construction - and they expect more court wins for offshore wind projects - but that's not enough to re-open permitting talks. They need to see changes from Trump
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ME first: API President @mj_sommers will underscore that U.S. oil companies need “stable governance, rule of law, operational security, physical safety, and long-term investment certainty” in order to return to Venezuela, in remarks at annual event shared early w/us. @jamepdx
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Scoop: @RepYoungKim and @RepBera are introducing the DOMINANCE Act, a revamp of U.S. efforts to secure critical minerals abroad. It’s a rare bipartisan bill developed with the Trump administration. https://t.co/qRF5nOijiG
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The bipartisan bill, developed with the Trump administration, would reconstitute the State Department’s energy bureau and expand diplomatic efforts in a bid to compete with China on critical minerals.
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Exxon CEO Darren Woods to Trump: Venezuela is ‘uninvestible’ for now https://t.co/mE6yxAs5cU
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The CEOs heaped praise on the president’s actions in Venezuela but made no firm commitments to put money into restoring the country’s oil production.
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Republicans insist their party’s midterm messaging will center on affordability But they’re starting 2026 talking mostly about Venezuela House Rs insist they can handle both issues: "We can walk and chew gum," NRCC Chair Hudson said w/ @riley_rogerson
https://t.co/rE36URAzU8
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Republicans’ top midterm issues have been affordability and the economy. They don’t expect the Venezuela strike to distract from that.
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New in ME: Lawmakers in both parties are wary about Trump admin dishing out taxpayer funds to incentivize U.S. oil companies to invest in Venezuela. “I hope we don't provide financial backstop," Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) told me
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NEW: Republicans expressed tepid support for Trump's plan to sell Venezuelan oil, projecting confidence in Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s ability to manage the funds. But they demanded some oversight over how the money would be spent. w @meredithllee
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Republicans expressed tepid support for the Trump administration's plan to sell Venezuelan oil.
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The U.S. will continue to sell crude from Venezuela “indefinitely,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told an energy industry conference in Florida Wednesday. https://t.co/UBhQhfkiXB
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The Energy secretary’s statement comes after the U.S. seized another sanctioned crude tanker.
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Trump says the US will sell 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, he’ll personally control the proceeds https://t.co/xqMs0ERYQZ
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The president said he would personally control the proceeds from the sales to ensure they are being used to “benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States.”
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In Morning Energy, more GOP skepticism on Trump's Venezuela oil push: “What board in their right mind would make these sorts of capital investments with only the certainty of our president being the president for another three years?” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told me
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I just asked Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) if Congress should pay oil companies to invest in Venezuela. "I’d rather subsidize Gulf of America Coast refiners to retrofit for light sweet American oil and let the Bakken and Permian flow," he told me. "Drill America First Baby"
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New: Trump says the U.S. is ‘running’ Venezuela But Senate Republicans have no idea what ‘running’ Venezuela even means “That’s a matter of interpretation,” Sen. Jim Risch, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told me w/ @riley_rogerson
https://t.co/WBsb6BmXAA
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“I think that’s a matter of interpretation,” Sen. Jim Risch, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told NOTUS.
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