Tal Kopan
Deputy Bureau Chief, D.C. Bureau at The Boston Globe
Deputy D.C. Bureau Chief, @BostonGlobe [email protected] Tal rhymes with fall, not pal.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tal Kopan
WASHINGTON —Since its first inception during the Great Depression, the food stamp program has had a simple enough goal: to help low-income Americans access suitable food. But just what that means has been a subject of fierce debate for decades. Lawmakers have fought over who should be eligible, how much they should get, and what they should be required to do to keep their benefits. Now, under the banner of Health Secretary Robert F.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tal Kopan
WASHINGTON — A usually staid policy event turned contentious on Wednesday as a top adviser to US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spared with an interviewer and an unfriendly crowd as he defended the dramatic cuts and changes the Trump administration has made to the nation’s top health and science agencies.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tal Kopan
In the summer of 2017, Representative Mark DeSaulnier sat in an empty US Senate hearing room, contemplating how his life had been forever changed in that very space. Nearly 50 years before in the same room, a self-identified mafia informant testified to a Senate committee that Mark’s father, Edward DeSaulnier, a then-Superior Court judge and former Massachusetts state legislator, had accepted a bribe to arrange a lenient sentence in a fraud case.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tal Kopan
WASHINGTON — A short time after cheering President Trump’s agenda-setting address to Congress this month, several members of his Cabinet were reunited at a Washington-area airport for a different show of force. There, Trump’s attorney general, FBI director, CIA director, and director of national intelligence donned branded jackets from their agencies and patriotic-themed caps to greet an incoming plane.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Tal Kopan
WASHINGTON—President Trump has been escalating his standoff with the federal judiciary, seething at judges who have blocked and reversed his policies. On Tuesday, he called for the impeachment of one such judge for ruling against his administration.
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