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Burgess Everett

@burgessev.bsky.social
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Congressional bureau chief at Semafor. Former Politico

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
new - Dem group Majority Forward launching new $600K ad dinging Sen. Collins on Iran during her to “stop supporting Trump’s war, Mainers can’t afford it.” She said yesterday after the 60-day mark that "it is very likely that I would vote not to authorize further hostilities"
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🟡 Semafor Washington, DC: Late-night drama | Semafor
In today’s edition: Susan Collins on why she’s unlikely to vote to authorize further hostilities in Iran, and the House votes to extend FISA.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Dems have BIG leverage on FISA and Iran War supplemental - One Senate D predicted FISA will get 60 next week. Shaheen will vote for it, Coons said he needs a briefing. Wyden will "fight like hell" - Coons talking to admin about Iran. Schatz a "hard no," said most Dems oppose
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Exclusive: Democrats wield power on national security votes
Democrats are weighing how to use their ample leverage on expiring surveillance powers and Iran funding.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ahead of votes on weapon sales, Sen. Mark Kelly says he "cannot and will not abandon Israel" and will "always" support Israel's right to exist But he says he will vote yes "on these resolutions to stop these transfers"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Defense $ leaders McConnell and Coons met with Sec Hegseth and other admin officials about defense spending and Iran supplemental yesterday Coons called it “relatively constructive, respectful, normal.” Coons told them to work with his staff if they want a positive response vs stonewalling him
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Big day of foreign policy votes in Senate: vote on Iran War Powers at 2 and expected votes later on disapproving of arm sales to Israel
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ossoff raised a respectable $14 million and has $31 million in the bank (!)
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wow: Talarico campaign says it raised $27 million in Q1, including $10 million since the primary
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Schumer says "Operation Epic Failure is a much more appropriate name for Trump's war of choice"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Pa. GOP Sen. McCormick on President Trump's attack on the pope as "weak" on nukes "I mean, I didn't love it. I wish he hadn't done it. And the reason is, I just think it's distracting from this moment we're in," he told me this morning at Semafor's World Economy"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Md. Gov. Moore to @daveweigel.bsky.social : "It’s sad for me, because the Sun used to be the paper of record, and it has become the paper of the right wing" www.semafor.com/article/04/1...
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Moore takes on the Sun’s ‘MAGA billionaire’ and more
The Maryland governor talked to Semafor on the sidelines of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Republicans fight among themselves over their long pre-election to-do list www.semafor.com/article/04/0...
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Republicans fight among themselves over their long pre-election to-do list
President Donald Trump’s party has a dizzying number of goals and can’t agree on how to get started.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim tells reporters in the Capitol that President Trump should be removed from office via either the 25th Amendment or impeachment
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
News: 2015 law that required Congress to vote on Obama's Iran nuclear deal will likely apply to Trump's agreement w/ Iran “Any agreement relating to Iran’s nuclear program must be submitted to Congress," said a Democratic aide. Also makes it hard to "lift or waive sanctions while Congress reviews"
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Exclusive: A Trump deal with Iran would likely get a vote in Congress
Democrats believe the 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act would apply to an agreement that touches on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Schumer on the Iran war arc: "This is one of the very worst military and foreign policy actions that the United States has ever taken" Says the Senate will vote next week on another one of Democrats' War Powers resolutions
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dem Committee leaders Coons, Shaheen, Schumer, Reed, Schatz "condemn President Trump's threat to extinguish an entire civilization ... It’s unconscionable to threaten the lives of so many people – grandparents, children, families – simply because they were born in Iran"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Maine Gov. Janet Mills running on instituting term limits and to "reform the filibuster by requiring senators to remain on the Senate floor and actually speak, rather than simply threatening a filibuster to delay action" janetmills.com/wp-content/u...
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown announces he raised $12.5 million between his campaign ($10m) and affiliated committees and has $16.5 million onhand. He'll need it: Senate Leadership Fund announced yesterday a $79 million investment in Ohio to support GOP Sen. Jon Husted
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Money bomb alert: Thune-aligned Senate Leadership Fund invests $342 million to defend GOP majority R held states $15M in Alaska $44M in Georgia $29M in Iowa $42M in Maine $71M in NC $79M in Ohio D held states $45M in Michigan $17M in NH Nothing in Minnesota yet
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A VERY strange (and ugly) GOP primary shaping up in NH between two former senators, Scott Brown and John Sununu. Trump + GOP groups endorsed Sununu, hoping Brown would take hint (or get job with admin) “They want me to drop out," Brown told me. "I’m not going anywhere."
