Scott Bland
Senior politics editor, @NBCNews. Covering elections, polling, campaign finance and more. EMAIL: scott dot bland at nbcuni dot com
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Scott Bland |Courtney Kube |Gordon Lubold |Carol Lee
3 takeaways from our new pollWelcome to the online version of In today's edition, Scott Bland breaks down the key findings from the new NBC News Decision Desk poll. Plus, we have the latest updates from the Israel-Iran conflict and the Minnesota shooting. Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.
100 years before Elon Musk, one of America's richest men came to fix Washington. It didn't end well.
4 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Scott Bland
May 29, 2025, 12:15 PM EDTHe was one of the richest men of his time, a powerful force in business and then in government — so influential that political adversaries taunted the White House that he was “the real president.”Today, that’s Elon Musk’s story, as the world’s richest man winds down his tumultuous time in Washington as a “special government employee” in President Donald Trump’s administration.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Ben Kamisar |Scott Bland |Kyle Stewart
May 22, 2025, 12:53 PM EDTPresident Donald Trump often seems like the sun around which other Republicans orbit, setting their direction and movements — and, every so often, slingshotting one out of his solar system when they displease him. But one GOP lawmaker has consistently found his own political gravity, surviving clash after clash against the party’s standard bearer: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur |Scott Wong |Scott Bland
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has leaned heavily on executive power to remake the federal government at the outset of his new administration, largely leaving Congress on the sidelines. Instead of relying on members of the Republican-controlled House and Senate to pass laws to give him new authorities, Trump has sought to bypass Congress by invoking or repurposing existing laws to carry out his agenda since taking office in January.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
whec.com | Scott Bland |Ben Kamisar |Evan Bourtis
Voters are starting 2025 sour on the state of the economy and President Donald Trump’s handling of it so far, even as his election to a second term sparked an upswing in positive feelings about the direction of the nation, according to a new national NBC News poll.
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