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Gabe Kaminsky is an investigative reporter for The Free Press.

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Trump and Musk Are Getting Divorced. What Happens to the Kids?
The tech right, an influential group of MAGA-friendly Silicon Valley types, will now have to pick a side.
Frannie Block and Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Trump Targets Biden’s $42 Billion Broadband Boondoggle
‘Burdensome regulations’ will disappear under revival plans for the program that has failed to connect anyone to the internet.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
Is DOGE Dead?
The world’s richest man is back to ‘spending 24/7’ at his old jobs, but left behind devotees who are accumulating power and influence.
Gabe Kaminsky
The Trump Family’s Business Deals Are Testing Ethical and Legal Boundaries
By one measurement, the president has doubled his net worth to more than $5.4 billion. ‘There is no modern parallel.’
Gabe Kaminsky
How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH
A frenzy of changes by DOGE underlings is colliding with resistance from the agency’s scientists and top officials.
Gabe Kaminsky
Drain the Swamp? MAGA Lobbyists Say They’re ‘Drinking from a Fire Hose.’
Once upon a time, Donald Trump promised to clean up Washington. But for the swampiest industry of all, business is booming.
Gabe Kaminsky
Musk Pledged to Cut $1 Trillion at DOGE. Republicans Say It Was Always a Pipe Dream.
The target was far-fetched, say Musk defenders, though they vow to keep cutting.
Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia’s Tax-Exempt Status
In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law. Critics say his tactics are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Revealed: Trump Admin Launches the Biggest Shake-Up ‘In Decades’ at the State Department
Internal documents obtained by The Free Press detail plans to close 132 offices, including those launched to further human rights, counter extremism…
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, they tell The Free Press.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
Exclusive: Trump Administration Freezes $2.7 Billion in ‘Digital Equity’ Grants
Biden-era funding is under investigation for possible race-based discrimination by the federal government.
Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Reviewing $9 Billion in Harvard Funding over Antisemitism
‘We will not hesitate to act if Harvard fails to do so.’
Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Democrats Push to Make Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Public
The legislation would force greater ethics scrutiny on the world’s richest man.
Gabe Kaminsky
JB Pritzker Wants to Lead the Trump Resistance. But Is He Turning His Back on DEI?
Mentions of diversity and equity have vanished from the Pritzker Family Foundation’s website amid Trump’s attack on DEI.
Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Amid Turmoil, ActBlue Faces Call for Terror-Financing Investigation
A Republican lawmaker has asked the Treasury to look into ‘credible allegations’ against the Democratic fundraising platform.
Gabe Kaminsky
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
Inside the Trump Resistance, Funded by the Ultra-Wealthy
Anti-Trump groups like ‘Families Over Billionaires’ present themselves as grassroots campaigns for ordinary Americans. The truth is very different.
Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are…
Gabe Kaminsky
Meet Kamala’s Megadonors
Michael Bloomberg, Alex Soros, and James Murdoch are among the billionaires behind Harris’s cash flow.
Gabe Kaminsky
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