With all due respect,
@marcorubio
, you are incorrect. POLITICO utilized the Freedom of Information Act to obtain FAA records showing 128 flights between Canada & the USA on Craft's family plane. We did not receive the records or any other assistance from Democrats.
You mean days after Dems handed
@politico
a warped outline of Craft’s travel to get a story posted just before her hearing
Every trip authorized by state dept
She saved taxpayer $ by even paying official travel personally
Many of trips involved negotiating or promoting USMCA
A lawyer close to the White House said the nomination will not be withdrawn. “No way, not even a hint of it. If anything, it’s the opposite. If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried.”
New
@wesleysmorgan
SCOOP: The Pentagon is set to begin a drawdown of its 5,800 troops from the Southwest border as early as this week, the Army commander overseeing the mission told POLITICO. via
@politico
New
@BryanDBender
@NatashaBertrand
: Air Force leaders order probe of Trump resort stays; PLUS,
@politico
identifies another military stopover at Prestwick and stay at Trump’s luxury waterfront resort in Sept. 2018. via
@politico
New
@TimAlberta
🔥:
@IlhanMN
says Obama’s “hope and change” was a mirage. Recalling the “caging of kids” and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch, she argues he operated within the same broken framework as Trump.
@politicomag
Scoop: Trump uses a cell phone that isn’t equipped with security features designed to shield his communications, according to two senior officials – a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance.
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb unloads on Trump, telling
@Petereporter
:
“A 2024 declaration of his candidacy serves no interest but his self-defeating and overwhelming need for relevance, attention and money. ... He is a disaster" for the GOP.
I would remiss as
@politico
editor to not call out the
@nytimes
for failing to credit the work of
@adamcancryn
and
@ddiamond
, who single-handedly broke open the story on Seema Verma with multiple exclusives over the past year. 1/7
A POLITICO analysis reveals that the investigations now involve 100s of people in Washington, Moscow and around the world. Taken together, they illuminate the way investigators are assembling the pieces of the Russia puzzle. Click for searchable database.
New
@RyanLizza
scoop: Hillary is planning to launch a new audio program in late spring, just in time for her to have a powerful new megaphone during the 2020 election. Her influences: Howard Stern and Conan O’Brien. via
@politico
New
@AlxThomp
@mmcassella
exclusive: Elizabeth Warren wants to be Biden's Treasury secretary and will make her case for it if he wins next week, according to three Democratic officials who have spoken with her inner circle.
via
@politico
Days after POLITICO’s
@Gardner_LM
revealed the frequency of Kelly Craft's travel outside of Canada, Mendendez discloses the ambassador was absent from her post for more than 300 days during her tenure in Ottawa. via
@politico
New
@BresPolitico
@sarahnferris
: Several dozen House Republicans might cross the aisle this week to vote for Democratic bills to reopen shuttered parts of the government, spurring the White House into a dramatic effort to stem GOP defections.
@politico
.
@elianayjohnson
moves the ball: Kelly was told several weeks ago that the FBI would deny full security clearances to multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances. via
@politico
New
@woodruffbets
exclusive: Travers says America’s intelligence agencies risk slipping back into dangerous pre-9/11 habits. He detailed his concerns to the intelligence community’s inspector general. About a week later, he was summarily ousted.
@politico
New via
@GabbyOrr_
@anitakumar01
@meridithmcgraw
: Trump loyalty crumbles on day that will define his presidency.
--> Pence appeared to take on much of the coordination that would traditionally be led by the president in a moment of crisis.
New
@emilyhholden
scoop: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is reviewing claims that Pruitt retaliated against a handful of employees who pushed back against his spending and management, according to three people familiar with the process. via
@politico
Seriously, Dylan? Literally *nobody* has ever accused
@politico
of not working all the time, even on holidays. With all due respect, we don't need lectures on how to staff a newsroom and to take care of a team that breaks so much big news every damn day.
This is an odd approach. In the middle of the biggest story of our lives,
@Politico
is giving “as many teams as possible” a day off on Friday. Why not stagger it across teams? News never sleeps, now more than ever.
New
@JamesArkin
: Romney calls on King to resign: “He doesn’t have a place in our party, he doesn’t have a place in polite company and certainly should not have a place in Congress,” Romney said in a brief interview in the Senate basement Monday.
@politico
Not getting the attention but still big: An abysmal showing by Democrats in state legislative races put the party at a disadvantage ahead of the redistricting that will determine the balance of power for the next decade.
via
@allymutnick
@sabrod123
Like so many, I'm grieving over the loss of
@blakehounshell
. He was my partner and confidant for the entirety of my
@politico
editorship, critical to everything we accomplished as a leadership team and as a newsroom, and we loved him so very much.
