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Jonathan Martin

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Politics Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist at POLITICO

Senior political columnist @politico. Best email for audio files, documents, tips and provocative ideas: https://t.co/VmkJz2G3tS or DM for text/signal

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Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | politico.com | Jonathan Martin

    By contrast, there’s been a pervasive passiveness among top GOP lawmakers, as though they lack agency and don’t represent a co-equal branch that has a say in trade policy. As markets swooned along with Trump’s approval rating on the economy, the response from many congressional Republicans hasn’t just been deference but detachment, like they’re doing color commentary up in the booth.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jonathan Martin

    Since President Donald Trump started a global trade war last week, the Republicans who run the United States Congress have been reduced to playing the same role as stock traders: hoping Trump is only using the tariffs to negotiate, hanging on every suggestion by the president and his less hawkish advisers thatthat’s the case and mostly just guessing and waiting about his intentions for fear of going out on a limb Trump may saw off at any moment.

  • 3 weeks ago | politico.com | Jonathan Martin

    There’s little that congressional Republicans and their counterparts in state capitals can do about Trump and his insistence on pushing inflation-spiking tariffs. He grips his party like no modern president, and they must accommodate every impulse. However, Musk has turbocharged the backlash to Trump and accelerated the revival of demoralized Democrats and independents appalled by the billionaire’s cavalier attempt to slash the federal government.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jonathan Martin

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trumpeting new tariffs he hopes will return industry to America, President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day.”But April 1 could be, and should be, Liberation Day for congressional Republicans when it comes to Elon Musk.

  • 3 weeks ago | politico.com | Jonathan Martin

    He’s frustrated with Congress, yes, but also Joe Biden’s selfishness, what Donald Trump has done to both parties and the corrosive impact of social media on politics, the media and even the once-presumed idea of shared facts. Bennet is almost certain to run for governor in his adopted state next year, according to multiple Democrats in Washington and Denver.

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11 Apr 25

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11 Apr 25

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11 Apr 25

RT @DashaBurns: NEWS: Erik Prince is lobbying Trump on a plan to vastly expand U.S. operations to detain migrants in El Salvador’s notoriou…