Burgess Everett
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Semafor congressional bureau chief, former Politico. Photo by @pennstatetom
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Joined November 2011
New: After a bunch of delays, DHS Sec Noem likely to appear before House Homeland Security Committee in December for worldwide threats hearing
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New Trump trend: His admin's plans on AI and health care getting leaked, criticized, then delayed @Eleanor_Mueller
https://t.co/gtezMZ3DbG
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Republicans are making no secret of being divided over the ideas.
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Some Republicans coming to Sen. Mark Kelly's defense tonight amidst DoD investigation into his video appearance Murkowski says "to accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that servicemembers can refuse illegal orders is reckless and
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🟡 Sen. @MarkWarner will sit down with Semafor's @Eleanor_Mueller on Dec. 10 to discuss who’s defining the rules of the new economy. Request your invitation: https://t.co/dhWCuXbo45
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News: @MurielBowser announces she won't seek reelection, a seismic decision in DC politics that will open up a highly competitive mayoral race and bring to an end a more than decade-long tenure when she leaves office in Jan 27. w/ @jocwapo @jennygathright
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Bowser, who has led D.C. over a turbulent decade, will not seek reelection in 2026, a decision bound to open up a highly competitive mayoral race.
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New: All six Dems from the video say the FBI is targeting them. Sen. Slotkin: "Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like" Sen. Kelly received FBI inquiry via sergeant at Arms.
Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like. The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video in the first place. He believes in weaponizing the federal
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Rep. Mike Flood, who chairs center-right Main Street, says they back "President Trump’s ongoing efforts to address the ACA tax credit cliff with an extension. Any effort to address this cliff needs to include income caps and make serious reforms to the credits"
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SCOOP: Speaker Mike Johnson recently cautioned the White House that most House Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. The message from Johnson, in a phone call with administration officials, came as President Trump’s advisers
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The top House Republican said of little GOP support for extending the expiring ACA subsidies.
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What to make of Trump’s purported plan to extend expiring enhanced tax credits for Obamacare for two years? Republicans are responding with tepid quiet as the president figures out whether to even release the proposal, while Democrats are sounding “encouraged"
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Some Democrats see a path forward. It’s not clear whether Republicans do, too.
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With the cases against Letitia James and James Comey void, the Trump administration has picked a new enemy: Sen. Mark Kelly. https://t.co/OfRUQD6yeY
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The Arizona Democrat appeared in a video discouraging national security members from following illegal orders.
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Attorneys for the federal government went after Senator Jim Justice and his wife Cathy in court over a multi-million dollar income tax debt, and in short order the Justices agreed to pay it. https://t.co/T9lAbvpYCw
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U.S. attorneys with the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint for income taxes amounting to more than $5 million.
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Dems are pretty happy that Trump is engaging on health care (except ... is he? Stay tuned!) Rosen: "The White House is at least signaling that they are interested in having a serious conversation" Shaheen: “If the reports are true and the President is considering coming to the
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McConnell continues torching proposed Russia-Ukraine deal
Conclusion: The most basic reality on the ground is that the price of peace matters. A deal that rewards aggression wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s written on. America isn’t a neutral arbiter, and we shouldn’t act like one. (4/4)
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Sen. Shaheen also signals she’d play ball in negotiations on this plan we aren’t sure Trump will release yet “I'm glad the President is reportedly considering a serious proposal to begin negotiations to prevent health insurance premiums from soaring for tens of millions of
Sen. Hassan, a key Democrat on the shutdown talks, on Trump's forthcoming health care proposal "President Trump and Congressional Republicans are now coming to the table ... while I have significant concerns about some of the ideas reportedly in the President’s proposal, it
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I used to save all my big print stories -- especially when I'd get more than one byline on the cover. Was a very special feeling to see these things in print. @billkuchman is a hell of a designer
News: Politico is ending its print newspaper at the end of the year. "It no longer makes sense to continue publishing in print when the overwhelming majority of our audience consumes us electronically," a company spokesperson told @washingtonpost.
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Sen. Kelly responds to Department of Defense probing “serious allegations of misconduct” from his appearance in video urging NatSec folks to not obey illegal orders "If this is meant to intimidate me ... it won’t work"
When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space
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Based on reports that plan would include two years, 700% poverty cap, minimum premiums, CSR appropriations, HSA credits, Committee for a Responsible Budget estimates it would cost $50 billion for two years (If they do it under a current policy baseline though it would be $0)
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Dems have been very downbeat on an ACA deal without more WH engagement Baldwin “very troubled” by WH position. On Senate Rs: “Whether there are 13 of them who will step up and work with us remains to be seen" "It doesn’t really matter unless we’re negotiating with the White
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BREAKING: Judge dismisses cases against former FBI director James Comey & NY AG Letitia James
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