Jennifer Scholtes
@JAscholtes
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Budget/appropriations @POLITICO, NorCal/NW native, @ChicoState grad, formerly @CQrollcall @ParadisePost @ChicoER @OaklandTrib
Washington, D.C.
Joined August 2012
Jen is one of the best and I’m so glad she’s being recognized in this way!! A great reporter and a great friend
NPF awards the 2025 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress to @JenniferShutt of @StatesNewsroom for "demonstrating clear, accessible reporting that connects national policy to real people rather than to political insiders.” https://t.co/qoXCeEgUlR
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Senate Republicans were sounding the alarm to the White House about Ingrassia for months. POLITICO's reporting was the final straw. The inside story from @Hailey_Fuchs @dlippman @jordainc
politico.com
GOP senators had sent signals to the administration since the summer that Paul Ingrassia lacked the support for confirmation, in a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump.
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Multiple Hill staffers spotted giving sizable Capitol tours today, in direct violation of shutdown guidance for both the House and Senate. During the shutdown only lawmakers are allowed to give tours. House & Senate guidance below ⬇️
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Bit of a good-cop-bad-cop act happening here ... Thune warns Democrats about Russ Vought: ‘We don’t control what he’s going to do’
politico.com
The Senate majority leader spoke out as some Republicans express qualms about the White House slash-and-burn campaign.
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Russ Vought is relishing a shutdown fight, ready to inflict 'pain on the bureaucracy' -- eye-opening @JAscholtes @meganmesserly look at the WH budget director who is making himself a main character in the spending showdown
politico.com
The White House budget director could have a prime opportunity to further execute on his small-government ideology.
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"They can find that $ ... for the war pimps. But for us it’s a little different," says @timburchett. Our KTM (@ktullymcmanus) knows EVERYTHING abt the lawmaker security debate after Charlie Kirk's death
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ICYMI: Federal spending is swelling partly because lawmakers add $ for weapons the Pentagon didn't seek. @taxpayers data shows they quietly add each year tens of billions of dollars for hundreds of projects. The military benefits are mostly unknown.
rollcall.com
Appropriators have proposed a total of $52.2 billion for 1,403 “program increases” to the Pentagon’s weapons budget request for fiscal 2026
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Schumer says Dems want to vote tomorrow on GOP CR (once it passes House) and Dems alternative CR Consent for all 100 senators would be needed to vote on GOP CR, Dem CR, both etc
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Joe Manchin gives his fair share of interviews. But this answer to @burgessev, about Trump, felt genuinely new to me.
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🇺🇸 Truflation US Employment (October): 143 million people employed We are excited to launch the Truflation Employment Index, providing real-time insights into the U.S. labor market while official data are not coming out amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Frank assessment this morning of the Democratic shutdown position from @nicholaswu12 @jordainc, including this quote from a House Dem: "We may not have the luxury of a victory scenario." https://t.co/MzYLBWRiri
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The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill @JAscholtes
https://t.co/Wlfbvf5aeI via @politico
politico.com
The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law.
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SHUTDOWN VIBES - Trump: "If you gave [Dems] every dream right now...they want to give away money to this or that & destroy the country. If you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it." "they’re sick" “Don’t even bother dealing with them" https://t.co/I2LXuVCjY0
politico.com
The president weighed in after top Democratic leaders sketched out ultimatums on health care.
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NEW - Ways and Means Republicans discussed ACA tax credits during their lunch today Lots of discussion - but conversation got rather “tense,” per sources It’s a politically divisive issue for Rs - who need a plan ASAP. Ways has jurisdiction. W/ @ben_guggenheim
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The GOP megabill will result in the removal of 290,000 immigrants + the voluntary exit of 30,000 others over the next five years, @USCBO estimates. Overall, amid Trump policies, 1.3 million fewer immigrants are expected this year than CBO projected in January
politico.com
Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper estimates that the Republican megabill enacted in July will spur the deportation of 290,000 immigrants and the voluntary exit of 30,000 others over the next five...
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Schumer moves to force Senate vote on Epstein files this mirrors @RepThomasMassie - @RoKhanna bill Senate very likely will eventually have to vote on the Massie-Khanna bill itself - given discharge petition is on track for 218 signatures @jordainc
https://t.co/F0Yuibddax
politico.com
The minority leader introduced the measure as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill.
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Want to understand the shutdown fight? Read this @jordainc @nicholaswu12 story. An obvious deal is to be had: ACA subsidy extension + FY26 funding. But there are internal politics in both parties making it hard to get there. We walk you through it. https://t.co/aXgkzy4U17
politico.com
There's a bipartisan deal to be had combining government funding with an extension of health insurance subsidies. But some lawmakers are wary.
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NEW: @RandPaul on @VP’s Venezuela strike post — “what really ticked me off and got me going was for someone to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process” “That to me was a disdain for human life” From @JAscholtes
https://t.co/jHadhiHJ8Q
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White House has quietly tweaked its pocket rescission. $29M for U.S. contributions to the World Trade Organization is now deleted from the list of canceled cash, to “limit confusion,” a Trump administration official says. per @_AriHawkins
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NEW: Lawmakers unwilling to battle Trump directly have been quietly hopeful the courts would resolve President Trump's bid to commandeer their power of the purse. It hasn't happened, and now the hour of reckoning has arrived. w/ @JAscholtes
https://t.co/3lFPvCS3V5
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