Marc Caputo
@marcacaputo.bsky.social
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Trump White House reporter @Axios
You’re fired? Not so much this go around with Trump 3 reasons why w/@nrothschild3
www.axios.com/2026/01/29/t...
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Trump gets shy about firing his own
There have been no high-level firings during Trump's second term.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/trump-kristi-noem-alex-pretti
about 17 hours ago
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Scoop: Trump expecting favorable Panama Canal ruling to further "Donroe Doctrine.”
www.axios.com/2026/01/29/t...
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Scoop: Trump expecting favorable Panama Canal ruling to further "Donroe Doctrine"
Removing Chinese influence in the canal zone is key to Trump's Western Hemisphere strategy.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/trump-panama-canal-court-ruling-china
about 23 hours ago
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The man behind the Minnesota 'massacre' misinformation: Stephen Miller Noem is telling others she feels hung out to dry and was just following WH direction
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
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Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
3 days ago
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“It's fucked, and POTUS knew he needed to unfuck it:” What we know about Trump’s Monday Minnesota moves w/@brittanyagibson
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
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"It was a mess": Inside Trump's pivot on Minnesota
"It's f**ked, and POTUS knew he needed to unf**k it," an administration adviser told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-minnesota-immigration-pivot-greg-bovino
3 days ago
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'Fundamentally wrong:' Gun groups, Republicans condemn Noem, Patel statements on right to bear arms in Minnesota
www.axios.com/2026/01/25/n...
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Gun-rights group says Noem, Patel are "fundamentally wrong" on Minnesota law
Second Amendment and other allies are pushing back.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/25/noem-patel-minnesota-gun-law-pretti
5 days ago
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At an airport gate last week, Lewandowski loudly talked on his phone about contracts from DHS vendors last week for all to hear It’s a sign he’s still the full-time power broker while working under as a part-time volunteer w/ @brittanyagibson @axiosalex
www.axios.com/2026/01/23/c...
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Lewandowski back for another year as DHS's part-time power broker
Despite being listed as a temp, Lewandowski exerts singular influence in day-to-day operations at DHS.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/corey-lewandowski-kristi-noem-homeland-security
7 days ago
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Vance is in Minnesota today, and he's not planning any peace offerings to Twin Cities officials and protesters opposed to the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics. w/@toreyvanoot
www.axios.com/2026/01/21/v...
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Vance's Minnesota trip to show "unwavering support" for ICE
The administration isn't backing down from its controversial immigration raids and stops.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/21/vance-minnesota-trip-ice-immigration
8 days ago
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Air Force One turned around en route to Switzerland and is heading back to the U.S. with the president aboard due to “minor electrical issue,” the White House says Trump will board another plane and then continue on to Davos
10 days ago
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Trump sees his Board of Peace as a NATO alternative, and he might draw that contrast in his speech in Davos But there’s a giant Greenland-sized wrinkle in all of this… @BarakRavid & I
www.axios.com/2026/01/20/t...
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Trump heads to Davos more aggressive and ambitious than ever
A senior U.S. official said Davos attendees should prepare to be insulted.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/trump-davos-greenland-tariff-threats
10 days ago
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright is looking to secure oil and critical minerals deals with Venezuela in the next few weeks ahead of a trip to Caracas, he said in a Friday interview with Axios’s @m_ccuri.
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/w...
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Exclusive: Wright's next steps in Venezuela
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is looking to secure oil and critical minerals deals with Venezuela in the next few weeks ahead of a trip to Caracas.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/wright-minerals-oil-venezuela
14 days ago
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Trump’s team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public polls, bolstered internal concern about the administration's confrontational enforcement tactics. @axiosalex & I
www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...
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Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/trump-polling-immigration-approval-rating-ice-noem?utm_medium=referral
14 days ago
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Trump and Rubio like to "bro out" over football and they plan to do so in the secretary's hometown of Miami on Monday night at the natty There's some only-in-Miami Cuban American intrigue here as well
www.axios.com/2026/01/14/t...
