
Sophia Cai
White House Reporter at POLITICO
National politics reporter @axios covering White House and 2024 elections. Previously @business. Defender of New Jersey.
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5 days ago |
politico.com | Sophia Cai |Ben Johansen |Irie Sentner
Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | LATEST: President DONALD TRUMP announced this afternoon that he plans to invoke “Schedule F,” which would reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers.
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6 days ago |
politico.com | Eli Stokols |Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai |Irie Sentner
Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | It’s often said that there are no coincidences. The impetus for President DONALD TRUMP’s recent fixation on annexing Canada remains something of a mystery.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai |Irie Sentner
Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Hassan Kanu |Sophia Cai |Ben Johansen |Irie Sentner
Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | | FIRST IN WEST WING PLAYBOOK: Several members of DOGE met with the president of the government-funded nonprofit Legal Services Corporation on Monday, a person familiar with the matter told West Wing Playbook.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner |Irie Sentner |Sophia Cai
Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | | | LATEST: The Trump administration is considering asking Congress to slash the State Department and USAID budgets by nearly half, our NAHAL TOOSI reports.
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NEW: DOGE has a new immigration task force led by Elon Musk’s friend Antonio Gracias and made up of DOGE engineers & staffers embedded throughout DHS. Gracias met with White House officials and Noem last week to finalize the “mark them dead” at SSA plan. https://t.co/s32OOMnRgv

DOGE consolidates power at the IRS following the resignations of four top officials. At the center of the upheaval are 25-year-old Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, the DOGE lead at Treasury with a direct line to Secretary Bessent. w/@berniebecker3 https://t.co/6nmKEOib6B

NEW: Kash Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins is joining 2A group https://t.co/USYEyyd6sh