Jim VandeHei
@vandehei.bsky.social
Axios CEO, co-founder; former Politico CEO, co-founder
www.axios.com/2025/03/24/d... 🚨Dems' dark, deep hole - worst numbers in 50 years…Rahm calls for emergency meeting of mayors, govs…youth conservative spike alarms liberals….⬇️
Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole
Both parties suffer and search for salvation. But rarely does healing seem so hard and redemption so distant.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/24/d... 🚨Dems' dark, deep hole - worst numbers in 50 years…Rahm calls for emergency meeting of mayors, govs…youth conservative spike alarms liberals….⬇️
www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t... To fully appreciate President Trump's mesmerizing control over Republicans, consider their scant public dissent over ideas many of them privately disdain
Behind the Curtain: Trump's vise grip silences appalled Republicans
Most elected Republicans are staying silent on issues they find dubious, dumb or destructive.
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March 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t... To fully appreciate President Trump's mesmerizing control over Republicans, consider their scant public dissent over ideas many of them privately disdain
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/c... Scoop: Schumer faces growing House Dem calls to step down
Scoop: Chuck Schumer faces growing calls from House Democrats to step down
"There was desire for generational change before this ... Schumer is just fueling it," said one senior House Democrat.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/c... Scoop: Schumer faces growing House Dem calls to step down
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/t... 🚨🚨Mega-Scoop via @marcACaputo: Trump purposely pushing Supreme Court to vastly expand deportation power…5 questions he wants answered…🚨🚨🚨Next up: MAY target US citizens too. ⬇️
Inside Trump's Supreme plot on immigration
Trump's plan revolves around two cases and obscure laws that have ignited lawsuits and sent shockwaves through the immigration system.
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March 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/t... 🚨🚨Mega-Scoop via @marcACaputo: Trump purposely pushing Supreme Court to vastly expand deportation power…5 questions he wants answered…🚨🚨🚨Next up: MAY target US citizens too. ⬇️
www.axios.com/2025/03/11/t... Behind the Curtain: Trump plays with fire — by choice
Behind the Curtain: Trump plays with fire — by choice
"The market isn't great, not gonna lie."
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March 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/11/t... Behind the Curtain: Trump plays with fire — by choice
www.axios.com/2025/03/10/t... Trump's secret power protection plan
Trump's secret power protection plan: A $500 million war chest
The cash is just one piece of a bigger power play that's arguably the most powerful, well-funded political apparatus ever.
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March 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/10/t... Trump's secret power protection plan
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/u... 🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: U.S. holding secret talks with Hamas on Gaza hostages
Exclusive: U.S. holding direct talks with Hamas on Gaza hostages
Netanyahu is concerned about the lack of coordination with Israel
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March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/u... 🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: U.S. holding secret talks with Hamas on Gaza hostages
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/t... 🚨🚨Trump, on steroids: In this city of little political agreement, there's consensus on one big thing: President Trump is picking more fights, with more action than mere words, with more lasting consequences than anyone expected.
Behind the Curtain: Trump, on steroids
In most cases, he's taking a more extreme approach than promised or expected.
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March 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/t... 🚨🚨Trump, on steroids: In this city of little political agreement, there's consensus on one big thing: President Trump is picking more fights, with more action than mere words, with more lasting consequences than anyone expected.
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves
Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves
Trump's latest moves could have been plucked from Putin's personal wishlist.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... 🚨🚨Scoop: Some Dems plot to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress
Scoop: Some Democrats are plotting to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress
Lawmakers are discussing walkouts, props and color coordination among other forms of in-the-room demonstration.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... 🚨🚨Scoop: Some Dems plot to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... Exclusive: How Congress' "Crazy Cubans" pushed Trump to kill oil deal
Exclusive: How Congress' "Crazy Cubans" got Trump to kill oil deal
To get their way, three Cuban-American House members suggested — but never explicitly threatened — to withhold votes Trump needed for the House GOP budget deal.
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March 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... Exclusive: How Congress' "Crazy Cubans" pushed Trump to kill oil deal
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/g... Why government spending counts in GDP
Why government spending counts in GDP, as Trump admin considers excluding it
If you exclude government spending from GDP, you aren't getting a full picture of U.S. output.
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March 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/g... Why government spending counts in GDP
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... 🚨🚨Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze, @BarakRavid reports…
Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze
The meeting will take place Monday afternoon at the White House.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... 🚨🚨Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze, @BarakRavid reports…
🚨🚨Exclusive: Mary Meeker's warning for "USA Inc." www.axios.com/2025/03/03/u...
Exclusive: Mary Meeker's serious warning for "USA Inc."
