Alayna Treene
Reporter covering the White House and national politics for @axios. NJ girl & @GWtweets alum. Send tips to [email protected] or [email protected]
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Trump floats executive action even if stimulus deal is reached
He might issue the orders if a deal doesn't address all of his priorities.
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Alayna Treene
NEW: The WH is finalizing a series of executive orders addressing key COVID stimulus priorities if talks w/ Congress fall apart, and it's leaving the door open for Trump to use them *even if a deal is reached* that doesn't encompass all of his priorities
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Trump campaign seeks early September presidential debate
The aim is to force Joe Biden to the debate stage before the first early voting takes place.
Trump campaign seeks early September presidential debate
The aim is to force Joe Biden to the debate stage before the first early voting takes place.
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Alayna Treene
NEW: The Trump campaign is asking the Commission on Presidential Debates to move up the first presidential debate to the first week in September to get ahead of an expected surge in early voting
w/ @StefWKight
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Exclusive: Inside McCarthy's new GOP messaging platform
Several Republican lawmakers say they hope the Trump campaign will also embrace the strategy.
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Alayna Treene
Many GOP members have been anxious about polling showing Trump trailing Joe Biden in key swing states, lawmakers tell @axios
Some "were scared" when Trump didn’t have a good answer upon being asked in a recent interview to detail his second term strategy
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Republicans push to expand small business loan program
The Paycheck Protection Act is set to expire on Saturday.
James Murdoch exits News Corp. board, citing editorial "disagreements"
“My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets..."
FBI chief warns of China election interference
He spoke at a classified hearing held by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week.
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Alayna Treene
NEW: FBI Director Christopher Wray and other intelligence community officials warned about China’s increased capability to interfere in U.S. elections in separate classified hearings with the Senate Intelligence Committee this week
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"This is not going to be the bill": Senate Republicans criticize their own stimulus proposal
Many Republicans oppose a $1.75 billion White House proposal for a new FBI building.
Senate Republicans grow weary with White House over stimulus bill
Multiple GOP aides say they feel Steven Mnuchin and Mark Meadows have undermined the legislative process.
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Alayna Treene
Senate Rs all echoing McConnell — they say Meadows & Mnuchin are in charge of negotiating with Dems, not GOP leadership
I'm told this is in part a reflection of many Senate Rs feeling like the WH has undermined this process, as we reported on Sunday
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Judiciary Democrats to grill Barr on "politicization" of Justice Department
The attorney general will appear before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time ever today.
Trump plans to aggressively promote vaccine and therapeutic news at coronavirus briefings
He'll continue to appear alone and try to offer a light at the end of the tunnel.
Trump plans to aggressively promote vaccine and therapeutic news at coronavirus briefings
He'll continue to appear alone and try to offer a light at the end of the tunnel.
White House, Senate Republicans far apart on stimulus talks
The Senate Republican lunch descended into chaos on Tuesday.
House GOP leader to introduce bill that would sanction virus vaccine hackers
China, Iran and Russia have been accused of trying to steal U.S. research into coronavirus vaccine development.
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Alayna Treene
NEW: Kevin McCarthy will introduce a bill tomorrow that would sanction foreign hackers attempting to steal U.S. research into coronavirus vaccine development, according to a copy of the bill obtained by @axios
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Conservative allies urge Trump not to extend unemployment benefits in next relief bill
They warn Trump's reelection could hinge on the economic impact of the new bill.
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Alayna Treene
Trump allies Steve Forbes & Stephen Moore will send Trump a letter shortly outlining their concerns about the White House caving on a "bad" COVID-19 economic bill.
They say Trump's reelection hinges on a good deal
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Trump eyes Supreme Court ruling on DACA as license to skirt the law
Lawyer John Yoo believes the ruling paves the way for Trump to implement policies that Congress won't.
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Alayna Treene
John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the Bush administration's justification for waterboarding after 9/11, met virtually with WH officials about the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent DACA ruling
He told them how the law can be used for Trump’s own EOs
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NEW w/ @StefWKight: Trump and top White House officials are privately considering a controversial strategy to act without legal authority to enact new federal policies — starting with immigration, administration officials tell Axios.
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Trump's summer campaign shakeup shows that he knows he's losing
It's obvious to all around him.
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Alayna Treene
A recent spate of Fox News polls particularly infuriated Trump
One official tells me Trump still brings up a warning by Fox News' Tucker Carlson last month that Trump "could well lose."
Another says to look for more changes to come
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Los Angeles and San Diego public schools will be online only this fall
Together the two districts enroll about 825,000 students.
Former Mueller prosecutor to detail investigation in new book
Its publisher said it will detail "external efforts by the president and Attorney General William Barr to manipulate the investigation."
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Alayna Treene
Random House announced Monday that Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, will release a new book, titled "Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation," in September
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Hogan Gidley leaves White House for Trump campaign
He’ll become the campaign's national press secretary.
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Alayna Treene
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley will leave his post to become the national press secretary for Trump's re-election campaign, per sources with direct knowledge.
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