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@EricLiptonNYT

Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump and the Trump administration-without fear or favor. I write about people and power.

Washington, DC
Joined September 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Oct 2018

    The NYT by the way really is a daily marvel. Reminded of that in recent weeks. The pace of enterprise reporting it is producing on a daily basis from spots around the world. You get what you pay for, and in this case it is a lot.

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    20 hours ago

    Trump is doing a lengthy Trump monologue about immigration. Sample: "Children are the biggest beneficiaries of what we want to do." "Three or four women with tape on their mouths, and they're tied up..." "Brand new walls. Beautiful walls. Steel walls."

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    🚨 The Daily is growing and we are looking for a managing editor to join the team. This is a big deal job that doesn't come around often. More below 🚨

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    Jan 3

    "And to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, I extend to you this gavel."

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    Jan 2

    When children fell ill, one by one, with cancers few families in Franklin had ever heard of, they put it down to misfortune. But recent tests have identified a carcinogenic plume spreading underground, releasing vapor into homes. My latest, via

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  6. Jan 2

    As of Thursday, DOD will be run by a former senior Boeing executive. EPA is run by a former coal lobbyist. HHS is run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist. And Interior will be run by a former oil-industry lobbyist. Welcome to 2019.

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  7. Jan 2

    Hiroko Tabuchi takes us to JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind, where the children have fallen ill, one by one, with cancers that few families in this suburban community had ever heard of. What role should the Trump-era EPA play in protecting public health?

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    Jan 1

    Native American tribes, which rely on federal funds for basic services guaranteed by treaties, are among the hardest hit by the shutdown. The longer the DC stalemate lasts, the more dire their situation becomes. With .

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    Jan 1

    NEW – Inside Biden's empire: paid speeches, nonprofits & a 2020 campaign-in-waiting - VP asks $100k & jet for college speech - top advisers, including sister, paid by nonprofits & uni centers - no-foreign-$ rules to avoid Clinton woes & me >>

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  12. Dec 31
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  13. A $15 Minimum Wage Seemed Impossible. Now It’s Reality for a Million New Yorkers.

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  14. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018

    The back page of today’s print ⁦⁩ honors Marian Sulzberger Heiskell for “leadership in public & philanthropic activities,” and “generations of work behind the scenes at The New York Times.” It’s still a family newspaper. Long may it remain so.

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    31 Dec 2018

    Good precedent set by Warren here to follow anncmt by immediately taking questions from press. Let’s hope other candidates follow suit and don’t hide behind prefab videos and statements.

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    FLASHBACK: ⁦⁩ at Mar-a-Lago one year ago tonight predicting a “fantastic” & “tremendous” 2018.

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  17. One of the most fascinating things to me as we did this reporting is how EPA critics who pushed Pruitt to reject advice his own scientists R using the same tactics--and even the same slogans "SECRET SCIENCE" "JUNK SCIENCE"--as tobacco industry did. This from 1990s & court files.

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    Among the celebrations in Pyongyang, a fleet of drones took to the sky above Kim Il Sung Square. There's almost 200 here. (Video: KCTV)

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  20. Finally, this past week, and I looked at WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN? It's not esoteric. Chlorpyrifos is still in use. Farm workers are still getting sick. Children still being exposed. It is not all tweets in Trump era.

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  21. Then and I examined how EPA is second guessing the use of epidemiology--the science of using observation to evaluate risk. WHY? The pesticide industry fears use of this basic science by EPA to make rules might mean its products are banned.

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