Linda Feldmann
Washington Bureau Chief and White House and Politics Correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor
Washington bureau chief, White House/politics correspondent at Christian Science Monitor. Host of the Monitor Breakfast. [email protected]
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3 days ago |
csmonitor.com | Linda Feldmann |Caitlin Babcock
The United States’ deep involvement in the 12-day-old Israel-Iran war, which may not be over despite a declared ceasefire, has reignited an age-old clash between Congress and the president: Who has the power to launch a U.S. military offensive – if not outright war – against another country? The debate became especially charged this past weekend, when the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in support of its ally, Israel, without advance authorization from Congress.
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6 days ago |
csmonitor.com | Linda Feldmann
In his election campaign last year, President Donald Trump ran as a peacemaker, promising to “end the endless foreign wars.” Now he has opted for war, joining Israel’s conflict with Iran. U.S. bombers attacked three of the nation’s key nuclear facilities overnight. President Trump, it turns out, is more of a traditional “peace through strength” Republican than the “America First” isolationist many in his MAGA base had hoped or even assumed he would be.
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1 week ago |
csmonitor.com | Linda Feldmann
Steve Bannon is a talker. All you have to do is tee up an issue he wants to discuss, and the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump will talk your ear off. Mr. Bannon – a big-time MAGA influencer and podcaster – was the featured guest at a Monitor Breakfast this week, and he did not disappoint. Mr. Bannon held forth on the Israel-Iran conflict over the latter’s nuclear program, and his view that the United States should not intervene directly.
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Linda Feldmann
One week ago, Elon Musk was standing in the Oval Office, receiving a large gold key from President Donald Trump. It was Mr. Musk’s last day as a “special government employee,” and he was being lauded for his work aimed at slashing “waste, fraud, and abuse” as head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
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3 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Linda Feldmann
The American presidency – the most powerful office in the world – is in some ways a vast group enterprise. Scores of aides oversee various departments, with hundreds of thousands of employees and billion-dollar budgets. The leader of the free world can seem like a kind of “chairman of the board,” sitting atop a massive government bureaucracy that can, and sometimes does, run itself.
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