Jordan Wolman

Washington, D.C., United States

Sustainability Reporter at POLITICO

Sustainability reporter @politico. Past: @mainemonitor; @PLCAReporters; @jerseyjournal; @LUbrownwhite

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Draft Trump executive order seeks to create new agency for wildfire response

1 week ago | treefrogcreative.ca | Natalie Fertig |Jordan Wolman |Kevin Mason |Kelly McCloskey

President Donald Trump wants to create a new federal agency that will be responsible for “all wildland fire fighting nationwide” by 2026, according to a draft executive order currently under review at the White House. The draft order, which was obtained by POLITICO and confirmed by three people familiar with the situation, would launch a national wildland firefighting task force in the next 90 days, combining resources from the Departments of Agriculture, Interior and Homeland Security.
Trump may be gambling with his rural support in Wisconsin

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Liz Crampton |Jordan Wolman |Samuel Benson

“If [Schimel] doesn’t have the kind of support that President Trump had in rural Wisconsin, ball game over,” said Brian Reisinger, a former GOP adviser in Wisconsin who specializes in rural policy.
Trump may be gambling with his rural support in Wisconsin

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Liz Crampton |Jordan Wolman |Samuel Benson

8 hours agoCritics said the tech billionaire's complaint sounded a lot like what he himself has been doing. Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday complained about fellow billionaire George Soros supposedly sending “operatives” to an event in Wisconsin where Musk was paying people to help sway this week’s state …
Sen. Deb Fischer offers up 'canned food' as alternate to USDA food bank cuts

1 month ago | politico.com | Jordan Wolman

USDA canceled two programs that gave schools and food banks money to purchase food from local farms. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) speaks at a POLITICO event Thursday, March 13. | Pixelme Studio for POLITICO Sen.
Sen. Deb Fischer offers up 'canned food' as alternate to USDA food bank cuts

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jordan Wolman

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) seemed to defend the Trump administration’s cuts to local food purchasing for schools and food banks, saying Thursday that “canned food” and other non-perishable options can also be “wholesome.”“I think there's different avenues we can take on that to make sure that still meet the needs of people,” Fischer said at POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days breakfast series.
Klobuchar hits Trump on tariffs: You can’t be ‘just declaring yourself a king’

1 month ago | politico.com | Jordan Wolman

“The way to negotiate this is in the USMCA,” the Minnesota senator said at POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days breakfast series Thursday. Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks at a POLITICO event on Thursday, March 13. | Pixelme Studio for POLITICO Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, bashed President Donald Trump’s tariffs as “devastating” for U.S. farmers and producers.
Klobuchar hits Trump on tariffs: You can’t be ‘just declaring yourself a king’

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jordan Wolman

2 hours agoTrump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tariffWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey.
Klobuchar hits Trump on tariffs: You can’t be ‘just declaring yourself a king’

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jordan Wolman

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, bashed President Donald Trump’s tariffs as “devastating” for U.S. farmers and producers. Klobuchar, speaking at POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days breakfast series, said Trump should be working through trade issues in the context of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, “not by just declaring yourself a king.”“The way to negotiate this is in the USMCA,” she said.
‘I don’t trust a word of it’: Federal workers deeply skeptical that Trump will rein in Musk

1 month ago | politico.com | Holly Otterbein |Jordan Wolman |Marcia Brown |Nahal Toosi

“I don’t really expect them to necessarily start implementing what they say they will,” said David Casserly, an employee at the Department of Labor who said he was speaking in a personal capacity. “I’ll believe it when I see it.” The news of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting set off rampant speculation within the federal workforce about the true intent of Trump’s comments, which come amid growing legal and political scrutiny.
US Forest Service chief retires after thousands of layoffs at the agency

1 month ago | treefrogcreative.ca | Jordan Wolman |Kevin Mason |David Elstone |Denise Mullen

Forest Service Chief Randy Moore will retire effective March 3. Moore wrote that the past several weeks have been “incredibly difficult” due to the Trump administration’s mass layoffs, which have led to 3,400 Forest Service employees — or 10% of agency staff — being fired.