Samuel Larreal
@samuellarreal_
covering California and tech policy for @NOTUSreports 🇻🇪
Trump just said he’s getting rid of woke AI. He also pushed back against state-level AI regulation and called the AI industry “a beautiful baby that’s born.” notus.org/technology/tru…
🔊 @reesejgorman: “We’ve seen conservatives shut down the House floor routinely. You had to pull the rule because of fear of Epstein votes.” House Speaker Mike Johnson: “We don’t have any fear. There is no fear here... I will not allow the House to be drug into political…
Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC reinvigorated a wave of young, online-savvy candidates looking to be the next generation of Democrats. Now, they're figuring out how exactly to replicate his success. w/ @OrianaBeLike for @NOTUSreports: notus.org/democrats/youn…
88-year-old D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells me this AM: “I’m certainly going to run for reelection.” (Her office has repeatedly walked this back already: axios.com/2025/06/25/nor…)
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…
Former Rep. George Santos beings his prison sentence next week. FEC filings show he’s leaving behind a campaign committee that’s out of compliance with the FEC and thousands in debt to former staff and others. @NOTUSreports notus.org/congress/georg…
Well, glad to hear the press core isn't alone
"I am so tired of making phone calls at 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, getting calls from our great speaker. 'Sir, we have 12 hard nos,'" Trump recounts at the GENIUS signing ceremony. "They just want a little love. Unfortunately, it's always the same. Always the same 12 people"
Scoop from @Dareasmunhoz and me: Advanced AI chip-makers are getting their say in how to track shipments under the Chips Security Act and whether they'll need "kill switches" if China steals the tech
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is working to soften aspects of a bill aimed at combating the smuggling of AI chips to China that industry officials have complained are too onerous. @BenBrodyDC and @Dareasmunhoz have the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech/n…
wow a lot has changed in the headlight policy space since i covered it in january: notus.org/congress/headl…
If there's one thing Democrats & Republicans can agree on, it's that headlights are too damn bright. Brightness doubled in the last decade, yet our standards are from before I was born. My amendment passed to find solutions, since it's not a binary choice between the light of…
The way Congress has operated this year has been a real trip for me, a reporter who started covering Congress during the #ReadTheBill Tea Party days when the three-day rule was something voters and lawmakers said they cared about.
“I think it’s hard not to be won over." DC dispatch from @NOTUSreports: buff.ly/lzMWimV
Congress’s Crypto Week Derailed on Day 1 @samuellarreal_ reports notus.org/congress/crypt…
It’s standard practice in law enforcement for agents to be identifiable on the job — unless they work for ICE. Democrats and public safety experts say ICE's tactics create confusion and escalate the risk of injury for officers and bystanders. notus.org/immigration/im…
Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the @MiamiHerald and @WLRN has found. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
I'm not sure Republicans in Congress grasp the problem they have with the Epstein controversy. It's not going to go away. notus.org/congress/repub…
New with @samuellarreal_ and @em_luetkemeyer: President Donald Trump wants to move on from the recent controversy surrounding the Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Most Republicans in Congress seem eager to stay out of…
If you want to know how DOGE works, at least inside the EPA, it essentially boils down to scouring grants for no no words like “equality” “women” “minority” and “Black” then flagging them for potential termination, per internal agency guidance. notus.org/trump-white-ho…
Restorative reproductive medicine's relationship to the MAHA movement is like a "Venn diagram," according to one practitioner. Can RRM get the MAHA boost without getting turned into the anti-IVF scapegoat? notus.org/health-science…
Rep. Jim Clyburn has long been hailed as a Democratic kingmaker. But after Clyburn's pick for the NYC mayoral race lost, Dems are facing a reckoning about what the once-powerful lawmaker's role will look like next. Latest for NOTUS w/ @TinasheReports: notus.org/democrats/jim-…