Sudeep Reddy

@sudeepreddy.bsky.social

Washington Bureau Chief, MS NOW

Alex Pretti, killed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. As of Saturday evening, his family had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death. apnews.com/article/immi...

The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says

Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset ...

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>>> Diplomats have speculated that Trump’s allies in the tech world are interested in Greenland as a source of mineral wealth and real estate for data processing, treating the takeover of the island as the geopolitical equivalent of a series A fundraising round. www.ms.now/news/greenla...

Allies seek off-ramps as Trump doubles down on Greenland

With Trump threatening tariffs and speculation mounting about Silicon Valley’s interest in Greenland’s resources, allies are urgently seeking alternatives that would satisfy his deal-making impulses w...

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“The broader Hispanic community certainly feels let down. It would be different if immigration and the economy had not been principal talking points for [Trump]. On both fronts, we didn’t get what we thought we were going to get.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Latino voters powered Trump’s comeback. Now they’re turning on his economy.

Hispanic small business owners are souring on the Trump economy, a warning sign to Republicans ahead of this year’s midterms.

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Two goals in direct conflict: 1) The president wants even lower oil prices, closer to $50 a barrel. 2) The president wants oil companies to invest huge sums of money to extract oil from Venezuela. Oil execs won’t be interested if oil prices remain low. www.ms.now/news/venezue...

U.S. plans to sell Venezuela’s oil and control proceeds

The Trump administration says it will manage Venezuela's oil sales indefinitely, deposit revenue in U.S. government accounts and use the leverage to reshape the country, with no established plan for e...

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@msnbc.com is honored to welcome Sudeep Reddy (@sudeepreddy.bsky.social) as the network’s Washington Bureau Chief. In his role, Sudeep will be charged with leading MSNBC’s D.C.-based newsgathering operation, including building a team of reporters to cover every corner of the nation’s capital.

Hundreds of millions of $$$ from taxpayers “You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking — and an unfunded one at that.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Trump’s free plane is not so free

The Boeing aircraft that Qatar may give the president would require a pricy and complicated overhaul to serve as Air Force One.

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“Even Teflon Don can’t outrun economic reality.” >>> The manufacturing sector, watching order books dry up, has been shrinking its workforce. Ports are warning of a plunge in shipments. Economists have been calculating significant odds of a recession. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Why Trump and China pulled back from their trade war

The agreement reached this weekend is an acknowledgment that a full-on economic divorce of the U.S. and China would be too painful for both sides.

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