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white house reporter @notus, fellow @aji_fellowships. sandwich connoisseur, mississippian,
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Joined September 2020
Two members of the National Guard were shot in the vicinity of the White House this afternoon. One suspect is in custody. The condition of the troops is unknown. @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/Ksh16UXV9n
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One suspect is in custody, according to police.
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“We haven’t had a murder in six months,” Trump said yesterday. “There’s no crime in D.C. anymore,” Trump says all the time. The president bills the takeover as a complete success. But DC leaders tell me it’s more complicated than that. @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/GYIDfyLziH
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Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington saw drops in some crime — but was the decrease sustainable?
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https://t.co/17B7KyIta5, the CDC's vaccination site search engine, got a MAHA makeover in June. Then it stopped working altogether. New from me: https://t.co/J7uSFPWQLa
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“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.
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Mike Huckabee continues to hawk sleep pills while serving as ambassador to Israel. “Ambassadors need to sleep, too,” the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem told me when I asked. But the makers of Relaxium quietly changed their tune when @NOTUSreports came calling. https://t.co/i8ekIrdgiU
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“Ambassadors need to sleep, too,” the U.S. Embassy Jerusalem said in a statement.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists the U.S. authored the Ukraine plan. Senators said he told them otherwise. https://t.co/YRjb5zf3ve
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Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said Rubio told a group of senators the plan was “not the American proposal.”
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Those politically charged ad reads from right-wing podcasters? They’re being paid thousands for them by brands that see the $$$ in ideological marketing. The phenomenon is basically non-existent among left-wing influencers. Interesting from @business
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YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it
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A truly bizarre series of events. Senators from both parties said in Halifax that Rubio told them via phone today that the Ukraine peace plan is actually a Russian document, not a U.S. proposal. State Department spox says that’s not true, it’s a U.S.-authored proposal. ???
This is blatantly false. As Secretary Rubio and the entire Administration has consistently maintained, this plan was authored by the United States, with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians.
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The House was housing as much as it has ever housed this week
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New Yorkers really do make the most of their free will.
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Zohran Mamdani came to the White House — and the meeting was surprisingly friendly. Even Trump administration staff gathered outside the EEOB to catch a glimpse of him. New in @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/fPcF7vpaIT
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They indicated that New York City may not be on as shaky ground with the administration as some feared.
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Two nonprofits closely aligned with President Donald Trump received a multimillion-dollar boost in funding from “dark money” behemoth DonorsTrust in 2024, according to new tax documents obtained by @NOTUSreports. Hundreds of other groups got cash too.
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Conservative nonprofit DonorsTrust gave the America First Legal Foundation and America First Policy Institute millions. Hundreds of other organizations got cash, too.
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New: Cory Mills was caught with sex workers in Tilbisi, Georgia in 2021. While awaiting to travel on an unannounced rescue mission to Afghanistan, Mills was caught in the hallway with sex workers and was kicked out of the group. https://t.co/rZ0o3A2q66
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The group Mills had traveled with to Afghanistan parted ways with the then-congressional candidate in Tbilisi, Georgia, after they found out about the sex workers. It appears Mills went to Afghanis...
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Watching the honeymoon era of Lane Kiffin’s tenure here end in real time 🤭
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During the shutdown, USDA quietly proposed making changes to SNAP — the Trump admin wants to end broad-based categorical eligibility. If successful, access to SNAP could be jeopardized for millions of Americans, opponents say. NEW in @NOTUSreports
https://t.co/1V66Dg1wF8
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A proposed rule could make it more difficult for some people to access the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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SCOOP: Mario Díaz-Balart, a top House GOP appropriator, tried to add guardrails against pocket rescissions to an approps bill — something Dems have been wanting for months But then Russ Vought intervened, and Díaz-Balart quietly got rid of the provision https://t.co/Ibopn66Azs
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Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, a top appropriator, tried to add guardrails from ‘pocket rescissions’ in an appropriations bill. But then Office of Management Budget Director Russ Vought talked to him.
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Censure cites our reporting where five people who served with Mills, including two whom his Bronze Star form claimed he saved, said they have no recollection of Mills being there. Two men said Mills never saved their lives despite him being credited with it in his Bronze Star
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The Florida Republican was awarded a Bronze Star for his purported actions in 2003. Five people who served with him say they don’t remember Mills being on the scene.
Here is the privileged Resolution I will offer on the Floor of the US House of Representatives this afternoon to censure Rep. Cory Mills for alleged stolen valor, arms deals he's under investigation for and alleged abuses toward women... HOLD THE LINE
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Several ED offices and programs are “partnering” with the Depts. of Interior, State, Labor and HHS. It matches the mood Sec. McMahon had throughout this administration to dismantle the department. https://t.co/lAPNDLRp5n
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The move is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink the size of the Department of Education.
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Congressional committee chair portrait funds have become magnets for corporate and lobbyist interests. There’s little transparency and fewer regulations for these little-known funds. A @NOTUSreports investigation details who’s giving — and receiving:
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Congressional committee chair portrait funds are a magnet for lobbyists and special interest money.
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