Brendan Duke
@Brendan_Duke
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Tax/budget nerd @CenterOnBudget | Former Biden-Harris National Economic Council tax/budget/supply chains | @amprog /Senate/@JECDems alum | Tweets are mine
Washington, DC
Joined October 2009
Pinning this: I’m happy to debate and mix it up with people on here, but I will gleefully block anyone who doesn’t address me like they would a normal person in a room. Every personal insult fills me with glee that I get to block a keyboard coward.
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RT @mattyglesias: You know this legislation is a real stinker because only do they keep ignoring the bill’s major provisions in their messa….
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You left something out.
Anyone who votes AGAINST the One Big Beautiful Bill is voting AGAINST:. No Tax on Tips. No Tax on Overtime. No Tax on Social Security.
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RT @mattyglesias: Vice President @JDVance wants you to exclusively focus on this one teeny tiny bar in the chart, while dismissing a $1 tri….
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207-216: This "five-minute" vote on the rule for the Senate-passed OBBB is now an hour long and counting. 4Rs voted No and 9 have not voted.
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RT @JakeSherman: MARK GREEN just showed up and voted yes. He has announced he will retire after reconciliation passes.
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Incredible.
Massie’s Law:. Where N = number of Republicans required to stop a bad bill,. number of Republicans voting Nay = N-1.
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One Big Beautiful Vote.
This is officially the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives.
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RT @BBKogan: What the big beautiful bill “delivers” for the American people is millions of people losing their health insurance https://t.c….
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Keilar: You’re taking issue with the CBO estimate?. Burchett: The office is very partisan…. Keilar: So in January 2024, there was a Republican who trusted the CBO so much that they reintroduced a resolution to require the house clerk to read the CBO estimate of any bill. I
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RT @Acyn: Keilar: You’re taking issue with the CBO estimate?. Burchett: The office is very partisan…. Keilar: So in January 2024, there was….
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This is an absolutely fantastic portrait.
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Oops.
"There’s not going to be $880B cut from solely Medicaid." — Evans' spokesperson to me two months ago. Turns out she was right: There's going to be $1.04 trillion cut from solely Medicaid in the version of the bill Evans is about to vote on.
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Like 17 million Americans’s preference to have health insurance.
Mike Johnson: "All of us have to give up on our personal preferences."
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lol, I’m getting a bunch of super right wing people liking the first tweet. Seems like they’re pretty happy!.
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RT @brianros1: This is the thing. They basically convinced the center right people to sacrifice their careers to do all of this unpopular s….
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Constantly threatening to vote against bills and then voting for them makes Roy/Freedom Caucus folks highly mockable, but they have used this tactic to substantially push the bill to the right and have done a far better job of shaping the bill than their more moderate colleagues.
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