Kadia Goba

Washington, D.C., United States

Politics Reporter and Writer at Semafor

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Black White House aide Lynne Patton returns after suspension for past political activity on the job

1 week ago | semafor.com | Kadia Goba

Lynne Patton, the highest-ranking Black official in Donald Trump’s White House, is returning to work this week after fully serving out a suspension from federal employment related to a past Hatch Act violation. After she was appointed as deputy assistant to the president and director of minority outreach in late January, Patton stepped aside for two months to comply with a 2021 sanction by the US Office of Special Counsel, Semafor has learned.
Democrats are all but done with Trump impeachment talk

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | David Weigel |Kadia Goba

Rep. Shri Thanedar launched the drive to impeach Donald Trump for a third time this week with a billboard, but not much fanfare — or back-up from his party. The Michigan Democrat introduced seven articles of impeachment, charging the president with multiple abuses of power, the creation of an “unlawful office” (DOGE), and taking bribes.
Democrats are all but done with Trump impeachment talk

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | David Weigel |Kadia Goba

NowIn his speech celebrating 100 days in office, Trump claimed to have restored free speech, dubbed surveys as ‘fake’ and claimed fuel prices were down. Donald Trump’s speech in Warren, Michigan, marking his 100th day in office sounded a lot like something the United States president clearly loves: a …
House Speaker Mike Johnson rents house from colleague

2 weeks ago | semafor.com | Kadia Goba

Speaker Mike Johnson is renting a house from his colleague, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. In late February, ProPublica reported that Johnson was sharing a home with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, just blocks away from the Capitol, in a property owned by a wealthy Tennessee donor. Johnson relocated a month later. “He’s a friend and needed a place,” Issa told Semafor of the arrangement. The property has still more congressional ties: Issa purchased the home in March from Rep.
House Speaker Mike Johnson rents house from colleague

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kadia Goba

The ScoopSpeaker Mike Johnson is renting a house from his colleague, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. In late February, ProPublica reported that Johnson was sharing a home with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, just blocks away from the Capitol, in a property owned by a wealthy Tennessee donor. Johnson relocated a month later. “He’s a friend and needed a place,” Issa told Semafor of the arrangement. The property has still more congressional ties: Issa purchased the home in March from Rep.
Gallego open to working with Trump on housing

3 weeks ago | semafor.com | Kadia Goba

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., endorsed a Trump administration initiative meant to use federal lands as a way to address the country’s housing crisis. Gallego sent a letter, first viewed by Semafor, applauding the administration’s new Joint Task Force on Federal Land for Housing, formed to identify lands for development and pinpoint areas with the most pressing housing needs. “I definitely want to work on it,” he told Semafor.
Democrats press Hegseth on Signal chats, firings

3 weeks ago | semafor.com | Kadia Goba

Democrats with national security backgrounds are pressing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about recent staffing shakeups at the Pentagon. In a letter to Hegseth first shared with Semafor, the Democrats, led by Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., pointed to the mishandling of sensitive information related to a military operation in Yemen in group Signal chats, as well as a round of firings of senior military advisers.
House Democrats head to El Salvador on Maryland man’s behalf

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kadia Goba

The NewsFour House Democrats traveled to El Salvador on Monday to check on a pair of detainees, including a Maryland man who’d been wrongly deported. “We’re here to put the pressure on the US government, which has the responsibility, according to the Supreme Court, to release him,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., told Semafor, referring to the Maryland man, Kilmar Ábrego García. Ansari, accompanied by Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., and Maxine Dexter, D-Ore.
House Democrats head to El Salvador on Maryland man’s behalf

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kadia Goba

11 hours agoOlga Lugo Jiminez, 52, had just dropped children off at a Maryland school when she hit two students and a parent in a crosswalk. A woman who fatally struck two children who were walking in a crosswalk to their elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in November 2023 has pleaded guilty …
Tariffs add a new twist to the tax fight for blue-state Republicans

3 weeks ago | semafor.com | Kadia Goba

President Donald Trump’s tariffs promise to intensify the already-high pressure on Republican lawmakers in blue states to get a state and local tax relief deal added to their party’s upcoming tax plan. Blue-state members of Congress in both parties have tried unsuccessfully for years to either increase or remove the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions that was part of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.