Daniel Lippman
@dlippman
Reporter @Politico covering the White House and Washington. Email tips to [email protected]. Text or Signal: 413-854-8628. Repped by @LAIspeakers
Scoop: After Trump’s AI speech, there’ll be an exclusive after party at Ned’s Club hosted by 137 Ventures. Invite list includes 30+ DOGE staff, @OpenAI COO, @shaunmmaguire, top admin officials @skupor @emilmichael plus Musk’s orbit. Rick Scott is keynote politico.com/newsletters/we…
“Part of it is that we were just actually tired of this, and we’re exhausted, and we don’t want to spend 30 bucks and six or eight hours of our time feeling worse.” tinyurl.com/4juhhujt
‘There’s a lot of fatigue’: Trump books draw lackluster sales ow.ly/loxI106gzqy
.@dlippman digs into the lackluster sales of second-term Trump books: politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
SCOOPLET: Remember when the Trump administration called the EB-5 visas “ridiculous”? Well, New Hampshire Senate candidate Scott Brown, who often talks about the importance of pushing back against China, once went to China to tout that very program. politico.com/newsletters/we…


President Trump on @DaveMcCormickPA: "He won a race that was really not doable." "I just want to congratulate you—that's amazing. He wouldn't have done it without @DinaPowellMcC—anybody that knows Dina knows exactly what I'm saying."
Formal complaint filed against Vote.org by its founder ow.ly/6BEC106fQEp
“Among her claims: that the group originally set an internal goal to register 6 million voters, but that was increased to 8 million to avoid the ‘symbolism of 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.’” Quite a story, by @dlippman & @andrewjfhoward subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/202…
SCOOP: DOD's top investigators are digging into 2 close Hegseth aides and their role in the use of the Signal app and DOD leaks. “Ricky [Buria] & Tim [Parlatore] are some of the folks that they’re zeroing in on,” said a person familiar. (w/ @dlippman) politico.com/news/2025/07/1…