Daniel Lippman

Recent broadsides from Washington’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, against the Interior secretary echoed what agency staffers have said privately.

FIRST IN PI — The developers of a multi-billion-dollar natural gas export facility recently donated $125,000 to a group supporting the congressional run of the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy , who holds major sway over their project, our colleagues Daniel L. and Mike Soraghan report.

Paxton didn’t sign on to attempts to regulate Kalshi after the prediction market platform and its CEO donated to him and his PAC.

As Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton has pushed for strict enforcement of Texas gambling laws, especially for fantasy sports sites and gaming machines. But after Paxton and his PAC took thousands of dollars from Kalshi and its CEO, the attorney general declined to sign onto several nationwide efforts by Republican and Democratic state attorneys general to rein in the prediction market platform.

The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.

FIRST IN PI — Brent Robertson , the chief of staff for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), has some lucrative side hustles. But that's not always a good thing.

The messages offer a window into interpersonal conflicts within the administration.

Paolo Zampolli says he had “absolute zero surprise” that he was dismissed after POLITICO detailed his email brawl with the deputy secretary of State.

The wife of the Pentagon's chief of staff, who on Sunday registered to lobby the Pentagon as part of her new job, will no longer work to influence the Defense Department, Daniel L. reports.

FIRST IN PI — Brent Robertson , chief of staff for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), didn't disclose an unusual business relationship with a government relations executive.