David Gura
@davidgura
Anchor and Correspondent, Bloomberg News | dgura2@bloomberg.net | Opinions are my own.
Washington, from The Trust for the National Mall’s webcam on July 17th, 2026, at 3:21 p.m. ET:
Ahead of the anniversary of the dissolution of USAID, I spoke with Amb. Samantha Power, the agency’s nineteenth — and last — administrator, about the consequences of “soft power suicide.” | 📸: Mel Musto
In October, Bloomberg News reported, “After years of getting shunned by major banks, Donald Trump’s money has found another place to call home, Citigroup Inc.” Today:
George Santos, to NPR’s Bobby Allyn: “This story is going to get you a gun in your face.”
The Ebola outbreak “is a stress test, and it’s a stress test the world is not doing well at,” @drtomfrieden.bsky.social, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told @bloomberg.com this morning. “I would say so far we’re failing, and that bodes ill for the future.”
Jeremy Konyndyk, who led the U.S. government's response to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, says this one "is going to be exceptionally difficult to contain."
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has called the deadly protests in #Bolivia "an ongoing coup d'état." In a @bloomberg.com exclusive, I asked President Rodrigo Paz about the relationship between the US and Bolivia, and how the crisis ends:
As ProPublica has reported, there have been years when Jeff Bezos “did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.”
Average daily shipping volumes through the Strait of Hormuz have declined nearly 94% since the start of the war in Iran, Bank of America notes:
On CNN’s State of the Union, Jake Tapper asks US Attorney Jeanine Pirro this: “If the inspector general ultimately does not find any criminal wrongdoing, any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Jerome Powell, will you commit that you will not restart the investigation?” Here is her reply:
President Trump, on April 23rd, 2020: “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light…”
From @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social’s DealBook newsletter today (Thursday, April 9th):