NEWS: Insider’s DC bureau is about to nearly double in size. We didn’t exist this time a year ago. Now, we’re going to be a team of 13 journalists covering politics, policy and power in the nation’s capital. Introducing the newest members of our @thisisinsider team...
Nicole Gaudiano joins us to cover the Joe Biden White House. Warren Rojas is Insider’s newest politics reporter. Adam Wren will be the DC bureau's politics features reporter. Ryan Barber and Camila DeChalus will cover DOJ & courts on the federal law enforcement beat.
.@ngaudiano comes to Insider from POLITICO, where she’s been a national education reporter. She previously worked at USA Today & Gannett, where her many duties included being the Washington correspondent for Joe Biden’s hometown paper, The (Wilmington) News Journal.
.@WARojas has done it all so far in an impressive career that includes dissecting policy at Tax Notes, politicians at Roll Call and procedures at Bloomberg Law. He’s a longtime investigative reporter, as well as former restaurant critic and congressional gossip columnist.
.@adamwren is a narrative journo w/ 12+ y of experience writing for POLITICO Magazine, WaPo, NYT & Indianapolis Monthly. He'll be Indy based as our roving national political correspondent profiling political figures, taking America's political temp & doing policy deep dives.
.@cryanbarber will be on familiar turf with DOJ and the courts. He’s been burning shoe leather over the last five-plus years on this beat for The National Law Journal.
.@cdechalus comes to Insider from CQ Roll Call, where she’s spent the last three-plus years writing about immigration policy, the Department of Homeland Security and President Trump’s border wall.
The man behind Donald Trump's post-presidential communication operation is someone he hates and says stole his money: Brad Parscale.
It's the latest slap-dash ironic twist to come amid the Trump's chaotic departure from the most powerful job on Earth. Parscale got demoted last summer as leader of the '20 reelection effort amid sagging poll numbers & bad publicity surrounding his extravagant spending habits.
A high ranking Republican senator's son made a pair of GameStop stock trades as his father cautioned against any further regulation stemming from the Reddit-driven "short squeeze" fiasco, according to US Senate financial disclosure forms reviewed by Insider.
Sen. Pat Toomey's college-aged son purchased up to $15,000 worth of GameStop stock on January 27, then sold it the next day for an amount between $1,001 and $15,000, the disclosures show.
First item in his plan of attack? Going after Biden's pandemic strategy, an offensive DeSantis started even before the Democrat had taken the oath of office. He's called Biden's plan a big mistake.
GOP insiders expect DeSantis, an Iraq War veteran, to use his bully pulpit in Florida to try to combat Biden policies that conservatives view as overreaching — much the same way GOP governors sparred with the White House during the Obama administration.
Insider interviewed a dozen GOP senators in recent days to ask them point blank whether they'd count Trump as the person currently in charge of the Republican Party, or if they'd bestow that title on someone else.
Their answers suggest it's indeed a wide-open race that won't be settled anytime soon.
Some Republican elected officials said that the former president now living in his private South Florida club holds the title until another member of the GOP comes along and claims it.
Former staffers who worked on Andrew Yang's presidential campaign described the experience as "toxic." They told Insider they experienced sexism, discrimination, and hostility from top male campaign leaders.
Anecdotes and documents from 13 of Yang's former aides, volunteers, and organizers suggested that a number of episodes arose during the campaign in which women felt sidelined, ignored, or belittled by male managers working to make Yang president.
It's the awkward reality that has always come with being second-in-command. The vice president's principal job function is to be ready to step in if she's needed.
At the same time, Harris can't appear over-eager to get the top job, and Democrats bristle at questions about whether she's interested in a future White House run or whether Biden — the oldest president in US history at age 78 — intends to try for a second term in 2024.