Josh Kaplan

@js_kaplan

Reporter @propublica | Email me at [email protected]

New York, NY

Joined February 2017

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Josh Kaplan@js_kaplan · Jun 30

New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations. A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unclear. propublica.org/article/kristi…

js_kaplan's tweet card. A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics...

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Brett Murphy@BrettMmurphy · May 15

NEW: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, we made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So @js_kaplan and I got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

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Josh Kaplan@js_kaplan · May 15

NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy. The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business. w/ @BrettMmurphy @JustinElliott @Amierjeski propublica.org/article/trump-…

js_kaplan's tweet card. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers...

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ProPublica@propublica · Apr 11

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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ProPublica@propublica · Mar 20

New: Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. “This is the government getting out of the terrorism business,” said one grant recipient. propub.li/4id4Zt7

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Josh Kaplan@js_kaplan · Mar 12

An extraordinary, must-read story about what's happening inside the Social Security Administration. “Are we going to break something?” the agency's head asked in a meeting, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” propublica.org/article/record…

js_kaplan's tweet card. In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

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Jesse Coburn@Jesse_Coburn · Mar 7

New: HUD officials have discussed using the blockchain and maybe cryptocurrency at a division that oversees billions in grants for affordable housing, homeless shelters, disaster recovery etc. A staffer said it'd be like paying grantees in "monopoly money" propublica.org/article/hud-co…

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Ellis Simani@emsimani · Mar 6

NEW: This superintendent runs a small charter school network with less than 1,000 students. He's made up to $870,000 in recent years. Salvador Cavazos appears to be the highest-paid superintendent in Texas and among the among the top in the country. Taxpayers likely have no clue

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Justin Elliott@JustinElliott · Mar 6

.@RepDanBishop acknowledges under questioning by @SenWhitehouse that he lived in the D.C. townhouse that is part of an effort to influence powerful politicians. Says he paid fair market rent but does not offer a number or know how it was determined youtube.com/live/coQ9vsnrm…

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