Tax editor at @POLITICO. Formers: @tax, @State_Scoop, @Washingtonian, so many other blogs and local websites lost in time, like tears in rain.
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Poll: Voters see Republicans as the party of Big Tech tax breaks politi.co/4slyOha
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Paramount's takeover of WBD roiled Hollywood and could reshape the media landscape. But CA voters? Mostly shrugging. While 24% say the antitrust settlement was bad for CA versus 16% good, 43% aren't sure and another 16% say it was neither good nor bad, according to our new @POLITICO poll. The findings also suggest Rob Bonta may escape a political backlash over the deal. More: politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
Republicans hoped their tax cuts would save the midterms. But as rising costs, the war in Iran and other issues have taken over, the GOP's efforts to promote and even rebrand their megabill aren't breaking through, the POLITICO Poll finds. politico.com/news/2026/10/16…
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“I think it’s a pretty broad appetite in our caucus for generational change, and you can’t get a more glaring case for generational change … than an 88-year-old member, who will turn 90 before the next Congress is over, clinging to the gavel,” a senior House Democrat told me.
NEW: Democrats face a clash over Maxine Waters
w @riley_rogerson
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Colleges seek answers amid Trump push to cancel tax exemptions over diversity programs politi.co/4i8frUY
I see we're once again talking about AI and data centers getting big tax breaks. Expensing provisions in the 2025 tax law are available to pretty much every industry. But conditions on the ground mean that AI and data centers are the big winners. politico.com/news/2026/09/14…
Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of being in Atlanta for a Warriors-Hawks game in February 2024. In fact, that night Smith was at an Iowa HAWKEYES game against the University of Maryland, during which Caitlin Clark put 38 points on the Terps. politico.com/live-updates/20…
Members of Congress on Thursday introduced legislation creating a federal film production tax credit to level the playing field between Hollywood and countries with lucrative tax breaks that've emptied out US studios. politico.com/news/2026/09/24…
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BREAKING: White House attests that access for POLITICO, CNN and MSNOW was restored as of 9:55am.
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NEW: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump administration overnight to immediately restore access for news organizations that President Donald Trump banned from the complex last week. politico.com/news/2026/09/24…
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Kelly's hearing on President Trump's media ban. Immediately makes clear he's bound by D.C. Circuit precedent that upholds due process protections for WH reporters who hold hard passes.
"I think it is fair to say that the process ... wasn't followed here."
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Trump’s joint presser with Mamdani was not originally planned, source familiar tells Playbook
Mamdani asked Trump on the spot if he would join him and called on the three news outlets Trump had banned from White House:
New @playbookdc: Six weeks before an election Republicans portray as a referendum on socialism and communism, Donald Trump started the week praising a socialist and will end it feting a communist.
That dissonance is driving White House allies and Republican strategists mad.
W/ @wsteaks, @DashaBurns + @meganmesserly
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Paramount Skydance and the states that sued to block the company’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery are poised to settle the antitrust litigation, clearing the way for the blockbuster transaction to close.
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NEW: Politico, CNN and MSNOW are jointly suing to demand immediate restoration of White House press passes. They’re asking a judge to declare Trump’s ban a flagrant violation of First and Fifth Amendment rights.
w/ @joshgerstein
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POLITICO will continue to fairly report on this White House and future ones. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights against any attempt to restrict them.
The claims that POLITICO received government subsidies are false and have been thoroughly debunked.
Breaking: Trump says he will ban reporters from POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW from the White House.
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Spanberger slaps new guardrails on data centers dlvr.it/TVXsY4
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Only a few staffers, and likely their principals, registered what @playbookdc was asking — the latest sign of how ill-equipped Washington is to understand AI.👇
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