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Bob King

@bkingdc

Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian.

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Eye-opening scoop from Alex Guillén: The Trump admin was warned that its strategy to freeze climate grants had "significant legal vulnerabilities" and could expose the government to billions in damages And Alex has the email chains to prove it ... politico.com/news/2025/04/2…

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"I’m not going to start out by saying I’m honored to serve," FEMA's new acting director tells his staff after replacing the person Donald J. Trump fired Thursday. "I’m here to do a job." politico.com/news/2025/05/0…

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The Trump administration gutted dozens of congressionally mandated programs — including ones that screened coal miners for black lung and tracked cancer rates in firefighters — and knew they would face legal risks doing so. Latest with Alice Miranda Ollstein politico.com/news/2025/05/1…

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"You could give a rat’s ass about how much cancer your agency causes," Adam Schiff tells Lee Zeldin at hearing. "We’re not going to waste dollars just because you insist on EPA lighting taxpayer dollars on fire," Zeldin tells Sheldon Whitehouse. politico.com/live-updates/2…

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NEW: The Trump administration has obeyed a court order to return a Guatemalan man improperly deported to Mexico in Feburary. His lawyer says he's en route to a detention facility in Arizona. politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

NEW: The Trump administration has obeyed a court order to return a Guatemalan man improperly deported to Mexico in Feburary.  His lawyer says he's en route to a detention facility in Arizona. politico.com/news/2025/06/0…
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It's worth noting that Democrats repeatedly passed up opportunities to raise the debt ceiling through reconciliation when they controlled Congress, fearing they'd "own" the decision, and instead had to negotiate deals with Republicans to do it. Which strategy was smarter?

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Scoop: A split between automakers over Republicans’ megabill is hobbling their powerful trade group Alliance for Automotive Innovation from presenting a unified message as the Senate considers major rollbacks to EV and manufacturing tax credits benefiting the industry. politico.com/news/2025/06/0…

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Important and timely reporting from Kelsey Tamborrino and Jessie Blaeser, who crunch the data on stakes of GOP’s move to roll back IRA clean electricity credits for wind and solar