Politics & Elections

By Trisha Thadani, Clara Ence Morse · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Elon Musk gave at least $277 million in political donations this year to back Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, making him the largest political donor in the 2024 election cycle, according to an analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings by The Washington Post. The […]

By Trisha Thadani, Clara Ence Morse · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Elon Musk gave at least $277 million in political donations this year to back Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, making him the largest political donor in the 2024 election cycle, according to an analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings by The Washington Post. The […]

By Tyler Pager, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden and his top staffers are discussing whether to grant preemptive pardons to figures who might face the hostility of the incoming Trump administration, concerned that President-elect Donald Trump and others in his circle have threatened to go after their political adversaries. Among those […]

By Tyler Pager, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden and his top staffers are discussing whether to grant preemptive pardons to figures who might face the hostility of the incoming Trump administration, concerned that President-elect Donald Trump and others in his circle have threatened to go after their political adversaries. Among those […]

By Liz Goodwin, Marianne LeVine, Leigh Ann Caldwell · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the Department of Defense continued his outreach on Capitol Hill on Thursday, picking up words of praise from Republican senators but not significant new pledges of support. With his wife by his side, the former Fox News personality […]

By Liz Goodwin, Marianne LeVine, Leigh Ann Caldwell · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the Department of Defense continued his outreach on Capitol Hill on Thursday, picking up words of praise from Republican senators but not significant new pledges of support. With his wife by his side, the former Fox News personality […]

By Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters say they want to move 100,000 federal jobs out of Washington to places that they describe as less expensive, closer to stakeholders and, as Trump put it in a campaign video, “filled with patriots who love America.” Trump tried to […]

By Todd C. Frankel, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters say they want to move 100,000 federal jobs out of Washington to places that they describe as less expensive, closer to stakeholders and, as Trump put it in a campaign video, “filled with patriots who love America.” Trump tried to […]