Taylor Giorno
@taylorgiorno_
lobbying & influence reporter @notusreports | like DiGiorno pizza | tips & dog pics to [email protected] or tayg.42 (Signal)
A billionaire donor wired the U.S. Chamber of Commerce $800k days after it endorsed his son, then-Rep. Peter Meijer, ahead of a contentious 2022 GOP primary, according to previously unreported emails obtained by @thehill 🧵/1
STOP trying to tell me Congress has recess. i’m NOT falling for it. i KNOW there is not a playground big enough for all of them.
"The swamp appears to be doing just fine." — @taylorgiorno_ @NOTUSreports notus.org/money/lobbying…
Nearly all of them voted to scale up Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Some are quietly working to protect select immigrants from it. House Republicans are grappling with the administration’s hardline enforcement policies playing out in their districts: notus.org/immigration/re…
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…
FOIA Files is back! When DOJ seized Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin from Martin Shkreli & later sold the album the agency concealed the sale price citing “trade secrets.” Now, after a four year FOIA battle, I got DOJ to reveal the price bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Florida Quietly Hid Contracts Detailing DeSantis’ $225 Million Spending Spree on Everglades Detention Center notus.org/florida/desant…
Why the Gambling Industry Wants Senators to Hold Up a Trump Nominee via @taylorgiorno_ notus.org/money/gambling…
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“The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the…
Interesting: A federal judge ruled the FTC had to reinstate @RKSlaughterFTC, one of the two Democratic commissioners fired by the Trump administration. I FOIA'd for documents and communications related to their firing. Got 16 pages of this:
NEW: Trump asked a group of lawmakers if he should fire Jerome Powell – and people in room voiced approval, sources told @CBSNews. Several said Trump indicated he will do it. Trump has been socializing the possibility of a for-cause firing, but White House has not yet formally…
Herschel Walker's old Senate campaign spent $20K to charter a private jet on January 20, the same day that Trump was inaugurated in DC. It looks like a striking example of "zombie campaign" funds being improperly used for personal benefit.
NIH has fired its new chief operating officer amid a probe into whether he tried to steer a federal contract to get his wife a job, per people familiar with situation. with @hannah_natanson @carolynyjohnson (and me pitching in from paternity leave) washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…
New Cory Mills campaign filing shows $35,000 in legal payments from April through June, with another $41,000 in unpaid legal service fees, including $10,000 in "disputed" charges docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/… docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
"A person close to Paxton told NOTUS the day his divorce was announced was his second best day of small-donor fundraising since he launched." notus.org/2026-election/…
NEW from @YarrowGrace & @rachel_shin_ White House officials are promising that MAHA won't crack down on pesticide use after widespread agriculture industry backlash to the May report. (Spoiler: Lobbyists still don't fully trust them.) subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…
Norman, Oklahoma was ready to build the same kind of flood warning system that could have saved lives in Texas — until Trump took away the funding I found a long list of places with similar stories👇 notus.org/climate-enviro…
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, a career attorney who’d spent nearly 20 years at the department, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bo…
SCOOP: Rep. Cory Mills is being evicted for failure to pay months of rent at his D.C. penthouse. Owner claims Mills owes $85,000. He was served with notice for failure to pay in January. Ledger shows he paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely
Skiing! Wine! Concert tickets! Airplanes! A "naturally based wellness provider!" Inside the Kyrsten Sinema post-Senate spending spree experience, fueled by campaign contributions. New in @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/kyrsten-…