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Trump, Rubio to attend national college football title game in Miami
A rare window into how the Cabinet secretary bonds with the president.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/trump-rubio-football-championship-miami
16 days ago
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Inside Trump's $11 billion health plan to replace "neo-colonial" USAID to extend U.S. influence, particularly in Africa Critics fear catastrophe
www.axios.com/2026/01/14/t...
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Inside Trump's $11 billion health plan to replace "neo-colonial" USAID
The new program aims to boost U.S. influence and interests in developing nations without the NGOs delivered services through USAID.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/trump-foreign-aid-africa-usaid
16 days ago
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, like others in the admin, was caught off guard by news of the federal investigation of the Fed chair — & he expressed concerns to POTUS about the effects on financial markets and the internal plan to get Powell to leave
www.axios.com/2026/01/12/b...
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Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a "mess"
"The secretary isn't happy, and he let the president know," one source familiar with Bessent's call to Trump told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/bessent-trump-investigation-powell-federal-reserve
18 days ago
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Forget talk about elections and democracy in Venezuela (at least for now) Trump has a simple goal there: Back a pro-U.S. government — and prop it up with millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil
www.axios.com/2026/01/07/t...
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Trump's Venezuela oil strategy comes into focus
Such a raw exercise of U.S. imperial force hasn't been seen in modern times.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/trump-venezuela-oil-power-play
23 days ago
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Rubio’s 28-year career has led to this historic inflection point in Venezuela
www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
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Rubio faces ghosts of American interventions after spearheading Maduro takedown
Marco Rubio is suddenly facing his most daunting puzzle in his 28 years in politics.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/04/marco-rubio-venezuela-maduro-oil
26 days ago
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News: The Trump Administration estimates it has about one week to go —and as many as 700,000 more pages to review— before it finishes releasing all the Jeffrey Epstein files Some news about their thinking the admin & what’s coming next..
www.axios.com/2025/12/24/e...
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Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/epstein-files-release-trump-doj-timing
about 1 month ago
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Trump on seized Venezuelan oil: "We're gonna keep it"
www.axios.com/2025/12/23/t...
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Trump on seized Venezuelan oil: "We're gonna keep it"
Trump's policy furthers accusations that his pressure campaign on Venezuela's leader Nicolás Maduro amounts to oil-grabbing piracy.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/23/trump-venezuela-oil-policy-keep
about 1 month ago
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Trump’s new immigration weapon: investigating money lenders on the border
www.axios.com/2025/12/22/t...
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Exclusive: Treasury uses new tech targeting money lenders along Mexican border
The operation examines whether money services businesses violated anti-money laundering laws and rules.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/treasury-department-tech-mexican-border-trump
about 1 month ago
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The U.S. is intercepting its third oil tanker off Venezuela, this time a sanctioned vessel that was on its way to get loaded up with crude We have conflicting sources on whether the vessel, identified by one source as Bella 1, has been fully boarded yet
www.axios.com/2025/12/21/u...
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U.S. intercepting third oil tanker as Venezuela hostilities intensify
This is the latest sign Trump wants to squeeze the Venezuela's economy.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/21/us-pursues-third-oil-tanker-as-venezuela-hostilities-intensify
about 1 month ago
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U.S. boards un-sanctioned tanker with Venezuelan oil to tighten blockade It's another escalation by Trump and a sign that, sanctioned or not, the U.S. military will interdict ships carrying Venezuela's crude.
www.axios.com/2025/12/20/v...
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U.S. boards un-sanctioned tanker with Venezuelan oil to tighten blockade
The move makes clear the Trump administration considers almost all oil tankers with Venezuelan crude subject to possible seizure.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/20/venezuelan-oil-tanker-trump-us
about 1 month ago
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🐈⬛ &🐁 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 No, Maduro didn’t “call Trump’s bluff,” as some say, by running Trump’s blockade w/2 oil tankers & a VZ naval escort The vessels arent under US sanction & ergo aren’t targeted (yet?) by the blockade It’s a recipe for armed conflict
www.axios.com/2025/12/20/m...
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Maduro tests Trump with "Plan B" oil tanker strategy
This newest cat-and-mouse game between Trump and Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is heightening the tension in the Caribbean.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/20/maduro-tests-trump-oil-tanker-strategy
about 1 month ago
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🐈⬛ &🐁 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 No, Maduro didn’t “call Trump’s bluff,” as some say, by running Trump’s blockade w/2 oil tankers & a VZ naval escort The vessels arent under US sanction & ergo aren’t targeted (yet?) by the blockade It’s a recipe for armed conflict
www.axios.com/2025/12/20/m...
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Maduro tests Trump with "Plan B" oil tanker strategy
This newest cat-and-mouse game between Trump and Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is heightening the tension in the Caribbean.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/20/maduro-tests-trump-oil-tanker-strategy
about 1 month ago
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In labeling Venezuela’s govt a terrorist org, Trump is echoing the cause of oil companies with claims against the regime At least 2 firms that once had business in Venezuela have inquired about the fate of the oil seized last week, Axios has learned
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
about 1 month ago
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The U.S. is preparing to seize more sanctioned oil-filled tankers off Venezuela as the Trump administration opens a new phase of its pressure campaign on Maduro
www.axios.com/2025/12/16/t...
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"Quite a buffet": U.S. ready to seize more tankers with Venezuelan oil
Impounding more tankers would threaten to further impoverish Venezuela as Trump tries to force Maduro to leave office.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/trump-seize-oil-tankers-venezuela
about 2 months ago
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Trump’s pinning his 2026 hopes on the economy soaring next year, starting around tax season
www.axios.com/2025/12/15/t...
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Trump's article of faith: Economy will soar in '26
Trump's bullish belief is key to understanding why he's so reluctant to say there's an "affordability crisis."
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/trump-economy-2026-income-inflation
about 2 months ago
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Scoop: Trump sanctions 3 nephews of Maduro, a regime businessman and 6 companies and ships carrying Venezuelan oil
www.axios.com/2025/12/11/v...
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Scoop: Trump sanctions Maduro's nephews, 6 ships carrying Venezuela oil
It's the latest turn in President Trump's pressure campaign on Maduro, whom the administration has accused of leading a narco-trafficking terrorist organization.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/venezuela-maduro-sanctions-trump
about 2 months ago
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Trump hasn’t told anyone he wants to get rid of Noem. So where did the rumor come from? Noem supporters at DHS suspect it comes from backers of Border Czar Tom Homan The two of them just don’t get along Here’s the backstory from @brittanyagibson & me
www.axios.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Inside Kristi Noem's bitter feud with Trump's border czar
Tensions reached a fever pitch last week amid rumors Noem would be ousted as head of homeland security.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/trump-kristi-noem-tom-homan-feud-immigration
about 2 months ago
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From a U.S. prison cell, Honduras' ex-president secured a likely pardon for drug trafficking thanks to a letter he penned praising President Trump and a persistent lobbying campaign by longtime POTUS pal Roger Stone Read the letter here first
www.axios.com/2025/12/02/t...
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Scoop: The letter behind Trump's pardon of Honduras' ex-president for drug trafficking
The surprise announcement of Juan Orlando Hernandez's looming pardon is a window into the unorthodox, norm-shattering way President Trump grants clemency.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/trump-pardon-hernandez-honduras-former-president-letter
about 2 months ago
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Scoop: Trump kickstarted the latest peace talks in Ukraine in a Nov. 18 White House meeting with Vance & Rubio, who made the case that a new 28-point plan could help end the war
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/i...
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Scoop: Inside the White House meeting that launched the new Ukraine peace talks
The previously unreported meeting laid the groundwork for the talks in Geneva last weekend.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/27/inside-white-house-meeting-ukraine-talks?utm_medium=referral
2 months ago
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SCOOP: President Trump's meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last week got tense when they discussed the possibility of Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel.
