Ellie Sennett
elliesennett.bsky.social
Ellie Sennett
@elliesennett.bsky.social
Editor, Atlantic Council Middle East Programs. Formerly reporting news at PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English and The National. Sometimes amateur music, film critic.
It’s my last day covering Congress at The National, and it also happens to be #MardiGras — House Majority Leader Steve Scalisse unknowingly gave me a nice Hill send off with a King Cake for the Capitol press corps today 🎭
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Speaker Johnson answers my Q on if Sec Rubio should have gone thru Congress on $3bn #Israel arms sale/Trump #Gaza plan 🧵:
“We'll have some important information on that tonight..what’s happening at State DOD& all through the White House is well within the President's authority.”
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
📬I am thankful to TN for these opportunities, including the support to develop one of my great prides,the #ViewFromDC newsletter. This edition is my last, but fear not-it will continue under the pen of my colleagues in the DC bureau. Read/subscribe here👇 www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/...
February 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📬This week in #ViewFromDC:

The Middle East staged duelling summits on #UkraineRussiaWar, as POTUS further upended Washington's traditional alliances in Europe. The implications could well form a through-line pointing straight to #Gaza Read/subscribe👇 www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/...
February 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM