Rennie Svirnovskiy

Washington, D.C.

Audio Producer at The Washington Post

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Articles

Is Trump going back on his economic promises?

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Lucy Perkins |Sean Sullivan |Rennie Svirnovskiy

Why President Donald Trump’s messaging has shifted from economic prosperity to austerity. Will voters tolerate economic pain from Trump’s tariffs? Senior politics reporter Aaron Blake talks with The Post’s senior political correspondent Naftali Bendavid and White House correspondent Michael Birnbaum about Trump’s inconsistent messaging on the economy and foreign policy this week. Beyond tariffs, they discuss how foreign leaders are responding to Trump on Ukraine and immigration.
What Trump’s tariff whiplash unleashed

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Reena Flores |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Laura Benshoff |Lucy Perkins |Sean Carter

Unpacking the political fallout from President Donald Trump’s pause on tariffs. Tariffs are on. Tariffs are paused. Tariffs are making stock markets go wild. Where do we go from here?
The IRS is in turmoil. Taxpayers are taking notice.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Sean Carter |Peter Bresnan

With just a few weeks to go until Tax Day, Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline compared with 2024. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue. The prediction, officials told congressional economic correspondent Jacob Bogage, is directly tied to changing taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trump’s rapid demolition of parts of the IRS.
Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants. Was it legal?

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Ted Muldoon |Reena Flores |Lucy Perkins

This picture, released March 16, shows the arrival of alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AFP photo/El Salvador’s Presidency Press Office)Over the weekend, President Donald Trump invoked a seldom-used wartime powers act to deport suspected gang members without due process.
The battle over USAID

Feb 12, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Peter Bresnan |Lucy Perkins

On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days. The suspension was part of the president’s effort to slash public spending, remake the federal government and align foreign policy more closely with his “America First” agenda. And it had near-immediate consequences.
The unchecked power of Musk and DOGE

Feb 4, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Maggie Penman |Rennie Svirnovskiy

Elon Musk and other unelected officials are workingto remakethe U.S.government. Faiz Siddiqui has been covering the world’s richest man for years, and he says Musk’s playbook at DOGE is similar to what he did at X, formerly known as Twitter: Cut first, ask questions later. There are still questions about whether that worked for X and whether it’s legal for the U.S. government. Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair.
Crowded airspace and D.C.'s deadly plane crash

Jan 30, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Reena Flores |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Jorge Ribas

Emergency response units from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., search the crash site on the Potomac River on Jan. 30. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post)On Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair near Reagan National Airport. Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. D.C. officials believe the three soldiers in the helicopter and all 64 passengers and crew aboard the airplane were killed.
Is China winning the AI race?

Jan 29, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Maggie Penman |Rennie Svirnovskiy

For two years, American artificial intelligence companies looked unstoppable. Then came DeepSeek. Today on Post Reports, we talk to tech policy reporter Eva Dou about how a scrappy startup became so dominant, and what it means for the AI arms race. Eva has a book out now about one of the world’s most controversial tech companies, set against the backdrop of the political, social and economic transformation of China.
How Trump resurrected TikTok

Jan 21, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Lucy Perkins |Monica Campbell |Rennie Svirnovskiy

Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sold to an American buyer. On Sunday, the popular video-sharing app went dark, only to come back later that night. And on Monday, Trump signed an executive order to halt the ban.
Grief (and love) in L.A.

Jan 13, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Renita Jablonski |Monica Campbell |Savannah Robinson |Rennie Svirnovskiy