Kimberly Strassel
Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
Potomac Watch columnist for Wall Street Journal edit page.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Kimberly Strassel
Rather than reform welfare, some in the GOP want to ‘fight’ pharma companies. By some estimates, the Republican Party spent more than $7 billion defeating Kamala Harris and Democrats last year. Donors might ask for their money back, seeing as how Ms. Harris’s worst ideas keep running through this White House. The GOP Congress is neck-deep in negotiations for its reconciliation bill, debating how to realize at least $1.5 trillion in savings.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kimberly Strassel
The real sticking point in the GOP reconciliation bill: Republicans won’t cut anything. Newsletter: All Things with Kim StrasselA newsy analysis of the workings of D.C. (and beyond), providing the inside track on both the overhyped and overlooked events of the week. Spend, Baby, SpendCopyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kimberly Strassel
Not so much now. The past month has seen the Trump team on the back foot, and it’s mostly self-inflicted. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can cast aspersions on “the hoax press” and the “deep state,” but it was his handpicked loyalists at the center of this storm. Whether he erred in hiring them or in firing them, the erring was his own. And it was his Signal texts that gave a circling press corps the opening it had been salivating for.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kimberly Strassel
Secretary of State Marco Rubio moves to overhaul one of Washington’s more dysfunctional operations. Newsletter: All Things with Kim StrasselA newsy analysis of the workings of D.C. (and beyond), providing the inside track on both the overhyped and overlooked events of the week. Clearing Foggy BottomCopyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Kimberly Strassel
The president’s own team undercuts one of his signature campaign pledges. A popular knock on this second Donald Trump term is that the president stocked his administration with nothing but saluting loyalists. Tell that to the staffers scheming to undercut his signature tax reform—by “managing” him into surrendering to the left’s favorite talking point.
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