In a town of the image conscious, this economic policy wonk actually dances like no one’s watching.

Sometimes for two straight hours with WH staffers.

And once in an East Room dance-off with Usher.

w/ ⁦Lauren Egan⁩ politico.com/newsletters/we…

NEW: Biden’s team thinks they’re “entitled” and often “failing” in their coverage.

The NYT says the WH isn’t “being realistic” and has grown frustrated they can’t get an Oval Office interview.

A look at how this relationship deteriorated.

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SCOOP: The Chinese Embassy has been quietly lobbying Congress against the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

NEWS - Top Biden campaign officials tell donors they plan to win over Haley voters.

& other deets from NFC retreat on Friday.

w/ Lauren Egan:

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“One of every six people in that room were Kennedys. But most of us didn’t realize how many there were until we saw that photo.”

New w ⁦Lauren Egan⁩ ⁦Shia Kapos⁩ politico.com/newsletters/we…

NEW: White House weighs a smaller Ramadan reception amid Biden protests

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via Lauren Egan and Adam Cancryn

New: The White House is weighing a scaled-down Ramadan celebration consisting of admin officials and ambassadors — the latest ripple effect from outrage in the Arab American and Muslim community over Biden's handling of the war in Gaza.

w Lauren Egan: politico.com/news/2024/03/1…

SCOOP: The culture of the WH advance office has gotten so bad that the WH counsel opened an investigation, following complaints of verbal harassment by Ian Mellul, the former associate director of presidential advance, sources tell me and Lauren Egan. politico.com/news/2024/03/1…

We estimated that it was a two-minute wait time. Cheese and meat omelets cost a mere $4.62 and the veggie one is just $3.83 (no wonder these people downplay inflation).

Lauren Egan digs in to a WH phenomenon 🍳

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Two West Wing Playbook cameos (one uncredited!!) in the big New Yorker Biden piece: Biden calling a Trump a 'sick fuck' and ....... Gina Raimondo resolving to 'drink less diet soda.'

Folks

That's called range
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Scoop - Biden campaign names Alana Mounce, DNC/NV Dem alum, as political director, per 2 sources.

Plus Roohi Rustum will be national organizing director & Meredith Horton will be the national director for voter protection and access.

w/ Lauren Egan: politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

New w/ Lauren Egan: Biden’s top man on the opioid epidemic has created a ‘toxic’ office environment politi.co/3T1h8ad via POLITICO

Joe Biden's top drug policy official has created a 'toxic' environment in the office charged with combating the opioid crisis, 9 ppl familiar tell Myah Ward & Lauren Egan

A thorough investigation of the turmoil under ONDCP chief Rahul Gupta: politico.com/news/2024/02/1…

NEW -- Biden’s top man on the opioid epidemic accused of creating a ‘toxic’ office environment

via Myah Ward and Lauren Egan

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New: I got an early copy of Alex Ward’s new book on Biden’s foreign policy (WHICH YOU SHOULD BUY).
On Afghanistan, Biden is privately defiant.
Ward writes:
'no one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn't believe anyone had made a mistake…Biden told his…

NEW: Biden is expected to travel to Michigan on Thursday to celebrate his UAW endorsement, per three ppl familiar

Trip not yet finalized, but would come amid backlash from some Mich. voters over Biden's Middle East policy.

w Nicholas Wu: politico.com/news/2024/01/3…

The Biden-Harris campaign sent Gavin Newsom to South Carolina

Newsom stumped for them for 2024, while introducing himself to the country’s most influential Democrats

Come for his ‘24 riffs. Stay for the Catfish, hushpuppies and texts with Snoop Dogg politico.com/news/2024/01/2…

POLITICO is hiring aggressively as we expand our reach across the policy landscape. SIX reporting jobs just posted covering:
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- Labor/Immigration
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NEW: When Biden staffers learned that top WH aides Jen O'Malley Dillon and Mike Donilon were moving to the campaign, their first thought was to wish their bosses good luck. Not long after came another: Who gets their office space? (w/ Lauren Egan) politico.com/newsletters/we…

NEWS - Post-NH, it's general election time. Potentially the longest one in modern history.

Priorities USA circulating talking points to donors, warning 'this is not just a 2020 re-match.'

w/ Jonathan Lemire, Holly Otterbein:

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