Eli Stokols

Emotional scenes outside the State Department today as employees affected by a sweeping reduction in force leave the building. Current employees and supporters have lined up to “clap out” departing State Department staff at the department’s HQ in Foggy Bottom.

Is This Really How We’re Legislating Now? nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi…

Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

Scoop - Internal Dem polling from Blue Rose & Future Forward memo explain why Dems are trolling GOP hard on Epstein. “It’s a way into, ‘maybe this guy doesn’t have your back,’ and that’s been one of the hardest things for Dems to do.” W/ @nicholaswu12: politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

There has only been one 6-0 6-0 women’s singles final scoreline in the history of Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers beat Dora Boothby in 1911.

President Donald Trump is weighing a new military aid package for Ukraine worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to two people familiar with the plan. @JackDetsch @EliStokols @paulmcleary for @politico. share.google/dd1RUZWoR2oSwN…

NEW: Trump is ready to sign a Russia sanctions bill but only if it changes to give him more control. “The risk is moving a bill that the president ultimately decides he doesn’t want,” says one House Republican. @jordainc @rachaelmbade @EliStokols politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

After Graham says Trump backs his Russia sanctions bill, WH taps the brakes... "Conceptually, there's an openness..." one official said, but Trump wants "complete waiver authority" to avoid "micromanaging" by Congress. w @jordainc @rachaelmbade politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

💃🌻☀️LIL' SCOOPLET: Sen. Lindsey Graham is telling everyone Trump is on board with his Russia sanctions bill. Turns out there's good reason some of his own GOP colleagues are skeptical. YES, POTUS wants this bill to try to leverage/muscle Putin to the negotiating table.…

Great new reporting from @rachaelmbade @jordainc @EliStokols on what's REALLY happening with Russia sanctions: Trump wants way more flexibility to turn them on and off, and there's no deal yet. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

The Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, “has made a series of rapid-fire moves that have blindsided parts of the White House and frustrated several of America’s foreign allies, according to seven people familiar with the situation.” politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

U.S. President Trump: “We are going to send some more weapons [to Ukraine], we have to, they have to be able to defend themselves — they are getting hit very hard now, they are getting hit very hard. We are going to have to send more weapons, defensive weapons — primarily, but…

Seiya Suzuki leads MLB in RBI and has 24 home runs. He was not named an All-Star.

Nouvelle attaque meurtrière lancée par la Russie en pleine nuit contre l’Ukraine, avec un seul objectif : tuer massivement des civils. Face à cette barbarie sans limite, c'est toute la communauté internationale qui doit se lever.

CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs. Now they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go. wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-whi…

Scoop - Dems prep to weaponize GOP’s megabill ahead of 2026 midterms. Attack ads cut for post holiday weekend, August recess seen as opening salvo. & Dems recruiting anew deep into Trump territory, including: MO-02 TN-05 FL-27 CA-03 NY-01 CO-05 politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

Trump allies caught off guard by Pentagon’s Ukraine weapons freeze politi.co/3TjofKP w/ @JackDetsch @paulmcleary @EliStokols

NEW TONIGHT: The Pentagon’s decision to halt some weapons shipments to Ukraine blindsided people who are usually closely briefed on such matters, including members of Congress, State Department officials and key European allies

With Trump unlikely to approve any new defense aid, Kyiv has a new request: let Europe purchase U.S.-made weapons for Ukraine. ⁦via⁩ ⁦@JackDetsch ⁦@paulmcleary⁩ ⁦@ak_mack⁩ ⁦@felschwartz⁩ ⁦@connorobrienNH⁩ politico.com/news/2025/07/0…

New: The U.S. and Vietnam have reached an initial tariff deal. POLITICO obtained a draft copy of a U.S.-Vietnam joint statement. More details w @PhelimKine @drdesrochers @_AriHawkins politico.com/news/2025/07/0…