Gregory Korte

Black voters — especially in southern states — are casting early ballots at a pace well ahead of previous midterm elections, giving Democrats a reservoir of likely support a week before Election Day. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 24 states that track the party registration of early voters, registered Democrats have cast 48.7% of all ballots so far and registered Republicans 28.9%. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Mid-decade redistricting battles are having an outsized impact on Black voters, who are more likely to have been shifted into new congressional districts in order to create more safe seats for Republicans ahead of the US midterm elections. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump: "All of this interface will go right into our great, brilliant mind, a super mind.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran has cost US taxpayers about $38 billion in direct costs during the first five months of fighting -- and will push inflation up about 0.5 percentage points by early next year, a new congressional study finds. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump has traded more stocks, bonds and crypto than every member of Congress combined -- even as he's pushed for a congressional stock trading ban that would exclude the president. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

In the 16 Michigan counties with higher-than-average college education, Abdul El-Sayed won 54.2% of the vote. In the rest of the state, it was 43.2%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Between you and me,” Biden told ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in April 2017, Obama “always got to the right spot, but a day late and a dollar short.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Top Democratic Party officials are looking to start their party’s 2028 presidential nomination contest in South Carolina, the first step in what could be the biggest overhaul of the primary calendar in decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to cut red tape across the federal government, releasing a regulatory plan that would eliminate a record 702 existing administrative rules. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in his first year back in office, often in intense bursts tied to market events he created. New Bloomberg analysis of new Trump disclosures released this week: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Supreme Court has given political parties more advertising bang for their buck – and opened the floodgates to a gusher of midterm campaign commercials – with a Tuesday decision that strikes down an obscure provision of federal election law.  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What the Supreme Court's decision means for presidential power, the bureaucracy and administrative state. With @gregstohr.bsky.social and @leahnylen.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Democratic voters in Washington, DC, picked Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George as their top choice in the city’s mayoral primary, putting the self-described democratic socialist on course to become President Donald Trump’s latest antagonist in the nation’s capital. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The White House is invoking a rarely used legal authority called critical position pay to offer salaries up to $400,000 — the same salary as the president — for Wall Street dealmakers who can help negotiate national security supply chains. w/ @jendlouhy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump signed an order Wednesday stripping job security from nearly 8,000 federal positions, expanding his authority to fire career employees who work on policy matters and accelerating a civil-service overhaul that’s drawn legal and political pushback. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The White House is proposing a far-reaching rewrite of the rules on federal grants, consolidating its power over who benefits from federal financial assistance and what they can do with that money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump administration is moving to create a government-wide nondisclosure agreement for federal workers after a number of high-profile and unauthorized leaks in recent months. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump has continued former President Obama’s “Asian pivot” strategy — and has now made more trips to the continent than every other world region combined.

Thrilled to have had my work discussed in Bloomberg's The Forecast newsletter. I had a great time chatting with Gregory Korte about my article on gerrymandering (which predated the current redistricting war by a few years, and made the case for fighting fire with fire).

Gerrymandering’s "dirty hands" are getting dirtier. My latest for The Forecast newsletter @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Last year, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government. Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CHART OF THE DAY: It’s not just that voters feel frustrated by rising prices. They’re skeptical that policymakers have a plan to turn them around. From Bloomberg's Washington Edition newsletter tonight.

It might have seemed unlucky. Sportswriters would later attribute it to evil spirits. In truth, it was more likely laziness that almost ended Johnny Hodapp's career just as it was beginning. www.johnnyhodapp.com/the-ball-he-...

President Donald Trump will ask Congress to enact a massive increase in defense spending in a discretionary budget proposal Friday, while also renewing his push for steep cuts to domestic programs. Latest with @elwasson.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to make it harder to cast mail-in ballots, escalating his long-running campaign against a practice used by millions of Americans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: The US government is using less than a third of its office space, potentially costing the federal government billions in annual real estate expenses, according to a new congressionally mandated accounting released Tuesday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump's FY 2027 budget will be released on Good Friday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Rally 'round the flag" events were always the exceptions that prove the rule. My latest for @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Last year, the Trump administration canceled a legally required annual survey of federal employees to gauge their job satisfaction. So a nonprofit did its own survey -- and found federal workers are demoralized, disengaged and distrustful of political appointees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How long will the Iran War last? President Trump’s timeline has been shifting, but it’s generally been in the range of days or weeks. “Any time I want it to end, it will end,” he told Axios last week. Americans aren’t so sure. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Daughter: (Tells story of something she read that was written in the first person plural.) Me: "I prefer to write in the third person, thank you very much." Daughter: "You just used two pronouns in that sentence, and neither one of them was in the third person."

The Trump administration is moving to gut the seniority protections that have provided job security to federal workers for decades. "Another step in the administration’s effort to dismantle the nonpartisan civil service.” via @gregorykorte.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: The Trump administration is proposing the biggest change to its employee retention rules in decades, attempting to substitute job performance for seniority in deciding who’s fired when an agency institutes layoffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For 88 Years, One Number Graded US Presidents. Now It’s Going Away: Gallup’s decision to drop its approval poll underscores how polarization transformed one of the most important metrics in politics. (@gregorykorte.com) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gallup's late, lamented question on presidential approval was once "the most important time series in US polling history." But in the age of Trump, the truth is presidential approval had become simply a proxy for partisan identity. My weekend essay for Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gallup's late, lamented question on presidential approval was once "the most important time series in US polling history." But in the age of Trump, the truth is presidential approval had become simply a proxy for partisan identity. My weekend essay for Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A new disclosure reveals that one of Joe Biden’s most meaningful White House keepsakes was a piece of a crashed WWII plane -- part of a family story that once sparked a diplomatic controversy over his suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to US cities cost taxpayers at least $496 million in 2025 — with the price tag rising to a rate of $93 million a month. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As a massive winter storm bears down on the US, FEMA is pausing plans to "offboard" disaster relief workers. From @zhirji.bsky.social + @gregorykorte.com (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the most important economic indicators to watch going into midterms is showing a warning for Republicans. From the Washington Edition newsletter from @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“musicology duck gets briefly kidnapped”

NEW: President Donald Trump’s move to revive the name “Department of War” could cost as much as $125 million, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More Americans are declaring their independence.

Jerome Powell has public opinion on his side so far. From tonight's Washington Edition newsletter from @bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The demographic cliff is coming sooner than we thought. Chart of the day in the Washington Edition newsletter via @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...