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www.axios.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Scoop: Trump's meeting with MBS got tense over Israel
With the war in Gaza over, Trump had hoped for a breakthrough toward Saudi-Israeli normalization.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/trump-mbs-tense-meeting
2 months ago
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Trump has told advisers he's ready to talk with Nicolás Maduro —as the U.S. ramps up pressure on the Venezuelan dictator by designating him the head of a terrorist org There are no imminent plans to strike inside Venezuela nor snatch Maduro —not yet
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
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Scoop: Trump ready to talk with Maduro over Venezuela drug strikes
It could be a sign that U.S. missile strikes or direct military action on land are not imminent, sources tell Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-maduro-talks-meeting-venezuela-boat-strikes
2 months ago
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How Trump's 28-point plan for Ukraine shocked the world —the story of how the U.S. assembled and pushed its latest proposal to end the war @BarakRavid @DavidLawler10 @demarest_colin & I
www.axios.com/2025/11/24/t...
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How Trump's 28-point plan for Ukraine shocked the world
Zelensky listened on speaker phone as Witkoff and Kushner read, line by line, from a 28-point plan.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-ukraine-plan-28-points-back-story
2 months ago
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Zohran Mamdani stars in Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice: White House” @axiosalex, @hollyotterbein & I
www.axios.com/2025/11/22/t...
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Inside Trump and Mamdani's surprising bond of convenience
They're both populist outsiders, lovers of the Big Apple, and politicians who each want what the other has.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/22/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-bond
2 months ago
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Saudi Crown Prince MBS on Tuesday downplayed the kingdom's role in 9/11 attacks. But a major lawsuit —and a recent judge’s ruling— implicates the kingdom
www.axios.com/2025/11/21/9...
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9/11 families' lawsuit reveals new details linking Saudis to plot
It's the largest and longest-active case in the federal court system with 10,000 or so plaintiffs seeking damages in what's been called a trillion-dollar lawsuit.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/21/911-families-lawsuit-links-saudi-officials-to-plot-despite-princes-denial
2 months ago
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Scoop: a CIA whistleblower goes public with @Axios about a secret CIA report he saw that boasted about tricking Congress in an investigation of JFK’s assassination
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/w...
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Scoop: Secret CIA report boasted about tricking Congress in JFK probe, whistleblower says
"It's a blueprint of a cover-up, how to lie to Congress and the American people," former CIA-State Department historian Thomas L. Pearcy tells Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/whistleblower-secret-cia-report-jfk-assassination
2 months ago
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Jared Isaacman’s tortured path to become the next NASA chief is entangled in Senate rules & folkways The White House wants a quick vote The Senate? Eh It’s complicated @HansNichols, @StefWKight & I
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/t...
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Senate complicates Isaacman confirmation for NASA
It will delay his nomination and prevent him from joining a batch of nominees.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/ted-cruz-jared-isaacman-nasa-hearing-senate
2 months ago
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It's too early to call President Trump a lame duck. But Congress is ready to clip his wings over the Epstein files. Trump still thinks it’s “bullshit” the GOP is here —& he still wields great power— but he had to accept reality
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/e...
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Epstein files give Trump a taste of political mortality
Tuesday's expected vote in the House will mark the first time in Trump's second term that a GOP-led congressional chamber will so openly defy him.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/epstein-files-trump-political-mortality
2 months ago
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Forget retaliation: To cut tariffs President Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/14/trump-swiss-gifts-gold-rolex
3 months ago
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Four months ago, Trump blocked the release of the Epstein files. Wednesday's disclosure of thousands of Epstein emails showed why: the disclosure shed new light on their relationship, dominated the conversation —and put Trump on defense
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
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Epstein files become a fiasco of Trump's own making
Trump's reaction to the Epstein scandal is window into how he handles major controversies that invite criticism about his leadership.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/trump-epstein-files-fiasco
3 months ago
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Trump blames Democrats, the shutdown and media bias for his party's shellacking last Tuesday. What he leaves out: his own role in Republicans' election wipeout and the contradictions in his policies and messaging.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/t...
