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Stephen Miller replacing Susie Wiles as chief of staff as Trump grows furious with midterm results, sources say — Donald Trump Federal agencies Corporate news — Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, is departing her role days after catastrophic Republican midterm losses in a seismic staff shakeup at the White House.
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Politico:
How Katie Miller lobbied for her husband's promotion — President Donald Trump's decision to make Stephen Miller the White House chief of staff followed a weeks-long lobbying effort from Katie Miller, his wife. — Katie Miller told people to call the president on her husband's behalf …
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The Wrap, Daily Mail, Fox News, Deadline, Semafor, MS NOW, NBC News, twitchy.com, Townhall, One America News Network and The Daily Wire
New York Times:
In Elevating Stephen Miller, Trump Doubles Down on Hard-Line Agenda — The new White House chief of staff is responsible for some of the most provocative policies of President Trump's second term, as well as an aggressive approach to executive power. — In the initial days …
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The Hill, TalkLeft, NewsMax.com, Al Jazeera, SFist, Mediaite and RTÉ
Wall Street Journal:
Susie Wiles Takes the Election Fall — Trump fires his chief of staff, as his political universe shrinks. — Most Presidents who take a beating in midterm elections acknowledge the trouncing and take responsibility. But Donald Trump isn't most Presidents, in case you hadn't noticed.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Inside the early GOP reckoning after historic defeat — President Donald Trump's decision to name hard-line loyalist Stephen Miller as his top aide cemented what many Republicans were already privately fearing: There will be no party-wide GOP reckoning with this week's midterm bloodbath.
New York Times:
Trump Elevates Stephen Miller, a Fiery Hard-Liner, to Chief of Staff — The promotion of Mr. Miller, who has led the administration's immigration crackdown, signals a doubling down by the president on policies that voters decisively rejected in the midterm elections. — Here's the latest.
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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
With Susie Wiles's Departure, Big Business Loses a Sympathetic Ear
Phillips P. OBrien / Phillips's Newsletter:
Trump is going Full Putin with the Miller Appointment
Trump is going Full Putin with the Miller Appointment
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, New York Post, TheGrio, Democrats, MeidasTouch, The U.S. House Committee … and CBS News
Politico:
Stephen Miller's fellow immigration hawks are ‘jubilant’
Stephen Miller's fellow immigration hawks are ‘jubilant’
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New Republic, Newsweek, WTOP News, The Guardian, Robert Reich, New York Magazine, Washington Examiner and The Federalist
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Signals Combative Next Two Years With Elevation of Stephen Miller
Trump Signals Combative Next Two Years With Elevation of Stephen Miller
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Washington Examiner and PoliticusUSA
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
What Stephen Miller has pushed for while in Trump administration
What Stephen Miller has pushed for while in Trump administration
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Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
The inside story of Trump's election night fury and Susie Wiles's frantic battle to survive
The inside story of Trump's election night fury and Susie Wiles's frantic battle to survive
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Adam Kinzinger, New York Post, NBC News, Blaze Media, Newsweek, New Republic and CBS News
New York Times:
Trump Chief of Staff Accused of Blocking Healthy-Food Policies to Attract Donations
Trump Chief of Staff Accused of Blocking Healthy-Food Policies to Attract Donations
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Wired, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Washington Examiner, Deadline, RedState and Mediaite
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Trump still defiant after a bruising week
New York Times:
Democrats, Newly Ascendant, Begin a Fight to Shape the Party's Future — At a moment of opportunity for the party, its long-feuding factions are seizing on the midterm results to make their case for tacking to the center or to the left. — A pastor in Kansas. A Paralympian in Iowa.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever — The President's unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot. — Two generations ago, in the fall of 1974, President Gerald Ford and the Republican Party approached the midterm elections with considerable dread.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Chuck Schumer on Governing With (or Without) Trump
Chuck Schumer on Governing With (or Without) Trump
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Politico, Washington Examiner and OutsideTheBeltway
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterms — Behind the scenes, the world's richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country's politics to his will. He couldn't. — The world's richest person had face-planted — and was now trying to turn back time.
