On Friday’s episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists discussed President Donald Trump's move to impose additional tariffs in an effort to dramatically reshape America’s economy. Tariffs are "something he believes he can execute unilaterally," said Jonathan Lemire of The Atlantic. "It is a personal power here, which is deeply attractive to him, that he can settle scores, that he can go after whatever country is up or down." This week, the Trump administration impos
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When President Donald Trump returned to office this year, he wasted no time in implementing Project 2025 policy recommendations despite distancing himself from the agenda on the campaign trail. On Friday's episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked the panel why Trump first disavowed Project 2025 but later chose one of its main authors, Russell Vought, to lead the Office of Management and Budget. "Because it was incredibly unpopular during the campaign trail, and there was poll
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When President Donald Trump returned to office this year, he wasted no time in implementing Project 2025 policy recommendations despite distancing himself from the agenda on the campaign trail. On Friday's episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked the panel why Trump first disavowed Project 2025 but later chose one of its main authors, Russell Vought, to lead the Office of Management and Budget. "Because it was incredibly unpopular during the campaign trail, and there was poll
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This week, Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists discussed President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East, where he was welcomed in royal style by Gulf leaders, and his transactional approach to diplomacy. "There's a symbiotic kind of thing going on here with Donald Trump and the way he runs his operation and the way many of these Gulf potentates run their operations," said Goldberg. "I think he would like to run the U.S. government in much the way that some of t
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This week, Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists discussed President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East, where he was welcomed in royal style by Gulf leaders, and his transactional approach to diplomacy. "There's a symbiotic kind of thing going on here with Donald Trump and the way he runs his operation and the way many of these Gulf potentates run their operations," said Goldberg. "I think he would like to run the U.S. government in much the way that some of t
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On Friday’s episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg sat down for a special conversation with Kara Swisher, co-host of the podcast “Pivot,” to discuss the state and future of journalism as Americans shift away from legacy media outlets and turn to streaming, social media and digital platforms for their news. When asked by Goldberg if the journalism values of traditional media are transferable to the digital platforms she’s familiar with, Swisher said they “absolutely” could, adding
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President Donald Trump visited Kerrville, Texas, on Friday to meet with first responders and those hit by the devastating July 4 floods that have left over 120 dead and more than 160 people still missing. Washington Week guest moderator Ashley Parker of The Atlantic discussed with her panelists how Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem outlined at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday what she described as a new, streamlined version of FEMA envisioned by Trump. Tarini Parti of The Wall Stree
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This week saw the announcement of a potentially historic Israel-Hamas peace agreement brokered by President Donald Trump, which could bring an end to the fighting in Gaza and secure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages as the deal enters its first phase. Washington Week guest moderator Vivian Salama asked her panel what could have motivated Hamas to accept the agreement at this stage. David Ignatius, foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post, said “exhaustion, pressure from the P
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In a special conversation with The New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman on Washington Week with The Atlantic, Friedman confessed to moderator Jeffrey Goldberg that he has "no sources" in the Trump administration. "Having sources in this administration other than the president would be dangerous because whatever they tell you, if you then write a column or a news story about it, Trump can go absolutely 180 degrees the opposite the next day," Friedman said on Friday, citing the
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President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, and protests against the actions of federal agents, put both the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota in the national spotlight. Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked Toluse Olorunnipa, a staff writer at The Atlantic, why Minneapolis has become a hotspot for community activism. “One of the reasons Minneapolis has stood up to this — what they call an 'invasion' of their city — is because they’ve had practice. They had to come
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This week saw the demolition of the White House’s East Wing as part of construction on President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom. The project is the largest structural change to the White House since 1948, when President Harry Truman added a balcony overlooking the South Lawn. In September, Will Scharf, head of the National Capital Planning Commission — which is responsible for reviewing construction and renovations of government buildings in Washington, D.C. — stated that approval from the
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The Pentagon press corps vacated their workspaces and exited the building last week, after most news organizations rejected the Defense Department's new media rules and refused to sign documents acknowledging the policy. On Friday, Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked The Atlantic's Nancy Youssef, who has been a part of that press corps for 18 years, for an inside look at the ouster and what it means for future coverage. “You felt sad journalistically, because I think it's important
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Amid the current federal funding fight between Republicans and Democrats, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has turned out to be a key player in the ensuing government shutdown. Vought was the main architect of Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint that President Donald Trump denounced during his reelection campaign but is now enacting. Vought is "really a central player, probably the central player in the executive branch, aside from the president himself. He has a
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With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history still ongoing, more Americans are feeling the effects. Major airports have begun cutting thousands of flights, and millions who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program face growing uncertainty. “The idea that the administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food assistance program for some 42 million Americans, 1 in 8 Americans, but they have found money for military payments and ICE officers and others — that's a choi
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In the week since President Donald Trump involved the United States military in the war between Israel and Iran, a leaked early intelligence report appeared to contradict his administration's claims that U.S. airstrikes "obliterated" Iran's nuclear facilities. It's the latest conflict between the president and the U.S. intelligence community. A day before Trump ordered the strikes on Iran, he told reporters that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was "wrong" about the objectiv
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President Donald Trump has made a series of unprecedented attacks in recent days, lashing out at reporters verbally along with threatening lawmakers on his social media account. On Nov. 14, Trump said "Quiet, piggy," in response to a question from Bloomberg’s White House correspondent Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One. A few days later, the president told Mary Bruce of ABC News that she was a “terrible person and terrible reporter.” “The president has always sort of taken these attacks agains
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President Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to rename the institution the "Trump-Kennedy Center." Crews updated signage on the building's exterior less than 24 hours later on Friday. When making the announcement on social media, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the "unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building" was the reason for the name change. "Putin doesn’t nam
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As part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end the war in Ukraine, last week he pressured Ukraine to accept his administration’s peace proposal, which heavily favors Russia and would cede Ukrainian territory. “It's almost as if the Trump administration doesn't want to admit or can't understand that the war only ends when the pressure is put on Russia and the Russians say, 'OK, we're not going to be able to win,'” Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic told Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg
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President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday for a high-profile summit to discuss the war in Ukraine. The 2.5-hour meeting ended with the two leaders appearing briefly at a joint news conference to give statements and both leaving shortly after without taking any questions from the press. Hours later on social media, Trump dropped his demand for a ceasefire in Ukraine and instead backed a comprehensive peace deal to end the war with Russia, ali
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President Donald Trump cannot "distance" himself from Jeffrey Epstein any longer following the House Oversight Committee's release of new documents last week, The Wall Street Journal's Natalie Andrews said. "This is something that [Trump] tried to distance himself from, and with the release of documents, with his name, with his associates, you really can't distance yourself from this growing issue anymore," Andrews said Friday on Washington Week with the Atlantic. The House Oversight Committee o
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On Friday’s episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists reflected on President Donald Trump’s recent actions mixing personal benefit with public office. One example they discussed happened on May 22, when Trump hosted a gathering at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency business. The dinner was held to boost sales of his cryptocurrency coin that launched days before the inauguration. The top 220 buyers of the meme coi
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On Friday’s episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panel reflected on the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term. “He is acting in a way that is both quicker, deeper, more aggressive than he did in his first term,” said Asma Khalid, White House correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics podcast. Khalid highlighted Trump’s recent actions of defying courts and undermining law firms, universities and media institutions, noting that there has been “
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