Claire Heddles
Congressional Reporter at NOTUS
Fellow at Allbritton Journalism Institute
Politics reporter @NOTUSreports [email protected] or Signal @ claire.904
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles |Casey Murray
In one of their first major opportunities to publicly push back against members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, House Democrats didn’t land many big punches. While the minority party is typically eager to use oversight hearings to create splashy, on-camera moments, House Democrats managed few as the faces of some of Trump’s biggest policy moves — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — defended the president on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Alex Roarty |Claire Heddles |Anna Kramer
For weeks, nonprofit organizations in Washington have braced for President Donald Trump to issue a sweeping executive order they fear would target their tax-exempt status — and threaten their very existence. Trump’s Friday Truth Social post saying the government would revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status raised the fears of nonprofit groups to yet another degree.
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2 weeks ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles
President Donald Trump signed two executive actions this week professing to bring more transparency to how foreign money infiltrates American institutions — one on money to universities, another on elections. But it remains unclear whether he’ll extend the transparency effort to his own vehicle to accept foreign donations: his presidential library fund.
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3 weeks ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles
The biggest check to Donald Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee came from the meat processing company Pilgrim’s Pride, the same company that pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix chicken prices in 2021. The company, which boasts that it produces almost one in every six chickens in the U.S., donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration.
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3 weeks ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles
A year-and-a-half out from Florida’s governor’s race, Byron Donalds is already boxing out candidates by racking up endorsements from Republican lawmakers. Meanwhile, his highest profile likely challenger, Florida’s first lady, Casey DeSantis, is busy fighting off a growing corruption scandal over allegations her nonprofit Hope Florida funneled $10 million in taxpayer funds toward political ads.
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