Here’s our profile of Klomp, who won Trump’s affection for his drug-price work — and who is now expected to deliver more health-care wins.
Susie Wiles told Klomp she wants him to stabilize HHS, people told me.
Several controversial figures like Vinay Prasad are now exiting the agency.
"Where's my Mormon?" Trump asked in a meeting last year.
He was looking for Chris Klomp — who has risen from political unknown a year ago to the guy running HHS day-to-day operations now.
After Trump won the 2024 election, companies like Paramount and X settled lawsuits with him and pledged millions of $$ for his library.
Now Democrats @warren.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov @repstansbury.bsky.social are asking what happened to the money.
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promises not kept
Years after Congress ordered a plaque to honor the police defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, it was finally installed — at 4 am this morning.
@oliviacgeorge.bsky.social was there. Read her eloquent, somber scoop.
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Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
Trump's college sports roundtable just started — his latest second-term effort to mix sports and politics.
The White House told me Trump's involvement is needed to stabilize chaotic NIL landscape.
Political analysts, like @zelizer.bsky.social, are questioning his priorities.
New: Democrats asked a federal court to block Trump's 250-ft arch.
Under law, Congress must approve certain monuments in DC.
“This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” @SenAngusKing said.
They also mocked the "vanity" project.
“This is not Pyongyang,” @RepHuffman told me.
“Sacrificing journalistic integrity in an effort to be nice to one side of the political aisle so that they view an outlet more favorably doesn’t work. What it instead often does is alienate core audiences.”
"The delayed vote is a snag in Trump’s push to rush the project through the approval process so construction can be completed before the end of his second term."
More here from @jonathanreports.bsky.social with a little from me.
The agency is formally delaying its vote on Trump's ballroom, originally expected for today, citing the sheer amount of public comments.
We went through the 35,000-plus comments — finding warnings from architects, laments from past White House staff, even drawings — and called some writers on the phone.
Most had the same message: the White House is the People’s House, not Trump’s house.
A small federal agency reviewing Trump's ballroom has received tens of thousands of public comments.
More than 97% oppose the project, per WaPo analysis.
"I did not vote for this," one 3x Trump voter wrote.
with @aaronschaffer.com and @jonathanreports.bsky.social
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
The president appears to post a flattering letter to the editor … written by his former personal lawyer
why u guys dogging me
oh god. Sorry. For context this is my hand
There are a lot of things I don’t understand about Washington. This is just one
met with multiple Very Serious people today as I flaunted this cartoon animal, AMA
Author @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social is back on Capitol Hill today with @tbfighters.org, @pih.org and other advocates pushing for more funding — again — to fight tuberculosis.
I look forward to explaining that in my meetings today
Chase is on the case my friend
the indignity of cutting yourself at home in the morning … and only having your kids’ Paw Patrol bandages to cover it up
This isn’t a replacement for the valuable foreign reporters who just lost their jobs (and who I wish were still working at The Post).
It’s the Washington Post polling team doing a snap poll, as they’ve done repeatedly before.
If the congresswoman truly wanted to get the truth about a conspiracy theory that inspired a shooting and years of terror, she could leave the Capitol and drive a few miles up to the titular pizza place, where she’d find neighborhood kids … playing ping pong and eating pizza. (And no basement.)
Interesting column in the Sunday @sltrib.com: executive editor Lauren Gustus details how her paper and other outlets (including CNN, Fox, AP, Reuters, NYT and more) are fighting to keep the Tyler Robinson case open to the public and splitting the cost of doing so.
Congrats to star Washington Post reporters @hannahnatanson.bsky.social , William Wan and @merylkornfield.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Toner Prize for Excellence in National Reporting for their series on “The year Trump broke the federal government” tinyurl.com/2sk3xphw
In hearing just now, Sen. Bill Cassidy presses Casey Means, Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, on whether she'd recommend parents get kids vaccinated.
MEANS: I'm supportive of vaccination… every individual needs to talk to their doctor before putting a medication in their body.
New: Trump convened construction companies at the White House this month as he pushes to quickly remake Dulles.
The companies took turns pitching him and Sec. Duffy on big changes — including how to get rid of the “people movers,” per sources.
Another meeting is set for today.
lol, only if you mean “DD tried and failed to get his colleagues to bet him $1 on slack”