New
@theodoricmeyer
SCOOP: The Washington Post told a prominent Republican lobbyist he’d lose his gig as a contributing opinion writer unless he stopped lobbying for Saudi Arabia. via
@politico
New
@MarcACaputo
SCOOP: Trump’s political team wanted to rally in Florida next week beside Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for governor, and the Republican who hopes to succeed him in the US House. Waltz declined. via
@politico
New
@elianayjohnson
@dlippman
SCOOP: A new batch of private schedules obtained by POLITICO offers fresh insight into the extent to which his unscheduled time dominates Trump’s week and is shaping his presidency. via
@politico
“It is absolutely not true,” Haley told
@elianayjohnson
, arguing that Wolff’s insinuation is similar to other attacks that she and other successful women have faced when they've been forced to swat down suggestions they've slept their way to the top.
New
@SallyGold
scoop:
Andrew Yang is calling elected officials to gauge support for a possible bid to become New York City’s next mayor, according to several people involved in the talks.
As a former Hill reporter myself (and successor to the esteemed
@sbg1
as
@politico
editor), I too am disappointed by these restrictions. It’s a troubling erosion in access at a historic moment. The public loses out.
One of the great things about Congress is its openness to journalists, a striking contrast to the rest of the federal government. Hope this proposal to restrict access to the Senate impeachment trial will not stand.
New
@joshgerstein
: Officials who have had direct roles in the nomination and background check process said it’s common, as part of the FBI’s vetting, to investigate matters that do not qualify as federal crimes. Happened with Rob Porter. via
@politico
Could the Mark Kelly factor upend McConnell’s plans? Because the contest is a special election, a Kelly win means he could be sworn in as early as late Nov. That would narrow the window for GOP to approve a nominee during lame duck.
@kyledcheney
@politico
Very proud that
@politico
offers three months of parental paid leave, no questions asked. So critical for mothers but I’m super proud that almost all new fathers in the newsroom take it too.
(2/3) however, that I didn’t have to give up my vacation & sick days & go wks w/out a salary in order to take leave w my infant daughter as I’m doing right now. Women reporters DO matter as much as male reporters,
@JeffBezos
. But we need your support. We need paid parental leave.
New
@Brian_Faler
SCOOP: Democrats, especially in the House, are quietly planning on using an obscure law that will enable them to examine the president’s tax filings without his permission. via
@politico
I was there when POLITICO launched. Marty Tolchin was never a founder. Nor does he represent the publication in any way, shape or form more than 13 years later.
One of the co-founders of Politico and The Hill said that he doesn't want an investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden because it could hurt his chances to win.
“I don’t want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden.”
.
@benyt
on
@BresPolitico
is 💯: He has become Capitol Hill’s grim reaper, a rare reporter with the stomach to print some obvious truths: that some top lawmakers aren’t all there.
New
@politicoalex
scoop: GOP officials grew alarmed that Trump had antagonized one of his biggest benefactors at a precarious moment in his campaign. They rushed to smooth things over with him, but the damage may have been done. via
@politico
In a break from the past,
@politico
decided more than two years ago to assemble a team of political reporters with deep roots in key states and regions — Fla., Pa., the Midwest (Ill., Mich., Minn.), Calif., NC and New England. Why does this matter? 1/11
Scoop
@gdebenedetti
: Sanders convened his top political advisers on Saturday for a planning meeting that included a discussion of the feasibility and shape of a possible 2020 campaign, six senior Dems familiar with the gathering confirmed to POLITICO.
POLITICO won a
@PolkAwards
this morning — the second straight year we’ve been so honored — this time for
@ddiamond
's outstanding reporting on the Trump administration’s political interference with experts in its own health agencies. 1/3
New
@elianayjohnson
: “The U.S. government hasn't tested these plans in 30 years. All the fresh faces sitting around the table in the situation room have little idea what their roles would be in this scenario.”
@politico
Smart
@burgessev
look at
@ewarren
impeachment strategy. Asked about the reluctance of other 2020 Democrats to join her, she shook her head slightly as she walked briskly through the Capitol: “I just don’t get it.” via
@politico
New via Playbook, Mark Warner: “If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
@apalmerdc
@JakeSherman
@dlippman
Incredible reporting here from
@ddiamond
@adamcancryn
: “This was a management failure,” said one administration official, charging that Azar didn’t adequately plan for a worst-case coronavirus scenario that’s grown more likely by the day. via
@politico
Another Playbook SCOOP: NIKKI HALEY reached out to DONALD TRUMP on Wednesday to request a sit-down at Mar-a-Lago, but he turned her down, a source tells Playbook. via
@playbookplus
New details via
@GabbyOrr_
: A sudden shift in support for Trump among religious conservatives is triggering alarm bells inside his campaign, which has long banked on expanding the evangelical base as a key part of their strategy for victory. via
@politico
New
@eschor
, speaks to McCabe: “I firmly believe that this is an ongoing effort to undermine my credibility because of the work that I did on the Russia case, because of the investigations that I oversaw and impacted that target this administration.”
