Brian Schwartz
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@WSJ White House Economic Policy Reporter. Previously @CNBC. Signal: schwartb.07 Thoughts are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2013
RT @josh_wingrove: NEWS: Trump's administration is discussing buying a stake in Intel Corp. after Trump's meeting with the CEO this week, p….
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The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. to have the US government take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker, according to people familiar with the plan, in the latest sign of the White...
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RT @maggieNYT: Personality conflicts, a private lunch and a personnel plan: how Billy Long ended up losing a role he’d held for just weeks….
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought total control over the I.R.S., an agency where Mr. Long, the new commissioner, had started to put his own mark on the job.
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RT @maggieNYT: The first work any of the law firms targeted in the Trump crackdown is now being done on behalf of the government, re trade….
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Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.
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RT @SegravesNBC4: As DC deals with a federal take over of police and increases it’s cooperation with ICE and clearing homeless encampments….
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RT @RobbieGramer: A must-read from @VeraMBergen: How Finland’s Golf-Loving President Got Trump to Hear Him Out on Russia. .
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“He’s a very good player,” President Trump said of Alexander Stubb, who warned after the two played a round at Trump’s club that Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted.
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RT @Olivia_Beavers: 👀 “E.J. Antoni, the economist tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested suspen….
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RT @JakeSherman: NEWS: SLF, Senate GOP super PAC, estimates it needs to spend tens of millions of dollars between now and the end of the ye….
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RT @meridithmcgraw: New: The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations….
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Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
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RT @JonLemire: There is no one left in the White House whose sole job is to keep the nation safe from biological threats. The Office of P….
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We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.
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RT @WSJ: Trump plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, a longtime critic of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to lead the agency .
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Antoni had the support of conservatives like former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
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🚨President Trump announces he’s nominating Antoni, a longtime BLS critic to be the next head of the agency, just one day after we scooped Trump’s aides had interviewed him for the job.
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Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency.
SCOOP: Trump's team is considering longtime Bureau of Labor Statistics critic E.J. Antoni to run agency just after president fired Erika McEntarfer. Details on efforts to intv Antoni & others by team Trump as they mull choices.Story w/ @meridithmcgraw .
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RT @greg_ip: China calls its hybrid of socialism and capitalism "Socialism with Chinese characteristics." Under Trump, we are witnessing "S….
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President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
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RT @WSJ: Breaking: President Trump extends the China tariff deadline for 90 days
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President Trump has signed an executive order extending the deadline for higher tariffs on China until Nov. 9, according to a White House official. Tariffs on China were set to rise Tuesday, but...
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RT @Dimi: SCOOP - @Nvidia has done deal with Trump administration to pay US government 15% of revenues from #China H20 sales, in unpreceden….
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Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration
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NEW: Details on what took place inside the White House and BLS just before President Trump fired the agency’s commissioner. The episode put a spotlight on an agency that’s faced past scrutiny. Story w/ @mattgrossman and @RachelEnsignWSJ .
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Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain resources.
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RT @Reuters: Breaking: The US military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two US off….
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The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
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RT @WSJ: Freedom for Alexei Navalny seemed within their grasp. Then their phones buzzed, and they looked to each other in horror. It was to….
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Alexei Navalny’s death in prison cut short a high-stakes swap pushed by a U.S. diplomat who went rogue.
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SCOOP: Trump's team is considering longtime Bureau of Labor Statistics critic E.J. Antoni to run agency just after president fired Erika McEntarfer. Details on efforts to intv Antoni & others by team Trump as they mull choices.Story w/ @meridithmcgraw .
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Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency.
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RT @WSJ: Exclusive: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to visit the White House Monday after President Trump called for his removal last week over….
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Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet with the president, who last week called for Tan’s removal.
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