“Between you and me,” Biden told ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in April 2017, Obama “always got to the right spot, but a day late and a dollar short.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Biden Recordings Show Memory Lapses, Candid Obama Criticism

Recordings of former President Joe Biden speaking with his ghostwriter reveal occasional memory gaps amid detailed discussions of foreign policy — and some candid criticism of two-time running mate Ba...

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Top Democratic Party officials are looking to start their party’s 2028 presidential nomination contest in South Carolina, the first step in what could be the biggest overhaul of the primary calendar in decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Democrats Eye South Carolina as First Primary State in 2028

Top Democratic Party officials are looking to start their party’s 2028 presidential nomination contest in South Carolina, the first step in what could be the biggest overhaul of the primary calendar i...

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The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to cut red tape across the federal government, releasing a regulatory plan that would eliminate a record 702 existing administrative rules. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in his first year back in office, often in intense bursts tied to market events he created. New Bloomberg analysis of new Trump disclosures released this week: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Financial Disclosure Shows 21,000 Trades in 2025

President Donald Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in his first year back in office, often in intense bursts tied to market events he created.

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The Supreme Court has given political parties more advertising bang for their buck – and opened the floodgates to a gusher of midterm campaign commercials – with a Tuesday decision that strikes down an obscure provision of federal election law.  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Supreme Court Opens Midterm Ad Floodgates, Giving GOP an Edge

The Supreme Court has given political parties more advertising bang for their buck – and opened the floodgates to a gusher of midterm campaign commercials – with a Tuesday decision that strikes down a...

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What the Supreme Court's decision means for presidential power, the bureaucracy and administrative state. With @gregstohr.bsky.social and @leahnylen.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power to Fire Federal Bureaucrats

The Supreme Court has handed President Donald Trump sweeping power to bend much of the federal regulatory state to his will, a major expansion of executive branch influence that will enable him to fir...

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Democratic voters in Washington, DC, picked Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George as their top choice in the city’s mayoral primary, putting the self-described democratic socialist on course to become President Donald Trump’s latest antagonist in the nation’s capital. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Antagonist Picked by DC Democrats in Mayoral Primary Race

Democratic voters in Washington, DC, picked Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George as their top choice in the city’s mayoral primary, putting the self-described democratic socialist on course to become Pre...

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The White House is invoking a rarely used legal authority called critical position pay to offer salaries up to $400,000 — the same salary as the president — for Wall Street dealmakers who can help negotiate national security supply chains. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

White House to Woo Wall Street Dealmakers With $400,000 DC Jobs

The Trump administration wants 400 dealmakers to help the US bolster its national security supply chains — and it’s offering salaries as high as $400,000 a year for Wall Street recruits.

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President Trump signed an order Wednesday stripping job security from nearly 8,000 federal positions, expanding his authority to fire career employees who work on policy matters and accelerating a civil-service overhaul that’s drawn legal and political pushback. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Order Makes It Easier to Fire Agency Staffers At Will

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday stripping job security from nearly 8,000 federal positions, expanding his authority to fire career employees who work on policy matters and a...

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The White House is proposing a far-reaching rewrite of the rules on federal grants, consolidating its power over who benefits from federal financial assistance and what they can do with that money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

White House to Tighten Grip on $1 Trillion in Federal Grants

The White House is proposing a far-reaching rewrite of the rules on federal grants, consolidating its power over who benefits from federal financial assistance and what they can do with that money.

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The Trump administration is moving to create a government-wide nondisclosure agreement for federal workers after a number of high-profile and unauthorized leaks in recent months. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Administration Demands Federal Worker NDAs in New Crackdown on Leaks

The Trump administration is moving to create a government-wide nondisclosure agreement for federal workers after a number of high-profile and unauthorized leaks in recent months.

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President Trump has continued former President Obama’s “Asian pivot” strategy — and has now made more trips to the continent than every other world region combined.

Thrilled to have had my work discussed in Bloomberg's The Forecast newsletter. I had a great time chatting with Gregory Korte about my article on gerrymandering (which predated the current redistricting war by a few years, and made the case for fighting fire with fire).

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Gerrymandering’s "dirty hands" are getting dirtier. My latest for The Forecast newsletter @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Gerrymandering’s "dirty hands" are getting dirtier. My latest for The Forecast newsletter @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Gerrymandering and the ‘Dirty Hands’ Quandary

Plus, prediction-market bots, Kentucky Derby longshots, potty training debates and more.

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A shrinking number of seats will determine control of the US House this fall after Republicans and Democrats spent much of the past year erasing swing districts from the map. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Control of US House Hinges on Historically Few Number of Seats

A shrinking number of seats will determine control of the US House after both Republicans and Democrats spent much of the past year redrawing congressional maps to erase swing districts.

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Last year, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government. Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Year After DOGE, Trump Administration Is Quietly Hiring Again

During the first year of his second presidency, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink t...

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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. www.johnnyhodapp.com/the-ball-he-...

The Ball He Should Have Bent Over For

Bad luck, bad knees, and a pilgrimage to Rome

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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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Budget Pits Spending Cuts Against Massive Defense Push

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.

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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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Moves to Crack Down on Mail-In Voting by Executive Order

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Agencies Leave About 70% of Office Space Unused, Data Show

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 accoun...

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President Trump's FY 2027 budget will be released on Good Friday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Budget Proposal to Congress Will Be Delivered on April 3

President Donald Trump will deliver his annual budget request to Congress on April 3 as he seeks to dramatically boost defense spending while continuing to downsize domestic agencies, according to a p...

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"Rally 'round the flag" events were always the exceptions that prove the rule. My latest for @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Administration Seeks to Tie Federal Layoffs to Performance

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 insti...

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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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Administration Seeks to Tie Federal Layoffs to Performance

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 insti...

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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) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

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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...