Courtney Rozen

New: The Biden admin is taking steps to thwart oil development in Alaska by canceling leases to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and setting up plans for more conservation in the state’s petroleum reserve, per people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/izrFCUY605

RT @BGrueskin: I’ve never seen a better front page. And neither have you. Via the brilliant @dailytarheel student journalists. https://t.…

The nominee is backed by Texas’ two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Both sit on the Senate committee that vets judicial nominees, @HeadleyTiana reports.

Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen

NEW: Texas is getting its first district court judicial nominee from President Biden. District court judges in Texas often hear conservative-led challenges to Biden's policies. https://t.co/uguEMxFuUf

⁦@FEMA_Deanne⁩ will travel to Florida this afternoon, she tells reporters at the White House, adding that she will tour hurricane damage tomorrow with the state’s governor. https://t.co/piKk62T4B7

NEW: Texas is getting its first district court judicial nominee from President Biden. District court judges in Texas often hear conservative-led challenges to Biden's policies. https://t.co/uguEMxFuUf

Extreme weather in the U.S. is creating an unprecedented workload for federal emergency management teams, @FEMA_Deanne tells reporters at White House. "This is the new normal," she says.

Back today after a few weeks away. Feeling a little like these puppies --> https://t.co/u4QcK3hkdr

RT @RebeccaARainey: Vice President Kamala Harris just now "I'll call her Labor Secretary. I'm not going to call her acting," when talking a…

RT @sahilkapur: Supreme Court allows Biden ‘ghost gun’ regulations "The vote was 5-4, with conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and J…

Today in Arizona: President Biden will block expanded uranium mining around the Grand Canyon. The area is about three times the size of Los Angeles. https://t.co/bFapPsd6HN

RT @RebeccaARainey: The Government Accountability Office is reviewing whether Julie Su should be limited in how long she can serve as actin…

RT @EBernsteinWSJ: "Bring him home." Evan Gershkovich's colleagues in the @WSJ's London newsroom made a video describing him. Please view…

RT @AlexGangitano: The Bidens just arrived at a movie theater on Route 1 to see Oppenheimer And no, the pool does not get to see the movie…

RT @JenniferJJacobs: Biden admin officials quickly pointed to Trump admin. The governance ratings cited by Fitch had fallen under Trump but…

RT @justinsink: inside the admin, feeling that the downgrade was caused by erosion in governance ratings during trump — but then have rebou…

White House staff talked repeatedly about protecting US credit rating during debt ceiling negotiations earlier this summer.

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BREAKING: The US had its credit rating cut one step to AA+ from the top ranking of AAA by Fitch Ratings, echoing a move made more than a decade ago by S&P in 2011 https://t.co/BdV1syRZU1

"If the Education Department was a bank, it would rank fifth by size of assets in the US." https://t.co/cJrOBg0GLQ