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Exclusive: Scott Brown isn’t leaving New Hampshire’s ‘weird’ Senate race
He lost the Trump endorsement. The national Republican Party wants his rival. He told Semafor he doesn’t really care.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Staff drafting agreement to reopen almost all of DHS but likely leaving out a significant portion of ICE (ERO + HSI) and CBP funding. No reforms for immigration enforcement This will largely end the DHS shutdown after 41ish days because the Trump administration is still sitting on money for ICE/CBO
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Michigan Dem Senate (McMorrow internal) McMorrow 30 El-Sayed 25 Stevens 23 Undecided 21 globalstrategygroup.app.box.com/s/8eyptrb9ej...
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MI Sen Polling Memo F03.24.26.pdf | Powered by Box
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Big health care news: There's a bipartisan deal on capping monthly insulin costs at $35 from Sens. Shaheen, Collins, Warnock and Kennedy Caps costs for people with health insurance + creates pilot program in 10 states for uninsured Shaheen: "I think we’re going to get there"
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Exclusive: Senators reach deal on capping insulin costs at $35
Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine have spent years crafting the agreement, which has conservative and progressive clout but no Trump backing yet.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen positive on DHS funding discussions: "Could I support funding everything else in DHS, except ICE enforcement? Yes. Do I think it should come with reforms? Yes. Because just dealing with the funding doesn't address the excesses that we've seen"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
News: Schumer has indicated to colleagues that he sees potential for a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security this week. BUT pushing for more: Removing [Enforcement and Removal Operations] funding without any other reforms is not enough,” said a spokesperson for Schumer.
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Schumer indicates Democratic openness to Republicans’ DHS deal
It’s a delicate moment for the minority leader, whose members sense an opportunity to extract the maximum possible concessions.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
All fluid, but a potential DHS deal looks like it would fund most of the department with Democratic votes -- likely leaving out some enforcement money but keeping funding for investigations on human/drug trafficking More enforcement money, SAVE Act priorities could go in a GOP-only reconciliation
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy's War Powers Iran resolution is expected to get a vote tomorrow afternoon/evening, according to a person familiar. That'll be the third one this month forced by Dems
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
! After meeting with Trump and other senators about DHS standoff, Sen. Britt says “we do” have a solution
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sen. Daines and Sen. Britt among the Republicans heading to the White House as DHS shutdown continues. Lots of urgency to end the shutdown ahead of the recess and with massive TSA lines
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thune: it's "not realistic" to link the SAVE America Act w/ DHS funding "It’s something that I think there is almost unanimous agreement among Republicans on the policy, but the idea that we have to guarantee its passage in order to fund the government, I think you all know that’s not realistic"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The White House turned down Democrats' ask to meet this morning on DHS negotiations, according to a person familiar with the matter Republicans blamed Democrats for cancelling a Saturday meeting. Yesterday, Sen. Murray said she offered to meet with Tom Homan today
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Rep. Craig (MN Senate candidate) on Laken Riley Act “I can make the case that the administration isn’t using Laken Riley for any of what they’ve been doing in Minnesota. And at the same time, I can regret voting for any bill that gave Trump and Kristi Noem’s ICE any additional authority"
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Exclusive: Democrat has ‘regret’ for immigration law vote
The Senate candidate penned an op-ed expressing regret for supporting the Laken Riley Act.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Senate advances Sen. Markwayne Mullin to be DHS Secretary, 54-37 Heinrich and Fetterman voted yes on Dem side
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Ds starting to finalize opposition to Mullin at DHS. Fetterman could be only Dem Kaine says Mullin's votes against certifying 2020 election "makes him the wrong person to serve as the DHS Secretary.” Coons says he's gotten to know him and traveled with him but "DHS needs a foundational shift"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The TSA situation in airports combined with an approaching 2-week recess is driving more urgency in the Senate for a DHS funding deal. TBD if it goes anywhere The Senate is in for SAVE/Mullin, but the side effect is a bunch of weekend DHS talks, which is a new dynamic
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Senate Democrats are in *disarray* in four key Senate races: Michigan, Maine, Minnesota and Iowa - Totally new dynamic for Dems, who stage-managed primaries effectively for 15 or so years. Schumer + DSCC have their views, but lots of senators squaring off in opposite sides of primaries.
