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  • 'He’s micro-managing phenomenally': How Trump grabbed all the levers in Washington

    10/19/2025 6:01:21 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    Politico ^ | 10/19/2025 06:55 AM EDT | Brendan Bordelon, Amanda Chu and Caitlin Oprysko
    The president's one-man-show approach to policy has sidelined Congress, agencies — and a whole K Street culture.Intel Corp. looked like a winner in the Washington lobbying game at the start of 2025.The federal government was set to funnel more than $10 billion to the American microchip giant, thanks to a long influence campaign by the company’s executives and hired Washington hands, who spent three painstaking years lobbying Congress, federal agencies and White House advisers.Just a few months later, when a political controversy over the CEO’s links to Chinese companies put Intel’s deal with Washington in jeopardy, the whole drama was...