Elaine Godfrey
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
staff writer @TheAtlantic covering national politics and sometimes small animals. Iowan.
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey
For federal workers, the problem isn’t just low morale. It’s the dysfunction. The employees who have so far survived the Trump administration’s federal defenestration project are morose. For some, the new workload is untenable. For others, chaos reigns. Scientists have been unable to purchase mice for research, while human-tissue samples have sat on dry ice, unsent, thanks to worker layoffs.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey
The opposition arrived in a flurry of painted cardboard. Until this week, the 11th of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the resistance has not exactly been upper-case R. Any show of dissent by Democratic leadership has been virtually nonexistent, and protests against Trump’s policies have been small and sporadic. Citizen frustration with the new administration has registered nationally as little more than a distant rumble.
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Elaine Godfrey
Across the press-briefing room in the West Wing, past the lectern where the beaming blond press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, admonishes members of the meddlesome press, behind a blue sliding door, past a bored-looking security guard, and inside a small, cluttered office, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung is on X, trolling his boss’s enemies.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Elaine Godfrey
Across the press-briefing room in the West Wing, past the lectern where the beaming blond press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, admonishes members of the meddlesome press, behind a blue sliding door, past a bored-looking security guard, and inside a small, cluttered office, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung is on X, trolling his boss’s enemies.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Elaine Godfrey
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