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Emily Badger

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New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal

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Trump’s East Wing Ballroom Plan: See the Design See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.

You can explore the full model here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

05.03.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The administration is also planning to alter the elliptical driveway south of the White House to fit its plans.

05.03.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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This 3D model by the NYT of the proposed East Wing ballroom really makes clear how out of scale it is with the rest of the complex...

05.03.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.03.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 544    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 28
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27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

A reminder that one year in, congestion pricing has clearly been a successful policy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Congestion Pricing Wins in Court After Lengthy Battle With Trump

A federal judge finally ruled today that the Trump administration acted illegally in trying to shut down New York's congestion pricing program, via @stefanoschen.bsky.social + Winnie Hu www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/n...

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Great @natecohn.bsky.social piece on what "affordability" really means to people in this moment, drawing on our most recent polling: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

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"The second Trump coalition has unraveled."

via @natecohn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

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DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows

Many months later, the Social Security Administration acknowledged in court that DOGE employees at the agency shared sensitive data in violation of security policies last spring, just as critics and privacy advocates feared at the time: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

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Latest NYT analysis of video footage from the Renee Good shooting capture Ross firing the 2nd and 3rd shots at her after his body is visibly clear of the path of her vehicle.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

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Long before construction jobs became dominated by immigrant workers, the appeal of those jobs for American workers began to collapse. Only *then* did immigrants start to fill them.

From a *great* story by @rondakaysen.bsky.social + Rob Gebeloff: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

14.01.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight

β€œHe’s tended to turn the other cheek, and he’s reached a moment where he can’t.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...

12.01.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency (Gift Article) New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.

A long-awaited update of federal employment data shows crippling staff reductions in some federal agencies and offices:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

The Times' Visual Investigations team is the best at trying to find clarity when clarity is hard to come by.

Their view on the Minneapolis shooting yesterday: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

08.01.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

05.01.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On balance, though, the MTA and Gov. Hochul have to be happy with the results of congestion pricing so far. They toll even raised more than they expected in its first year, about $550 million.

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Some people described a real sadness at forgoing car trips they felt they couldn’t replace with transit.

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We also asked readers to tell us about their experiences with congestion pricing. Many described quieter, less stressful streets.

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The resulting small improvements in speed aren’t necessarily visible to many people. But if you cross one of the chokepoints into Manhattan, you can likely see real change.

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Pretty consistently, the toll has deterred about 11 percent of vehicle trips we might have otherwise expected to see in Manhattan’s central business district. That amounts to some real breathing room on roads.

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We heard from many people who believed the benefits of the toll had tailed off since the spring. And we thought we might see that, too. But the number of car trips the toll has deterred has been remarkably stable.

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Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article) How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

That and other evidence from the policy, which is one year old today, in a big collab between @upshot.nytimes.com and the NYT Metro desk:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.

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Love these little @aliciaparlap.bsky.social graphics that illustrate the absurdist ways DOGE claimed it saved money, at the end of a year of trying to chase their accounting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

30.12.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remarkably few of the immigrants arrested in big-city ICE operations have had violent criminal records, via Albert Sun:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.12.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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President Trump’s Approval Rating: Latest Polls Track the latest approval rating and polls on Americans’ approval of President Trump.

NYT tracker here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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May need a taller chart soon.

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A federal judge says the government has exceeded its authority in deploying the DC National Guard in the District to deter crime -- and by calling in the guard from states around the country to participate: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Republicans worried that steep Medicaid cuts in their big tax bill would shutter rural hospitals. To pass it, they included a $50B rural health care fund.

But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

18.11.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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This Kirsten Soltis Anderson phrase will stick with me: swapping "McDonald’s Drive-Thru Guy for Golden Ballroom Guy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

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