
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 | Mark Alfred |Claire Heddles
To commemorate Elon Musk’s last day as a special government employee, the White House assembled and published a list of “wins” credited to Musk and DOGE. The list both overstates DOGE’s work and at times directly contradicts DOGE’s own accounting of its cuts by hundreds of millions of dollars, instead relying on data from an unofficial website tied to a betting company.
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1 week ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles
The Democratic brand is severely diminished nationwide, but perhaps nowhere more than in Florida. Several candidates appear to be taking the advice of independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and dropping the “D” next to their name entirely. That trend continues in Florida, where Jason Pizzo, the former state Senate minority leader, has left the party — calling it “dead” — and hopped into the race for governor.
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2 weeks ago |
notus.org | Samuel Larreal |Claire Heddles
Senate Republicans are working to pass a landmark cryptocurrency bill that could change the digital asset landscape. At least one of the lawmakers working on it, Sen. Dave McCormick, could benefit monetarily from it. Over the past three months, McCormick has funneled between $500,000 and $1.25 million into Bitwise’s bitcoin exchange-traded fund, according to financial disclosure records.
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3 weeks ago |
notus.org | Claire Heddles
Democrats on opposite sides of cryptocurrency regulation debates agree on one thing: Crypto is an incredibly useful political messaging tool. They just can’t agree on how. Industry lobbyists and supportive lawmakers have argued the road to Democratic comeback is paved with crypto-friendly legislation — insisting that embracing digital assets will win back voters Democrats ceded to President Donald Trump in 2024, especially young men.
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1 month ago |
notus.org | Haley Byrd Wilt |Claire Heddles |Samuel Larreal |Em Luetkemeyer
Foreign Policy For the first time, an American is the pope — and American lawmakers are thrilled. “I called my family in Chicago,” Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego told NOTUS on Thursday. “We’re all Catholics, and they’re all excited.” “They’re doing research to see if we ever went to mass with him,” he said.
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