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Kayla Tausche
@kaylatausche
Seeker, storyteller, southerner, sports fan. Formers: @CNN @CNBC @UNC. Send secure tips: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined April 2009
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    EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner arranged an investor meeting on the sidelines of Pres. Trump's 2017 trip to Asia. Immediately after, I FOIAed information about the agenda + attendees. The estimate for when we'll get it? July 2021. The full story:
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    BREAKING: Trump sets deadline for US economy to reopen. "I would love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter." Easter is April 12.
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    NEW, as just reported on @CNN: Not only does @POTUS not plan to drop out, Biden remains committed to a second debate in September, an adviser tells me
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    BREAKING: Pres. Trump says he's getting briefed on TikTok deal tomorrow morning -- but that, to his dismay, there won't be a payment to US Treasury. "Amazingly, I find that we’re not allowed to do that."
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    Adam Rippon tells @CNBC he’s not picky and doesn’t have an ideal sponsor: “I love money.”
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    There are only two women at the table for US-China trade talks. They are the interpreters.
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    NEW: Ten days ago, Biden was expected to be the DNC’s closing speaker - and the party’s nominee. Now, he’ll headline the convention’s opening night — highlighting the work of his WH before programming shifts to focus on Harris. W/ @jeffzeleny
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    At the HHS building in Rockville, employees describe learning they were laid off when their badge doesn't work - and then having to do a "walk of shame" by others in line. "Could they have picked another day other than April Fool's Day?" one tells me.
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    BREAKING from our report on @thenewsoncnbc: Sec. Pompeo and Sec. Mnuchin were two of the Cabinet secretaries who held exploratory discussions with staff about the 25th amendment last night, per three sources familiar with the matter (1/)
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    All 52 Senate Republicans were invited on @AC360 to discuss the tariffs on Mexico, @JohnBerman says — not one accepted the invitation.
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    BREAKING on @CNBC: @NATO leaders are discussing holding an extraordinary meeting in Brussels late next week, according to US and foreign officials, that Pres. Biden and other heads of state would attend. Planning, these officials note, is not yet final. More on @thenewsoncnbc
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    The reckoning in Bidenworld, per sources, has been emerged among three schools of thought: - Biden could have won white working class vote - Obama ('16) and Pelosi ('24) are to blame for pushing him aside twice - Perhaps he was more deeply unpopular than anyone grasped
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    BREAKING: Treasury will borrow an unprecedented $2.999 TRILLION this quarter to fund stimulus measures and offset lost tax revenue. This is nearly six times the last record quarter: $530 billion in the quarter ending September 2008 during the last financial crisis.