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Mark Alfred

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White House Reporter at NOTUS

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  • DOGE’s Victory Lap Overstates Its Own Work and Contradicts Its Own Estimates

    1 week ago | notus.org | Mark Alfred |Claire Heddles

    To commemorate Elon Musk’s last day as a special government employee, the White House assembled and published a list of “wins” credited to Musk and DOGE. The list both overstates DOGE’s work and at times directly contradicts DOGE’s own accounting of its cuts by hundreds of millions of dollars, instead relying on data from an unofficial website tied to a betting company.

  • DOGE Vastly Overstated Its Real Estate Cuts - Then Spent Two Months Backtracking

    3 weeks ago | notus.org | Mark Alfred

    It took less than two months for DOGE to tout big wins on the real estate front. The leases of hundreds of federal buildings — 748, to be exact — had been terminated, DOGE said, meaning their payments would no longer serve as a burden on the U.S. balance sheet. Had it been accurate, that figure would have represented 10 percent of the total leases managed by the General Services Administration. By early March, DOGE ascribed a dollar amount to those savings: $660 million.

  • The White House Says 10% Tariffs Will Stay Even After Trade Deals

    4 weeks ago | notus.org | Mark Alfred

    President Donald Trump wants to maintain a 10% tariff on imports from other countries even after trade deals are reached, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. “The president is committed to the 10% baseline tariff, not just for the United Kingdom, but for his trade negotiations with all other countries as well,” Leavitt said during a press conference.

  • Trump Suggests He’s Pulling Ed Martin’s Nomination for U.S. Attorney

    1 month ago | notus.org | Mark Alfred

    President Donald Trump suggested he will withdraw his embattled nominee for U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Ed Martin. “He’s a terrific person, and he wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought, and he’s done a very good job,” Trump told reporters of Martin in the Oval Office on Thursday.

  • Trump Announces a Trade Deal With the UK. The Final Details Are Still in Flux.

    1 month ago | notus.org | Mark Alfred |Violet Jira

    President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States had reached a trade agreement with the United Kingdom — albeit one that’s not quite finished. “The final details are being written up in the coming weeks,” Trump said at the Oval Office. “We’ll have it all very conclusive, but the actual deal is a very conclusive one.

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