Jeff Stein

Washington, D.C., United States

Editor and Founder at SpyTalk

Longtime DC intel scribe--Newsweek, WaPo, CQ, UPI, magazines, books. Founding Editor, https://t.co/YO34WSHJrc. Podcast: https://t.co/D0oyIJgXc5

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Articles

What's It All About, Tulsi?

1 week ago | spytalk.co | Jeff Stein

Waltz is out, Wong is out, Tulsi potificates on intel agency “rot.” MAGA Influencers claim scalps. Lie detectors mobilzed in hunt for leakers. Big personnel cuts across the ODNI, CIA, NSA and other intel agencies. Deep State be gone! What more do you need for fiendish entertainment in Week 18 of Trump 2.0? Mike Isilkoff and I break it all down in the latest episode of our new video podcast of the SpyTalk Week in Review. Somebody called us “the Car Guys of the intel world.” We’re okay with that.
New in SpyWeek: Deep State Be Gone!

1 week ago | spytalk.co | Jeff Stein

Sure, we could start by rehashing the bust of Michael Waltz from National Security Adviser down to U.N. ambassador (a lowly post to conservatives), but there’s so much more to address in our world beyond the usual deck chair shuffles that have long been a hallmark of a Donald Trump’s administration. As in Trump 1.0, he’ll likely go through a couple more NSAs before this term is over.
GOP Balks At Approving Even A Fraction Of Musk's DOGE Cuts

1 week ago | southfloridareporter.com | Liz Goodwin |Jeff Stein

White House officials have in recent weeks brainstormed strategies for enshrining into law the government cuts implemented by billionaire Elon Musk's team, aiming to turn the U.S. DOGE Service's moves into lasting policy shifts.
GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk's DOGE cuts

1 week ago | startribune.com | Liz Goodwin |Jeff Stein

White House officials have in recent weeks brainstormed strategies for enshrining into law the government cuts implemented by billionaire Elon Musk's team, aiming to turn the U.S. DOGE Service's moves into lasting policy shifts.
White House budget calls for $163 billion in federal cuts next year

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Jeff Stein |Jacob Bogage

The White House released a partial budget proposal Friday calling for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending in the next fiscal year, pushing reductions to health care, education and many other government programs while boosting spending on defense and homeland security. The White House’s 2026 fiscal budget plan would codify for next year many of the spending cuts already unilaterally implemented this year by President Donald Trump or billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
Trump & Co’s Polygraph Pandemonium

1 week ago | military.com | Jeff Stein

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US and Ukraine announce signing of contentious minerals deal

1 week ago | postguam.com | Siobhan O'Grady |Jeff Stein

KYIV - The United States and Ukraine have signed a deal to establish joint investment in Ukraine’s mineral wealth, oil, gas and other natural resources, officials said on Wednesday, in a move that would fulfill a key White House request and give Kyiv a degree of much-desired U.S. backing. “As the president has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
U.S., Ukraine announce signing of contentious minerals deal

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Siobhán O’Grady |Jeff Stein

KYIV – The United States and Ukraine have signed a deal to establish joint investment in Ukraine’s mineral wealth, oil, gas and other natural resources, officials said Wednesday, in a move that would fulfill a key White House request and give Kyiv a degree of much-desired U.S. backing. “As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
Trump & Co’s Polygraph Pandemonium

1 week ago | spytalk.co | Jeff Stein

Decades ago, a wise and long serving Justice Department inspector general remarked to me that leak investigations were “a fool’s errand.” By that he meant that they rarely ended in criminal investigations and often led back to the offices of political appointees who had expressed the loudest outrage, where they were quietly buried.
Trump liga para Bezos para reclamar da Amazon por exibir custo de tarifas; empresa nega

2 weeks ago | estadao.com.br | Jeff Stein |Abha Bhattarai |Caroline O'Donovan

O presidente Donald Trump ligou para o fundador da Amazon, Jeff Bezos, na manhã desta terça-feira, 29, para reclamar de uma notícia que dizia que a gigante do comércio eletrônico exibiria os custos das novas tarifas do governo para os consumidores. A informação foi confirmada por duas pessoas familiarizadas com o assunto, que falaram sob condição de anonimato para descrever a conversa privada. A Amazon contestou a reportagem.