Robbie Gramer

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Articles

Royal letters, famous golfers and rehearsed pitches: The tips and tricks to a successful Trump meeting

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Eli Stokols |Robbie Gramer |Nick Taylor-Vaisey

“How to survive your Trump meeting,” as an American lobbyist who advises foreign governments calls it, has become a cottage industry for lobbyists, consultants and national security experts in Washington. That’s according to interviews with a dozen government officials, diplomats and advisers. Most of these officials were granted anonymity to speak openly about how foreign governments manage Trump.
NATO’s ‘Take Five’ moment

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil

NATO chief Mark Rutte has put forward a plan to get allies to spend 5 percent of GDP on their defense. | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images With help from Joe Gould, Diya Contractor and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | NatSec Daily readers, Robbie here with a special note: After 150 newsletters, today is my last day helming the newsletter as I leave POLITICO for a new adventure.
The Pentagon’s chaotic communications team

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Jack Detsch |Daniel Lippman |Paul McLeary |Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has largely shunned traditional media, cutting travel privileges, restricting their access inside the Pentagon and eliminating the offices of unfavored media outlets in favor of far-right organizations.
A massive sanctions threat hangs over Putin

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Veronika Melkozerova

Congress’ patience with Moscow is wearing thin as Russian President Vladimir Putin slow-walks peace talks. | Pool photo by Alexey Nikolskiy With help from Felicia Schwartz, Diya Contractor, Jordain Carney, Nahal Toosi and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | There’s a major new threat to Russia’s already sanction-battered economy. It’s sitting in procedural limbo in the U.S. Senate — at least for now. Sens.
MAGA-branded candidates confront their limits abroad, even as far-right surges

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Emily Schultheis |Holly Otterbein |Robbie Gramer

“Just like domestically, you see one step forward, two steps back sometimes,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and State Department appointee in Trump’s first administration. “The thought of Trump and MAGA is sometimes more powerful than the reality.” He said, “His thumbprint can help push in certain regions and countries, but there can also be some pushback.” Trump’s election to a second term in November emboldened far-right movements abroad.
Israel feels fallout of Trump’s ceasefire with Houthis

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Felicia Schwartz

The ongoing Houthi attacks lay bare how Israel was left out of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with the Yemeni militants. | Evan Vucci/AP With help from Maggie Miller, Paul McLeary, Joe Gould and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | President DONALD TRUMP’s ceasefire with the Houthi militant group in Yemen appears to be holding. But that hasn’t stopped the Houthis from continually lobbing missiles at Israel, the United States’ most important Middle East ally.
‘A massive headache’: State Department tries to figure out how to handle Chinese student visa reviews

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Felicia Schwartz |Phelim Kine |Robbie Gramer

State Department has yet to issue instructions on its visa ban, which could affect tens of thousands of Chinese students. Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies on Capitol Hill on May 21. | Jose Luis Magana/AP People both inside and outside the State Department were struggling Thursday to understand how a new plan to revoke Chinese students’ visas will work — and whether it will end up being a blanket ban on Chinese nationals studying in the United States.
Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer

The cuts are part of a Trump administration plan to overhaul State, outlined in internal documents.
Rubio outlines plans to drastically cut human rights offices in State

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Robbie Gramer

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to gut the State Department’s human rights bureau as part of a sweeping reorganization of the country’s diplomatic service, according to internal department documents and people familiar with the plans. The State Department sent a document to Congress on Thursday notifying lawmakers of the changes that call for the elimination of most offices in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor — or DRL as it’s known in the diplomatic corps.
Trump’s human rights litmus test

1 month ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Eric Bazail-Eimil

The report will also show how Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s priorities have shifted since he joined the Trump administration. | Jason Andrew for POLITICO With help from Felicia Schwartz and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | The State Department’s annual human rights report has landed in Secretary of State MARCO RUBIO’s front office for final approval, current and former officials say, and they anticipate the report will soon be released.