Eric Lipton
Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump and the Trump administration-without fear or favor. I write about people and power.
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Trump Administration To Announce Plan to Open Tongass Forest to Logging
The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.
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Eric Lipton
TRUMP RULES UPDATE: Trump admin today formally opens all 16.7 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development. See this link for earlier NYT story on the plan, protested by environmentalists nytimes.com/2020/09/24/cli… pic.twitter.com/nsQH6fBzMF
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Tariffs Didn’t Fuel Revival for American Steel
President Trump’s 25% duties haven’t yielded the steelmaking renaissance that he promised during his 2016 campaign. The industry's early job gains evaporated as steel demand and prices sank.
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Eric Lipton
WSJ: Trump tariffs on steel haven’t produced the steelmaking job growth he boasted about. Instead they hurt U.S. manufacturers, including in automotive and appliance sectors.
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Trump Calls on Barr to ‘Act’ Against Biden Before Election
The president is increasingly fixated on seeing criminal action against his political opponents.
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Eric Lipton
President Trump called Tuesday on AG. Barr to take action before Election Day against Biden, over his son’s foreign work, an extraordinary attempt to pressure the government’s chief law enforcement to help him politically.@maggieNYT @michaelcrowley
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Jared Kushner seems to question whether Black Americans ‘want to be successful.’
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The head of a federal panel that advises the White House on compensation issues resigned on Monday to protest President Trump’s new executive order that could wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of federal workers.
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Federal disaster team sent, overflow hospital set up as COVID surges in El Paso
Gov. Greg Abbott orders performing arts hall to be converted to a medical facility as available beds dwindle in the state’s 6th-largest city.
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Houston Chronicle: A surge in lab-confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations in far West Texas has prompted state health officials to convert a convention center in El Paso into a makeshift hospital to ease the crush of patients in the state’s 6th-largest city.
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Questions and Answers About the Bidens and a Deal in China
There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother.
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Eric Lipton
NEW: There is a lot of chatter about Hunter Biden and China. The NYT walks through the facts. With @kenvogel @maggieNYT
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Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say
Researchers once feared that school reopenings might spread the virus through communities. But so far there is little evidence that it’s happening.
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Eric Lipton
So why am I writing this thread? Just reflecting as the debate continues over role schools have played in this real-life pandemic. It may be as my colleague @apoorva_nyc wrote, that schools (particularly at elementary level) are not a major vector.
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The evidence is far from conclusive, and much of the research has been tarnished by flaws in data collection and analysis. School reopenings are very much a work in progress. Still, many experts are encouraged by the results to date. @apoorva_nyc
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CDC Releases Interim Planning Guidance for Mitigation of Influenza
On February 1, 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its long-awaited disease containment strategy for pandemic influenza: Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in...
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Eric Lipton
Thread: I spent many hours talking to the authors of the key federal document from 2007 that explains why the United States went into lockdown as the pandemic spread early this year--and why schools were closed.
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$80 million dark money group tied to Trump Supreme Court advisor, Leonard Leo - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
This new filing vastly increases the money known to be flowing into dark money groups tied to Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo.
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Trump Issues Order Giving Him More Leeway to Hire and Fire Federal Workers
The move would give the president greater freedom to weed out what he sees as a “deep state” bureaucracy. The executive order, which could be rescinded if he is not re-elected, was condemned by civil service unions.
Road to 270: Trump's best path to victory hinges on FL, PA
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump still has a path to the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to win reelection. But it requires everything to break in his direction a second...
Farmers Stick With Trump, Despite Trade-War Pain
Many in agriculture say they believe a Biden presidency would bring stricter environmental regulations and higher taxes than the incumbent. “I’ll take the good with the bad.”
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Eric Lipton
Key line in this WSJ story: Mr. Trump’s USDA projects it will pay a record $37.2 billion this (election) year to farmers and ranchers, with the administration in mid-September pledging an additional $14 billion in aid.
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Open Letter by Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers — Past and Present — in Support of CDC
We, the undersigned, are physicians, nurses, scientists, and other health professionals who are alumnae/i or current Epidemic Intelligence…
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Missed this yesterday: Open Letter from CDC current and former staff: ."We hereby express our concern about the ominous politicization and silencing of the nation’s health protection agency during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic"
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Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Their Numbers Have Soared, and Their Polling Places Have Dwindled.
The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10%, with Metro Atlanta hit particularly hard.
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ProPublica: Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Their Numbers Have Soared, and Their Polling Places Have Dwindled.
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A Regulatory Rush by Federal Agencies to Secure Trump’s Legacy
With the president’s re-election in doubt, cabinet departments are scrambling to finish dozens of new rules affecting millions of Americans.
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JUST POSTED: Facing the prospect that President Trump could lose his re-election bid, his cabinet is scrambling to enact regulatory changes affecting millions of Americans in a blitz so rushed it may leave some changes vulnerable to court challenges
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With Barrett Nomination, a D.C. Conservative Power Couple Nears Its Dream
Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network and Roger Severino, a senior health and human services official, have worked to reshape social policy and the courts they need to uphold it.
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Eric Lipton
Judicial Crisis Network is linked to the Federalist Society & a web of anonymously funded groups that together laid the groundwork for Mr. Trump’s effort to fill some 200 judgeships and a third Supreme Court seat with conservative jurists. @NYTLiz
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As Virus Spread Early On, Reports of Trump Administration Briefings Fueled Sell-Off
A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.
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Elite traders had access to information from the Trump administration that helped them gain financial advantage during a chaotic three days when global markets were teetering--and they cashed in on it, in some cases. @katekelly @MarkMazzettiNYT
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Goldman Sachs’s Third-Quarter Profit Soars
The bank’s sharply higher profit is the latest confirmation that, even in a pandemic and a recession, Wall Street can still make money.
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Eric Lipton
WSJ: Even in a pandemic and a recession, Wall Street can still make money....wsj.com/articles/goldm… via @WSJ
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No, There Isn’t Evidence That Trump Owes Money to Russia
The president’s financial disclosure report shows his biggest creditors. There is none bigger than Deutsche Bank.
Under Trump, Criminal Prosecutions for Pollution Dropped Sharply
A new report finds an “alarming” drop in prosecutions over violations of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, fundamental environmental laws.