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Send your questions! (opens the original)
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Hi all,Our next Q&A newsletter will be going out on Friday — so this is your chance to send me some Q’s!Election Day is just five weeks away. What’s on your mind in the final stretch? I’m happy to take questions about the midterms, or about any of the topics I’ve covered recently (from pocket rescissions to contempt), or about anything else on your mind in the world of politics and government.<a hr
Why This 18-Month-Old Case Still Matters (opens the original)
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The Obscure Tool Trump Is Using to Snatch the Power of the Purse (opens the original)
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Shocks to the American constitutional order don’t always announce themselves by press release.But this one did, on Friday.“President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending,” read the headline of the White House statement, blasted out on Friday night, right as the weekend was about to start. Trump was unilaterally canceling about $810 million in federal funds, the White House said.<div class="captioned-image-container
Etch-a-Sketch Season Has Arrived (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: I’ve been covering politics for more than 15 years now. One advantage to having watched so many election cycles, so many turnings of the tide, is it helps inoculate you against buying into the recurring hype about How Things Have Changed or Vibes Have Shifted or Politics Has Been Upended. The more things change, I’ve found, the more they really stay the same.My latest YouTube video is about one such phenomenon: the idea that was promoted by a lot of pundits earlier this year that
The Pothole Congress (opens the original)
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House Speaker Mike Johnson knows you think this has been an unproductive Congress, and he’s here to assure you: It has actually been a record-breaking Congress!“The media won’t tell you this, but this has been one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution since 1789,” Johnson declared at the Republican midterm convention earlier this month. “In the House, we passed over 900 pieces of legislation, and that includes the SAVE America Act four times. It’s been the most prod
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