Alex Burns
@alexanderburns
@POLITICO Senior Executive Editor, North America
While the East Coast was sleeping, AZ Dems ousted their state party chair, Robert Branscomb. More here: politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
I have no idea what’s going to happen ultimately re: the Fed, but this is a baffling tweet: Chair Powell is not resigning
Powell's office is not denying recent reports that Powell is considering resignation.
👀👀California Republican leader @J_GallagherAD3 was deemed not Trumpy enough to get a USATTY appointment, @jonesblakej scoops yet another instance of MAGA fidelity clashing w California electability: politico.com/newsletters/ca…
DOJ’s request to unseal the Epstein grand jury docs is in. Here’s your guide. 👉 What (probably) is (and isn’t) in them? 👉 Who gets to decide their release? 👉 Will a court actually unseal these? from @eorden @kyledcheney politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
Folks, you have simply got to be following @jake__traylor
SCOOP: Top White House officials held a private meeting with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst this week encouraging her to run again. The meeting comes as Senate Republicans have braced for Ernst, 55, to retire. @politico politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
Defense Minister David McGuinty quietly removed all of Canada's restrictions on air and missile defense — a potential reversal of a decades-old policy politico.com/newsletters/ca…
Happy anniversary! Kimberly is a phenomenal reporting talent driving the story of the geographic center of Trump's GOP – we are so lucky to have her on the @politico team
Happy 2-year work anniversary to me! Will shamelessly admit that I wanted to work for @politico for years and years. My pie in the sky dream was to join the Florida team, because even though I lived in a lot of places, Miami (where I was born) always felt like home. Grateful <3
Debra's reported column is just indispensable in this age of energy-driven politics 👇
California's updated low-carbon fuel standard went into effect July 1 — but refiners started passing along the costs back in January. At 5-8 cents per gallon, they collected roughly $300 million before the rules even kicked in. politico.com/news/magazine/…
🚨House GOP's Epstein crisis is getting worse Many want to leave for recess early to escape building pressure. Dems plan another Epstein vote in Rules TODAY. it's pure meltdown “People are like, ‘What the fuck is the president doing?’” w @Reporter_Mia politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
An effort to force a Jeffrey Epstein vote in the House could ripen next week. Lots of Republican members are eager to go home first. NEW from @meredithllee @Reporter_Mia politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
Must read from this unstoppable reporting team 👇
Scoop: Several outside lawyers recently warned President Trump that a new strategy to remove Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank’s $2.5 billion renovation project is on shaky legal ground, people familiar told me. w/ @vtg2 @jake__traylor politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
Read @vtg2: Why some Trump allies are quietly arguing the president is better off with an independent Fed The future of the Fed may depend on whether Trump buys that, even a little ... politico.com/news/magazine/…
NEW: Maurene Comey, who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired today from her job at the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office, per two people familiar with the matter politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
NEW: WH has private discussions about Collins backup in Maine Though there is no discussion of pushing a primary on the 72-year old, Trump would love to see a “better option,” in place of one of his most persistent GOP critics. @politico politico.com/live-updates/2…
🚨House crypto week is ablaze in chaos once again what’s worse - the procedural move currently stalled on the House floor amid this GOP crypto war also unlocks the defense spending bill and a fast-track for rescissions pkg Rs need w/ @Jasper_Goodman politico.com/live-updates/2…
New crypto drama in the House Hard-liners who killed a procedural vote yesterday struck a deal w/ Trump to move fwd But the deal they cut — to merge the CLARITY Act w a CBDC ban — has sparked backlash from members of House FinServ & Ag w @meredithllee politico.com/live-updates/2…
SCOOP: Two of the Pentagon’s top investigative bodies are digging into Defense Sec’y Pete Hegseth’s close aides Ricky Buria and Tim Parlatore and their role in the Signal controversy, three people familiar with the probes told me and @JackDetsch. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
NEW: Mike Lee’s online persona — spreading conspiracy theories, mocking assassination victims — is causing worry in Salt Lake City. On Lee, his church, and the difficulties of “peacemaking” in our current political era:
From @sambbenson at @politico: The @Ch_JesusChrist is apparently unhappy with @BasedMikeLee over his now deleted Minnesota social media posts that appeared to mock the shootings. politico.com/news/magazine/…
SCOOP: At least 8 of the core DOGE team that built DOGE have left, including Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Brad Smith, James Burnham, Amanda Scales, Chris Stanley, Tom Krause, Katie Miller. Plus 7 engineers have left, 3 more are leaving w/ @dlippman politico.com/newsletters/we…