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Senate Democrats square off with each other in ‘spicy primaries’
The days of Democratic party leadership picking winners is over.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Senate shaping up for a “rare” weekend session. Best guess at the schedule: Friday-cloture vote on DHS funding (needs 60) Saturday-cloture vote on women’s sports amendment to SAVE America (needs 60) Sunday- Cloture vote on Mullin DHS nomination (needs majority). Mullin confirmation early next week
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Iowa Senate Dem primary - Zach Wahls picks up his first Senate endorsement from Sen. Warren. Follows two of her colleagues, Sens. Hassan and Cortez Masto, endorsing Josh Turek earlier this week
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The White House sent Sens. Collins and Britt this letter detailing the immigration enforcement changes they are willing to make to fund DHS -body cameras -limit enforcement at sensitive locations -oversight -visible officer identification -no deporting US citizens cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“President Trump has sincere beliefs that he doesn’t want to have more war, doesn’t want to have more troops on the ground, doesn’t want the ‘forever wars,’” Rand Paul told Semafor. “I wish there were more Joe Kents around, and less of the people who seem to be influencing foreign policy.”
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Counterintelligence official’s resignation reflects MAGA rift over Iran
Joe Kent publicly left the Trump administration over a war he couldn’t back “in good conscience.”
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Maine Senate: Janet Mills going after Graham Platner on his Reddit posts about how women should "not get so f----d up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to." First paid advertising going negative on him www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJr...
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His Words
YouTube video by Janet Mills for Maine
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
GOP Sen. Moreno says in interview he wants Senate to ax that two-week March/April recess without a DHS deal "As long as DHS is not funded, no senator should leave Washington, DC, and we should stay here and hash things out until we get an agreement”
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sen. Schmitt has updated the SAVE America Act with a substitute supported by President Trump. It would fulfill Trump’s calls to expand the legislation to limit mail-in voting, gender-related surgeries for children, and biological men competing in women’s sports. www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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Schmitt to unveil Trump-approved changes to voter ID bill
The Missouri Republican aimed to fulfill the president’s new priorities for his top priority on the Hill.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
.@maxwelltani on Trump and his phone as he becomes the "presidential version of a drive-time radio host" for reporters "in the two weeks since the US and Israel began military operations in Iran, Trump has done more than 30 cell phone interviews" (He didn't pick up when Max called)
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Exclusive: Why (and how) everyone is cold-calling the president
Plus, what happened when Semafor’s Max Tani gave him a ring.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Update on Senate voting fight: First vote on SAVE America Act is likely Tuesday afternoon. Will be at a simple majority to get on bill and then it will be on the floor for some time. Eventually, Thune will file cloture, setting up a vote at 60. Democrats say they will block it
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Exclusive: Senate Democrats plot defeat of Trump’s voter ID bill
Democrats are prepared for “every single thing [Republicans] might do,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters on Sunday afternoon.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I asked Schumer if Democrats had ever concluded that the talking filibuster is a viable way to pass legislation with a simple majority "Every different thing came up one way or the other" "We're familiar with all the possible scenarios"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Schumer says the SAVE America Act is "a cynical attempt by Donald Trump to steal the election"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Schumer says when it comes to the SAVE America Act, Democrats have reviewed GOP's options and gone over "every single thing they might do. We're prepared to meet each one and defeat this bill"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
On conference call convened by Sen. Schumer, Marc Elias says the voter ID provision for voting by mail is unworkable "This ID provision thing is just a backdoor to ban mail-in voting"
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Republicans are in *disarray* on the SAVE America Act www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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Trump’s voting bill fixation strains Republicans to the breaking point
The president is causing painful divisions over legislation that currently has no path to passage, despite the Senate majority leader’s efforts.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Michigan Dem Senate primary couldn't be tighter if they tried Stevens 27 McMorrow 25 El-Sayed 23 Undecided 26 (Upswing Research poll) static1.squarespace.com/static/691ce...
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