
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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19 hours ago |
politico.com | Megan Messerly |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 | | | LATEST: The Supreme Court this afternoon gave the Department of Government Efficiency unfettered access to the Social Security records of millions of Americans, our JOSH GERSTEIN reports.
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1 day ago |
politico.com | Sophia Cai
“What’s not okay is his baseless personal attacks against President Trump,” James Fishback told POLITICO. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) | Evan Vucci/AP James Fishback, the chief architect behind the proposal to send “DOGE checks,” told POLITICO Friday he’s stepping away from the movement after Elon Musk lashed out at President Donald Trump.
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1 day ago |
politico.com | Irie Sentner |Ben Johansen |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 | | | One of them brought a match. The other promptly supplied the kerosene. And, frankly, we just can’t look away.
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1 day ago |
yahoo.com | Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from dismantling AmeriCorps in two dozen Democratic-led states, another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink vast swaths of the federal government. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee, came after a coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia sued the administration in April, accusing the Department of Government Efficiency of illegally gutting the volunteer agency.
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2 days ago |
politico.com | Holly Otterbein |Lisa Kashinsky |Ben Johansen |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 | | | | ELON MUSK has been the Democratic Party’s boogeyman since shortly after President DONALD TRUMP deputized him as a top adviser.
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RT @hassankanu: NEW: A judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s "DOGE Workforce Optimization" executive order that enabled the admin…

RT @MerylKornfield: The answer that Leavitt gives is because he can.

I asked @PressSec why the Trump administration was dismantling the independent federal agency responsible for keeping unsafe toys, cribs and other products out of American homes. https://t.co/8iePwN7NFL