Maegan Vazquez
@maeganvaz.bsky.social
Political breaking news reporter for The Washington Post.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"#Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to #Epstein suggested by #Trump"
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"#Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to #Epstein suggested by #Trump"
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Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to Epstein suggested by Trump
President Donald Trump suggested the relationships between the disgraced financier and several prominent Democrats deserve more scrutiny than his own connections to Epstein.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"#Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to #Epstein suggested by #Trump"
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"#Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to #Epstein suggested by #Trump"
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Trump’s new health-care proposal — to give insurers’ ACA subsidy money directly to Americans — would require an act of Congress that’s wildly unlikely. (They can’t even agree on much smaller ACA changes.)
But it’s his latest bid to pressure Democrats as shutdown drags.
With @maeganvaz.bsky.social
But it’s his latest bid to pressure Democrats as shutdown drags.
With @maeganvaz.bsky.social
Trump urges Senate GOP to give ACA subsidies directly to Americans
Obamacare subsidies have been a sticking point for Democrats. The president wants to send the funds directly to Americans, which would require congressional action.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump’s new health-care proposal — to give insurers’ ACA subsidy money directly to Americans — would require an act of Congress that’s wildly unlikely. (They can’t even agree on much smaller ACA changes.)
But it’s his latest bid to pressure Democrats as shutdown drags.
With @maeganvaz.bsky.social
But it’s his latest bid to pressure Democrats as shutdown drags.
With @maeganvaz.bsky.social
New date and time! Join me on November 19 for a conversation with @jocelynbenson.bsky.social: events.nyu.edu/event/376679...
Changemakers in Focus: A Conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
Join Penn Washington, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, the NYU John Brademas Center, and the Association of Marshall Scholars...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New date and time! Join me on November 19 for a conversation with @jocelynbenson.bsky.social: events.nyu.edu/event/376679...
Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo wapo.st/3WInvQN
Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo
The president says the publication “deserves to be called out” for using an unflattering image of him for its cover story about his efforts in the Middle East.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo wapo.st/3WInvQN
Please join me in DC on Sept. 22 for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. RSVP links below!
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Please join me in DC on Sept. 22 for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. RSVP links below!
Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director wapo.st/4lSXqIV
White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director
The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials there.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director wapo.st/4lSXqIV
My dispatch from the Granite State --
Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk wapo.st/476IT91
Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk wapo.st/476IT91
Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk
The freshman Arizona senator is making the rounds on the traditional early presidential circuit with a diagnosis of his party’s problem and a pitch for winning Trump voters.
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August 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My dispatch from the Granite State --
Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk wapo.st/476IT91
Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk wapo.st/476IT91
Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home wapo.st/4mike5W
Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
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August 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home wapo.st/4mike5W
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker wapo.st/4m4j8ec
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker wapo.st/4m4j8ec
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge wapo.st/47d5yjT
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.
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August 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge wapo.st/47d5yjT
Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel (w/@merylkornfield.bsky.social) wapo.st/4oeBkmR
Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel
Jack Smith, who pursued two cases against Donald Trump, is being investigated for potentially violating the Hatch Act.
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August 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel (w/@merylkornfield.bsky.social) wapo.st/4oeBkmR
Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older wapo.st/47834Dq
Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older
The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan in conversation with designer Marc Jacobs.
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August 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older wapo.st/47834Dq
Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem. wapo.st/45qiGkk
Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem.
Many urban canopies across U.S. cities are dominated by only a handful of tree types, putting them at risk of being wiped out by an insect or disease.
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July 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem. wapo.st/45qiGkk
DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy.
Homeland Security is sharing images of pastoral paintings bookended by posts cheering Trump’s deportation campaign. Some artists are pushing back.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds wapo.st/3IyvKLA
Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds
Over 1 in 5 top Trump appointees reported investments in crypto and other digital assets, far more than previous administrations, a Post analysis found.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds wapo.st/3IyvKLA
Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session wapo.st/4lRuUbn
Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session
The state legislature will take the rare step of considering a mid-decade redrawing of district lines in light of concerns raised by the Justice Department.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session wapo.st/4lRuUbn
Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened. wapo.st/3IbPLrg
Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened.
Trump has largely shut down the southwest border by ending asylum programs and deploying troops. But those moves have shrunk the pool of easy-to-deport migrants.
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July 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened. wapo.st/3IbPLrg
Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means.
The 33-year-old candidate clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York on Tuesday.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How Washington is stressing out American schools wapo.st/4dYjL5v
The ways government is stressing out your child’s public school
Take a journey through our schoolhouse to see some of the headwinds facing K-12 education in America today.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
How Washington is stressing out American schools wapo.st/4dYjL5v
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Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales to cut funding to California, per two officials and records reviewed by The Post, via @hannah_natanson @ELaserDavies @maeganvaz.bsky.social @iduncan
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Trump administration weighs broad cancellation of California funding
Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales for funding cuts to the state, including citing noncompliance with the president’s executive orders.
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June 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales to cut funding to California, per two officials and records reviewed by The Post, via @hannah_natanson @ELaserDavies @maeganvaz.bsky.social @iduncan
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Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia wapo.st/4jDsqvx
Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia wapo.st/4jDsqvx
Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban wapo.st/3FAhVv6
Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban
The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban wapo.st/3FAhVv6