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Straight Arrow
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Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
A Top Navy Officer Fired by Hegseth Is Elected to Congress — Nancy Lacore, a Democrat, has expressed interest in being on the Armed Services Committee. — Copy — Democrat Nancy Lacore, a retired Navy vice admiral fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, has won her congressional race …
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Washington Examiner and Military.com
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Johnson's meeting request — Sen. Ron Johnson is sending a letter Monday requesting a conference meeting to discuss the midterm results and a delay in the leadership election. Johnson has gathered enough signatures to force the meeting under the Senate GOP's rules and is proposing the gathering for 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Washington Examiner and Political.org
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Johnson, staunch Trump ally, seeks to delay Senate GOP leadership election after big losses
Johnson, staunch Trump ally, seeks to delay Senate GOP leadership election after big losses
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Politico, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and Joe.My.God.
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Free Press Forced To Issue Correction After Reporting Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech ‘In Arabic’ — The Free Press was forced to issue a correction after reporter Maya Sulkin erroneously said that Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) gave his victory speech “in Arabic.”
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The New World
Taylor Lang / WISN:
Wisconsin state trooper detained by ICE while boarding domestic flight to be released — DODGE COUNTY, Wis. — A Wisconsin state trooper was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Dane County Regional Airport on Thursday. — It happened during a targeted ICE operation …
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FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, Wisconsin Watch and WPR
New York Times:
With So Much New Blood in the Senate, the Average Age Is Falling. To 63. — Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average. But the chamber's overall age isn't shifting much. — When the new Senate convenes in January, it will welcome some (relatively) young new legislators.
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Foreign Policy
Politico:
Multiple top officials exit DOJ after Dems' midterm wave — Attorney General Todd Blanche is shaking up the Justice Department's senior ranks ahead of an expected clash with Congress and mounting frustration over a string of legal and political failures. — High-profile leaders resigned …
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Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resigns
Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resigns
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, NewsNation, KRDO, Fox News, NBC News, Bloomberg Law and Politico
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Pro-Talarico PAC pulls back curtain on historic investment — In January, the leading super political action committee backing James Talarico spotted a problem in the data: Talarico was running behind where he needed to be in Hispanic-heavy South Texas in order to win the March primary.
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Ex-RFK Jr adviser bashes White House on MAHA priorities — Calley Means, a former top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ripped outgoing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles over her tenure, arguing in a Friday interview she led the Trump administration to consistently bow …
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STAT, Politico and The Independent
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Ex-RFK Jr. adviser alleges Trump admin corruption prompted resignation
Mack Liederman / New York Times:
He'll Be Clerk of One of the Country's Largest Counties. He's 19. — Sebastian Matta, a sophomore at Arizona State University, was elected on Tuesday as Superior Court clerk in Maricopa County, Ariz. — If you live in Arizona's Maricopa County, Sebastian Matta will soon be in charge …
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Mysterious Request Scrambles Major Supreme Court Gun Case — In an unusual move, the lead plaintiff in one of two cases challenging semiautomatic weapons bans has asked to drop out weeks before the cases are heard. — The Supreme Court received an unusual request late last week …
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CNN and The Daily Caller
Ariana Baio / The Guardian:
Incoming Democratic senators don't want Chuck Schumer as majority leader — New lawmakers from Annie Andrews and Adam Hamilton to Abdul El-Sayed indicate they will not support him — Incoming Democratic senators want someone other than Chuck Schumer to become the next majority leader in the US Senate …
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
California rejects billionaire tax proposal in win for executives, Newsom — California voters are rejecting a proposal to impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, marking a major win for tech and business executives, who spent hundreds of millions against the measure, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).
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Political.org
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Mississippi Senate race votes at risk after state eliminates mail ballot curing rule — The extremely tight U.S. Senate race in Mississippi is now coming down to the final few provisional and mail ballots, which could determine the outcome. But a few months ago, Mississippi's secretary …
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Mississippi Today and Scripps News
Wall Street Journal:
White House Weighs Executive Order Attaching Terrorist Label to Some Nonprofits — The order, which hasn't been finalized, would immediately suspend groups' tax-exempt status — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would list some nonprofit organizations …
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The Independent, New Republic and NewsMax.com
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrats “inundated” with anti-Jeffries calls — Democratic House members and members-elect are being bombarded with phone calls and emails urging them not to elect Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as speaker, more than a dozen lawmakers and aides tell Axios.
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American Greatness, NewsMax.com and New York Times
