CHART OF THE DAY: It’s not just that voters feel frustrated by rising prices. They’re skeptical that policymakers have a plan to turn them around.
From Bloomberg's Washington Edition newsletter tonight.
It might have seemed unlucky. Sportswriters would later attribute it to evil spirits.
In truth, it was more likely laziness that almost ended Johnny Hodapp's career just as it was beginning.
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President Donald Trump will ask Congress to enact a massive increase in defense spending in a discretionary budget proposal Friday, while also renewing his push for steep cuts to domestic programs. Latest with @elwasson.bsky.social.
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NEW: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to make it harder to cast mail-in ballots, escalating his long-running campaign against a practice used by millions of Americans.
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NEW: The US government is using less than a third of its office space, potentially costing the federal government billions in annual real estate expenses, according to a new congressionally mandated accounting released Tuesday.
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"Rally 'round the flag" events were always the exceptions that prove the rule.
My latest for @bloomberg.com.
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Last year, the Trump administration canceled a legally required annual survey of federal employees to gauge their job satisfaction.
So a nonprofit did its own survey -- and found federal workers are demoralized, disengaged and distrustful of political appointees.
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How long will the Iran War last?
President Trump’s timeline has been shifting, but it’s generally been in the range of days or weeks. “Any time I want it to end, it will end,” he told Axios last week.
Americans aren’t so sure.
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Daughter: (Tells story of something she read that was written in the first person plural.)
Me: "I prefer to write in the third person, thank you very much."
Daughter: "You just used two pronouns in that sentence, and neither one of them was in the third person."
The Trump administration is moving to gut the seniority protections that have provided job security to federal workers for decades. "Another step in the administration’s effort to dismantle the nonpartisan civil service.” via @gregorykorte.com
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NEW: The Trump administration is proposing the biggest change to its employee retention rules in decades, attempting to substitute job performance for seniority in deciding who’s fired when an agency institutes layoffs.
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For 88 Years, One Number Graded US Presidents. Now It’s Going Away: Gallup’s decision to drop its approval poll underscores how polarization transformed one of the most important metrics in politics.
(@gregorykorte.com)
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Gallup's late, lamented question on presidential approval was once "the most important time series in US polling history."
But in the age of Trump, the truth is presidential approval had become simply a proxy for partisan identity.
My weekend essay for Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gallup's late, lamented question on presidential approval was once "the most important time series in US polling history."
But in the age of Trump, the truth is presidential approval had become simply a proxy for partisan identity.
My weekend essay for Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A new disclosure reveals that one of Joe Biden’s most meaningful White House keepsakes was a piece of a crashed WWII plane -- part of a family story that once sparked a diplomatic controversy over his suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
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President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to US cities cost taxpayers at least $496 million in 2025 — with the price tag rising to a rate of $93 million a month. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As a massive winter storm bears down on the US, FEMA is pausing plans to "offboard" disaster relief workers. From @zhirji.bsky.social + @gregorykorte.com (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
One of the most important economic indicators to watch going into midterms is showing a warning for Republicans.
From the Washington Edition newsletter from @bloomberg.com.
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“musicology duck gets briefly kidnapped”
NEW: President Donald Trump’s move to revive the name “Department of War” could cost as much as $125 million, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
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More Americans are declaring their independence.
Jerome Powell has public opinion on his side so far.
From tonight's Washington Edition newsletter from @bloomberg.com.
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The demographic cliff is coming sooner than we thought.
Chart of the day in the Washington Edition newsletter via @bloomberg.com:
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New federal workforce data just dropped, giving the most detailed account yet of the impact of the efforts by President Trump and Elon Musk to shrink the size of the federal government.
My latest for Bloomberg:
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NEW: President Donald Trump intends to designate Peru as a major non-NATO ally, another sign of his outreach to Latin American partners as the administration escalates its campaign against Venezuela and alleged narco-terrorists.
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Here's the most detailed accounting to date of federal workforce departures in 2025:
144,000 took the DOGE "fork in the road"
129,000 left through attrition
21,000 early retirement/buyout
17,000 RIF
7,000 probationary
~ 317,000 total
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NEW: Elon Musk returned to the White House Tuesday in a sign that tensions between President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man have thawed since a fierce split over deficit spending earlier this year fractured their once-cozy relationship. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: The White House is ordering furloughed federal employees back to work Thursday, as the government reopens following a historic shutdown that furloughed about 600,000 federal employees, shuttered offices and froze billions in salaries and payments.
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