Kimberly Clausing
@KClausing
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Economist; Professor @UCLA_Law; sr fellow @PIIE; former tax DAS at Treasury; Author, Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
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Joined January 2012
RT @MarcGoldwein: Not quite right. The bill cannot end taxation of be benefits, but it does cut taxes on benefits — both by cutting overall….
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RT @wwwojtekk: Is it legal for the US government to send me spam from the Social Security Administration email account?.
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RT @PIIE: Abandoning fiscal responsibility creates macroeconomic fragility, regressive tax policies leave majority of Americans worse off,….
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And as small tax cuts come into law, they are paired with larger tax increases. US tariff receipts surge in Donald Trump’s trade war via @ft.
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RT @PIIE: The OBBB’s fiscal priorities make a mockery of the policy goal of helping struggling Americans. & the president’s tariff agenda i….
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RT @PIIE: NEW: @KClausing explains the three biggest failures of the "One Big Beautiful Bill." It. ➡️. adds substantially to the federal….
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RT @JustinWolfers: "New" trade deal just dropped: US businesses get tariff-free access to the Vietnamese market, just as they were offered….
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Just out @PIIE, my discussion of the three fundamental failures of the OBBB. (There are more, but I focus on the big ones.). See next post for details.
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RT @Brendan_Duke: "This bill will make 60% of the country poorer so we can shrink the economy by 4.6% over the next 30 years" is one heck o….
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RT @SpencerHakimian: Getting rid of 250,000 people doing scientific research is not going to make us great again.
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RT @jasonfurman: No credible estimate showing large dynamic scoring offsets—and many showing the opposite.
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Yet all true.
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A huge moral failure for the US government. Not the only one, unfortunately.
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030.
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RT @JStein_WaPo: It does seem worth asking why Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will support health care provisions for the rest of the count….
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(3/3) The goal is to help policy makers envision a climate coalition centered on carbon pricing. Stay tuned for the final report in September. This interim report was released in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development.
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(2/3) Spearheaded by Catherine Wolfram, bringing together voices from around the world (see report for full list), the Working Group on Climate Coalitions builds on the momentum outside the US on carbon pricing for heavy industries.
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(1/3) While we are waiting on the R bill that will further set back US action on climate, happy to announce the release of the Interim Report on "Building a Climate Coalition: Aligning Carbon Pricing, Trade, and Development." (Link below.)
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