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White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News (@business). Opinions my own, RTs =/= endorsements. Email me at jfabian6@bloomberg.net
Apr 5, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Easter decorations on the South Portico of the White House, where President Biden is due to speak soon Area of the South Lawn under construction, which forced Marine One to land on the Ellipse earlier today
Oct 2, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
The president and first lady of the United States have tested positive for Covid-19 🚨🚨🚨 (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for Covid-19, shortly after one of his closest aides, Hope Hicks, had fallen ill with the coronavirus.

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Sep 26, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
The scene in the Rose Garden ahead of President Trump’s Supreme Court announcement Image *BARRETT APPEARS AT TRUMP EVENT TO ANNOUNCE SUPREME COURT PICK
Sep 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
WH demand that drug companies issue rebate cards to seniors helped sink talks with PhRMA on a drug-price EO

Now Trump says the gov't will issue cards to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries, a plan that could cost $6.6B, without saying under what authority or who is paying for it CMS has legal authority to wave Medicare payment laws to conduct tests of new policies, per WH official.

Money will be offset by savings from Trump's most favored nation order on drug prices (but very unclear if and when that money will accrue)

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Aug 27, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Scenes from Fort McHenry, where Vice President Pence will deliver his convention speech later tonight ImageImage VP Pence takes the stage Image
Aug 26, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
The White House Rose Garden ahead of FLOTUS’ convention speech. There are seats set up for a little over 100 people. Image Pompeo speech from Jerusalem being broadcast in the Rose Garden ahead of FLOTUS Image
Jul 27, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW: President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has tested positive for Covid-19, @JenniferJJacobs & @SalehaMohsin report

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Jul 21, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read
*TRUMP TO BAR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM HOUSE APPPORTIONMENT The memo Trump will sign today will seek to ban undocumented people from being counted in the Census for the purpose of congressional representation, a move opponent say violates the Constitution. Likely to prompt a legal challenge
Jun 2, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
D.C. Mayor Bowser on use of force against protesters outside Lafayette Square:

"I didn’t see any provocation that would warrant the deployment of munitions and especially for the purpose of moving the president across the street" Bowser said she is "absolutely" pushing back on Trump's call for more National Guard/federal presence in D.C.:

"We don't want the armed National Guard, armed military, and we don't want any of those things on D.C. streets."
Jun 1, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Trump urged gov to pass laws outlawing flag burning, saying SCOTUS' decision to uphold it as protected speech was "against what a lot of people want."

"We have a different court and I think that it's time to review that again... I hope you do it because we'll back you 100%" "I would think that the United States government would love to see somebody go and do that because I think flag burning is a disgrace," Trump told governors, according to audio of today's call obtained by @DavidWelchBN
May 14, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Secret Service agents are wiping down the airstairs ahead of President Trump’s arrival in Allentown, PA Image POTUS has arrived
Mar 23, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
President Trump began talking privately late last week about reopening the nation, despite the swiftly rising number of coronavirus cases and against the advice of health professionals, because he’s worried about the economic damage from an extended shutdown, per @JenniferJJacobs The president started talking about how to get people back to work around Thursday, two of the people said, only three days after he helped roll out a 15-day plan from the CDC to stem the rise of cases by encouraging most people to stay at home bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Feb 25, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
The scene at India’s presidential palace ahead of President Trump’s welcome ceremony ImageImageImage President Trump has arrived Image
Feb 23, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Greetings from New Dehli, where a hero’s welcome awaiting President Trump & a budding bromance with Indian PM Modi are papering over a trade dispute between the US and India bloomberg.com/news/articles/… POTUS & FLOTUS set to land shortly in India. Today’s big event is a speech at the 110,000-seat Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad Image
Feb 19, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
A White House official also confirms that Ric Grennell will be selected as the next acting director of national intelligence. First reported by @maggieNYT & @julianbarnes Appointing Grenell in an acting capacity would avoid the need for a potentially complicated Senate confirmation, but Trump will face the same six-month deadline on his tenure as the man he is replacing, Joseph Maguire

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Feb 18, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Former owner of the San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice is on the North Lawn of the White House praising the president for pardoning DeBartolo, Jr.

"I take my hat off to Donald Trump for what he did," he said.
Feb 6, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
“We’ve all been through a lot together,” President Trump says as he kicks off his post-acquittal remarks (which don’t appear to be from a prompter) Image “It was a disgrace. Had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster by the way, it’s possible I wouldn’t even be standing here right now,” Trump says
Feb 6, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe, Mark Meadows, Matt Schlapp, Josh Hawley, Laura Ingraham and David Bossie among invited guests at President Trump’s post-acquittal speech ImageImage House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is also here. And for those who asked, Jim Jordan is wearing a jacket.
Jan 29, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
The South Lawn is set for President Trump’s signing of the revised trade agreement with Mexico and Canada Image Mick Mulvaney is going with the hat Image
Jan 25, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
“We don’t anticipating using that much time,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone says in opening defense of President Trump in impeachment trial, that POTUS lawyers will use less than the 24 hours allotted. "You will find that the president did absolutely nothing wrong," Cipollone says

Cipollone argues House Democrats are trying to take Trump off ballot in ‘20

“They’re asking you to tear up the ballots all across this country ... take away that decision from the American people”
Jan 25, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
After Democrats laid out their case against President Trump uninterrupted during prime time over three days to millions of viewers, Trump’s lawyers will launch their defense — albeit on a day the former reality show star called “Death Valley in TV” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… GOP senators have urged Trump’s legal team to argue substance over process and make a calm, measured presentation. But the lawyers could instead bend to the whims of their boss, who prefers scorched earth tactics. One aide this week used the word “revenge” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…