Meeker warns of a "buildup in structural weakness that can jeopardize our country's standing in the world."
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March 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨🚨Exclusive: Mary Meeker's warning for "USA Inc." www.axios.com/2025/03/03/u...
🚨🚨Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under President Trump, it's total warfare on all aspects of higher education — from student life to hiring to athletics. www.axios.com/2025/03/02/t...
America's college chaos
It's total warfare on all aspects of higher education
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March 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚨🚨Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under President Trump, it's total warfare on all aspects of higher education — from student life to hiring to athletics. www.axios.com/2025/03/02/t...
MAGA world erupts over Andrew Tate release, Epstein stunt www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
MAGA world erupts over Andrew Tate release, Epstein stunt
Trump's online base is splintering over two major news stories related to sex trafficking.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
MAGA world erupts over Andrew Tate release, Epstein stunt www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
Privately, Trump sees Zelensky as a pro-Biden, ungrateful lightweight destined to lose to Russia. And Trump advisers believe Zelensky sees Trump as a pro-Putin, delusional fool destined to make him lose to Russia, Axios' Marc Caputo and Alex Isenstadt report. www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
"Three strikes": Inside the Trump-Vance fury with Zelensky
Trump advisers said Zelensky had two strikes against him before he sat down with Trump and Vance.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Privately, Trump sees Zelensky as a pro-Biden, ungrateful lightweight destined to lose to Russia. And Trump advisers believe Zelensky sees Trump as a pro-Putin, delusional fool destined to make him lose to Russia, Axios' Marc Caputo and Alex Isenstadt report. www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
🚨🚨Inside the Oval: How Trump sent Zelensky home with no deal and no meal www.axios.com/2025/02/28/t...
Inside the Oval: How Trump's team sent Zelensky home with no deal and no meal
Trump reached a decision: Zelensky had to go
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February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🚨🚨Inside the Oval: How Trump sent Zelensky home with no deal and no meal www.axios.com/2025/02/28/t...
Why it matters: Rs are trying to convince their members, and the American public, that you can take in less money (taxes), spend more on defense — and somehow reduce deficits without touching the programs that cost the most. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/t...
Behind the Curtain: The hard truths about Trump tax cuts
The solution is always in a future that never comes.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Why it matters: Rs are trying to convince their members, and the American public, that you can take in less money (taxes), spend more on defense — and somehow reduce deficits without touching the programs that cost the most. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/t...
🚨🚨President Trump is setting a new precedent for tight, punitive government control over a free press -> Imagine a Democratic president renaming it the Gulf of Obama — and targeting Fox News for refusing to call it that. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/b...
Behind the Curtain: Trump's media-control strategy
Trump and his administration are doing this systematically, gleefully and unmistakably. But as we've written before, this unprecedented shift could set the precedent for future Democratic presidents,...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🚨🚨President Trump is setting a new precedent for tight, punitive government control over a free press -> Imagine a Democratic president renaming it the Gulf of Obama — and targeting Fox News for refusing to call it that. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/b...
Why it matters: Republican and Democratic congressional districts alike have been rattled by Musk's tactics for slashing government funding and terminating chunks of the federal workforce. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/e...
Jolted Republicans beg Elon Musk to ease up with DOGE
One Republican suggested Musk is disliked in Congress because "we have to deal with the ramifications of what he says."
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February 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Why it matters: Republican and Democratic congressional districts alike have been rattled by Musk's tactics for slashing government funding and terminating chunks of the federal workforce. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/e...
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump and Musk's budget cuts
This is our attempt to clinically outline the facts about deficits — and efforts to reduce them.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump and Musk's budget cuts
This is our attempt to clinically outline the facts about deficits — and efforts to reduce them.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
🚨🚨Trump's loyalty-first FBI www.axios.com/2025/02/24/d...
Trump's loyalty-first FBI
The bureau can function effectively as Trump's private security force.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨🚨Trump's loyalty-first FBI www.axios.com/2025/02/24/d...
🚨🚨 Trump's political operation is profiting from his flurry of executive orders by hawking gear such as "Make Greenland Great Again," "Gulf of America" and "DOGE" T-shirts, along with the black "dark MAGA" caps worn by Elon Musk.
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Trump uses merch to monetize agenda
Trump's team is capitalizing on his loyalists' support for his early moves to help build a $500 million war chest.
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February 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🚨🚨 Trump's political operation is profiting from his flurry of executive orders by hawking gear such as "Make Greenland Great Again," "Gulf of America" and "DOGE" T-shirts, along with the black "dark MAGA" caps worn by Elon Musk.
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