Alex Jacquez
@AlexSJacquez
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chief of policy & advocacy @groundwork. before: @whitehouse46, @berniesanders, @senatedems, @obamawhitehouse. washed up @lehighbaseball
Washington, DC
Joined September 2014
Happy Opening Day! At the @Nationals opener, a beer, Cracker Jacks, and a hot dog will run almost $30. The owners are worth $6 billion and DC taxpayers paid for the stadium. It doesn't have to be this way. Public subsidy should come with public benefit. My latest for @MSNBC:
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The attention has been on ACA premiums, but health care costs are rocketing up for ESI and Medicare as well.
Medicare Part B premiums will rise 10% in 2026, outpacing COLA increase
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Price controls have well-documented costs. But they also may be the only way to provide the short-term price relief voters want and need. In today's NYT, @nealemahoney and I make the case for pairing targeted price controls with supply-side reforms. 1/
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“That’s why there is a case for temporary, targeted price controls that hold down costs, paired with supply-side reforms that encourage new production.” Must-read from @nealemahoney & @BharatRamamurti
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Voters are demanding short-term price relief, and temporary price controls may be the only viable way to provide it
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It’s *insanely* popular
Seems like an easy bipartisan win
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"Lina Khan thinks beers at Yankee Stadium are too expensive — and that she has the law on her side." @linamkhan is right. A game at Yankee Stadium for a family of four is second highest in the league at $355.66. A single hot dog at Citi Field runs $7. Street pricing for NYC.
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It has come to my attention that @tysonbrody has been locked out of X the everything thing app. @elonmusk has cut Samson’s hair
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Thanks to @ErinBurnett for having me to talk through our new @WeDemandJustice report:
demandjustice.org
Josh Orton: "Every one of Trump's judicial picks ducked the Jan 6 question. They said it's a 'political controversy.' We expect judges to be loyal to the Constitution — Trump demands they be loyal to him." (15 Senate Democrats still voted to confirm some of them.)
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Billionaires will literally go to therapy instead of paying slightly higher top marginal tax rates
CNBC says that rich New Yorkers started "looking for therapy" when they heard that Lina Khan will be co-chairing Zohran's transition team.
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The people movers are fine. People just love to complain about airports to signal that they travel a lot.
Trump officials have a new target: the Dulles “people movers.” White House calls them “notorious,” citing accident this week. And a Trump nominee to Dulles board says he has a plan to kill the shuttles. https://t.co/veGh6LCKdt
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In this episode, former Biden trade adviser @AlexSJacquez is so illuminating in explaining Trump's tariff fiasco, what's about to happen at the Supreme Court, and much more:
Trump just claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion. Then literally hours later, he inflated it to $3 trillion. With this absurdity, he undermined his case for tariffs, revealing that he's pulling numbers out of his ass. On the pod we dig into this: https://t.co/ErQC9yZQ6G
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I joined @GregTSargent on The Daily Blast to break down Trump’s fuzzy tariff math, his disastrous Supreme Court oral arguments, and whether we’ll be getting $2,000 tariff rebate checks. Spoiler: I wouldn’t make any major purchases Listen here!
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Podcast Episode · THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · 11/12/2025 · 19m
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“tRuMp iS bRiNgInG bAcK hIgH-pAyInG mAnUfAcTuRiNg jObS”
BARNICLE: “What is the Treasury Dept doing to lessen job insecurity?” BESSENT: “Trump is bringing back high-paying manufacturing jobs.” BARNICLE: “How many have come back?” BESSENT: “It’s just starting.” Translation: Nothing’s happening, but they’ll gaslight you into thinking
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LINA KHAN | Season Two Episode 21 | The Adam Friedland Show -- Out Now For Members On YouTube. Out For Everyone Else Tomorrow @ 6PM EST Subscribe to THE FRIEDLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION: https://t.co/n7Kv0CkrkV -- @Linamkhan @adamfriedland
#TAFS #adamfriedlandshow #Linakhan
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When it comes to how voters feel about the economy, Trump's numbers are now as bad as or worse than Joe Biden's across the board
gelliottmorris.com
The president's numbers on prices are where Biden's were during peak inflation in 2022-23.
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"The president is looking for a quick fix to a market that is fundamentally broken." Stretching payments over 50 years means families spend more on interest while doing nothing to address the shortage driving prices higher. We need more homes, not more debt. @AlexSJacquez
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There is no affordability crisis, Trump officials insist
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