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Trump is full of shutdown contradictions
The president ignores his own role in Republicans' election wipeout, and the contradictions in his policies and messaging during the shutdown.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/09/trump-shutdown-snap-election
3 months ago
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The affordability crisis, once Biden's, is now Trump's @BerkowitzBT and I
www.axios.com/2025/11/07/t...
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The affordability crisis, once Biden's, is now Trump's
You can't convince Americans your economic policies are working if they're paying 20% more for a cup of coffee.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/trump-prices-costs-affordability
3 months ago
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The Justice Department's push to investigate a progressive activist accused of doxxing top Trump adviser Stephen Miller has been stymied by two judges and a Virginia prosecutor, according to court records and state and federal law enforcement sources
www.axios.com/2025/11/07/d...
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Dems' resistance stymies DOJ in Stephen Miller doxxing case
The case exposes the sharp partisan divide between Northern Virginia's Democratic resistance and President Trump's MAGA government.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/democrats-resistance-doj-stephen-miller-doxxing
3 months ago
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Trump has raised a staggering $1.9 billion since taking office to help finance his political committees and White House construction projects —& he’s still going “The midterms are paid for,” we’re told And, yes, he plans to build the Arc de Trump in DC
www.axios.com/2025/11/05/t...
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Scoop: Trump's $2 billion fundraising binge
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/05/trump-2-billion-fundraising-binge
3 months ago
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Months after abruptly canceling his nomination, President Trump ended a fierce behind-the-scenes tussle and restored @rookisaacman as his nominee to run NASA. Here’s how he did it
www.axios.com/2025/11/05/t...
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The inside story of how Jared Isaacman got his NASA nomination back
Months after abruptly canceling his nomination, Trump ended a fierce behind-the-scenes tussle.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/05/trump-nasa-musk-ally-isaacman-moon-china
3 months ago
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If the shutdown continues and Senate Republicans don’t exercise the “nuclear option” to kill the filibuster that sustains the closure, Trump is ready to go nuclear on them w/@StefWKight & @stephen_neukam
www.axios.com/2025/11/04/t...
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Scoop: Trump readying "living hell" for GOP senators over nuking filibuster
"He will call them at three o'clock in the morning," one adviser told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-filibuster-republican-senators-shutdown
3 months ago
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Scoop: Trump is directing staff to brief more members of Congress on his administration's aggressive boat bombing in Latin America "I keep getting calls about this from congressmen," Trump explained in a recent meeting with top officials W/
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www.axios.com/2025/11/03/t...
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Scoop: Trump orders more Venezuela briefings for Congress
"I keep getting calls about this from congressmen," Trump said in a recent meeting.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-venezuela-briefings-congress
3 months ago
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A growing number of unions are pressuring Senate Democrats to reopen the government by voting for a clean CR @AndrewSolender & I
www.axios.com/2025/10/30/d...
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Democrats' rift with unions erupts as shutdown pain worsens
Nearly half a dozen labor leaders have now called on Democrats to pass the GOP's spending bill.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/democrats-unions-labor-trump-shutdown-airlines
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Earlier in the week, there were doubts Trump could find the $5.3 billion to pay the troops Friday The White House just came up with a solution by raiding 3 accounts Exclusive reporting here
www.axios.com/2025/10/29/w...
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Exclusive: White House finds 11th-hour shutdown workaround to pay troops — for now
Otherwise Trump isn't planning to budge on the nearly month-old shutdown, even with as many as 42 million people set to lose food stamp benefits Saturday.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/white-house-omb-troops-pay-shutdown
3 months ago
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The Agriculture Department says it can't use contingency funds to pay for food stamps during the government shutdown — and that states won't be reimbursed if they cover the expenses on their own, according to a new memo exclusively obtained by Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...
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Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps
States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, memo says.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/gov-shutdown-snap-payments-emergency-funds
3 months ago
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