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Courtney Weaver

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Courtney Weaver is the Financial Times’ US Political Correspondent in Washington, where she covers Donald Trump, Congress, and US domestic affairs. She has worked for the FT since 2009 and spent more than half-a-decade as the paper’s Moscow correspondent.

She writes a fortnightly column for the Comment section on American life and politics.

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