New: DOGE staffers have been collecting government-issued laptops like they are Pokemon. Policy and ethics experts said they've never seen a case of low-level bureaucrats with this much power. Ensures that even if Musk leaves, DOGE's imprint remains Story w/ (((Jacob Bogage)))

New: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer had to flip 64 Republicans last week to ensure the House got one step closer to delivering Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” Here’s how he did it & why he’s so well liked in a job that often requires arm twisting in my latest washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Oh reader. I did indeed nerd out.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is looking unrecognizable to House Republicans after the Senate largely overhauled the lower chamber's proposal. GOP holdouts across the House conference are threatening revolt, with (((Jacob Bogage))) & Theodoric Meyer washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Dean, thanks for this. Ron Hetrick, who mentioned this to us, was talking to me about getting BLS to put some of these explanations in layman’s terms and to blast that out publicly when revisions come out. He wasn’t trying to say that BLS was not transparent as is.

Another The Washington Post exclusive— IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted. Great reporting by ⁦(((Jacob Bogage)))⁩ ⁦Kadia Goba⁩ washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

Yeah... there was a lot more to this meeting than this.