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Sophia Cai

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POLITICO West Wing Playbook author and White House Reporter. Defender of New Jersey. [email protected]

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Trump on June 21: “There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.”

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The White House and the Department of Defense are aware of, and closely monitoring, potential threats to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, per a senior White House official.

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Iran’s “Supreme National Security Council” says Iran “destroyed the American air base” in Qatar. But Qatar says it successfully fended off the Iranian missile barrage, which “did not result in any deaths or injuries.” Big clue the Iranian strike is aimed at domestic consumption

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White House CEA chair Stephen Miran makes the case for the big beautiful bill: 4.6-4.9% higher GDP over four years 7.3-10.2% boost in investment boost annual take-home pay by $7,500-11k for fam of 4 deficit reduction of $8.5-11T over 10 years, including $2.8T revenue from

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As Russ Vought’s testimony before Senate Approps kicks off, Sen. Patty Murray puts out a map of the 1,500 local radio and TV stations that would lose funding under the rescissions package

As Russ Vought’s testimony before Senate Approps kicks off, Sen. Patty Murray puts out a map of the 1,500 local radio and TV stations that would lose funding under the rescissions package
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NEW: A Trump ally is launching a super PAC called FSD PAC to counter Elon Musk. FSD PAC, a play on Tesla’s “full self-driving,” stands for Full Support for Donald, and it will spend in races where Musk backs a 3rd party hopeful, D or R primary challenger. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

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Russ Vought, the fiercely conservative budget chief with street cred with HFC, emerged as a crucial figure this week in selling Trump’s megabill, walking House fiscal hawks thru future opportunities for spending cuts like EOs and reconciliation packages politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

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As you prepare for the U.S. Soccer Men's National Team to kickoff against Mexico, don't expect Donald J. Trump to use the Gold Cup to stoke nationalist anger against a neighbor. Soccer has become the one field on which Trump doesn't play "America First." —>

As you prepare for the <a href="/USMNT/">U.S. Soccer Men's National Team</a> to kickoff against Mexico, don't expect <a href="/realDonaldTrump/">Donald J. Trump</a> to use the <a href="/GoldCup/">Gold Cup</a> to stoke nationalist anger against a neighbor. 

Soccer has become the one field on which Trump doesn't play "America First."  —&gt;
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NEW: When Alex Lasry, CEO of the NY/NJ World Cup Host Cmte saw a post about CBP being “suited and booted” for FIFA games, Lasry called Andrew Giuliani who assured him that DHS would just have routine presence at the games. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

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SCOOP: A DOGE employee went rogue and used an official government DOGE VA account to DM an anti-Elon activist and the White House is trying to get to the bottom of it. That person no longer works at the VA, I'm told. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…