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Republican @RepBrianFitz has cut a moderate brand for himself. He's both someone that Democrats are desperate to knock off (using his Ways and Means committee work as a liability for the GOP tax law) and someone they'd love to work with if he survives.
@maconatkinson spent some time in Fitz's district, and he told her in September he believes in “bringing back the top bracket” for higher earners.
Bob Harvie, the Dem running against him, might be the best shot they have to knock Fitz out. He's been elected county-wide in Bucks twice.
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Good way to write this observation: "But Ms. Guilfoyle’s forced resignation also was part of a larger pattern in President Trump’s second term: The prominent figures who have departed the administration, either voluntarily or involuntarily, overwhelmingly are women.
...All were replaced by men."
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Kay Steiger retweeted
Scoop: Top Trump operative Chris Grant has been enlisted to rescue Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall's campaign
Move comes amid mounting worries among GOP operatives about direction of Kansas race
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Kay Steiger retweeted
Put some respect on the house that Mike built!
Everyone wants to tell me how great their office pantry is but after the Bloomberg pantry nothing can surprise me. The Bloomberg pantry is the size of a small regional airport. The Bloomberg pantry has a fresh peanut butter machine and matcha on tap. The Bloomberg pantry makes the Thrive Capital pantry look positively soviet. Its memory will drive you to tears whenever you visit another newsroom
NEW from @ErinDurkin2 and @victoriaregisk — Cassidy is seriously exploring fixes to the No Surprises Act, which has mired insurers and providers in lengthy and costly disputes over bills.
“Believe it or not, there’s common ground there,” said retiring Republican HELP Chair Bill Cassidy. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
Separately, a top Health Democrat, @FrankPallone, is interested in scrapping the arbitration process in the No Surprises Act altogether, which indicates a starting point in possible lame duck negotiations to fix some of the problems news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
via @ErinDurkin2
Not loving this thing where it only rains on the weekends capitalweather.com/dc-area-f…
I have always always always heard max your 401(k). Now, Bloomberg @economics’ Sarah Foster says some high earners don’t view it so favorably
ALT An article on how 401(k) are losing their favor among high earners in classic Bloomberg orange text on a black background.
Kay Steiger retweeted
Got a lot of texts last night from pissed off GOP operatives on this story...
"We are out here fighting for our lives and these dudes are in some random ass country made up of too many consonants no one has ever heard of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars while telling all of us to chill out because they’ve got it," one told me.
Trump world is pushing back on their pushback — saying Blair is "working quite literally around the clock on races."
w/ @wsteaks in today's @playbookdc
SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
NEW: For the first time, @RepJuliaLetlow reveals to @victoriaregisk that she had a double mastectomy after she was diagnosed as high risk for breast cancer. She's now introducing a breast cancer diagnostic bill, require HHS to determine the best universal breast cancer risk assessment tool and develop a plan to implement it. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
I can’t believe that in the year of our lord 2026 that PDF forms are still a thing. Like anyone is printing anything.
Also today from @victoriaregisk:
PhRMA bankrolled a new report that points to 340B as helpful to hospital bottom lines. Sure to be a piece of ammunition for the pharmaceutical industry as the drug discount program gets increased congressional scrutiny.
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Kay Steiger retweeted
Most of these members had competitive primaries or have tough generals - good story:
This morning @ReporterCioffi has a new story taking a deep dive into how the somewhat obscure practice of franking — using taxpayer money to send unsolicited messages to constituents — has exploded in recent years.
The White House got flack for his campaign-style ads funded by the government, but members of Congress do it too.
Like everything, they're getting more political — some cases almost indistinguishable from campaign ads. Take this billboard rental from Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) you can only tell it's taxpayer-funded by the tag at the bottom using her official title and website.
She defended the billboards as a way to reach busy people. "I've got five seconds" to get their attention, she told @BGOV in an interview.
Much of this explosion in spending come from a rule change a few years ago that allows more flexibility in the types of communication the commission will approve.
But not everyone thinks the expansion is a good idea. Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House Administration Committee, said people "can’t believe, sometimes, some of the ads are paid for by the United States government,” and promised to take a closer look at the guidelines.
Read the whole thing here: news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…
Low-information voters are amazing and people on this deranged app should think about them more.
Checking in with a few GOP voters in Ohio
“I don’t know a whole lot about Husted,” said Debbie Grenko. “It’s Sherrod Brown in there, right?”
Ted Hull said that Brown, whom he thought was still in office, seemed to have “become lazy” on the job
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“The Situation Room connected the call. Biden jumped in. “Bibi, man, what the fuck are you doing?” He gripped the phone tight. “You think I’m Santa Claus? No Santa in Israel, pal.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
