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Pentagon resumes normal operations after lock down dlvr.it/TT0FWG
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Pentagon locks down over ‘air quality issue’ dlvr.it/TT08Zy
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NEW: Part of the Pentagon went into lockdown Thursday morning in response to what spokesperson Sean Parnell called an “air quality issue” that necessitated “precautionary measures” while officials investigated. politico.com/news/2026/06/11…
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One Defense Department official told me that “additional testing could take one to two hours.”
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SCOOP: A top DOJ appointee responsible for liaising with Congress, Patrick Davis, planned to make a claim (!) with Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and asked to recuse himself from working on the DOJ fund — a move that alarmed Justice Dept. colleagues. politico.com/news/2026/06/10…
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His plan to make a claim from the fund stems from his time as a Hill staffer. He had his phone and email records subpoenaed when he was investigating “Russiagate,” the probe into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.
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“[Davis] has relationships with the senators, and it was a very tough time for him to back out,” one administration official told me. “In a very fraught moment, with legislative affairs and stuff with the Hill, DOJ needed to have the head of leg affairs involved.”
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Top DOJ official planned to make a claim with Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund dlvr.it/TSys5W
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Daniel Lippman retweeted
Today @Meta is proud to launch America’s Workforce Academy with our partners.
This program will provide paid training, certification and a job for Americans of all backgrounds to be part of building American leadership in the world.
Because we believe the Future is for Everyone.
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Kennedy Center memo directs staffers to remove Trump’s name from the arts center dlvr.it/TStJrW
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NEW: The Kennedy Center has directed its employees to remove all references to Donald Trump being part of its name to comply with a federal judge’s order blocking Trump's name from being added to the center, per a memo @CheyannaMarie9 and I obtained. politico.com/news/2026/06/04…
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NEW: Current and former defense officials are pushing back on acting DOD press secretary Joel Valdez’s claims that blocking journalist access to DOD’s press office is due to designating it a SCIF for speechwriters’ use. But the office has long been a SCIF. politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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NEW: Trump this week nominated Alexander Alden to be the U.S. amb. to Azerbaijan. I reported last year that he was pushed out of a job at the NSC in the first Trump term after colleagues complained about his conduct, including yelling at a female employee. politico.com/newsletters/nat…
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Alden denied wrongdoing at the time and said they were “lies intended to defame my character for political purposes.” Alden must be confirmed by the Senate.
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SCOOP: Kate Tyrrell, a senior bank regulatory official, has been tapped as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s new chief of staff, his third in the admin. Tyrrell most recently served as COS at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. (W/ @mstratford) subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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Xavier Becerra has built a career on painstaking deliberation — and a stubborn refusal to back down once he's made up his mind.
But as he runs for California governor, the Dem frontrunner has appeared to intentionally cultivate an air of ambiguity. politico.com/news/2026/06/01…
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Daniel Lippman retweeted
NEW: @XavierBecerra could well be California’s next governor.
So who is he?
The Becerra that emerged from 50 interviews: a career pol who analyzes and analyzes — then sticks to his decision, even if it frustrates. Our story here
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NEW — The Xavier Becerra Playbook: exhaustive deliberation then resolute (or stubborn) faith in his decisions. The polarizing approach won him loyal allies but also strained relationships in Congress, the White House and CA politics. Our team deep dive: politico.com/news/2026/06/01…
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NEW: We have a deep dive on how CA gubernatorial Democratic frontrunner Xavier Becerra has built a career on painstaking deliberation — and a stubborn refusal to back down once he has made up his mind. (W/ @melmason, @JeremyBWhite and @riley_rogerson) politico.com/news/2026/06/01…
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Several former Biden White House officials said that they felt he lacked a strong grasp on details of his agency, and one said that his team was unusually fixated on learning in advance what reporters would ask in the media appearances he did agree to do.
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When Becerra was HHS secretary in the Biden admin., “he struggled with internal administration and White House politics,” a former senior Biden WH official told me. “He rarely helped to resolve tensions for the benefit of the overall team. There were no bridges being built.”
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