Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeiffer
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Co-host Pod Save America, Author of Message Box, a newsletter about political strategy, Former Obama Senior Advisor, books, and other stuff.
Joined December 2014
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I understand the short term incentives involved, but the fact that every bad thing that Trump does is immediately followed by 1000 fundraising texts from every person in the Democratic Party has some long term consequences for the party’s relationship with its base.
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Fewer stories about what a big win this is for Trump and Johnson and more stories about how this bill will affect poor and working class people.
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6. By passing a bill that will kick his own voters off their health care and food assistance, raise their costs, and close the hospitals in their communities, Trump and the Republicans made a massive miscalculation. The only question is whether we can make them pay for it.
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5. No party has ever launched such a full frontal assualt on their own voters. If Dems can inform voters and establish credibility as a party that fights for working-class people, we can win back some of those working-class voters who fled the party in recent years.
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4. In 2012, Obama won voters who made less than $50k by 28 points. Romney,won voters who made over $100,000 by 10 points. In 2024, Trump won voters who made less than $50,000 by a margin of two, and Harris won voters who made over $100,000 by a margin of four.
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3. Back in Paul Ryan's day, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP primarily hurt Democratic voters. But the political coalitions have shifted dramatically since then. Now GOP voters - espcially the ones who swung to Trump in 24 - that will bear the brunt of this bill.
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2. Everyone thinks Trump has remade the GOP in his image, but slashing health care and food stamps to pay for tax cuts for the rich is something Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney would have done a decade ago. But while the policy is the same political context has changed.
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1. The GOP just passed the most unpopular piece of legislation in history. It could not only cost them the majority, but it might be a generational political error that could blow up the Trump coalition and reshape politics for the foreseeable future.
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This is also certainly a lie, but if it were true, it would be one of the most ridiculous reasons to vote for a bill that kicks people off their health insurance while adding more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
GOP Congressman just texted me: . “I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.”.
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These people could not be more full of shit.
Speaker Mike Johnson five months ago: "The number one threat to our nation right now is our debt. It's not China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. It's the debt. And we take that very seriously. Congress has kicked the can down the road for decades and we're out of road."
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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Biden built an industrial policy. It was working. We were on a comeback. This Republican budget bill - which destroys t….
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All to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need them.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” would require states to impose cost-sharing of up to $35 per service for some Medicaid enrollees enrolled through the ACA Medicaid expansion with incomes between 100% and 138% of the federal poverty level. Get the details:
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RT @atrupar: AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a lit….
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Help the hospitals, screw the patients.
We have set up a $50 billion rural health fund within this reconciliation bill — we are giving rural hospitals a lifeline to survive.
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This is a great tweet. It touts two agents and the former agent, who is the President of the Lakers.
BREAKING: Deandre Ayton has agreed to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell ESPN. Between Portland and L.A., Ayton will earn $34 million next season. Agents Nima Namakian of Innovate Sports and Bill Duffy of WME Sports reached the deal with Lakers president Rob Pelinka.
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RT @BarackObama: More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass….
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RT @RepSwalwell: #BREAKING from House Floor: we aren’t delayed because moderates whose constituents will be completely screwed are holding….
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Time will tell ….
Rep. Van Orden on recon bill: . “The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I'm a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinnites.”.
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Trying to line up that post-Congress lobbying gig.
BACON IS A YES. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is a yes on the Senate OBBBA, he just told me. He is concerned about the Medicaid changes but “it would be a massive tax increase” w/out the bill. He is focused on preventing that.
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