Leigh Ann Caldwell
Chief Washington Correspondent at Puck
Chief Washington Correspondent @Puck. Mostly on the Hill. Frmly Washington Post, NBC News. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
At President Trump’s farewell news conference for departing “special employee” Elon Musk on Friday, the world’s wealthiest man declared that DOGE was only “just beginning.” For his part, Trump called Musk’s actions “sweeping and consequential,” and gifted him a gold key to the White House—symbolic, perhaps, of the promise that he might return.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
It’s that time of year—there’s a lull in Washington, but people are plotting their next moves for a coming showdown. To wit: When the Senate returns next week, they’ll have their turn with the tax and spending cut package hilariously named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. With Trump’s help, House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to overcome Republican factionalism in the lower chamber to get their version passed. Now the party infighting will migrate to the Senate.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Earlier this month, as Hakeem Jeffries was readying for his first major legislative battle with Republicans—over the multitrillion-dollar megabill that passed the House this week—he found himself temporarily distracted by a smaller, seemingly more personal attack from Ashley Etienne, a former Pelosi aide, who went on the record to rip Jeffries for his underwhelming leadership and for shutting out the Pelosi brain trust.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Yesterday, during Mike Johnson’s address to Republican senators at their weekly closed-door lunch, the House speaker spoke candidly about the biggest challenge facing the now officially named “One Big, Beautiful Bill”: the cap on the state and local tax deduction, a.k.a SALT.
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4 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Just before President Donald Trump announced a new trade agreement with the U.K.—really more of an outline of a framework of an agreement, but one that Trump allies are nevertheless portraying as part of the greatest negotiation in the history of negotiations—I sat down with Republican Indiana Sen. Jim Banks, who is all in on Trump’s tariff policy. Banks, a freshman from Indiana, has an umbilical relationship with the president.
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