Cameron Joseph
@cam_joseph
Senior Washington reporter @csmonitor. Almanac of American Politics senior author. Previous work in @guardian @latimes @cjr etc. @vicenews @nydailynews alum.
“Saying Trump posts random stuff to distract is like saying the sun rises to mess with your sleep schedule,” a former Trump adviser said. “It’s just what it does.” w/ @ryanjreilly on Trump's pivot to some of MAGA's other rallying causes. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
So does New York's (and California's). Might be some bank shot workarounds but much tougher for Dems to gerrymander than Rs.
New Jersey's constitution explicitly bans mid-decade redistricting
Jasmeet Bains, a highly-touted Dem recruit against Valadao, suggests in a launch interview that she voted for him in 2020 - she "wasn't going to vote for TJ Cox," the Dem who lost that year, bc of corruption allegations.
Some battle lines being drawn in #CA22 -> Working Families Party endorsing Randy Villegas not long after Reps. Adam Gray, Rivas, Chu, Friedman, Min, Brownley, Norma Torres endorse Jasmeet Bains
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…
This was not preordained! axios.com/2022/01/10/tru…
Trump endorses Sen. Mike Rounds, who voted for the rescissions package last week after balking initially at broadcasting cuts. He said he got reassurances on emergency alert funding from Trump admin
NEWS: Congressional Budget Office projects that the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act will —Add $3.4 trillion to the national debt ($1.1T in net spending cuts, $4.5T in lower revenue) —Result in 10 million fewer people with health insurance —Lower ACA benchmark premiums by 0.6%
“We don’t have an appropriations process. It’s broken. It’s been broken for a while,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
For all the worry that the Vance and Rubio Senate seats would turn into free-for-alls in Ohio and Florida, Jon Husted and Ashley Moody are cruising without primary drama. w/ @Mdixon55 nbcnews.com/politics/2026-… #OHSen #FLSen
Somewhere along the way, we turned “never make anyone mad” into the primary ethos of the Democratic Party. It’s how candidates are chosen, how staff are promoted, how consultants are hired, how campaign messages are chosen. Effectiveness is not as important as inoffensiveness.
I wrote about what it was like growing up as a child in the Bosnian civil war, where food was extremely scarce. I didn't have much, but at least UNICEF was there to help keep me alive. Congress just defunded it, putting lives at risk around the world. huffpost.com/entry/trump-cu…
JUST IN: The Justice Department's bid to relesae Epstein grand jury info comes with a huge caveat that it will seek to redact not just victim info but other "personal identifying information." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Former RNC Co-chair and current Fox News host @LaraLeaTrump says she intends to decide on an #NCSEN run by Thanksgiving - telling reporters at the White House today that a run would be a big decision for her family. Lots of Republicans watching that decision closely.
David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve PAC raised $927,328 in June, experiencing a fundraising spike after Hogg's ouster from the DNC on June 12th. The following day, the committee contributed $300,000 to the Working Families Party.
NEW FEC F3X LEADERS WE DESERVE RCPT $927,328 EXPN $1,029,599 COH $1,420,203 docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
Per Dick Durbin, FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files were told to flag anything mentioning Trump.
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino have made a mess of the Epstein files. It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
A week ago, “it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”
President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.
Big Epstein news from Status: WSJ is working on new details about Trump’s relationship with Epstein, and Trump badly wants to stop it from being published. He reportedly called WSJ’s editor in chief to try and kill the story. (Paywall) status.news/p/wall-street-…