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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Everybody Take Five
To combat the growing federal deficit, Trump said he would ask each of his Cabinet secretaries to cut five percent from their budget proposals next year.
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Markus Schreiber / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Stormy Chaser
President Donald Trump praised a federal judge’s decision to throw out Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against him, calling her "Horseface," and threatening to "go after" her.
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Charles Krupa / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: 23 and She
In response to President Donald Trump and others who have questioned her heritage, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released the results of a DNA test showing evidence that she has a Native American ancestor dating back six to 10 generations.
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Gerald Herbert / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Recovering from Michael
At least 14 people have died from the category-4 storm that slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday and has swept across the southeastern U.S.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Haley’s Comment
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, resigned, effective at the end of the year.
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Mary Calvert / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Maine Event
In a speech on the Senate floor, Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced that she would vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Vote Will Go On
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination Friday, with the final Senate floor vote to be held on Saturday.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: This Is Not a Test
The federal government tested a new presidential alert system at 2:18 p.m. ET.
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Tom Williams / AP Kamala Harris Might Have Just Previewed Her 2020 Message to Trump
In an interview on Wednesday, the California Democrat, who’s widely rumored as a presidential candidate, urged him to “stop being mean.”
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Hillary Clinton (Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters) Read Hillary Clinton’s Remarks on Brett Kavanaugh
The former secretary of state talked with The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the Supreme Court, Russian interference in the 2016 election, and President Trump.
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Cliff Owen / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Flake Out
Speaking at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C., Senator Jeff Flake criticized Brett Kavanaugh for his recent appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling his interactions with lawmakers “sharp and partisan.”
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival Hillary Clinton Laughs at Kavanaugh’s Left-Wing-Conspiracy Claim
In her first public comments on the Supreme Court nominee’s testimony, she swatted away his remark about “the Clintons” and criticized his temperament.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: One NAFTA Another
Trump praised the revised trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada as “a great deal for all three countries.”
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Torn Flake
President Trump ordered the FBI to conduct an additional investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee made the request following demands from Republican Senator Jeff Flake and other senators.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Sign of the Times
President Trump signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against countries or individuals that interfere in U.S. elections.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters What the Polls Keep Missing in the Midterm Elections
There are multiple reasons why surveys have had a hard time capturing the success of this year’s crop of insurgent Democrats.
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John Raoux / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Gone DeSantis
Florida Representative Ron DeSantis said he’s resigning from Congress to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.
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John Gress / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Barack At It Again
In a speech at the University of Illinois, former President Barack Obama issued a harsh rebuke of President Trump and urged Americans to vote in the midterm elections.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: I Am Spartacus
Democratic Senator Cory Booker said he was willing to risk expulsion from the Senate by releasing documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that had been marked confidential.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House
The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed in which a senior official in the Trump administration claims that there is a “resistance” within the administration.
