Jennifer Bendery
@jbendery
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I report on Congress, the White House + political campaigns for HuffPost. Bluesky: @jbendery.bsky.social. Tips: [email protected]. Signal: jbendery.41
Washington, DC
Joined August 2008
gaslighting (v.) -- to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
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RT @AlannaVagianos: ACOG, the country’s largest organization of OB-GYN providers, announced that it will stop accepting funds from the Trum….
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced it will no longer accept government funds due to “recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations.”
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Obama's deputy labor secretary on Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief because he got a bad jobs report: "Preposterously stupid and deeply dangerous for our economy." via @jamieson.
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"There is absolutely no chance that the BLS commissioner manipulated the jobs and unemployment data to hurt Donald Trump," a former labor official says.
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Every Republican senator voted to gut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a couple of weeks ago, except for two: Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.
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Warner says the latest jobs report "confirmed what economists have been warning for months: President Trump’s chaotic trade war and erratic tariffs" are hurting businesses and families. Now Trump is "willing to sacrifice. the integrity of our economic data" to hide his damage.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has been a key source of funding for NPR, PBS and local TV and radio stations across the country for more than 50 years, is shutting down after Trump and Republicans in Congress rescinded its funding.
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The organization is a key source of funding for NPR, PBS, local public TV and radio stations around the country.
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a member of the banking and the finance committees, notes that the now-fired BLM commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, is a nonpolitical career civil servant who analyzes economic data. “Firing the ump doesn’t change the score.".
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Sen. Ron Wyden, top Dem on the finance committee, on Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner b/c he got a bad jobs report:. “This is the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inflicting on our economy.".
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Trump got bad job numbers, so he fired the person who showed him his bad job numbers.
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Trump’s unhinged, on-again, off-again tariff scheme led to a weak jobs report Friday.
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Nearly 150,000 federal workers have left under Trump, a new analysis shows
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Making employees miserable has helped the administration push them out the door through deferred resignation and early retirement programs.
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Trump just delivered the worst three months of job growth since the pandemic
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The last six months of Biden’s presidency saw twice as many jobs added as the first six months of Trump’s second term.
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RT @kaitlancollins: A new statement from the family of Virginia Giuffre and several of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers:. ….
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: The booming economy that created a whole 14,000 jobs in June and 73,000 jobs in July.
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NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”.
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Davis simultaneously endorses Illinois state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford as his successor.
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Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), 83, announces he's not seeking reelection after nearly 30 years in Congress. "There comes a time when one must listen for new voices and prepare the path for new leadership," he says in a statement.
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New statement from the top Dems on the House Homeland Security Committee + Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence re: Joe Kent's confirmation:. "A great risk to the integrity of our nation’s intelligence work and national security.". "Unfit to run NCTC."
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