New scoop via
@AndrewDesiderio
@laraseligman
@NatashaBertrand
:
Trump’s impeachment trial poses a security concern that law enforcement officials told lawmakers requires as many as 5,000 National Guard troops to remain in Washington through mid-March.
There are many more examples. What I love most: This team is comprised of hard-working beat reporters who wire the agencies they cover. They have punched above their weight for years — and held government to account in the process. They deserve recognition for that record. 7/7
New
@elianayjohnson
@burgessev
SCOOP: The Trump administration’s surprising move to invalidate Obamacare came despite the opposition of two key cabinet secretaries: Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General Bill Barr. via
@politico
New must read via
@NatashaBertrand
and
@dlippman
: The CIA has made it harder for intelligence about Russia to reach the WH, stoking fears that information is being suppressed to please a president quick to anger over bad news about Moscow.
@politico
New
@AlxThomp
@hollyotterbein
scoop: The night before the Nevada caucuses, the state Dem Party chairman called police after several Bernie supporters gathered outside his home at 11 p.m. with a bullhorn to issue a warning about the next day’s election.
New clear-eyed piece from
@JakeSherman
, who doesn't mince words: Washington has been plunged into a crisis of historic proportions, frozen by a disease it is both unwilling and unable to control.
New
@politicoalex
exclusive: The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 from Steve Wynn — a move that comes just over a year after he was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting employees over a decade-long period.
@politico
Emphatically agree with
@blakehounshell
on
@NatashaBertrand
. She is one of the best in the business today: fair-minded, fact-driven and committed to getting it right.
Natasha is a smart, tough reporter who works really hard, masters her subject material and takes a lot of dumb heat online from all sorts of conspiracy theorists. She’s nobody’s stenographer, and nobody is “spoon-feeding” her anything.
.
@ddiamond
owned this story from the start, and now has more:
The Trump appointee who steered a $300 million taxpayer-funded campaign to "defeat despair" privately pitched a different theme last month: "Helping the President will Help the Country." 1/3
New
@AndrewRestuccia
: It wasn't the first time aviation obsessives had flagged possible signals that Trump might be headed to a war zone. But it was the first time it had come in conjunction with Trump's Twitter feed suddenly going dark. via
@politico
New
@elianayjohnson
: Trump’s decision to abruptly fire McMaster surprised senior White House aides who had been preparing a single statement announcing the departure of multiple top Trump officials, according to two senior administration officials.
Porter, Trump told Cohn, had not one but two degrees from Harvard and he was a Rhodes Scholar. “Even Gorsuch wasn’t a Rhodes Scholar,” Trump said. “Maybe he’ll be my next Supreme Court pick.” via
@politico
@elianayjohnson
New
@ddiamond
@adamcancryn
: The health department's top spokesman, Michael Caputo, who falsely accused CDC scientists of "sedition," is taking a leave of absence — and his aide who tried to muzzle HHS scientists is leaving the department. via
@politico
.
@politico
’s health care team strikes again: CDC director resigns over financial conflicts, a day after
@sarahkarlin
and
@briannaehley
reported that Fitzgerald bought tobacco stocks a month into her job via
@politico
Read to the end of this
@anniekarni
@elianayjohnson
joint: Omarosa has been dressing in disguises and telling people that she has given copies of her Trump tapes to family members for safekeeping in the event that she is murdered.
New
@Olivia_Beavers
@MZanona
scoop:
Cheney has been telling people that if holding onto her leadership role requires having to lie or stay quiet, she doesn���t believe that’s a price worth paying, according to a source familiar with her thinking.
Good
@ec_schneider
@AlxThomp
scoop: Biden’s transition team has expanded its fundraising goal far beyond what Clinton raised in 2016, anticipating that, should they prevail in November, the Trump administration could actively work against their efforts.
New: Five of the journalists in the building were congressional reporters for
@politico
, whose normal beats cover the far more bureaucratic daily business of Congress.
We asked them, as well as a photographer and two more reporters outside...1/2
Great new reporting via
@IsaacDovere
: Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Sanders, Warren, Biden and Patrick, pulling them in for one-on-one sessions at his Washington office.
New
@AlxThomp
: Joe Biden’s transition team has a message for anyone publicly jockeying for a job in a potential Biden administration: Knock it off.
via
@politico
More details: Murkowski, Collins and Flake offered colleagues no signal of where they would land, according to attendee; Mitchell analyzed the testimony, told GOP that as a prosecutor she would not charge Kavanaugh or even pursue search warrant.
@politico
Sometimes people post 10-years-ago-today pics & say “feels like yesterday”.
This feels like a lifetime & 1/2 ago: Jan. 4, 2011, from
@EricCantor
’s 1st pen & pad with media. A where’s Waldo of reporters.