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Mar 6 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Scoop: In March 2025, a WH official called a DHS staffer to ask whether he'd heard that Lewandowski was using his influence within the agency to steer lucrative contracts to political allies & whether he had evidence that would substantiate the charge🧵 nationalreview.com/news/how-krist…
White House officials, lawmakers, and government contractors told NR that they have long suspected that Lewandowski and his political allies inside and outside of DHS are financially profiting from DHS contracts and multiple offices and committees on Capitol Hill are actively investigating the matter. nationalreview.com/news/how-krist…
Jul 17, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: HHS & other relevant departments will soon begin the rule-making process to prohibit the federal government from directly funding sex-trait modifications for minors thru Medicaid/CHIP, senior WH official tells @NRO
Lots more exclusive news in🧵 nationalreview.com/news/exclusive…
News: HHS is “in the final stage of review for a new rule that would make it a condition of hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid that they not provide sex trait modifications to minors,” including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, & surgeries, per WH official
Mar 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some House Democrats who voted against DC criminal code overhaul feel blindsided by Biden’s 180.
“I’m learning how things work here, but I think it would have been a good professional courtesy to have given us the heads up,” Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska thedispatch.com/newsletter/dis…
Biden announced last week he would join Republicans in overhauling D.C. City Council’s controversial criminal code—reversing his administration’s prior opposition to the GOP-led effort. Schumer followed suit Tuesday, paving the way for in-cycle Democratic senators to do the same
Jan 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Scoop: @MickMulvaney, a McCarthy supporter and former GOP Rep, confirms to me that several GOP members have approached him about being a consensus speaker candidate. He laughed and said “No, no, I'm not” interested in job.
But shows how members are grasping for straws…🧵
MULVANEY: “Kevin is not going to give up, number one, okay? And number two, there's nobody who can get to 218 other than Kevin.”