@TIMEPolitics profile picture
TIME Politics @TIMEPolitics

Make sense of what matters most in Washington from @TIME. Subscribe to The D.C. Brief: ti.me/dc-brief

Joined August 2008
  • Tweets 39,859
  • Following 582
  • Followers 41,859
626 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
TIME Politics@TIMEPolitics
12 Mar 2021
Looking for a newsletter that makes sense of what matters most in Washington? Subscribe to @Philip_Elliott's The D.C. Brief here ➡️ ti.me/3jid0PA
3
2
2
Why Gabbard Confirmation Hearing Focused So Much on Snowden ti.me/4gmo9Lx

Why Gabbard Confirmation Hearing Focused So Much on Snowden

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be Director of National Intelligence, refused to call Edward Snowden a traitor at her confirmation hearing.

time.com
2
490
D.C. Plane Crash Raises Questions About Trump Aviation Personnel Changes ti.me/3WIuJVE

D.C. Plane Crash Raises Questions About Trump Aviation Personnel Changes

The plane crash at DCA raised questions about recent leadership changes within the federal agencies charged with regulating air travel.

time.com
392
Trump Responds to Fatal Passenger Jet, Army Helicopter Crash ti.me/40RVLw9

Trump Responds to Fatal Passenger Jet, Army Helicopter Crash

"This is a tragedy that should not have happened," Trump told reporters.

time.com
1
285
Get Used to the Whiplash: Trump Clearly Improvising as He Goes ti.me/4jN0Ltw

Get Used to the Whiplash: Trump Clearly Improvising as He Goes

For those trying to give Donald Trump's second administration a chance to prove it knows what it’s doing, the last 24 hours haven't been reassuring, writes Philip Elliott

time.com
272
What Deborah Birx Thinks About PEPFAR Under Trump ti.me/40D7PQp

What Deborah Birx Thinks About PEPFAR Under Trump

Brix oversaw the program from 2005 to 2014

time.com
299
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Grilled on Vaccines and Insurance in Contentious Hearing ti.me/42yV1gB

RFK Jr. Grilled on Vaccines and Insurance in Contentious Hearing

RFK Jr. claimed he is not “anti-vaccine” and appeared unfamiliar with key aspects of healthcare insurance programs in his confirmation hearing.

time.com
1
273
Why Trump Welcomes Court Fight Over Funding Freeze ti.me/3WChPsf

Why Trump Welcomes Court Fight Over Funding Freeze

As Trump's funding freeze heads to court, he hopes judges grant him the power of impoundment. What is impoundment? And why does it matter?

time.com
1
317
RFK Jr. Hearings Could Be Banner Moment For Anti-Vax Movement ti.me/3PU4Eip

RFK Jr. Hearings Could Be Banner Moment For Anti-Vax Movement

Kennedy is the country's most well-known anti-vaccine activist, and could soon lead be Trump's top health official.

time.com
267
Funding Freeze Chaos Dominates First White House Briefing ti.me/4hd2VAU

Funding Freeze Chaos Dominates First White House Briefing

A federal judge blocked the funding freeze from going into effect, after a day in which Trump's White House scrambled to contain confusion.

time.com
1
236
What to Expect from RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings ti.me/3WCRUAp

What to Expect from RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of President Donald Trump's more controversial Cabinet nominees.

time.com
234
Future of DeepSeek, Like TikTok, May Come Down to Trump ti.me/3WDmJoV

Future of DeepSeek, Like TikTok, May Come Down to Trump

DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned ChatGPT rival, could pose the same national security concerns that Congress has about TikTok, Philip Elliott writes.

time.com
1
1
279
The Implications of Trump’s Executive Order on Sex ti.me/4ax6EH1

The Implications of Trump’s Executive Order on Sex

With Trump proclaiming the U.S. will recognize two sexes, male and female, there are a host of implications for trans and nonbinary people.

time.com
240
McConnell’s Vote Against Hegseth Was a Shot Across Trump’s Bow ti.me/3PRg1ry

McConnell’s Vote Against Hegseth Was a Shot Across Trump’s Bow

The Senate just barely confirmed Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary last week. Mitch McConnell’s vote against him in particular could spell trouble for Trump's shakiest nominees, including Robert F....

time.com
222
What Is DEI and How Is Donald Trump Challenging It? ti.me/4au0rLT

What Is DEI and How Is Donald Trump Challenging It?

Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."

time.com
256
Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 ti.me/40vUqK1

Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025

A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.

time.com
213
Exclusive: Warren's Plan for Musk to Cut U.S. Spending ti.me/4h46p8B

Exclusive: Warren's Plan for Musk to Cut U.S. Spending

The Senator sent Musk a letter with 30 ideas for how his DOGE commission could cut $2 trillion in U.S. spending.

time.com
207
How Trump 2.0 Is Already Sowing Confusion ti.me/4hqOf0u

How Trump 2.0 Is Already Sowing Confusion

Along with formatting errors and typos, Trump's first executive orders also contain potential errors, sowing confusion over their meaning.

time.com
242
'Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out ti.me/4hrCTcU

'I Am Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out

In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology

time.com
240
The Powers Trump’s Nominees Will Have Over Abortion ti.me/42jgw53

The Powers Trump’s Nominees Will Have Over Abortion

Here are some of the actions Trump’s nominees could take on abortion, if confirmed, from HHS to the Justice Department.

time.com
192
What to Know About 'Stargate,' OpenAI's New Venture Announced by Trump ti.me/4apTpb5

What to Know About 'Stargate,' OpenAI's New Venture Announced by Trump

Trump announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of AI.

time.com
198
Load more