Eli Stokols (@elistokols) 's Twitter Profile
Eli Stokols

@elistokols

White House + foreign policy correspondent @politico. Priors: West Wing Playbook co-author, @latimes @wsj alum.

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linkhttps://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook calendar_today21-09-2009 02:38:16

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Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Scoop - Dems prep to weaponize GOP’s megabill ahead of 2026 midterms. Attack ads cut for post holiday weekend, August recess seen as opening salvo. & Dems recruiting anew deep into Trump territory, including: MO-02 TN-05 FL-27 CA-03 NY-01 CO-05 politico.com/news/2025/07/0


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CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs. Now they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go. wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-whi


Jean-Noël Barrot (@jnbarrot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nouvelle attaque meurtriĂšre lancĂ©e par la Russie en pleine nuit contre l’Ukraine, avec un seul objectif : tuer massivement des civils. Face Ă  cette barbarie sans limite, c'est toute la communautĂ© internationale qui doit se lever.

Nouvelle attaque meurtriĂšre lancĂ©e par la Russie en pleine nuit contre l’Ukraine, avec un seul objectif : tuer massivement des civils. Face Ă  cette barbarie sans limite, c'est toute la communautĂ© internationale qui doit se lever.
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U.S. President Trump: “We are going to send some more weapons [to Ukraine], we have to, they have to be able to defend themselves — they are getting hit very hard now, they are getting hit very hard. We are going to have to send more weapons, defensive weapons — primarily, but

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The Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, “has made a series of rapid-fire moves that have blindsided parts of the White House and frustrated several of America’s foreign allies, according to seven people familiar with the situation.” politico.com/news/2025/07/0


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Great new reporting from Rachael Bade Jordain Carney Eli Stokols on what's REALLY happening with Russia sanctions: Trump wants way more flexibility to turn them on and off, and there's no deal yet. politico.com/news/2025/07/0


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đŸ’ƒđŸŒ»â˜€ïžLIL' SCOOPLET: Sen. Lindsey Graham is telling everyone Trump is on board with his Russia sanctions bill. Turns out there's good reason some of his own GOP colleagues are skeptical. YES, POTUS wants this bill to try to leverage/muscle Putin to the negotiating table.

Zach Warmbrodt (@zachary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Trump is ready to sign a Russia sanctions bill but only if it changes to give him more control. “The risk is moving a bill that the president ultimately decides he doesn’t want,” says one House Republican. Jordain Carney Rachael Bade Eli Stokols politico.com/news/2025/07/0


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After Graham says Trump backs his Russia sanctions bill, WH taps the brakes... "Conceptually, there's an openness..." one official said, but Trump wants "complete waiver authority" to avoid "micromanaging" by Congress. w Jordain Carney Rachael Bade politico.com/news/2025/07/0


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President Donald Trump is weighing a new military aid package for Ukraine worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to two people familiar with the plan. Jack Detsch Eli Stokols Paul McLeary for POLITICO. share.google/dd1RUZWoR2oSwN


Eric Bazail-Eimil (@ebazaileimil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Emotional scenes outside the State Department today as employees affected by a sweeping reduction in force leave the building. Current employees and supporters have lined up to “clap out” departing State Department staff at the department’s HQ in Foggy Bottom.

Emotional scenes outside the State Department today as employees affected by a sweeping reduction in force leave the building. Current employees and supporters have lined up to “clap out” departing State Department staff at the department’s HQ in Foggy Bottom.
Stuart Fraser (@stu_fraser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There has only been one 6-0 6-0 women’s singles final scoreline in the history of Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers beat Dora Boothby in 1911.

Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Scoop - Internal Dem polling from Blue Rose & Future Forward memo explain why Dems are trolling GOP hard on Epstein. “It’s a way into, ‘maybe this guy doesn’t have your back,’ and that’s been one of the hardest things for Dems to do.” W/ Nicholas Wu: politico.com/news/2025/07/1


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Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ Irie Sentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2


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France faces an awkward truth. Macron was right about European strategic autonomy in defence. But his government does not have the budget to spend enough on it economist.com/europe/2025/07
 from The Economist

Acyn (@acyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.