Steve Benen
"The Rachel Maddow Show" producer and Maddowblog editor
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
Latest from Steve Benen
AG Pam Bondi dismisses Signal chat scandal in a brazenly partisan display
The Justice Department has a responsibility to investigate the generation’s most scandalous White House security breach. Pam Bondi doesn’t appear to care.
White House abandons Elise Stefanik’s nomination for U.N. ambassador
Elise Stefanik would've been confirmed as U.N. ambassador with relative ease. Donald Trump pulled her nomination anyway, afraid of what might happen to her seat
‘Witch hunt’: Trump pushes a claim about the Signal scandal even he doesn’t seem to believe
It’s odd that White House officials can’t agree on the legitimacy of the Signal chat controversy. It’s worse that Donald Trump is contradicting his own line.
Thursday’s Campaign Round-Up, 3.27.25: Musk’s super PAC invests in Florida races
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
Russell Vought steers the Trumpified CFPB in a regressive direction
It's striking to see the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau try to give money to a mortgage lender, instead of trying to get money from a mortgage lender.
President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump looks like a bystander, offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.
The importance of a competent White House Cabinet comes into sharp relief
The Signal chat scandal offers a timely reminder: When White House Cabinet agencies are led by unqualified amateurs, dangerous consequences are inevitable.
Team Trump leans into semantics to downplay Signal group chat scandal
White House officials have had days to come up with a “Signalgate” defense. They’ve settled on a weird point about the meaning of “war plans.”
HHS makes an unfortunate choice to oversee unnecessary study on vaccines and autism
The Trump administration could’ve chosen anyone to conduct its study on vaccines and autism. It settled on someone who's apparently already made up his mind.
